Accurs'd the
offspring
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--With downcast looks the joyless victor sate,
Revolving
in his alter'd soul
The various turns of Chance below;
And now and then a sigh he stole;
And tears began to flow.
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les
philtres
les plus forts
Ne valent pas ta paresse,
Et tu connais la caresse
Qui fait revivre les morts!
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Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is filled,
Pioneers!
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Towers of fables
immortal
fashion'd from mortal dreams!
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O an intense life, full to
repletion
and varied!
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I was not: yet I saw the will of God
As light unfashion'd, unendurable flame,
Interminable, not to be supposed;
And there was no more
creature
except light,--
The dreadful burning of the lonely God's
Unutter'd joy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The whole earth seemed as it
belonged
to me,
A message spoken out in green and blue
Specially to my heart; and it would say
That some time, out of the human multitude
A face would look into my soul, and sign
All my nature, easily as it were wax,
With its dear image; but after that impress
I would all harden, so that nought could raze
The minting of that seal from off my being.
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Conjectures
about
the motives of Avaricious men, v.
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By a lone wall a
lonelier
column rears
A gray and grief-worn aspect of old days;
'Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years,
And looks as with the wild-bewildered gaze
Of one to stone converted by amaze,
Yet still with consciousness; and there it stands
Making a marvel that it not decays,
When the coeval pride of human hands,
Levelled Aventicum,[14.
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BOOK II
PROEM
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the winds
Roll up its waste of waters, from the land
To watch another's labouring anguish far,
Not that we joyously delight that man
Should thus be smitten, but because 'tis sweet
To mark what evils we ourselves be spared;
'Tis sweet, again, to view the mighty strife
Of armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,
Ourselves no sharers in the peril; but naught
There is more goodly than to hold the high
Serene plateaus, well fortressed by the wise,
Whence thou may'st look below on other men
And see them ev'rywhere wand'ring, all dispersed
In their lone seeking for the road of life;
Rivals in genius, or emulous in rank,
Pressing
through days and nights with hugest toil
For summits of power and mastery of the world.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XVI
But wherefore do not you a
mightier
way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ev'n as large valleys hollow'd out on earth,
"That way," the'
escorting
spirit cried, "we go,
Where in a bosom the high bank recedes:
And thou await renewal of the day.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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It seems odd that such
points should need mentioning; but Greek drama has always suffered from a
school of critics who approach a play with a greater
equipment
of
aesthetic theory than of dramatic perception.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Suddenly the dark noise
Cleft and went backward from us, and we stood
Knowing each other in a quiet light;
And like wise music made of many strings
Following and adoring underneath
Prevailing song, fate lived beneath our love,
Under the
masterful
excellent silence of it,
A multitudinous obedience.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And since till girls go maying
You find the
primrose
still,
And find the windflower playing
With every wind at will,
But not the daffodil,
Bring baskets now, and sally
Upon the spring's array,
And bear from hill and valley
The daffodil away
That dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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blake-poems |
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As she plucks the lotus on the
southern
dyke in autumn,
The lotus flowers stand higher than a man's head.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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How many
thousand
times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is
dead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Easier I count it to explain
The jargon of the howling main,
"Or, stretched beside some
babbling
brook,
To con, with inexpressive look,
An unintelligible book.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So that when
Simeon and his associates arrived on the summit of the tower called
Adoni-Bezek-the loftiest of all the turrets around about Jerusalem, and
the usual place of conference with the besieging army-they looked down
upon the camp of the enemy from an eminence
excelling
by many feet that
of the Pyramid of Cheops, and, by several, that of the temple of Belus.
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Poe - 5 |
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Even in the age of
Plutarch
there were discerning men who
rejected the popular account of the foundation of Rome, because
that account appeared to them to have the air, not of a history,
but of a romance or a drama.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Siriskas,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He cannot even think of
nobility
and happiness
apart, for all his people are like his men of Burg Dale who lived 'in
much plenty and ease of life, though not delicately or desiring things
out of measure.
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Yeats |
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On such a dawn, or such a dawn,
Would anybody sigh
That such a little figure
Too sound asleep did lie
For
chanticleer
to wake it, --
Or stirring house below,
Or giddy bird in orchard,
Or early task to do?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Page 62
402
Whon
Eufemian
hedde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But if the primal germs
themselves
be soft,
Reason cannot be brought to bear to show
The ways whereby may be created these
Great crags of basalt and the during iron;
For their whole nature will profoundly lack
The first foundations of a solid frame.
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Lucretius |
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The time shall come, when, chased along the plain,
Even thou shalt call on Jove, and call in vain;
Even thou shalt wish, to aid thy desperate course,
The wings of falcons for thy flying horse;
Shalt run, forgetful of a warrior's fame,
While clouds of
friendly
dust conceal thy shame.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Quirites, permit me the joy, and may this, of all pleasures on earth the
First and the last, be
vouchsafed
all of mankind by the god.
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: A fine example of Marvell's
imaginative
hyperbole.
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Golden Treasury |
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If not
pure fancy, they are not mere ingenuity, being too intellectual and
argumentative for the one, too winged and ardent for the other:
Should I say I liv'd darker then were true,
Your
radiation
can all clouds subdue;
But one, 'tis best light to contemplate you.
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John Donne |
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Crouching
behind my pointed wall of words,
Ramparts I built of moons and loreleys,
Enchanted roses, sphinxes, love-sick birds,
Giants, dead lads who left their graves to dance,
Fairies and phoenixes and friendly gods--
A curious frieze, half Renaissance, half Greek,
Behind which, in revulsion of romance,
I lay and laughed--and wept--till I was weak.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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28
Doth still before thee rise the
beauteous
image 29
There laughs in the heightening year, soft 30
The blissful meadows beckoned.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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It is illustrated by the downfall of the
powerful
minister
Sejanus.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The
Atlantic
Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes indicate that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Walter Riddell
Sic a reptile was Wat, sic a
miscreant
slave,
That the worms ev'n damn'd him when laid in his grave;
"In his flesh there's a famine," a starved reptile cries,
"And his heart is rank poison!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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NOTES
The present edition includes
whatever
has been considered of value
in the notes of preceding editions.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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They claim that Theseus
appeared
in Epirus.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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750
>>
Son
contenement
et son estre.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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JOHN
ENDICOTT
His son.
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Longfellow |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Her joy can make the sick man well,
And through her anger too he dies,
And fools she fashions of the wise,
And
handsome
men age at her spell,
And status, wealth she can dispel
And raise the beggar to the skies.
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Rilke - Poems |
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May their days be golden days,
And their long life a dream of linked love,
From which may rude Death never startle them,
But grow upon them like a glorious vision
Of unconceived and awful happiness,
Solemn but splendid, full of shapes and sounds,
Swallowing its
precedent
in victory.
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Tennyson |
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Till then, he hoped his bones might there be laid
Close by my mother in their native bowers: 240
Bidding me trust in God, he stood and prayed;--
I could not pray:--through tears that fell in showers
Glimmered
our dear-loved home, alas!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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These browded[146]
straungers
alwaie doe appere, 130
Theie parte yor trone[147], and sete at your ryghte honde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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PLACES
I
~Twilight~
(_Tucson_)
Aloof as aged kings,
Wearing like them the purple,
The
mountains
ring the mesa
Crowned with a dusky light;
Many a time I watched
That coming-on of darkness
Till stars burned through the heavens
Intolerably bright.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We are but fools
When our heart
vibrates
to the people's groans
And passionate wailing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I would not give more than an obolus for gods who have got to
keeping
brothels
like us mere mortals.
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Aristophanes |
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Leaving only kisses
To be
remembered
by.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"Vanity, all is Vanity," said Wisdom, scorning me--I clasped my true
Love's tender hand and
answered
frank and free-ee "If this be Vanity
who'd be wise?
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Kipling - Poems |
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The lads go driving out with harps in their hands:
The
mulberry
girls go out to the fields with their baskets.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Orghetto
of Maganza, he from brow
To breast divides, and thence to paunch below.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lay this laurel on the one
Too
intrinsic
for renown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Sing on, dearest brother--warble your reedy song,
Loud human song, with voice of
uttermost
woe.
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Whitman |
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So was Myronides one of the best-bearded of men o' this side;
his backside was all black, and he
terrified
his enemies as much as
Phormio.
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Aristophanes |
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly
redoubled
stroakes vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or memorize another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Cushman believes therefore that
Harsnet refers either to some lost
morality
or to 'Punch and Judy'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Him
Even the laurels and the tamarisks wept;
For him,
outstretched
beneath a lonely rock,
Wept pine-clad Maenalus, and the flinty crags
Of cold Lycaeus.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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_ If I e'er, in heart or mind,
Conceived
deliberately such a thought,
But rather strove to trample back to hell
Such thoughts--if e'er they glared a moment through
The irritation of my oppressed spirit--
May Heaven be shut for ever from my hopes,
As from mine eyes!
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Byron |
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Chimene
Elvire, this
suffering
is enough for me,
Don't multiply it with dread augury.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Through all our
literature
your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most affection in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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to my soul for ever she returns;
Or rather Lethe could not blot her thence,
Such as she was when first she struck my sense,
In that bright
blushing
age when beauty burns:
So still I see her, bashful as she turns
Retired into herself, as from offence:
I cry--"'Tis she!
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Petrarch |
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may her loathed gifts in light dust
uselessly
soak, 85
For of unworthy sprite never a gift I desire.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Wilde - Poems |
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Because
Helen was wanton, and her master knew
No curb for her: for that, for that, he slew
My
daughter!
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Euripides - Electra |
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THE SINGING LEAVES
A BALLAD
I
'What
fairings
will ye that I bring?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Guerrier, that he was not altogether
enslaved
by the drug habit.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Fame is
profitless
as pelf,
A good in Nature not allowed
They love me, as I love a cloud
Sailing falsely in the sphere,
Hated mist if it come near.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O
konntest
du in meinem Innern lesen,
Wie wenig Vater und Sohn
Solch eines Ruhmes wert gewesen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He was a gay gallant;
Lucretia
young with features to enchant.
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La Fontaine |
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520
What savage manners, what hardened hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly
softened?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Of th' other sort
Be now instructed, that which follows good
But with disorder'd and
irregular
course.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Saadi held the Muse in awe,
She was his mistress and his law;
A
twelvemonth
he could silence hold,
Nor ran to speak till she him told;
He felt the flame, the fanning wings,
Nor offered words till they were things,
Glad when the solid mountain swims
In music and uplifting hymns.
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Emerson - Poems |
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SIR,
The
gentleman
who will deliver you this is a Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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defect in this
electronic
work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
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Yeats |
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NURSE'S SONG
When voices of
children
are heard on the green,
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Illustration: DIOMED AND ULYSSES
RETURNING
WITH THE SPOILS OF RHESUS.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A
solitary
fly!
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Golden Treasury |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Emerson - Poems |
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the crisis--
The danger is past,
And the lingering illness
Is over at last--
And the fever called "Living"
Is
conquered
at last.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Aricia
Go, Prince, and pursue your
generous
plans.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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flores nitescunt
discolore
germine
pinguntque terram gemmeis honoribus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And,
entering
with unsteady pace,
Receives a buffet in the face
That lands him on his back:
[Picture: Decorative border of man climbing hall] And feels himself,
like one in sleep,
Glide swiftly down again,
A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
He drops upon the plain--
So I, that had resolved to bring
Conviction to a ghost,
And found it quite a different thing
From any human arguing,
Yet dared not quit my post
But, keeping still the end in view
To which I hoped to come,
I strove to prove the matter true
By putting everything I knew
Into an axiom:
Commencing every single phrase
With 'therefore' or 'because,'
I blindly reeled, a hundred ways,
About the syllogistic maze,
Unconscious where I was.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Oh, thou didst walk in agony,
Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry
Of
wordless
wailing, well know I.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
doctrines
of despair, of
spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such
as shared the serenity of nature.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A
particular
account of this revolt is given in the Annals, xiv.
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Tacitus |
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