A Federal band, which eve and morn
Played
measures
brave and nimble,
Had just struck up with flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
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Sing her that streams and silvan foliage loves,
Whate'er on Algidus' chill brow is seen,
In
Erymanthian
groves
Dark-leaved, or Cragus green.
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Again, since all things kind by kind obtain
Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life;
Since Nature hath inviolably decreed
What each can do, what each can never do;
Since naught is changed, but all things so abide
That ever the variegated birds reveal
The spots or stripes
peculiar
to their kind,
Spring after spring: thus surely all that is
Must be composed of matter immutable.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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TRANSLATIONS
PRELUDE
As
treasures
that men seek,
Deep-buried in sea-sands,
Vanish if they but speak,
And elude their eager hands,
So ye escape and slip,
O songs, and fade away,
When the word is on my lip
To interpret what ye say.
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Longfellow |
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Vassilissa Igorofna
instantly
had a great wish to go and see the Pope's
wife, and, by the advice of Ivan Kouzmitch, she took Masha, lest she
should be dull all alone.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Like a man making himself in drunken sleep
A king, my soul, drunk with its earthly war,
Kept idle all its terrible want of thee,
Believed itself managing arms with God;
Yea, when my
trampling
hurry through the earth
Made cloudy wind of the light human dust,
I thought myself to move in the dark danger
Of blinding God's own face with blasts of war!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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him
tōgēanes
fēng, _caught at
him, grasped at him_, 1543; w.
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Beowulf |
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Sanche
You know how justice moves, with what slowness,
How often the crime fails to meet redress;
That slow and
doubtful
course provokes more tears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Hence I will excite thir minds
With more desire to know, and to reject
Envious commands, invented with designe
To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt
Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,
They taste and die: what
likelier
can ensue?
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Milton |
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VI
As in her chariot the
Phrygian
goddess rode,
Crowned with high turrets, happy to have borne
Such quantity of gods, so her I mourn,
This ancient city, once whole worlds bestrode:
On whom, more than the Phrygian, was bestowed
A wealth of progeny, whose power at dawn
Was the world's power, her grandeur, now shorn,
Knowing no match to that which from her flowed.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Angel Michael
continues
from the Flood to relate what shall succeed;
then, in the mention of Abraham, comes by degrees to explain who that
Seed of the Woman shall be, which was promised Adam and Eve in the Fall;
his Incarnation, Death, Resurrection, and Ascention; the state of the
Church till his second Coming.
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Milton |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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the God's love blazes higher,
Till all
difference
expire.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Thus, we do not
necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper
edition.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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XXIX
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of Lysippus comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Glorieuse vierge mere
Qui a nul onques amere
Ne fus en terre ne en mer,
Ta douceur ores m'apere
Et ne
sueffres
que mon pere
De devant li me jecte puer.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Yet shall I go to him,
With all
endeavour
to relieve thy plight--
So thou wilt curb the tempest of thy tongue!
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Aeschylus |
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Well,
altogether
gript by the being of love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_]
The maples, shedding their spinning seeds,
Called to his
appleseeds
in the ground,
Vast chestnut-trees, with their butterfly nations,
Called to his seeds without a sound.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He was starving and still too proud to accept the
invitations of his
landlady
and of a friendly chemist to take various
meals with them.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For, wel wene I, ther with him be
A fair and Ioly companye
Fulfilled
of alle curtesye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Being out of trumps she now leads the king of clubs; but the
baron, who has
actually
held more spades than Belinda, trumps it with
the queen of spades.
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Alexander Pope |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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Emerson - Poems |
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For men bihoveth, in som gyse, 6605
Som-tyme [leven] goddes servyse
To gon and
purchasen
her nede.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
And when the dog heard this he laughed in his heart and turned from
them saying, "O blind and foolish cats, has it not been written and
have I not known and my fathers before me, that that which raineth
for prayer and faith and
supplication
is not mice but bones.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Christian soldier,
beguiled
by Falsehood, doffs
the armor of God, and indulges in sinful pleasures, and loses his purity.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'Within a day or two after this,' (Thistlethwaite wrote to Dean
Milles,) 'I saw
Phillips
.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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CHORUS
Gods of our city, see me not
enslaved!
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Aeschylus |
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He could controll the times & seasons, & the days & years
She could controll the spaces, regions, desart, flood & forest
But had no power to weave a Veil of
covering
for her Sins
She drave the Females all away from Los
And Los drave all the Males from her away
They wanderd long, till they sat down upon the margind sea.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I
Among all other animals who prey
On earth, or who unite in
friendly
wise,
Whether they mix in peace or moody fray,
No male offends his mate.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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and fling down
To float awhile upon these bushes near
Your blue
transparent
robes: take off my crown,
And take away my jealous veil; for here
To-day we shall be joyous while we lave
Our limbs amid the murmur of the wave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He
insisted
upon leaping
the stile, and said he could cut a pigeon-wing over it in the air.
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Poe - 5 |
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Fame is
profitless
as pelf,
A good in Nature not allowed
They love me, as I love a cloud
Sailing falsely in the sphere,
Hated mist if it come near.
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Emerson - Poems |
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If you do not charge
anything
for copies of this
eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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are my Emanations Enion [Come Forth,] O Enion
We are become a Victim to the Living We hide in secret*
I have hidden thee Enion, in Jealous Despair Jerusalem in Silent Contrition O Pity Me
I will build thee a Labyrinth also O pity me O
Enionwhere
we may remain for ever alone
Why hast thou taken sweet Jerusalem from my inmost Soul
Let her Lay secret in the Soft recess of darkness & silence
It is not Love I bear to Enitharmon [Jerusalem?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Our God shall be
In all the future left, no kingly doll
Decked out with
dreadful
sceptre, steel, and stole,
But walk the earth--a man, in Charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night,
November
26, 1792.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He laid him down on the sun-burned earth
And
ravelled
a flower and looked away--
Play?
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Robert Forst |
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I will take them away with me,
I
insistently
rob them of their essence,
I must have it all before night,
To sing amid my green.
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Imagists |
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I was just coming to myself enough
To wonder where the cold was coming from,
When I heard Toffile
upstairs
in the bedroom
And thought I heard him downstairs in the cellar.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Constable
& Co.
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Imagists |
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In 1829, Emerson was called by the Second or Old North Church in Boston
to become the
associate
pastor with Rev.
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Emerson - Poems |
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" he shouted, long and loud;
And "Who wants my
potatoes?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And I am the only thing he could not endure:
And is it him I should
undertake
to defend?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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God is all fore-part; for, we never see
Any part
backward
in the Deity.
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Robert Herrick |
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Ships of the line, each one,
Ye to the
westward
run,
Always before the gale,
Under a press of sail,
With weight of metal all untold.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The inanimate object and the
living creature in nature are not seen in the sharp contours of their
isolation; they are viewed and interpreted in the atmosphere that
surrounds them, in which they are enwrapped and so densely veiled that
the outlines are only dimly visible, be that atmosphere the mystic grey
of northern
twilight
or the dark velvety blue of southern summer nights.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,[6]
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy and grey,
Dim with a dull imprisoned ray, 30
A sunbeam which hath lost its way,
And through the crevice and the cleft
Of the thick wall is fallen and left;
Creeping o'er the floor so damp,
Like a marsh's meteor lamp:[7]
And in each pillar there is a ring,[8]
And in each ring there is a chain;
That iron is a
cankering
thing,
For in these limbs its teeth remain,
With marks that will not wear away, 40
Till I have done with this new day,
Which now is painful to these eyes,
Which have not seen the sun so rise
For years--I cannot count them o'er,
I lost their long and heavy score
When my last brother drooped and died,
And I lay living by his side.
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Byron |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then a scream, shrill and high, rent the
shuddering
sky,
And they knew that some danger was near:
The Beaver turned pale to the tip of its tail,
And even the Butcher felt queer.
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Lewis Carroll |
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VI
See see the Chariot, and those rushing wheels,
That whirl'd the Prophet up at Chebar flood,
My spirit som transporting Cherub feels,
To bear me where the Towers of Salem stood,
Once glorious Towers, now sunk in guiltles blood; 40
There doth my soul in holy vision sit
In pensive trance, and anguish, and
ecstatick
fit.
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Milton |
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Why, how now, uncle
Gloucester!
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Shakespeare |
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Yea, spirit ails with loathing secretly
The irremediable force of being;
Unless, with free expatiate desire,
He shape into the endless burning flux
Of starry world blindly adventuring
Some steady
righteous
destiny for Spirit:
Even as dreaming brain fashions the fume
Of life asleep to marshall'd imagery.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And fear not lest
Existence
closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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She won without a single woman's wile,
Illumining
the earth with peerless smile.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Jove fix'd it certain, that
whatever
day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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--The third
requisite
in our poet or maker is imitation, to
be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own
use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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BRANDER:
Marktschreier
sind's gewiss, ich wette!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Bring cypress, rosemary and rue
For him who kept his rudder true;
Who went at dawn to that high star
Where
Washington
and Lincoln are.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Well, I didn't quiver an eye,
And he
chattered
and there she sat;
And I fancied I heard her sigh--
But I wouldn't just swear to that.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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shall we never more
That sweet militia restore,
When gardens only had their towers,
And all the
garrisons
were flowers.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Count
Living
examples
offer greater powers;
A prince learns badly from bookish hours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At once, from 206
Westmoreland
MS.
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John Donne |
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840
Ynne honnoure, & a greater love, be dreste;
Botte I wylle call the mynstrelles roundelaie;
Perchaunce
the swotie sounde maie chafe your wiere[99] awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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--
But, lying on thy breast one notable day,
Sudden
exceeding
agony of love
Made my mind a trance of infinite knowledge.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Garten
Margarete an
Faustens
Arm, Marthe mit Mephistopheles auf und ab spazierend.
| Guess: |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Fabius
says that, in his time, his
countrymen
were still in the habit of
singing ballads about the Twins.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The noble
craftsman
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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A
practical
scheme is either a scheme that is already
in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under existing
conditions.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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Better, indeed, to die, and fairly give
Nature her debt, than
disappointed
live,
With each new sun to some new hope a prey,
Yet still to-morrow falser than to-day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So the Prince was tended with care:
One wrung foul ooze from his
clustered
hair;
Two chafed his hands, and did not spare;
But one propped his head that drooped awry
Till his eyes oped, and at unaware
They met eye to eye.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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When
I was a child I was always thinking out
contrivances
for galvanizing
a corpse into life.
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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Does my joy
sometimes
erupt?
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Appoloinaire |
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Some are
little and dwarfs; so of speech, it is humble and low, the words poor and
flat, the members and periods thin and weak, without
knitting
or number.
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Let your Highnesse
Command vpon me, to the which my duties
Are with a most
indissoluble
tye
For euer knit
Macb.
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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I know how disagreeable it is to make use of hard words before a Lady;
but't is so much the concern of a Poet to have his works understood, and
particularly by your Sex, that you must give me leave to explain two or
three
difficult
terms.
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Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
Content that from
employment
springs,
A heart that in his labor sings;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold in fee.
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673, and the
examples
quoted there, e.
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John Donne |
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To me thou seem'st clothed in a holy halo,
My soul beholds thy soul through thy fair body;
E'en when my eyes are shut, I see thee still;
Thou art my daylight, and
sometimes
I wish
That Heaven had made me blind that thou might'st be
The sun that lighted up the world for me.
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Hugo - Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Amongst these mightie men were wemen mixt,
Proud wemen, vaine,
forgetfull
of their yoke:
The bold Semiramis,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Oh, starry heavens looking on the shame,
No brow but reddens with
resentful
flame--
And yet the silent people do not stir!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He was for
Hrothgar
of heroes the dearest,
of trusty vassals betwixt the seas,
whom she killed on his couch, a clansman famous,
in battle brave.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nulla ignoranza mai con tanta guerra
mi fe
desideroso
di sapere,
se la memoria mia in cio non erra,
quanta pareami allor, pensando, avere;
ne per la fretta dimandare er' oso,
ne per me li potea cosa vedere:
cosi m'andava timido e pensoso.
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