Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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An elderly waiter
with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading
a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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/ Paris:/
Published
by A.
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Byron |
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Tindal of Oxford left him a
considerable
sum
of money.
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Alexander Pope |
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Your idle and
luxurious
way of living
Will one day take your breath away entirely.
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Longfellow |
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MEPHISTOPHELES (zu Faust):
Herr Doktor, nicht
gewichen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
--"Deeds of home; that live yet
Fresh as new--deeds of
fondness
or fret;
Ancient words that were kindly expressed or unkindly,
These, these have their heeds.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Phaedra
Noble,
glittering
creator of a sad family,
You, whose daughter my mother dared claim to be, 170
Who blush perhaps on viewing my troubled mind,
Oh Sun, I come to look on you for one last time.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then Mary Bayfield seeks the glen,
The white
hawthorn
and grey oak tree,
And nought but heaven can tell me then
How dear thy beauty is to me.
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John Clare |
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Of all these ways, if each pursues his own,
Satire be kind, and let the wretch alone:
But show me one who has it in his power
To act
consistent
with himself an hour.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue:
Mother, thou too wert cruel; say wert thou
More cruel, mother, or more
ruthless
he?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She could not bring
the Italian
language
along with her.
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Petrarch |
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And that you or any one must
approach
creations through such laws?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Our beautiful bowers are all laid waste;
The fir is felled that our names once bore;
Our rows of roses, by urchins' haste,
Are
destroyed
where they leap the barrier o'er.
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Hugo - Poems |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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der Herr ist gar zu gut:
Schmuck und
Geschmeide
sind nicht mein.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"We see an instance of Coleridge's liability to err, in his 'Biographia
Literaria'--professedly his
literary
life and opinions, but, in fact, a
treatise _de omni scibili et quibusdam aliis.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Mary's
churchyard
by his uncle the Sexton.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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In crowds, we wear the badge of hungry fate:
And beg,
degraded
from superior state!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Hence perdition-doom'd I rove
A prey to
rankling
sorrow in this garb.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I'm like some king in whose
corrupted
veins
Flows aged blood; who rules a land of rains;
Who, young in years, is old in all distress;
Who flees good counsel to find weariness
Among his dogs and playthings, who is stirred
Neither by hunting-hound nor hunting-bird;
Whose weary face emotion moves no more
E'en when his people die before his door.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It is interesting also to compare Donne's series of
petitions
with
those in a Middle English Litany preserved in the Balliol Coll.
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John Donne |
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In the meadow ground the frogs
With their
deafening
flutes begin,--
The old madness of the world 15
In their golden throats again.
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Sappho |
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I see the headsman withdraw and become useless,
I see the scaffold
untrodden
and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race,
the newest, largest race.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays,
And yet deny the
careless
husband praise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Stephen Crane |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I have seen too oft
The old clamped firm to life, the young torn thence;
And the lids close as sudden o'er their eyes
As
gravestones
sealing up the sepulchre.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A' pleasure exile me,
dishonour
defile me,
If e'er I beguile thee, my Eppie Adair!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Of threats of Hell and Hopes of
Paradise!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine,
soldiers
of worth,
Nor Germany with other warriors graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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In fact, the fellow, worthless we'll suppose,
Had viewed from far what accidents arose,
Then turned aside, his safety to secure,
And left his master dangers to endure;
So
steadily
be kept upon the trot,
To Castle-William, ere 'twas night, he got,
And took the inn which had the most renown;
For fare and furniture within the town,
There waited Reynold's coming at his ease,
With fire and cheer that could not fail to please.
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La Fontaine |
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"Needs must we all their tributaries be,
" Whose navies hold the sluices of the sea 1
" The ocean is the
fountain
of command,
" But that once took, we civptives are on land ;
" And those that have the waters for their share,
" Can quickly leave us neither earth nor air ;
" Yet if through these our fears could find a pass
"Through double oak, and lined with treble
brass;
" That one man still, although but named, alarms
" More than all men, all navies, and all arms ;
" Him all the day, him in late nights I dread,
" And still his sword seems hanging o'er my head.
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Marvell - Poems |
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[Eliseus]
& seide, men took al hir good; for hire
hosebonde
dette,
& ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So while our senses go among these wines,
Wander in green deliciousness and crimson,
And fragrance
searches
the else-unsearchable brain,
Poet, tell out the glory of the king.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Kipling - Poems |
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The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because
He had seven coats on when he came,
With three pair of boots--but the worst of it was,
He had wholly
forgotten
his name.
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Lewis Carroll |
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loaden all with gold;
Two iron coffers hong on either side,
With precious mettall full as they might hold;
And in his lap an heape of coine he told;
For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240
And unto hell him selfe for money sold;
Accursed usurie was all his trade,
And right and wrong ylike in equall
ballaunce
waide.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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the burial of Haki on a funeral-pyre ship,
_Inglinga
Saga;_
the burial of Balder, Sinfiötli, Arthur, etc.
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Beowulf |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Can a
man strike out a
brilliant
thought when drunk?
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Aristophanes |
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35
Vosque item simul, integrae
Virgines, quibus advenit
Par dies, agite in modum
Dicite 'o
Hymenaee
Hymen,
O Hymen Hymenaee,' 40
Vt lubentius, audiens
Se citarier ad suom
Munus, huc aditum ferat
Dux bonae Veneris, boni
Coniugator amoris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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'
Instead of singing Verse the Third,
I ceased--abruptly, rather:
But, after such a
splendid
word
I felt that it would be absurd
To try it any farther.
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Lewis Carroll |
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we thus
Elude your
watchful
warders on the towers!
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Longfellow |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Long as the morning beams,
increasing
bright,
O'er heaven's clear azure spread the sacred light,
Commutual death the fate of war confounds,
Each adverse battle gored with equal wounds.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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XLIII
He smiled on those bold Romans
A smile serene and high;
He eyed the
flinching
Tuscans,
And scorn was in his eye.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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"I would know why," -- he said -- "thou
wishedst
me
Less legs and bigger brows; and when?
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Sidney Lanier |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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On gold and silver from th' Atlantic main,
The
sumptuous
tribute of the sea's wide reign,
Of various savour, was the banquet pil'd;
Amid the fruitage mingling roses smil'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed
in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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" he cried; and all his
watchful
sons,
Their finger on their lip, stared at their sire.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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TO ROSE
ROSE, when I remember you,
Little lady,
scarcely
two,
I am suddenly aware
Of the angels in the air.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This brooding warmth across my breast,
This depth of
tranquil
bliss--ah, me!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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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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Whatever
is realised is right.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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632
625 _The Arbiter of
pleasure
and of play_.
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Byron |
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eue:
To
chircheward
he went.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The variant has _ultaprid ki-is-su-su_,
"he shook his
murderous
weapon.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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LXIV
At speed Angelica
impelled
her mare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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ou In my sones man,
ffor
seuentene
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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If I could flatter myself that this Essay has any merit, it is in
steering betwixt the extremes of doctrines seemingly opposite, in passing
over terms utterly unintelligible, and in forming a temperate yet not
inconsistent, and a short yet not
imperfect
system of Ethics.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[_She
suddenly
kisses him_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In golden dreams the sage duennas slept;
A female
sentinel
to watch was kept.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Round eastward slanteth the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the
midnight
blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To houseward all aghast.
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Wild strain of Scalds, that in the sea-worn caves
Rehearsed
their war-spell to the winds and waves;
Or fateful hymn of those prophetic maids,
That call'd on Hertha in deep forest glades;
Or minstrel lay, that cheer'd the baron's feast;
Or rhyme of city pomp, of monk and priest,
Judge, mayor, and many a guild in long array,
To high-church pacing on the great saint's day.
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For all I knew it may have
sharpened
spears
And arrowheads itself.
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The
Cathedral
is a torch, and the houses next to it begin to scorch.
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Keats - Lamia |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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the vaulted roofs
rebound!
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Golden Treasury |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Hitherto, he had chiefly aimed at
extending his political doctrines, and attempted so to do by appeals in
prose essays to the people, exhorting them to claim their rights; but
he had now begun to feel that the time for action was not ripe in
England, and that the pen was the only instrument
wherewith
to prepare
the way for better things.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be
faceless
if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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