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*Them to ensnare they chiefly strive
*Jithjagnatsu
gnal.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Goldsmith and
Sheridan
and Burke had become so much a part
of English life, were so greatly moulded by the movements that were
moulding England, that, despite certain Irish elements that clung
about them, we could not think of them as more important to us than
any English writer of equal rank.
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Yeats |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Modern editors
separate
'thorny' and 'hairy' by a
comma.
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Thou stirrest
earthquake
in the South,
And maelstrom in the sea;
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
Hast thou no arm for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He, sick to lose
The amorous promise of her lone complain,
Swoon'd,
murmuring
of love, and pale with pain.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Now know I what Love is: 'mid savage rocks
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy,
Or
Garamantes
in earth's utmost bounds-
No kin of ours, nor of our blood begot.
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The raven-mane that daily,
With pats and fond caresses,
The young
Herminia
washed and combed,
And twined in even tresses,
And decked with colored ribbons
From her own gay attire,
Hung sadly o'er her father's corpse
In carnage and in mire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Und schafft die Sudelkocherei
Wohl
dreissig
Jahre mir vom Leibe?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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One of the
countless
victims of the Assassin's dagger was Nizam ul
Mulk himself, the old school-boy friend.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of Peris I the loveliest far--
My sisters, near the morning star,
In ever youthful bloom abide;
But pale their lustre by my side--
A silken turban wreathes my head,
Rubies on my arms are spread,
While sailing slowly through the sky,
By the uplooker's dazzled eye
Are seen my wings of purple hue,
Glittering
with Elysian dew.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Except the heaven had come so near,
So seemed to choose my door,
The
distance
would not haunt me so;
I had not hoped before.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How pleased they were at what you said;
You try to touch the smile,
And dip your fingers in the frost:
When was it, can you tell,
You asked the company to tea,
Acquaintance, just a few,
And chatted close with this grand thing
That don't
remember
you?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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His bloude went downe the swerde unto his arme,
In
springing
rivulet, alive and warme.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Etalant sur un banc les
rondeurs
de ses reins,
Un bourgeois bienheureux, a bedaine flamande,
Savoure, s'abimant en des reves divins,
La musique francaise et la pipe allemande!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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les
colliers
tinteront cherront les masques
Va-t'en va-t'en contre le feu l'ombre prevaut
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Swythynne
flie from mee, and ne further saie;
Radher thanne heare thie love, I woulde bee dead.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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said Enion
accursed
wretch!
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Blake - Zoas |
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unconscious of thy doom,
All
innocence
and opening bloom;
Laugh on!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Therefore
thou felt'st
The mountain tremble, and the spirits devout
Heard'st, over all his limits, utter praise
To that liege Lord, whom I entreat their joy
To hasten.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Wilde - Poems |
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We might safely
accept the sustained
judgment
of a thousand years of Greece.
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Sappho |
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Hast any of thy late
master's garments in thy
possession?
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Shakespeare |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This edition preserves the
original readings, but they are not to be
considered
authoritative.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Crimson it was,
With smokey
lightnings
braided, in its first
Swift surge into the gloom before her face;
But it began to golden, and became
Astonishingly white.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Invita, o regina, tuo de vertice cessi,
Invita: adiuro teque tuomque caput, 40
Digna ferat quod siquis inaniter adiurarit:
Sed qui se ferro
postulet
esse parem?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust
Upon unstaid
perverseness!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A COMMONPLACE DAY
THE day is turning ghost,
And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively,
To join the
anonymous
host
Of those that throng oblivion; ceding his place, maybe,
To one of like degree.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Each
snarling
lash of the stormy sea
Curled like a hungry tongue.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Silent was all in Jezreel and Ur--
The stars were
glittering
in the heaven's dusk meadows.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A VALENTINE
Let others wonder what fair face
Upon their path shall shine,
And,
fancying
half, half hoping, trace
Some maiden shape of tenderest grace
To be their Valentine.
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James Russell Lowell |
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He stops the richest tyrant's breath
And lays his
mischief
still.
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John Clare |
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--And whom doth he intend
To name as his
successor?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"I will teach you, sir," O'Donnell replied,
"that the law can protect its officers"; but my father
reminded
him
that he had no witness.
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Yeats |
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Envoys were
dispatched
to Parthia and Armenia to secure that the
legions, while engaged in the civil war, should not be exposed to
attack in the rear.
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Tacitus |
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Here we perforce shall drag them; and throughout
The dismal glade our bodies shall be hung,
Each on the wild thorn of his
wretched
shade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And only yesterday it was I saw
Veil'd in
streamers
of grey wavering smoke
My shapely Malvern Hills.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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De workmen's few an' mons'rous slow,
De cotton's sheddin' fas';
Whoop, look, jes' look at de Baptis' row,
Hit's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Hit's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thy eyes!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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It was not a few faint prismatic colors merely, but a full
semicircle, only four or five rods in diameter, though as wide as
usual, so intensely bright as to pain the eye, and
apparently
as
substantial as an arch of stone.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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I trow not, if my sorrow were thereby
No whit less, only the more
friendless
I.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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1157-1170)
A townsman's son from the Bishopric of Clermont-Ferrand, Peire d'Alvernhe was a
professional
troubadour.
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Troubador Verse |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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What need, O Earth, to have plucked this flower from
blossoming?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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20
XCVIII
I am more
tremulous
than shaken reeds,
And love has made me like the river water.
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Sappho |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[250] A sophist of the island of Ceos, a
disciple
of Protagoras, as
celebrated for his knowledge as for his eloquence.
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Aristophanes |
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I look'd, but all in vain: the potent ray
Flash'd on my sight intolerable day
At first; but to the
splendour
soon inured,
My eyes perused the pomp with sight assured.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Then doubt the sun gives light,
Doubt truth to teach thee wrong,
And wrong alone as right;
And live as lives the knave,
Intrigue's
deceiving
guest;
Be tyrant, or be slave,
As suits thy ends the best.
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John Clare |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But what is most, the gentle swain
No more shall need of love
complain
;
But virtue shall be beauty's hire,
And those be equal, that have equal fire.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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)
'quid
grauibus
uerbis, animosa Tragoedia,' dixit
'me premis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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ei
clepeden
him waste bred,
& wissheden ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The name of the Arval Brethren betrays
their
relation
to the gods who watch the sown fields.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Tis excellent, cried they: things well you frame;
And at the
promised
hour, the heroes came.
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La Fontaine |
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boldly threat
To move the world from off his steadfast henge,
And
boystrous
battell make, each other to avenge.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Christina Rossetti |
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The volume purported to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was
pronounced
preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Who oft towards the park for quiet wandered
When far a bird allured him o'er the lea,
Who sat beside the
tranquil
pool and pondered,
And listened to the silent secrecy?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And the
miserable
self-blinded old man
could not see it!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The antique Hellenic world rises with shining
splendour
in the
poems _Eranna to Sappho_, _Lament for Antinous_, _Early Apollo_ and the
_Archaic Torso of Apollo_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In 1872, his novel of "'93" pleased the general public here, mainly by
the adventures of three
charming
little children during the prevalence of
an internecine war.
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Hugo - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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compressed, marked up,
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then
courage!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The room was dimly lit, and when the table was
pushed back, the space for the
combatants
was but twelve feet by five.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'Tis a sweet tale:
Such as would lull a listening child to sleep,
His rosy face
besoiled
with unwiped tears.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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where you undulate like a snake, hissing so
curious,
Out of reach--an idea only--yet
furiously
fought for, risking bloody
death--loved by me!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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It warn't like Wilbur's meetin', where you're shet up in a pew,
Your dickeys sorrin' off your ears, an' bilin' to be thru;
Ther' wuz a tent clost by thet hed a kag o' sunthin' in it,
Where you could go, ef you wuz dry, an' damp ye in a minute;
An' ef you did dror off a spell, ther' wuzn't no occasion
To lose the thread, because, ye see, he
bellered
like all Bashan.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Therefore
forgive,
In like wise, fellow-temptress, the poor snake--
Who stung there, not so poorly!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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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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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the
Spectrous
life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her spectrous life in dark despair.
| Guess: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was bleaching the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my
footsteps
With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thy sign hath
conquered
me.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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The sober Autumn enter'd mild,
When he grew wan and pale;
His bending joints and
drooping
head
Show'd he began to fail.
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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The Spanish and Portuguese
historians
differ widely in their
accounts of the parentage of this gallant stranger.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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With waves of care
my sad heart seethed; I sore mistrusted
my loved one's venture: long I begged thee
by no means to seek that
slaughtering
monster,
but suffer the South-Danes to settle their feud
themselves with Grendel.
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One can view as from the clouds
Our whole
dominion
at a glance; its frontiers,
Its towns, its rivers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A barrel-organ
Rasped a
mournful
measure.
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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Aeschylus |
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The huge waves wash, the high waves roll,
Each barnacle clingeth and worketh dole
And
hindereth
me from sailing!
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Sidney Lanier |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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