Von dorther sendet er, fliehend, nur
Ohnmachtige Schauer kornigen Eises
In Streifen uber die grunende Flur;
Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weisses,
Uberall regt sich Bildung und Streben,
Alles will sie mit Farben beleben;
Doch an Blumen fehlt's im Revier
Sie nimmt geputzte
Menschen
dafur.
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[Composed in reference to a love
disappointment
of the poet's friend,
Alexander Cunningham, which also occasioned the song beginning,
"Had I a cave on some wild distant shore.
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The former
suggests
that the next two lines are an expansion
or explanation of this statement.
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Mais la
tristesse
en moi monte comme la mer,
Et laisse, en refluant, sur ma levre morose
Le souvenir cuisant de son limon amer.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
boastings
of my spirit still?
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Tennyson |
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
subtraction
of a powerful stimulus will suffice to account
for this event.
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Shelley |
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Her
wandering
lover knew not well her soul.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Her
wandering
lover knew not well her soul.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I will
pray, Pompey, to
increase
your bondage.
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Shakespeare |
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nunc leuis est
tractanda
uenus, dum frangere postis
non pudet et rixas inseruisse iuuat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thou, mother of my mortal part,
With cruelty didst mould my heart,
And with false self-deceiving tears
Didst blind my nostrils, eyes, and ears,
Didst close my tongue in
senseless
clay,
And me to mortal life betray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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BOOK II
PROEM
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds
Roll up its waste of waters, from the land
To watch another's labouring anguish far,
Not that we
joyously
delight that man
Should thus be smitten, but because 'tis sweet
To mark what evils we ourselves be spared;
'Tis sweet, again, to view the mighty strife
Of armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,
Ourselves no sharers in the peril; but naught
There is more goodly than to hold the high
Serene plateaus, well fortressed by the wise,
Whence thou may'st look below on other men
And see them ev'rywhere wand'ring, all dispersed
In their lone seeking for the road of life;
Rivals in genius, or emulous in rank,
Pressing through days and nights with hugest toil
For summits of power and mastery of the world.
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Lucretius |
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O ship that shakes on the
desolate
sea!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Inasmuch as all these rules were
discovered and illustrated in ancient times, it followed logically that
the great breach with antiquity, which is called the Middle Ages, was a
period of
hopeless
and unredeemed barbarism, incapable of bringing forth
any good thing.
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Alexander Pope |
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Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and
publishers
reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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" KAU}
His billows roll where monsters wander in the foamy paths
On clouds the Sons of Urizen beheld Heaven walled round {Irretrievable word
following
"beheld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I love the south-west wind, or low or loud,
And not the less when sudden drops of rain
Moisten my pallid cheek from ebon cloud,
Threatening soft showers again,
That over lands new
ploughed
and meadow grounds,
Summer's sweet breath unchain,
And wake harmonious sounds.
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John Clare |
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I love the south-west wind, or low or loud,
And not the less when sudden drops of rain
Moisten my pallid cheek from ebon cloud,
Threatening soft showers again,
That over lands new
ploughed
and meadow grounds,
Summer's sweet breath unchain,
And wake harmonious sounds.
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John Clare |
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Let's live with that small
pittance
that we have, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of
Darkness
cries,
"Fools!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What helpeth it to wepen ful a strete,
Or though ye bothe in salte teres
dreynte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And there, as darkness gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who
prospers
music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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His library (where busts of poets dead
And a true Pindar stood without a head)
Received of wits an undistinguished race,
Who first his judgment asked, and then a place:
Much they extolled his pictures, much his seat,
And flattered every day, and some days eat:
Till grown more frugal in his riper days,
He paid some bards with port, and some with praise;
To some a dry
rehearsal
was assigned,
And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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O
Camerado
close!
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Whitman |
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Shall I meet other
wayfarers
at night?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nay, as the poet mad with
heavenly
fires
Flings men his song white-hot, then back retires,
Cools heart, broods o'er the song again, inquires,
`Why did I this, why that?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Nay, as the poet mad with
heavenly
fires
Flings men his song white-hot, then back retires,
Cools heart, broods o'er the song again, inquires,
`Why did I this, why that?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Alas, proud Earl,
Thou dost forget thyself,
remembering
me!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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]
One fasting day, itched by his appetite,
A monkey took a fallen tiger's hide,
And, where the wearer had been savage, tried
To
overpass
his model.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The vane a little to the east
Scares muslin souls away;
If
broadcloth
breasts are firmer
Than those of organdy,
Who is to blame?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke,
Both staring fierce, and holding idely
The broken
reliques?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Constant
suspicion
Is the most common fruit of a second union.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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My little children are playing at my side,
Learning
to talk, they babble unformed sounds.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It dawns in Asia, tombstones show
And
Shropshire
names are read;
And the Nile spills his overflow
Beside the Severn's dead.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Who saw thee on that bridal day,
When that deep blush _would_ come o'er thee,
Though
happiness
around thee lay,
The world all love before thee.
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Poe - 5 |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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30
But when ended the term, and wisht-for light of the day-tide
Uprose, flocks to the house in concourse mighty convened,
Thessaly all, with glad assembly the Palace fulfilling:
Presents
afore they bring, and joy in faces declare they.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Come to us, mountain-dweller,
Leader,
wherever
thou art;
Skilled from thy cradle, a queller
Of serpents, and sound to the heart!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull
catalogue
of common things.
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Keats - Lamia |
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wolt
_if_--yif
1117 _by-nyme_--be-neme
1118
_blisfulnesse
[ne]_--blyssefulnesse ne
1120 _to gidir_--to gidere
1121, 1122 _souereyne goode_--sou{er}eyn good
1125 _wele_--wel
1126 _receyue_--resseyuen
1129 [_it_]--from C.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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TO TERZAH
Whate'er is born of mortal birth
Must be
consumed
with the earth,
To rise from generation free:
Then what have I to do with thee?
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blake-poems |
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As when alarm'd, to save the hoarded grain,
The care-earn'd store for winter's dreary reign,
So toil, so tug, so pant, the lab'ring emmet train,[125]
So toil'd the nymphs, and strain'd their panting force
To turn[126] the navy from its fatal course:
Back, back the ship recedes; in vain the crew
With shouts on shouts their various toils renew;
In vain each nerve, each nautic art they strain,
And the rough wind
distends
the sail in vain:
Enraged, the sailors see their labours cross'd;
From side to side the reeling helm is toss'd:
High on the poop the skilful master stands;
Sudden he shrieks aloud, and spreads his hands.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Po |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Approached
from this side, the best poetry is
tame.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Who will be happier,
shouldst
thou always weep?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Man's ancient arms
Were hands, and nails and teeth, stones too and boughs--
Breakage
of forest trees--and flame and fire,
As soon as known.
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Lucretius |
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With the gift of words
I could have made you
yourselfchild of the work
kingmade of you
instead
-no, sadof the son
in us
- made you- of
task
no-
yet he
remember theproves
that he
bad days -was such -
played
mouth
closedthat
role!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ON these occasions, prudent 'tis to show
Your disappointment by a face of woe;
Seem ev'ry way the picture of despair:--
This countenance our knight appeared to wear;
To starve himself he vowed was his design;
To use the poniard he should ne'er incline,
For then no time for
penitence
would rest.
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La Fontaine |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Alexander Pope |
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The genre, which is becoming one, like the symphony, little by little, alongside personal poetry, leaves intact the older verse; for which I maintain my worship, and to which I attribute the empire of passion and dreams, though this may be the preferred means (as follows) of dealing with subjects of pure and complex
imagination
or intellect: which there is no remaining justification for excluding from Poetry - the unique source.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Give me such shows--give me the streets of
Manhattan!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet, as Lord Lansdowne
pointed out the other day, the market is
dangerously
overstocked
with graduates of our Universities who look for employment in the
administration.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Give me such shows--give me the streets of
Manhattan!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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3, this work is
provided
to you 'AS-IS', WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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If you
received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Keats - Lamia |
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V
Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:
I
entertain
no base, insolent thoughts about you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Marching
with equal step.
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Petrarch |
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Hostile the cities,
friendly
are the woods
To thoughts like mine, which, on this lofty hill,
Mingle their murmur with the moaning waves,
Through the sweet silence of the spangled night,
So that the livelong day I wait the eve,
When the sun sets and rises the fair moon.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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She is sad and
passionate
at your Highness' tent.
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Shakespeare |
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In a house was one who arose from the feast
And went forth to wander in distant lands,
Because there was
somewhere
far off in the East
A spot which he sought where a great Church stands.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Besides the one,
Like David, poet was, the other shone
As fine musician--rumor spread their fame,
Declaring
them divine, until each name
In Italy's fine sonnets met with praise.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Come, come to bed: the morning soon will peep;
Pinucio took the hint, pretended sleep,
And carried on so artfully the wile,
The husband no
suspicion
had of guile.
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La Fontaine |
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_25
Why should you blaze away there to no
purpose?
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Shelley |
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Why should you blaze away there to no
purpose?
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Shelley |
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Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar
matter of to-day?
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Golden Treasury |
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If her
disdaine
least change in you can move,
you doe not love,
For whilst your hopes give fuell to the fire,
you sell desire.
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John Donne |
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Let us beware of jabbering
with
Socrates
and of disdaining the sublime notes of the tragic Muse.
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Aristophanes |
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Let us beware of jabbering
with
Socrates
and of disdaining the sublime notes of the tragic Muse.
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Aristophanes |
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And those bright
fireflies
wafting in between
And over the swaying cornstalks, just above
All their dark-feathered helmets, like little green
Stars come low and wandering here for love
Of this dark earth, and wandering all serene--!
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Imagists |
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Nor need I conjure long, they're near me,
E'en now comes
scampering
one, who presently will hear me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I haue liu'd long enough: my way of life
Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe,
And that which should
accompany
Old-Age,
As Honor, Loue, Obedience, Troopes of Friends,
I must not looke to haue: but in their steed,
Curses, not lowd but deepe, Mouth-honor, breath
Which the poore heart would faine deny, and dare not.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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For men do more
willingly
listen, and with
more favour, to precept, than reprehension.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD
See how the
speckled
sky burns like a pigeon's throat,
Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The Countess Anna
Fedorovna
was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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TO THE GOD OF PAIN
Unwilling priestess in thy cruel fane,
Long hast thou held me,
pitiless
god of Pain,
Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows,
My tired breast girt with suffering, and my brows
Anointed with perpetual weariness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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For one of them denied
the
existence
of the gods and the other was a believer.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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By what devices does Spenser obtain the
effects of
_terror_?
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
|
380
Adhelm, a knyghte, whose holie
deathless
fire
For ever bended to St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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IV
The gaud with his image once had been
A gift from him:
And so it was that its carving keen
Refurbished
memories
wearing dim,
Which set in her soul a throe of teen,
And a tear on her lashes' brim.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Chimene
Nonetheless, it seems, my soul is troubled,
Rejects this joy, all its
confusion
doubled:
Fate may show different faces, all diverse,
And in my bliss I fear some cruel reverse.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Petrarch
walked in the midst of
them; after him came the senator, accompanied by the first men of the
council.
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Petrarch |
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Indeed, those beds and bowers
Be
overgrown
with bitter weeds and rue,
And wait thy weeding; yet here's eglantine,
Here's ivy!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We have pleasant
reminiscences
of these.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He slew, but
returned
not
Alive to his own!
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Aeschylus |
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Or the Holy Father's Swiss
Have shot his
Perugians
in vain for us.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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--Goutez, madame, dit le poete en faisant les
honneurs
de son cornet de
pommes de terre frites avec une grace supreme.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Let
us put away the Little
Peddlingtonism
unworthy of a great nation, and
too prevalent among us.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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II
INDIAN SUMMER
LYRIC night of the lingering Indian Summer,
Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing,
Never a bird, but the
passionless
chant of insects,
Ceaseless, insistent.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"To what master does this
splendid
palace
belong?
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Aristophanes |
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Forced she
completes
it; and before us lay
The mingled web, whose gold and silver ray
Display'd the radiance of the night and day.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Let some young Florentine each eventide
Bring coronals of that enchanted flower
Which the dim woods of Vallombrosa hide,
And deck the marble tomb wherein he lies
Whose soul is as some mighty orb unseen of mortal eyes;
Some mighty orb whose cycled wanderings,
Being tempest-driven to the farthest rim
Where Chaos meets
Creation
and the wings
Of the eternal chanting Cherubim
Are pavilioned on Nothing, passed away
Into a moonless void,--and yet, though he is dust and clay,
He is not dead, the immemorial Fates
Forbid it, and the closing shears refrain.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I could never walk alone;
Put a shirt of
sackcloth
on:
Never keep a fast, or pray
For good luck in love that day.
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Robert Herrick |
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And seest thou not, or hearest, how they're wont
In little time to perish, and how fail
The life-stores in those folk whom mighty power
Of grim
necessity
confineth there
In such a task?
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Lucretius |
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