No trouble she to carry here nor there;
No balls she visits, and
requires
no care;
The conquest easy, we may talk or not;
The only difficulty we have got,
Is how to find one, we may faithful view;
So let us choose a girl, to love quite new.
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1285
And, for the love of god, for-yeve it me
If I speke ought ayein your hertes reste;
For trewely, I speke it for the beste;
`Makinge
alwey a protestacioun,
That now these wordes, whiche that I shal seye, 1290
Nis but to shewe yow my mocioun,
To finde un-to our helpe the beste weye;
And taketh it non other wyse, I preye.
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Pope's enemies made as free with his person as with
his poetry, and there is little doubt that he felt the former attacks
the more
bitterly
of the two.
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Alexander Pope |
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That is what happens in _The
Anniversarie_, not
altogether
in _The Extasie_.
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Les morts, les pauvres morts ont de grandes douleurs,
Et quand Octobre souffle, emondeur des vieux arbres,
Son vent melancolique a, l'entour de leurs marbres,
Certe, ils doivent trouver les vivants bien ingrats,
De dormir, comme ils font, chaudement dans leurs draps,
Tandis que, devores de noires songeries,
Sans compagnon de lit, sans bonnes causeries,
Vieux squelettes geles
travailles
par le ver,
Ils sentent s'egoutter les neiges de l'hiver
Et le siecle couler, sans qu'amis ni famille
Remplacent les lambeaux qui pendent a leur grille.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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_, the
entrance
of day follows
hard on the entrance of night.
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Canzon : Nor doth God's light match light shed over me The rltfflftwjgga thy caught
sunlight
is about me thrown,
Oh, for the very ruth thine eyes have told, Answer the rune this love of thee hath taught me.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Scarce his left arm can good Rogero rear;
Can scarce the shield and
blazoned
bird upbear.
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LXXXVII
Farewell!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The sunbeam that plays on the
porchstone
wide;
And the shadow that fleets o'er the stream that flows,
And the soft blue sky with the hill's green side.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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" said my soul:
"I heard me bidden to this deed,
And
straight
obeyed the call.
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Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade,
Apt emblem of a virtuous maid--
Silent and chaste she steals along,
Far from the world's gay busy throng:
With gentle yet prevailing force,
Intent upon her destined course;
Graceful and useful all she does,
Blessing
and blest where'er she goes;
Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass,
And Heaven reflected in her face.
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Golden Treasury |
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haec, fora
perpetuis
signis clarisque frequentans,
ipse deum genitor caelo terrisque canebat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Well, look this way in the
direction
of Parnes;[502] I already
see those who are slowly descending.
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Aristophanes |
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The Baron rose, and while he prest
His gentle daughter to his breast,
With
cheerful
wonder in his eyes
The lady Geraldine espies,
And gave such welcome to the same,
As might beseem so bright a dame!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It was thou, it was thou didst release
Mine
ancestress
Io from sorrow: thine healing it
was that restored,
The touch of thine hand gave her peace.
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Aeschylus |
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But not in the world as voices storm-shatter'd,
Not borne down by the wind's weight;
The rushing time rings with our splendid word
Like
darkness
filled with fires.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what enchantment held the king in thrall
When lonely
Brynhild
wrestled with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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From Kelso town I took the road
By the full-flood Tweed;
The black clouds swept across the moon
With
devouring
greed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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What will your people, what will envy say,
If your
protection
cloaks him every way,
Preventing him from seeking to appear,
Where a noble death is sought by honour?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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`Thenk here-ayeins, whan that the sturdy ook, 1380
On which men hakketh ofte, for the nones,
Receyved
hath the happy falling strook,
The grete sweigh doth it come al at ones,
As doon these rokkes or these milne-stones.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Heav'n, as thou knowest, I have power to shut
And open: and the keys are therefore twain,
The which my
predecessor
meanly priz'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The actual objects which one man will
see from a particular hilltop are just as
different
from those which
another will see as the beholders are different.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" There is a place beneath,
From Belzebub as distant, as extends
The vaulted tomb, discover'd not by sight,
But by the sound of brooklet, that descends
This way along the hollow of a rock,
Which, as it winds with no
precipitous
course,
The wave hath eaten.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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My early youth was bred to martial pains,
My soul impels me to the
embattled
plains!
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Iliad - Pope |
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By what fearful design are you being
tempted?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The stars, the heaven, the elements, I ween,
Put forth their every art and utmost care
In that bright light, as fairest Nature fair,
Whose like on earth the sun has nowhere seen;
So noble, elegant, unique her mien,
Scarce mortal glance to rest on it may dare,
Love so much softness and such graces rare
Showers from those
dazzling
and resistless een.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Unskill'd and uninspired he seems to stand,
Nor lifts the eye, nor
graceful
moves the hand:
Then, while the chiefs in still attention hung,
Pours the full tide of eloquence along;
While from his lips the melting torrent flows,
Soft as the fleeces of descending snows.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Inmemor at iuvenis fugiens pellit vada remis,
Inrita ventosae
linquens
promissa procellae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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FOOTNOTES:
[C] "Stanzas" were
published
_Poetical Works_, 1899, iii.
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Byron |
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As one who stands in dewless asphodel,
Looks
backward
on the tedious time he had
In the upper life,--so I, with bosom-swell,
Make witness, here, between the good and bad,
That Love, as strong as Death, retrieves as well.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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With bandage firm Ulysses' knee they bound;
Then,
chanting
mystic lays, the closing wound
Of sacred melody confess'd the force;
The tides of life regain'd their azure course.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the implacable radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint,
thirsting
blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The eagerness of the Moors now
contributed
to the safety of Gama.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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From deep
secluded
recesses,
From the fragrant cedars, and the ghostly pines so still,
Came the singing of the bird.
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Whitman |
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It is a
question
whether we have ever seen the full expression of a
personality, except on the imaginative plane of art.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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the beating heart,
When one among the prime of these rose up,--
One, of whose name from childhood we had heard 495
Familiarly, a
household
term, like those,
The Bedfords, Glosters, Salsburys, of old
Whom the fifth Harry talks of.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
The Greeks gave ear, but none the silence broke;
At length Tydides rose, and rising spoke:
"Oh, take not,
friends!
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Iliad - Pope |
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* * * * *
Private Conklin sat on a turned-down bucket, and
listened
to a not unfamiliar
tune.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
Sweet
laughter
siezd me in my sleep!
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Blake - Zoas |
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' He spoke, and snatching his sword like
lightning
from the
sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
overlord
of them is named Oedon,
Who doth command the county Nevelon,
Tedbald of Reims and the marquis Oton:
"Lead ye my men, by my commission.
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Chanson de Roland |
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89
Rogers, Samuel, Byron's withdrawal of
_English
Bards, and Scotch
Reviewers_, i.
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Byron |
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Oh, no, I am
perfectly
well,
Only a little tired.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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For this cause did my father send me from Tus to Naishapur
with Abd-us-samad, the doctor of law, that I might employ myself in
study and
learning
under the guidance of that illustrious teacher.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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_ None which can
Interest
a mere stranger.
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Byron |
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None but the brave
None but the brave
None but the brave
deserves
the fair.
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Golden Treasury |
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385
`For in this world ther is no creature,
As to my doom, that ever saw ruyne
Straungere
than this, thorugh cas or aventure.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The birds sit
chittering
in the thorn,
A' day they fare but sparely;
And lang's the night frae e'en to morn--
I'm sure it's winter fairly.
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Robert Burns |
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The camp was plundered and burnt, and all
who had survived the battle were
devoured
by the flames.
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Tacitus |
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So pays the wretch whom fate
constrains
to roam,
The dues of nature to his natal home!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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goddess divine, Ilithyia, patroness of women in labour,
stay, stay the birth, till I have reached a spot less
hallowed
than
Athene's Mount!
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Aristophanes |
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" A tremor pervaded his frame; his tongue
grew parched, and he was at times delirious: on the fourth day after
his return, when his attendant, James Maclure, held his
medicine
to
his lips, he swallowed it eagerly, rose almost wholly up, spread out
his hands, sprang forward nigh the whole length of the bed, fell on
his face, and expired.
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Robert Burns |
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Di lui si fecer poi diversi rivi
onde l'orto catolico si riga,
si che i suoi
arbuscelli
stan piu vivi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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`What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte,
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen,
May nought endure on it to see for
brighte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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frōde
feorhlege
(_the laying down of my old
life_), 2801; dat.
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Beowulf |
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`Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,
Men mighten deme that he loveth me; 730
What
dishonour
were it un-to me, this?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No more--no more--no more--
(Such
language
holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle soar!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Even those farthest regions feel anger,2 by a
marriage
pact we wish to form good ties.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale |
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He even
thought of resigning his
commission
and going to Paris to force a
fortune from conquered fate.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Then having felt the shock of being obliged to
conform to church usage, as stated prayer when the spirit did not move,
and
especially
the administration of the Communion, he honestly laid his
troubles before his people, and proposed to them some modification of
this rite.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And
trolleys
jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But covet not the abode--O do not sigh
As many do, repining while they look;
Intruders who would tear from Nature's book
This
precious
leaf with harsh impiety:
--Think what the home would be if it were thine,
Even thine, though few thy wants!
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Golden Treasury |
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Torpenhow
was on the top floor, and Dick burst into his room,
to be received with a hug which nearly cracked his ribs, as Torpenhow
dragged him to the light and spoke of twenty different things in the
same breath.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
The King
commands
his provost then, Basbrun:
"Go hang them all on th' tree of cursed wood!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Now know I, made by sad experience wise,
That Fate would teach me by a life of tears,
On wings how
fleeting
fast all earthly rapture flies!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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When he had prayed, upon his feet he stepped,
With the strong mark of virtue signed his head;
Upon his swift charger the King mounted
While
Jozerans
and Neimes his stirrup held;
He took his shield, his trenchant spear he kept;
Fine limbs he had, both gallant and well set;
Clear was his face and filled with good intent.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Son of God presents to his Father the Prayers of our first Parents
now repenting, and intercedes for them: God accepts them, but declares
that they must no longer abide in Paradise; sends Michael with a Band of
Cherubim to
dispossess
them; but first to reveal to Adam future things:
Michaels coming down, Adam shews to Eve certain ominous signs; he
discerns Michaels approach, goes out to meet him: the Angel denounces
thir departure.
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Milton |
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CHORUS
Yea till my
brooding
heart moaned out with pain.
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Aeschylus |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Your brother
is as tall as you are, but slender rather than otherwise; and I have
the satisfaction to inform you that he is getting the better of those
consumptive symptoms which I suppose you know were
threatening
him.
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Robert Burns |
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Through this May night, if one great ghost should stray
With deep remembering eyes,
Where that old meadow of battle smiles away
Its blood-stained memories,
If
Washington
should walk, where friend and foe
Sleep and forget the past,
Be sure his unquenched heart would leap to know
Their souls are linked at last.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXV
To him the charge did sainted John commit,
When to
Provence
by that winged courser borne,
Him nevermore with saddle or with bit
To gall, but let him to his lair return.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Not in the lyre of Orpheus,
Not in the songs of Musaeus,
Lurked the
unfathomed
bewitchment
Wrought by the wind in the grasses, 10
Held by the rote of the sea-surf,
In early summer.
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Sappho |
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That such a human voice should dare intrude,
Where all was full of ghostly tones and
features!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thou shalt buy this dear,
If ever I thy face by
daylight
see;
Now, go thy way.
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Shakespeare |
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Hart is the
originator
of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXXIX
Who travels by the wearie
wandring
way,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet, in this search, the wisest may mistake,
If second
qualities
for first they take.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
"When
windflowers
blossom on the sea
And fishes skim along the plain,
Then we who part this weary day,
Then you and I shall meet again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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That stand by the inward-opening door
Trade's hand doth tighten ever more,
And sigh their
monstrous
foul-air sigh
For the outside hills of liberty,
Where Nature spreads her wild blue sky
For Art to make into melody!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Th'
enchaunter
vaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A questa voce vid' io piu fiammelle
di grado in grado
scendere
e girarsi,
e ogne giro le facea piu belle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It soothes my accusations sour
'Gainst thoughts that fray the restless soul:
The stain of death; the pain of power;
The lack of love 'twixt part and whole;
The yea-nay of Freewill and Fate,
Whereof both cannot be, yet are;
The praise a poet wins too late
Who starves from earth into a star;
The lies that serve great parties well,
While truths but give their Christ a cross;
The loves that send warm souls to hell,
While cold-blood neuters take no loss;
Th' indifferent smile that nature's grace
On Jesus, Judas, pours alike;
Th' indifferent frown on nature's face
When
luminous
lightnings strangely strike
The sailor praying on his knees
And spare his mate that's cursing God;
How babes and widows starve and freeze,
Yet Nature will not stir a clod;
Why Nature blinds us in each act
Yet makes no law in mercy bend,
No pitfall from our feet retract,
No storm cry out `Take shelter, friend;'
Why snakes that crawl the earth should ply
Rattles, that whoso hears may shun,
While serpent lightnings in the sky,
But rattle when the deed is done;
How truth can e'er be good for them
That have not eyes to bear its strength,
And yet how stern our lights condemn
Delays that lend the darkness length;
To know all things, save knowingness;
To grasp, yet loosen, feeling's rein;
To waste no manhood on success;
To look with pleasure upon pain;
Though teased by small mixt social claims,
To lose no large simplicity,
And midst of clear-seen crimes and shames
To move with manly purity;
To hold, with keen, yet loving eyes,
Art's realm from Cleverness apart,
To know the Clever good and wise,
Yet haunt the lonesome heights of Art;
O Psalmist of the weak, the strong,
O Troubadour of love and strife,
Co-Litanist of right and wrong,
Sole Hymner of the whole of life,
I know not how, I care not why,
Thy music brings this broil at ease,
And melts my passion's mortal cry
In satisfying symphonies.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Petrarch was not afraid, for he was not
aware of his danger; but Galeazzo
Visconti
and his people dismounted to
rescue the poet, who escaped without injury.
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Petrarch |
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Superior
spirit and perseverence were always the share of the wretched; and the gods themselves now seemed to compassionate the Britons, by ordaining the absence of the general, and the detention of his army in another island.
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Tacitus |
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DOTH still before thee rise the
beauteous
image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The fire glows and the smoke puffs and curls;
From the incense-burner rises a
delicate
fragrance.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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I alone, for your love, have preserved her: 1020
And pitying both her
distress
and your fears,
Despite myself, I've served to explain her tears.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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