It is
believed that the thoughtful reader will find in these pages a
quality more suggestive of the poetry of William Blake than of
anything to be elsewhere found,--flashes of wholly original and
profound insight into nature and life; words and phrases exhibiting
an
extraordinary
vividness of descriptive and imaginative power, yet
often set in a seemingly whimsical or even rugged frame.
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_te uoce
loquentem_
Owen.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yet, oh yet, 730
Although the sun of poesy is set,
These lovers did embrace, and we must weep
That there is no old power left to steep
A quill
immortal
in their joyous tears.
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Keats |
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XII
That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,
Calls his barons, his council to begin:
Oger the Duke, that
Archbishop
Turpin,
Richard the old, and his nephew Henry,
From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,
Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin:
With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,
And among them the Count Rollant came in,
And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Laws for
themselves
they made for their own profit, and
left us nothing at all, no more than a dog or a sow.
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Have you observed [7] a tuft of winged seed
That, from the dandelion's naked stalk,
Mounted aloft, is suffered not to use
Its natural gifts for purposes of rest, 140
Driven by the
autumnal
whirlwind to and fro
Through the wide element?
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Do you hope to see it
In one of your
withered
days?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Very Young" Gayerson's papa held a
Division
or a Collectorate
or something administrative in a particularly unpleasant part of
Bengal--full of Babus who edited newspapers proving that "Young"
Gayerson was a "Nero" and a "Scylla" and a "Charybdis"; and, in addition
to the Babus, there was a good deal of dysentery and cholera abroad
for nine months of the year.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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All by him fell thou say'st, by whom fell he, 1580
What
glorious
band gave Samson his deaths wound?
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Milton |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Some cling
together
while they wait,
And droop and gaze and hesitate,
But others leap along the sky,
Or circle round and calmly choose
The gust they know they ought to use;
While some in loving pairs will glide,
Or watch the others as they pass,
Or rest on flowers in the grass,
Or circle through the shining day
Like silvery butterflies at play.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Wherefore
now the Queen
In this low pulse and palsy of the state,
Bad me to tell you that she counts on you
And on myself as her two hands; on you,
In your own city, as her right, my Lord,
For you are loyal.
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Tennyson |
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The hope that
hitherto
I have denied
Imperious comes to me as from your side
Serious, unfaltering and swift and strong.
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Rilke - Poems |
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HE
REJOICES
AT PARTICIPATING IN HER SUFFERINGS.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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1164 & ay
rachches
in a res radly hem fol3es,
Huntere3 wyth hy3e horne hasted hem after,
[G] Wyth such a crakkande kry, as klyffes haden brusten;
What wylde so at-waped wy3es ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Reason is nonsense, right an
impudent
suggestion;
Alas for thee, that thou a grandson art!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" Line 345 is
composed
especially to show how
feeble a rhythm results from such a succession of "open vowels.
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Alexander Pope |
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Here will I seat myself, beside this old,
Hollow, and weedy oak, which ivy-twine
Clothes as with net-work: here will couch my limbs,
Close by this river, in this silent shade,
As safe and sacred from the step of man
As an invisible world--unheard, unseen,
And
listening
only to the pebbly brook
That murmurs with a dead, yet tinkling sound;
Or to the bees, that in the neighbouring trunk
Make honey-hoards.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Being newly
returned
comforts me for a while?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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15 Spight o' the
housewiues
cord, or her hot spit.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Dhorme _Choix de Textes
Religieux_
198, 33.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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permission and without paying
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royalties.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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With tyrant dead your fathers traced
A circle wide, with battles graced;
Victorious
garland, red and vast!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Dark rolling sheets, forth belch'd from brazen wombs,
And bor'd, like show'ring clouds, with hailing bombs,
O'er Dio's sky spread the black shades of death;
The mine's dread
earthquakes
shake the ground beneath.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you cannot
Bar his access to th' King, never attempt
Anything
on him; for he hath a witchcraft
Over the King in's tongue.
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Shakespeare |
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SOLNESS _(with a glance at_ KAIA):
Halvard!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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His ruddy face
shone with genial humor; his eyes sparkled and a
constant
smile hovered
around his lips.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Lydius unde meos
iterasset
Thybris Iulos?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Upon the summer wave a gay ship danced,
Her cordage was of silk, of gold her sails,
Her sides with ivory and ebon glanced,
The sea was tranquil,
favouring
were the gales,
And heaven as when no cloud its azure veils.
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Petrarch |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My joy, my life, thou
declarest
to me that this love of ours shall last
ever between us.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_It was included in the Collected Edition of the author's
Poems
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape,
And
stubborn
oaks sweat honey-dew.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Thither the
Patriarch
Jacob saw it stretch
Its topmost round, when it appear'd to him
With angels laden.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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an alliance
a
magnificent
bond,
- and the life
remaining in me
I will employ
for.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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er bestes by [the]
wandryng
ly?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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234 THE POKM8
But when the fire-ships
terrible
he saw,
Pregnaot with sulphur, nearer to him draw.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Your Caesar's father oft,
When he hath mus'd of taking
kingdoms
in,
Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd kisses.
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Shakespeare |
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"—ROWE]
188 (return)
[ The Cherusci, at that time, dwelt between the Weser and the Elbe, where now are Luneburg, Brunswick, and part of the Marche of
Brandenburg
on this side the Elbe.
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Tacitus |
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Pepys has many
references
to it in his
_Diary_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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--the day when Laura ceased
To adorn the world, about her
thronging
press'd,
Replete with wonder and with holy love.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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***Young flowers were whispering in melody
To happy flowers that night--and tree to tree;
Fountains
were gushing music as they fell
In many a star-lit grove, or moon-lit dell;
Yet silence came upon material things--
Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings--
And sound alone that from the spirit sprang
Bore burthen to the charm the maiden sang:
* Eyraco--Chaldea.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
Contented
wi' little, &c.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The
change is neither
desirable
nor undesirable; it is merely inevitable.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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So small they are, with feathers ruffled blown,
Adrift between earth
desolate
and leaden sky;
Nor have they ever known
Any but frozen earth, and scudding clouds on high.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"The thirst
Of
knowledge
high, whereby thou art inflam'd,
To search the meaning of what here thou seest,
The more it warms thee, pleases me the more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLXXIV
Now when the sky and when the earth again
Fill with ice: cold hail scattered everywhere,
And the horror of the worst months of the year
Makes the grass bristle across the plain:
Now when the wind mutinously prowling,
Cracks the boulders, and uproots the trees,
When the
redoubled
roaring of the seas
Fills all the shoreline with its wild surging:
Love burns me, and winter's bitter cold
That freezes all, cannot freeze the old
Ardour in my heart that lasts forever.
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Ronsard |
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And
he showed me above the altar an
inscription
graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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With regard to his
marriage
in A.
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Li Po |
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TJie nightingale does here make choice
To sing the trials of her voice ;
Low shrubs she sits in, and adorns
With music high the squatted thorns ;
But highest oaks stoop down to hear,
And
listening
elders prick the ear ;
The thorn, lest it should hurt her, draws
Within the skin its shrunken claws.
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Marvell - Poems |
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" 120
She said; then raging to Sir Plume repairs,
And bids her Beau demand the precious hairs;
(Sir Plume of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane)
With earnest eyes, and round
unthinking
face, 125
He first the snuff-box open'd, then the case,
And thus broke out--"My Lord, why, what the devil?
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Alexander Pope |
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And the dew on the grass and his own cold tears
Were one in brooding mystery,
Though death's loud thunder came upon him,
Though death's loud thunder struck him down--
The boughs and the proud thoughts swept through the thunder,
Till he saw our wide nation, each State a flower,
Each petal a park for holy feet,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
With wild fawns merry on every street,
The vista of ten
thousand
years, flower-lighted and complete.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any
specific
use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES -- Except for the "Right of
Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Chimene
If he disobeys, the
increase
to my pain!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was
something
even more intense than despair that I then
observed upon the countenance of the singular being whom I had watched
so pertinaciously.
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Poe - 5 |
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Besides, whatever takes a part its own
In fostering and
increasing
[aught].
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Lucretius |
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--There are more shadows in this loamy cup
Than God could count: and oh, but it is fair:
The kindly green and rounded trunks, that meet
Under the soil with twinings of their feet
And in the sky with twinings of their arms:
The yellow stools: the still ungathered charms
Of berry, woodland herb, and bryony,
And mid-wood's
changeling
child, Anemone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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forming the counterpoint to this prosody, a work which lacks precedent, have been left in a primitive state: not because I agree with being timid in my attempts; but because it is not for me, save by a special pagination or volume of my own, in a
Periodical
so courageous, gracious and accommodating as it shows itself to be to real freedom, to act too contrary to custom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'Spleenwort':
a sort of fern which was once
supposed
to be a remedy against the spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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The ivy at the parlour end,
The
woodbine
at the garden gate,
Are all and each affection's friend
That render parting desolate.
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John Clare |
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"Now
wherefore
thus, by day and night,
"In rain, in tempest, and in snow,
"Thus to the dreary mountain-top
"Does this poor woman go?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Meantime let all in
Thessaly
who dread
My sceptre join in mourning for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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(_To
himself_)
I suppose not.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Foucher,
head of a War Office Department, had jokingly
betrothed
a son of the one
to a daughter of the other.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Pray
instruct
my
ignorance.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Mercifull
Heauen:
What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes:
Giue sorrow words; the griefe that do's not speake,
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it breake
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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they for joy did grin
And all at once their breath drew in
As they were
drinking
all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Avons-nous donc commis une action
etrange?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Blessed the man who has
perfected
wisdom!
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Aristophanes |
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ou
misseist
hym ou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXIII
Dim vistas, sprinkled o'er with sun-flecked green,
Wound through the
thickset
trunks on every side,
And, toward the west, in fancy might be seen
A Gothic window in its blazing pride, 180
When the low sun, two arching elms between,
Lit up the leaves beyond, which, autumn-dyed
With lavish hues, would into splendor start,
Shaming the labored panes of richest art.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Occasionally a reading which is
probably erroneous throws light upon a
difficult
passage.
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John Donne |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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The question seems too small
For one who holds the _word_ so very cheaply,
Who, far removed from shadows all,
For
substances
alone seeks deeply.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_Thursday_--Reach
Longtown
to dine, and part there with my good
friends Messrs.
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But Heaven forsakes not thee: o'er yonder sands
Soon shall thou view the scattered Trojan bands
Fly diverse; while proud kings, and chiefs renown'd,
Driven heaps on heaps, with clouds
involved
around
Of rolling dust, their winged wheels employ
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I should not dare to leave my friend,
Because -- because if he should die
While I was gone, and I -- too late --
Should reach the heart that wanted me;
If I should disappoint the eyes
That hunted, hunted so, to see,
And could not bear to shut until
They "noticed" me -- they noticed me;
If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I 'd come -- so sure I 'd come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name, --
My heart would wish it broke before,
Since breaking then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning's sun,
Where
midnight
frosts had lain!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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A fire was once within my brain;
And in my head a dull, dull pain;
And
fiendish
faces one, two, three,
Hung at my breasts, and pulled at me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally
required
to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were
climbing
all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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merciful
dedes:
Who ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Men, and almost all sorts of creatures, have their
reputation
by
distance.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ben s'avvide il poeta ch'io stava
stupido tutto al carro de la luce,
ove tra noi e
Aquilone
intrava.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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him of
important
issues he had overlooked.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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His time was spent in the forests of Cintra,
while the affairs of government were neglected or executed by those
whose
interest
it was to keep their sovereign in ignorance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I see Christ once more eating the bread of His last supper, in the midst of
youths and old persons:
I see where the strong divine young man, the Hercules, toiled faithfully
and long, and then died;
I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful
nocturnal son, the full-limbed Bacchus;
I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of
feathers
on his
head;
I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, _Do
not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country--I
now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere, where every one goes in his turn_.
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Whitman |
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You must require such a user to return or destroy all
copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium and discontinue
all use of and all access to other copies of Project Gutenberg-tm
works.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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THIS sprightly girl with soft endearing ease,
Exerted ev'ry care the lad to please,
To his regards she never shy appeared;
Now pinched his arm, then smiled and often leered;
Her hand across his eyes would
sometimes
put;
At others try to step upon his foot.
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La Fontaine |
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if any ask thee who imposed
Th'
unsightly
blemish that thine eye enclosed,
Say that Ulysses, old Laertes' son,
Whose seat is Ithaca, who hath won
Surname of city-razer, bored it out.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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