A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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The eyes are drowned in opium
In universal licence
The clownish mouth bewitched
A
singular
geranium.
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Slepinge
at hoom, whanne out of Troye I sterte.
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150
Which shall I first bewail,
Thy Bondage or lost Sight,
Prison within Prison
Inseparably
dark?
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What is this, that rises like the issue of a King,
And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round
And top of
Soueraignty?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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āna hwearf = _he died
solitary
and alone_ (B.
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Beowulf |
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she hath given thee;
Perilous
godhoods
of choosing have rent thee and riven thee;
Will's high adoring to Ill's low exploring hath driven thee --
Freedom, thy Wife, hath uplifted thy life and clean shriven thee!
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Sidney Lanier |
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gret wille & longe;
No
mendement
?
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To satin races he is nought;
But children on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play,
And Dnieper
wrestlers
run.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Oxford
At the Clarendon Press
FIRST
PUBLISHED
1912
REPRINTED 1921, 1926, 1934, 1940 1943, 1947, 1952, 1964, 1968
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFACE
The plan of this book excludes epic and the drama, and in general so
much of Roman poetry as could be included only by a licence of excerpt
mostly dangerous and in poetry of any architectonic pretensions
intolerable.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And by their flame so pure and bright,
We see how lately those sweet eyes
Have wandered down from Paradise,
And still are
lingering
in its light.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And now 'tis night, the guardian moon
Sails her allotted course on high,
And from the misty woodland nigh
The
nightingale
trills forth her tune;
Restless Tattiana sleepless lay
And thus unto her nurse did say:
XVII
"Nurse, 'tis so close I cannot rest.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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23
They feed so wide, so slowly move,
As
constellations
do above.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Aeneas calls to trusty
Achates: 'Give me store of weapons; none that hath been planted in
Grecian body on the plains of Ilium shall my hand hurl at
Rutulian
in
vain.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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There must be a new Hedonism that shall recreate life and save it from
that harsh,
uncomely
Puritanism that is having, in our own day, its
curious revival.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Endless conjectures all propound
And
secretly
their views expound.
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in allowing me to examine them, has been a very genuine
evidence
of
their interest in the Poet, and his work.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A li se tint uns chevaliers
Acointables
et biaus parliers,
Qui sot bien faire honor as gens.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They were transplanted by
Augustus
to
the west side of the Rhine.
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Tacitus |
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'
Walter warped his mouth at this
To
something
so mock-solemn, that I laughed
And Lilia woke with sudden-thrilling mirth
An echo like a ghostly woodpecker,
Hid in the ruins; till the maiden Aunt
(A little sense of wrong had touched her face
With colour) turned to me with 'As you will;
Heroic if you will, or what you will,
Or be yourself you hero if you will.
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Tennyson |
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So far from caring,
I laughed inside, and only cranked the faster,
(It ran as if it wasn't greased but glued);
I
welcomed
any moderate disaster
That might be calculated to postpone
What evidently nothing could conclude.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And now with gloomy aspect rose the day,
Decreed the
plighted
servile rights to pay;
When Egas, to redeem his faith's disgrace,
Devotes himself, his spouse, and infant race.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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von (Robert), p39 1887, Internet Book Archive Images
Medusas,
miserable
heads
With hairs of violet
You enjoy the hurricane
And I enjoy the very same.
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Appoloinaire |
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V 25 of the Assyrian text, [7]
where
Gilgamish
begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Berlin,
Whose form was
uncommonly
thin;
Till he once, by mistake, was mixed up in a cake,
So they baked that Old Man of Berlin.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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So long to those who
hopeless
in their fear
Watch the slow breath and look for what they dread:
While I supine, with ears that cease to hear,
With eyes that glaze, with heart-pulse running down,
(Alas!
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
But when the south wind stirs the pools
And struggles in the lanes,
Her heart misgives her for her vow,
And she pours soft refrains
Into the lap of adamant,
And spices, and the dew,
That
stiffens
quietly to quartz,
Upon her amber shoe.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek,
And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek;
She neer so much as mentioned things to come,
But sighed oer pleasures ere she left her home;
And now and then a mournful smile would raise
At freaks
repeated
of our younger days,
Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground
Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round,
Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away--
Two games, poor thing, Jane dearly loved to play.
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John Clare |
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No, it was builded far from accident;
It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls
Under the blow of
thralled
discontent,
Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls:
It fears not policy, that heretic,
Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,
But all alone stands hugely politic,
That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Keats - Lamia |
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I am going on a good deal
progressive
in _mon grand but_, the sober
science of life.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Beginning
with the Vernal Equinox, it must be
remembered; and (howsoever the old Solar Year is practically
superseded by the clumsy Lunar Year that dates from the Mohammedan
Hijra) still commemorated by a Festival that is said to have been
appointed by the very Jamshyd whom Omar so often talks of, and whose
yearly Calendar he helped to rectify.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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, were not peculiar to the Sufi; nor to Lucretius before
them; nor to Epicurus before him;
probably
the very original
Irreligion of Thinking men from the first; and very likely to be the
spontaneous growth of a Philosopher living in an Age of social and
political barbarism, under shadow of one of the Two and Seventy
Religions supposed to divide the world.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Mouthpiece
of mutiny!
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Byron |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Between the leaders of the Athenian line,
(Stichius the brave,
Menestheus
the divine,)
Deplored Amphimachus, sad object!
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Iliad - Pope |
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His eyes
reed
sparclyng
as the fyre-glowe (_too long_); F.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although
thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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particularly
important to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Lucretius |
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No living man,
or lief or loath, from your labor dire
could you dissuade, from
swimming
the main.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
explanation
of this has
been hinted at by Henzen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The boundless sway
Of cruel Love I feel, that makes a prey
Of all those
energies
that lift the soul
To her congenial climes above the pole
I know the various pangs that rend the heart;
I know that noblest souls receive the dart
Without defence, when Reason drops the shield
And, recreant, to her foe resigns the field.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Not I, by Apollo, unless they agree with me as the little
ape of an
armourer
agreed with his wife, not to bite me, nor pull me by
the testicles, nor shove things up my.
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Aristophanes |
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On him her eyes burned steadily
With such gray fires of heaven-hot command
As Dawn burns Night away with, and she held
Her white forefinger quivering aloft
At
greatest
arm's-length of her dainty arm,
In menace sweeter than a kiss could be
And terribler than sudden whispers are
That come from lips unseen, in sunlit room.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Bernick, in an agony of soul,
declares
that he cannot
receive anyone.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Now, to me the elm-leaves whisper
Mad, discordant melodies,
And keen melodies like shadows
Haunt the moaning willow trees,
And the
sycamores
with laughter
Mock me in the nightly breeze.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A queen should never dream on summer eves,
When hovering spells are heavy in the dusk:--
I think no night was ever quite so still,
So
smoothly
lit with red along the west,
So deeply hushed with quiet through and through.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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PAUL KING: All of you who have been lately in China must be struck
with the extraordinary difference between the China
described
in these
poems and the China which has come into being since the revolution.
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Li Po |
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They hate _me_ also for my love to you,
My Philip; and these
judgments
on the land--
Harvestless autumns, horrible agues, plague--
PHILIP.
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Tennyson |
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Free us, for we perish
In this ever-flowing
monotony
Of ugly print marks, black Upon white parchment.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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]
[Sidenote D: Night
approaches
and each "to his bed was brought at the
last.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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O proper stuffe:
This is the very
painting
of your feare:
This is the Ayre-drawne-Dagger which you said
Led you to Duncan.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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From time to time we passed a little one-story chapel-like
building, with a tin-roofed spire, a shrine, perhaps it would be
called, close to the path-side, with a lattice door, through which we
could see an altar, and
pictures
about the walls; equally open,
through rain and shine, though there was no getting into it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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but 'tis this very bawling that
incessantly
upsets
the city!
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Thus, as I view'd th'
interminable
host,
The prospect seem'd at last in dimness lost:
But still the wish remain'd their doom to know,
As, watchful, I survey'd the passing show.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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loue is a gretter
lawe {and} a
strengere
to hym self ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Deep harm to disobey,
Seeing
obedience
is the bond of rule.
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Tennyson |
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The Ridge was wreathed with angry fire
As flames rise round a martyr's stake;
For many a hero on that pyre
Was offered for our dear land's sake,
What time in heaven the gray clouds flew
To mingle with the
deathless
blue;
While here, below, the blue and gray
Melted minglingly away,
Mirroring heaven, to make another day.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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XLIX
I was for calm
existence
made,
For rural solitude and dreams,
My lyre sings sweeter in the shade
And more imagination teems.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For since the blind-born, who have ne'er surveyed
The light of sun, yet
recognise
by touch
Things that from birth had ne'er a hue for them,
'Tis thine to know that bodies can be brought
No less unto the ken of our minds too,
Though yet those bodies with no dye be smeared.
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Lucretius |
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The glass restored to frames to creak is made
By blustering wind that comes from
neighboring
glade.
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Alive was he still,
still
wielding
his wits.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This grasp of the
deeper
significance
of all art gives to the book on Rodin its well-nigh
religious aspect of thought and its hymnlike rhythm of expression.
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Rilke - Poems |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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--The page
measures
278 X 218.
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Byron |
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For a discussion
of all this, see
_Professor Worthy's Page_
For now, it is enough to say that among Schiller's
examples
for
"aesthetic education," as he called it, were these Elegies by his much
admired friend, Wolfgang Goethe.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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nay;
But goon visyte without delay
That myn herte
desyreth
so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I would not
enfeeble
them by dissipation.
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Poe - 5 |
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It's
excessively
awkward to mention it now,
With the Snark, so to speak, at the door!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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With these faults, Ovid had such
enchanting
graces, that his style and
manner infected every branch of literature.
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Tacitus |
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Land of Vermont and
Connecticut!
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Whitman |
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er
tournayed
tulkes bi-tyme3 ful mony,
Iusted ful Iolile ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There was a strangeness in the room,
And
Something
white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
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Lewis Carroll |
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But in
the Errata to
Paradise
Lost (i.
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Milton |
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Fragments they rend from off the craggy brow
And dash the ruins on the ships below;
The
crackling
vessels burst; hoarse groans arise,
And mingled horrors echo to the skies;
The men like fish, they struck upon the flood,
And cramm'd their filthy throats with human food.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently
we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
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Wilde - Poems |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But the night wind
Is chilly--and these
melancholy
boughs
Throw over all things a gloom.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Don't I know, and have I not felt, the
many ills, the
peculiar
ills that poetic flesh is heir to?
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Robert Forst |
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though the crowded
factories
beget
The blindworm Ignorance that slays the soul, O tarry yet!
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Wilde - Poems |
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