Tell me, all ye
brethren
Gods, 160
How we can war, how engine our great wrath!
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[_Fyghte al
anenste_
Celmonde, _meynte Danes he fleath,
and faleth to_ Hurra.
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"
He was a goodly spirit--he who fell:
A wanderer by moss-y-mantled well--
A gazer on the lights that shine above--
A dreamer in the
moonbeam
by his love:
What wonder?
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Poe - 5 |
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In the final scene she is
silent;
necessarily
and rightly silent, for all tradition knows that those
new-risen from the dead must not speak.
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When I
answered
that I did
not know, she said, 'The month of May, because of the Virgin, and the
lily of the valley, because it never sinned, but came pure out of the
rocks,' and then she asked, 'What is the cause of the three cold months
of winter?
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There's chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart,
And many to count are the stalwart, and many the brave,
And many the
handsome
of face and the handsome of heart,
And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"Whoe'er thou art,
Who journey'st thus this way, thy visage turn,
Think if me
elsewhere
thou hast ever seen.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
So the old steed was turned into the heat
Of the long, lonely, silent,
shadeless
street;
And wandered in suburban lanes forlorn,
Barked at by dogs, and torn by brier and thorn.
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Longfellow |
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The story of the Tarquins, as it has come down to
us, appears to have been compiled from the works of several
popular poets; and one, at least, of those poets appears to have
visited the Greek
colonies
in Italy, if not Greece itself, and to
have had some acquaintance with the works of Homer and Herodotus.
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she
stood up still in a resolute and almost
impossible
compliance with the
Law.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O war ich vor des hohen Geistes Kraft
Entzuckt, entseelt dahin
gesunken!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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siððan
hē hire folmum
[hr]ān (_as soon as he touched it with his hands_), 723; oð þæt dēaðes wylm
hrān æt heortan (_seized his heart_), 2271.
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Beowulf |
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So palpable, I've seen those unshorn few,
The six old willows at the causey's end
(Such trees Paul Potter never dreamed nor drew),
Through this dry mist their
checkering
shadows send,
Striped, here and there, with many a long-drawn thread,
Where streamed through leafy chinks the trembling red,
Past which, in one bright trail, the hangbird's flashes blend.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Elvire
Chimene is at the palace, bathed in tears,
She'll be
accompanied
when she appears.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And in the sky
They set the seats and vaults of gods, because
Across the sky night and the moon are seen
To roll along--moon, day, and night, and night's
Old awesome
constellations
evermore,
And the night-wandering fireballs of the sky,
And flying flames, clouds, and the sun, the rains,
Snow and the winds, the lightnings, and the hail,
And the swift rumblings, and the hollow roar
Of mighty menacings forevermore.
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Lucretius |
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Mobipocket
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Gentlemen look on this wonder,
Whatever
the bids of the bidders they cannot be high enough for it,
For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one
animal or plant,
For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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It would be easier to climb to Heaven
than to walk the
Szechwan
Road.
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Li Po |
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But all these
torments are too insipid for Faust's morbid and mad hankering after the
luxury of
spiritual
pain.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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She knew the dread thing coming, but her clear
Cheek never changed: till
suddenly
she fled
Back to her own chamber and bridal bed:
Then came the tears and she spoke all her thought.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!
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blake-poems |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--though honour's best supplied
By
bringing
actions, to prove theirs not vain.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What brings you here, saint with the
sapphire
eyes?
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Yeats |
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As for the
persistently
absurd report of the late Earl of Derby being the
author of the "First Book of Nonsense," I may relate an incident which
occurred to me four summers ago, the first that gave me any insight into
the origin of the rumor.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The tribe prophetic with the eyes of fire
Went forth last night; their little ones at rest
Each on his mother's back, with his desire
Set on the ready
treasure
of her breast.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Those banks and beds whose shape your eye
Has planned in line so true,
New hands will change,
unreasoning
why
Such shape seemed best to you.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And, as for poetic genius, those who, without being ready to
concede that faculty to Whitman, confess his
iconoclastic
boldness and his
Titanic power of temperament, working in the sphere of poetry, do in effect
confess his genius as well.
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Whitman |
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And clad in bright and burnished panoply
Athena strode across the stretch of sick and
shivering
sea!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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us in
Arthurus
day ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of
altering
things;
Alas!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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* * *
Pale genius roves alone,
No scout can track his way,
None credits him till he have shown
His
diamonds
to the day.
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Emerson - Poems |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL,
STANDING BY THE FALL OF FYERS,
NEAR LOCH-NESS
[This is one of the many fine scenes, in the Celtic
Parnassus
of
Ossian: but when Burns saw it, the Highland passion of the stream was
abated, for there had been no rain for some time to swell and send it
pouring down its precipices in a way worthy of the scene.
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Robert Forst |
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I
understand
no more.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark,
Protested, with tears in its eyes,
That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark
Could atone for that dismal
surprise!
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Lewis Carroll |
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A
thousand
years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust: and when
Can Man its shattered splendour renovate,
Recall its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?
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Byron |
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Die is my dew; yet rew my wretched state
You, whom my hard
avenging
destinie
Hath made judge of my life or death indifferently.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,--
The
punctual
stars will vigil keep,--
Embalmed by purifying cold;
The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
The snow is no ignoble shroud,
The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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My
venerated
reader, oh!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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An old man
brought me a little way from the mill and the castle, and down a long,
narrow boreen that was nearly lost in brambles and sloe bushes, and he
said, 'That is the little old foundation of the house, but the most of
it is taken for
building
walls, and the goats have ate those bushes
that are growing over it till they've got cranky, and they won't grow
any more.
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Yeats |
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He gave his
daughters
to his sons to wife;
They with their father hold perpetual feast
And with their royal mother, still supplied 10
With dainties numberless; the sounding dome
Is fill'd with sav'ry odours all the day,
And with their consorts chaste at night they sleep
On stateliest couches with rich arras spread.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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She
listened
with a flitting blush,
With downcast eyes, and modest grace;
And she forgave me, that I gazed
Too fondly on her face!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Guardian and friend of the moon, O Earth, whom the comets forget not,
Yea, in the
measureless
distance wheel round and again they behold thee!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Not song but wail, and
mourners
pale,
Not bards, to love belong.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this
pestilential
tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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" And
he sums up this one man's greatness: "Sometime it will be
realized
what
has made this great artist so supreme.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And I, who ne'er
Coveted sight, more fondly, for myself,
Than now for him, my prayers to thee prefer,
(And pray they be not scant) that thou wouldst drive
Each cloud of his
mortality
away;
That on the sovran pleasure he may gaze.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I think the hemlock likes to stand
Upon a marge of snow;
It suits his own austerity,
And
satisfies
an awe
That men must slake in wilderness,
Or in the desert cloy, --
An instinct for the hoar, the bald,
Lapland's necessity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And those who watch at that
midnight
hour
From Hall or Terrace or lofty Tower,
Cry, as the wild light passes along,--
"The Dong!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ELEGANTLY
ILLUSTRATED.
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Robert Forst |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'
Then that artist began in a lark's low
circling
to pass;
And first he sang at the height of the top of the grass
A song of the herds that are born and die in the mass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Necessity
precedes thee still
With hard fierce eyes and heavy tramp:
Her hand the nails and wedges fill,
The molten lead and stubborn clamp.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O, nymph divine
Of virgin springs, with
sunniest
flowers
A chaplet for my Lamia twine,
Pimplea sweet!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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_The Wood-cutter's Night Song_
Welcome, red and roundy sun,
Dropping
lowly in the west;
Now my hard day's work is done,
I'm as happy as the best.
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John Clare |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in
lightning
glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till helpless to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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) by slight extravagances and forms of words which are
sometimes epic and
sometimes
over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot,
which had already been treated by the old poet Phrynichus in his
_Alcestis_, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric;
and it has one character straight from the Satyr world, the heroic
reveller, Heracles.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving
nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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) what ne'er can
ultimate
Tethys 5
Wash from his soul, nor yet Ocean, watery sire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yes, Time reigns; Time has
regained
his brutal mastery.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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>>
Par le vergier de ca en la;
Et li Diex d'Amors apela
Tretout
maintenant
Dous-Regart:
N'a or plus cure qu'il li gart
Son arc: donques sans plus atendre
L'arc li a commande a tendre,
Et cis gaires n'i atendi,
Tout maintenant l'arc li tendi,
Si li bailla et cinq sajetes
Fors et poissans, d'aler loing prestes.
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Withouten wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my
sentence!
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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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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in
themselves
their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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Golden Treasury |
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Straightway
her brother says, "That
is a colour that does not please me.
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Aristophanes |
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The plague
destroying
whom the sword would spare,
'Tis time to save the few remains of war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Wherefore the woods and fields, Pan, shepherd-folk,
And Dryad-maidens, thrill with eager joy;
Nor wolf with
treacherous
wile assails the flock,
Nor nets the stag: kind Daphnis loveth peace.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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This
people are remarkable for a
peculiar
custom, that of twisting their hair
and binding it up in a knot.
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Tacitus |
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let me hear
The name I used to run at, when a child,
From
innocent
play, and leave the cowslips plied,
To glance up in some face that proved me dear
With the look of its eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And who wants to swallow a
mouthful
of sorrow?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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-- Which, by the way, reminds me how
I caught this
dreadful
hacking cough:
"I cut off the tail of my Ulster furred
To make young Kris a coat of state.
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Sidney Lanier |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the
shivering
air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
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Wilde - Poems |
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1780
THEL
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The
daughters
of Mne Seraphim led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in paleness sought the secret air.
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blake-poems |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Meanwhile, he satirized the Third Napoleon and his congeners with ceaseless
shafts, the principal being the famous "Napoleon the Little," based on the
analogical reasoning that as the earth has moons, the lion the jackal, man
himself his simian double, a minor Napoleon was
inevitable
as a standard
of estimation, the grain by which a pyramid is measured.
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Hugo - Poems |
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That
Emperour
woke not at all, but slept.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" Saying this,
He added: "Since spare diet hath so worn
Our
semblance
out, 't is lawful here to name
Each one.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Supplerunt _placito_ uel _dulci_ uel
_tristi_
Itali,
_molli_ Baehrens, _leni_ Palmer.
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He seeks the Armenian, why by pact should take
Whatever
spoil the conquering armies make;
XXXIII
"And him, as best he might, would fain persuade
To leave to Lydia's monarch his domain,
Upon whose wasted lands his host had preyed,
And rest content with his Armenian reign.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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