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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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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_Both_
bigynneth
to amende.
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A host, by Jove endued with martial might,
And taught to conquer, or to fall in fight:
Adventurous
combats and bold wars to wage,
Employ'd our youth, and yet employs our age.
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ANSWER TO A
POETICAL
EPISTLE
SENT TO THE AUTHOR BY A TAILOR.
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In a word, Tu Fu's poetry expresses what we
ordinary
men and
women wish to express and cannot.
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Anon his heart revives: her vespers done,
Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees;
Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;
Loosens her fragrant boddice; by degrees
Her rich attire creeps
rustling
to her knees: 230
Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed,
Pensive awhile she dreams awake, and sees,
In fancy, fair St.
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seruatur tamen in poena uultusque pudorque;
supplicia
ipsa decent; niuea ceruice reclinis
molliter ipsa suae custos est casta figurae.
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Finally it urges calm
submission
and
acquiescence in what is hard to understand, since "one truth is
clear,--whatever is, is right.
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Oh, he who should seek again
A new bride after thee,
Were loathed of thy
children
twain,
And loathed of me.
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That, instantly, I ran,
--Alike o' th' year and me 'twas April then--
From these gay meadows round sweet flowers to bind,
Hoping rich
pleasure
at her eyes to find.
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For example, in
a tragedy, look upon Sophocles, his Ajax: Ajax, deprived of Achilles'
armour, which he hoped from the
suffrage
of the Greeks, disdains; and,
growing impatient of the injury, rageth, and runs mad.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Stout sons I had, and those twice three
One only
daughter
lent to me:
The which was made a happy bride
But thrice three moons before she died.
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In vain the observer eyes the builder's toil,
But quite
mistakes
the scaffold for the pile.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Like
polished
mirroi*s, so his steely breast
Had every figure of her woes exprest,
And with the damp of her hist gasps obscured.
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gilp
gelǣsted
(_had
fulfilled for the East Danes his boast_), 830.
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ultima quis tacuit iuuenum
certamina
Colchos?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And why do the
mourners
walk a-row?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And now, when toil and summer's in its prime,
In every vill, at morning's
earliest
time,
To early-risers many a Hodge is seen,
And many a Dob's heard clattering oer the green.
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is gone,
And still with ardour
unconsumed
I glow;
Yet find, whene'er myself I seek to know,
Amidst the fire a frosty chill come on.
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka Otrepiev is
anathema!
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She was
purely an Indian deity--an Anglo-Indian deity, that is to say--and
we called her THE Venus Annodomini, to
distinguish
her from other
Annodominis of the same everlasting order.
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To war
indeed we must go
equipped
and unencumbered; but after the fatigues of
war, what was more allowable than the consolations of a wife?
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45
The
Evangelist
St.
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Food for his rage,
repasture
for his den.
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Shakespeare |
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So, dearest mistress, nothing can now
separate
us from
thee.
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[June falls asleep; and is not
awakened
by the voice of July,
who behind the scenes is heard half singing, half calling.
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Christina Rossetti |
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PART V
By grace of the holy Mother, the ancient Mariner is
refreshed
with rain.
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disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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And, as we talked, I
questioned
him, 1827.
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with
tapering
hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's tournaments to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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So shall he quell that
arrogance
which safe
Thou now indulgest, roaming day by day
The city, while bad shepherds mar the flocks.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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We shadows, while they uproot his earthy house,
Will overthrow his shadows and carry off
Caer, his blue-eyed
daughter
that I love.
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Yeats |
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ALCHIMIE
DE LA DOULEUR
L'un t'eclaire avec son ardeur
L'autre en toi met son deuil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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]
The Church[1] is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high;
The bristling stones with leaf and flower are sculptured wondrously;
The portal glows
resplendent
with its "rose,"
And 'neath the vault immense at evening swarm
Figures of angel, saint, or demon's form,
As oft a fearful world our dreams disclose.
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Hugo - Poems |
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But there were those amongst us all
Who walked with
downcast
head,
And knew that, had each got his due,
They should have died instead:
He had but killed a thing that lived,
Whilst they had killed the dead.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Think ye, that sic as you and I,
Wha drudge an' drive thro' wet and dry,
Wi' never-ceasing toil;
Think ye, are we less blest than they,
Wha
scarcely
tent us in their way,
As hardly worth their while?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Such use of a plural verb after two
singular
subjects of
closely allied import was common.
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obruerint
citius scelerata obliuia solem,
quam tuus ex nostro corde recedat honos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Preacher,
an ornamental symbol,
a breeder of dogmas,
earnestness
of, important.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Pope speaks as if it were an act
of
condescension
for him to have drunk with Gibber.
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{and}
anoienge
folk treden {and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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' The pores
were
apparently
unknown.
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John Donne |
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Why,
Zeus with his throne and his lightnings would not be worth an obolus if
you
recovered
your sight, were it but for a few instants.
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the
mountain
covered 38
Ye speak of raptures that are void and friendless 39
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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ENVOI
Struck of the blade that no man parrieth,
Pierced of the point that
toucheth
lastly all,
'Gainst that grey fencer, even Death,
Behold the shield !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Though I dismiss
Dark, unavailing reverie,
I just hint, in parenthesis,
There is no stupid calumny
Born of a babbler in a loft
And by the world repeated oft,
There is no
fishmarket
retort
And no ridiculous report,
Which your true friend with a sweet smile
Where fashionable circles meet
A hundred times will not repeat,
Quite inadvertently meanwhile;
And yet he in your cause would strive
And loves you as--a relative!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
But I, grown shrewder, scan the skies
With a suspicious air, --
As children, swindled for the first,
All
swindlers
be, infer.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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When the
troubles
cease, and the land emerges as a distinct unity,
then I fall into our native iambics.
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Sidney Lanier |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Isles,
Whose face was
pervaded
with smiles;
He sang "High dum diddle," and played on the fiddle,
That amiable Man of the Isles.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Yet he with
troubles
did remain
And suffered poverty and pain.
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John Clare |
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He was plagued by
increasing
deafness, and weak health, and died on New Year's Day 1560.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Their gaze draws me into
infinite
space.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Two swimmers
wrestled
on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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It was a den where no insulting light
Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans
They felt, but heard not, for the solid roar
Of thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse,
Pouring a constant bulk,
uncertain
where.
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Keats |
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Thy very form I see,
Like some grim raven, perched upon the slain,
Exulting o'er the crime, aloud, in
tuneless
strain!
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Aeschylus |
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And the soft-singing streams
Are music like your dreams;
Though
constant
stars embrace
The quiet of your face,
Your smile lights up sunrise,
And evening's in your eyes--
Each so shadows its part,
All cannot show your heart;
And weighing the beauty of earth
I see it so little worth,
When reckoned beside you,
That I hold heaven for true
--But all my heaven is you.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Seeing them close-ranked and daring for battle,
I therewith began thus: "Men, hearts of supreme and useless bravery, if
your desire be fixed to follow one who dares the utmost; you see what is
the fortune of our state: all the gods by whom this empire was upheld
have gone forth,
abandoning
shrine and altar; your aid comes to a
burning city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I was
sufficiently
poor, sad to say.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where
Conspirers
are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill
Shall come against him.
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XXV
Would that I might possess the
Thracian
lyre,
To wake from Hades, and their idle pose,
Those old Caesars, and the shades of those,
Who once raised this ancient city higher:
Or that I had Amphion's to inspire,
And with sweet harmony these stones enclose
To quicken them again, where they once rose,
Ausonian glory conjuring from its pyre:
Or that with skilful pencil I might draw
The portrait of these palaces once more,
With the spirit of some high Virgil filled;
I would attempt, inflamed by my ardour,
To recreate with the pen's slight power,
That which our own hands could never build.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared
with loss of thee, will not seem so.
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Shakespeare |
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_10
It was a winter such as when birds die
In the deep forests; and the fishes lie
Stiffened in the translucent ice, which makes
Even the mud and slime of the warm lakes
A
wrinkled
clod as hard as brick; and when, _15
Among their children, comfortable men
Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold:
Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!
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Shelley |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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So fair, that of the
remenaunt
noon
Ne preyse I half so wel as it,
Whan I avyse it in my wit.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Author makes
this remark, to rescue himself from the charge of having
alluded with levity to a line in Milton: a charge than which
none could be more painful to him, except perhaps that of
having
ridiculed
his Bible.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In our heart of hearts believing
Victory crowns the just,
And that
braggarts
must
Surely bite the dust,
Press we to the field ungrieving,
In our heart of hearts believing
Victory crowns the just.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Pope is at his
best when he is dealing with a concrete world of men and women as they
lived and moved in the London of his day; he is at his worst when he is
attempting to seize and render
abstract
ideas.
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Alexander Pope |
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The weapon entered close above his ear,
Cold through his temples glides the whizzing spear;(141)
With piercing shrieks the youth resigns his breath,
His eye-balls darken with the shades of death;
Ponderous
he falls; his clanging arms resound,
And his broad buckler rings against the ground.
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Iliad - Pope |
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49
BROTHER TO RICHARD "CCEUR DE LION
From the Provengal of
Bertrans
de Born, elk marrimen"
"
"
Si tuitli dolelhplor
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_Both_ thought; _read_
thinketh
(K.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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LARGESSE, that sette al hir entente 1150
For to be
honourable
and free;
Of Alexandres kin was she;
Hir moste Ioye was, y-wis,
Whan that she yaf, and seide, 'have this.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Pour your
gladness
on earth's head,
So be merry, so be dead.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There are in _The Book of Pictures_ poems in which this will to
concentrate a mood into its essence and
finality
is applied to purely
lyrical poems as in _Initiation_, that stands out in this volume like
"the great dark tree" itself so immeasurable is the straight line of its
aspiration reaching into the far distant silence of the night; or as in
the poem entitled _Autumn_, with its melancholy mood of gentle descent
in all nature.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Golden Treasury |
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They read of politics and not of grain,
And
speechify
and comment and explain,
And know so much of Parliament and state
You'd think they're members when you heard them prate;
And know so little of their farms the while
They can but urge a wiser man to smile.
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John Clare |
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Oh, born beneath the Fishes' sign,
Of constellations happiest,
May he somewhere with Walton dine,
May Horace send him Massic wine,
And Burns Scotch drink, the
nappiest!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"And don't be so
familiar
there!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sweet the lark's wild warbled lay,
Sweet the
tinkling
rill to hear;
But, Delia, more delightful still,
Steal thine accents on mine ear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Above the mountains
the sun is about to wake,
_and to-day white violets
shine beside white lilies
adrift on the
mountain
side;
to-day the narcissus opens
that loves the rain_.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And never think that I feel lightly,
If some
courtesy
I seem to lack.
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Troubador Verse |
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If you do not charge anything for copies of this
eBook,
complying
with the rules is very easy.
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Yeats |
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Oh, dear on earth when all did love her,
Oh, dearer lost beyond recover:
Of women all the bravest-hearted
Hath pressed thy lips and
breathed
thy breath.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran, changing sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the
forsaken
west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
In sceptr'd pall come sweeping by
Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line,
Or the tale of Troy divine;
Or what (though rare) of later age
Ennobled
hath the buskin'd stage.
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Golden Treasury |
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(also published as "Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years"),
and in
subsequent
editions.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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