The Russian
peasants
are childishly fond of whirligigs, which
are also much in vogue during the Carnival.
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_cella_
III
de meo
ligurrire
libido est
Non.
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Latin - Catullus |
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This day will witness, with the duke's,
My cymbaleer's return:
Gladness and pride beam in my looks,
Delay my heart impatient brooks,
All meaner
thoughts
I spurn.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As laughter was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a
travelling
show,
Or who died yesterday!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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There is not a bird but
delights
in the place where it rests:
And I too--love my thatched cottage.
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Thou needst never die;
Thou canst find alway
somewhere
some fond wife
To die for thee.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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A swan from time past
remembers
it's he
Magnificent yet struggling hopelessly
Through not having sung a liveable country
From the radiant boredom of winter's sterility.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden
sparkles
laid extinct--!
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Imagists |
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That Pandarus, that ever dide his might
Right for the fyn that I shal speke of here,
As for to bringe to his hous som night
His faire nece, and Troilus y-fere, 515
Wher-as at leyser al this heigh matere,
Touching
hir love, were at the fulle up-bounde,
Hadde out of doute a tyme to it founde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nun
uberlass
es meinem Witze!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Let
glorious
acts more glorious acts inspire,
And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!
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Iliad - Pope |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
farriers
said that she had been quite strained in the
fillets beyond cure before you had bought her; and that the poor
devil, though she might keep a little flesh, had been jaded and quite
worn out with fatigue and oppression.
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Robert Burns |
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No
officious
slave 215
Art thou of that false secondary power
By which we multiply distinctions; then,
Deem that our puny boundaries are things
That we perceive, and not that we have made.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He has not fallen
astern; he has got up early and kept up early, and to be where he is
is to be in season, in the
foremost
rank of time.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Thus for the second time I found myself at the table of
Pugatchef
and
his terrible companions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Coon, old,
pleasure
in skinning.
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James Russell Lowell |
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those less imperious voices, hands
Not half so cruel as thine, those
earthlier
forms!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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Sappho |
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_Love is maintain'd by wealth_; when all is spent,
_Adversity
then breeds the discontent_.
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Robert Herrick |
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Among
other stories of its origin a local
tradition
preserves the one here
given.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Yet to save Cranmer were to serve the Church,
Your Majesty's I mean; he is effaced,
Self-blotted out; so wounded in his honour,
He can but creep down into some dark hole
Like a hurt beast, and hide himself and die;
But if you burn him,--well, your
Highness
knows
The saying, 'Martyr's blood--seed of the Church.
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Tennyson |
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Own to light, love, attraction,
O pearls the sea mingles with its great masses,
O
gleaming
birds of the forest's sombre ocean!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I
answered
him at once,
"Old, old man, it is the wisdom of the age.
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Stephen Crane |
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Beschamt
nur steh ich vor ihm da
Und sag zu allen Sachen ja.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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He sees that
Euripides
may have had his own
reasons for not making Admetus an ideal husband.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I shall scarce
Help crying out or
shuddering
this time!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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Not more amazement seized on Circe's guests,
To see
themselves
fall endlong into beasts,
Than mine, to find a subject staid and wise
Already half turned traitor by surprise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The
dedicated
words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Zeus, Taureau, sur son cou berce comme un enfant
Le corps nu d'Europe, qui jette son bras blanc
Au cou nerveux du Dieu
frissonnant
dans la vague,
Il tourne lentement vers elle son oeil vague;
Elle, laisse trainer sa pale joue en fleur
Au front de Zeus; ses yeux sont fermes; elle meurt
Dans un divin baiser, et le flot qui murmure
De son ecume d'or fleurit sa chevelure.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Call it not
heavenly
power
When but a tyrant's will.
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John Clare |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Proud and erect she drank the music in,
The lively and the warlike call to arms;
Her eyes blinked like an ancient eagle's eyes;
Her
forehead
seemed to await the laurel crown!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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LIX
"For when before, on the flock issuing out,
He saw her
prisoned
in the cave alone,
Into the orc's wide throat he was about
To spring; so grief had reason overthrown,
And he advanced even to the monster's snout,
And, but by little, scaped the grinding stone:
Yet him the hope detained amid the flock,
Trusting to bear Lucina from the rock.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--
"Now ruthless Tempest launch thy
deadliest
dart!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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where lies a marble tomb
And two old pines their
branches
spread--
"_Vladimir Lenski lies beneath,
Who early died a gallant death_,"
Thereon the passing traveller read:
"_The date, his fleeting years how long--
Repose in peace, thou child of song_.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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He admits, indeed, that among his
"miscellaneous stanzas" many were inspired by some
momentary
sensation
or passing event.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
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Sara Teasdale |
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For it were a
grievous
thing:
Love to seek and find too well
In the arms of infidel.
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Hugo - Poems |
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er as
claterande
fro ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[Illustration]
By and by the four
children
came to a country where there were no houses,
but only an incredibly innumerable number of large bottles without corks,
and of a dazzling and sweetly susceptible blue color.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Terrific was this noise that rolled before;
It seemed a squadron; nay, 'twas something more--
A whole battalion, sent by that sad king
With force of arms his little prince to bring,
Together with the lion's
bleeding
hide.
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Hugo - Poems |
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IX
The
greatest
Earth his uncouth mother was,
And blustering AEolus his boasted syre,
* * * * *
Brought forth this monstrous masse of earthly slime 75
Puft up with emptie wind, and fild with sinfull crime.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Virgil's
felicity
left him in
prose, as Tully's forsook him in verse.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sur le plancher
frissonnaient
d'aise
Ses petits pieds si fins, si fins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Petrarch - Poems |
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15
And wel ye wite, agaynes kinde
Hit were to liven in this wyse;
For nature wolde nat suffyse
To noon erthely creature
Not longe tyme to endure 20
Withoute
slepe, and been in sorwe;
And I ne may, ne night ne morwe,
Slepe; and thus melancolye,
And dreed I have for to dye,
Defaute of slepe, and hevinesse 25
Hath sleyn my spirit of quiknesse,
That I have lost al lustihede.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Then this insult touches me, the honour
Of one whom I have made my son's tutor;
To contest my choice, is to
challenge
me,
Make an assault upon the power supreme.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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shal be the place,
O fairest virgin, full of
heavenly
light,
Whose wondrous faith exceeding earthly race,
Was firmest fixt?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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[64] It would appear that his lordship is sent to us
by the
Generals
in Orenburg.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And perhaps I talk with one who is
selecting
some choice
barrels to fulfill an order.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And she hath watched
Many a nightingale perch giddily
On blossomy twig still
swinging
from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song
Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He left his javelin in the dead, for fear
The long encumbrance of the weighty spear
To the fierce foe
advantage
might afford,
To rash between and use the shorten'd sword.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Haply if, where she is, my glance I bend,
This harass'd heart to cheer,
Methinks
that Love I hear
Pleading my cause, and see him succour lend.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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While he, the man of the steerage, goes down, down,
Feet foremost, sliding swiftly down the dim water,
Swift to escape
Those
plunging
shapes with pale, empurpled bellies
That swirl and veer about him.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Beautiful
infant (said the Fay),
In the region of the sun
I dwell, where in a rich array
The clouds encircle the king of day,
His radiant journey done.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Broke the music, at a glance:
And the
daughters
of our princes, thus assembled,
Stepped the measure with the gallant sons of France,
Hush!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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LES
PLAINTES
D'UN ICARE
Les amants des prostituees
Sont heureux, dispos et repus;
Quant a moi, mes bras sont rompus
Pour avoir etreint des nuees.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And the next room was not big
enough to hold a
billiard
table!
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Kipling - Poems |
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We had now, therefore,
the
complete
Mummy at our disposal; and to those who are aware how very
rarely the unransacked antique reaches our shores, it will be evident,
at once that we had great reason to congratulate ourselves upon our good
fortune.
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Poe - 5 |
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though the greenest woods be thy domain,
Alone they can drink up the morning rain:
Though a
descended
Pleiad, will not one
Of thine harmonious sisters keep in tune
Thy spheres, and as thy silver proxy shine?
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Keats - Lamia |
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How
beggarly
appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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Whitman |
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(At her full height, with
crushing
scorn.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Elle croit, elle sait, cette vierge infeconde
Et pourtant necessaire a la marche du monde,
Que la beaute du corps est un sublime don
Qui de toute infamie arrache le pardon;
Elle ignore l'Enfer comme le Purgatoire,
Et, quand l'heure viendra d'entrer dans la Nuit noire,
Elle
regardera
la face de la Mort,
Ainsi qu'un nouveau-ne,--sans haine et sans remord.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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5
_Es
inpudicus
et vorax et aleo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Flying
waterfalls
and rolling torrents mingle their din.
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Li Po |
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What
references
to the Bible do you find?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They
resemble
the _vers libres_ of modern France, using rhyme
occasionally (like Georges Duhamel) as a means of "sonner, rouler, quand
il faut faire donner les cuivres et la batterie.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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What horror
spreading
through this place
Makes my distraught family flee my face?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But this sort grieved myself, and so
I thought how it would be
When just this time, some perfect year,
Themselves
should come to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Aricia
Is unfeeling
Hippolytus
known to you though?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The expression is a
little awkward, and the
sentiment
too serious.
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`But, sith that thou hast don me this servyse
My lyf to save, and for noon hope of mede, 415
So, for the love of god, this grete empryse
Performe
it out; for now is moste nede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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gov'ment
promised
Indians lots,
But at last it closed accounts with shots.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He denounced the
Frenchman
for
his reprehensible taste, though he did not mention his beautiful verse
nor his originality in the matter of criticism.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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DISCOBBOLOS
THE QUANGLE WANGLE'S HAT
THE CUMMERBUND
THE AKOND OF SWAT
NONSENSE
BOTANY
" ALPHABET, No.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Exclaimed
the knight, "you must at once return
By other path than that which you discern,
So that you be not seen.
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Hugo - Poems |
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No mercy now can clear her brow
From this world's peace to pray
For as love's wild prayer
dissolved
in air,
Her woman's heart gave way!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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--If not, wouldst have me keep her in
The women's
chambers
.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"--"Mine eyes," said I,
"May yet be here ta'en from me; but not long;
For they have not
offended
grievously
With envious glances.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Many
translations
exist, the best
being those of Legge in English and of Couvreur in French.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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While we cannot and do not solicit
contributions
from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Keats - Lamia |
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--You have talk'd quite enough,
You afflicting old man at a
Station!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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His eyes peruse
But
thoughts
meander far away--
Ideas, desires and woes confuse
His intellect in close array.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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