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--You have talk'd quite enough,
You afflicting old man at a
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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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Yet its voice ever a murmur resumes, as of multitudes praying:
Liturgies lost in a moan like the
mourning
of far-away seas.
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Yet, as on me Fate hath imposed the cause,
I choose unto me judges that shall be
An
ordinance
for ever, set to rule
The dues of blood-guilt, upon oath declared.
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Is crushed to death by
Bēowulf
in a hand-to-hand combat, 2502 ff.
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Beowulf |
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Ben puoi tu dire: <
si a colui che volle viver solo
e che per salti fu tratto al martiro,
ch'io non conosco il
pescator
ne Polo>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Struck
with horror, I put spurs to my horse, and fled from the
barbarous
sight,
uttering execrations on the cruel spectators.
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"
LXI
There is no more to say now thou art still,
There is no more to do now thou art dead,
There is no more to know now thy clear mind
Is back
returned
unto the gods who gave it.
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Sappho |
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XIII
And that more wondrous was, in either jaw
Three ranckes of yron teeth enraunged were, 110
In which yet trickling blood, and gobbets raw
Of late devoured bodies did appeare,
That sight thereof bred cold congealed feare:
Which to increase, and as atonce to kill,
A cloud of smoothering smoke and sulphure seare, 115
Out of his
stinking
gorge forth steemed still,
That all the ayre about with smoke and stench did fill.
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Humble in humble estate, lofty in lofty,
I will be; and the
attending
daemon
I will always reverence in my mind,
Serving according to my means.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The four
children
then entered into conversation with the
Blue-Bottle-Flies, who discoursed in a placid and genteel manner, though
with a slightly buzzing accent, chiefly owing to the fact that they each
held a small clothes-brush between their teeth, which naturally occasioned
a fizzy, extraneous utterance.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy
fluttering
footfall 5
Through the twilight.
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[49] On the verb _naku_ see the Babylonian Book of
Proverbs
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Oh that I had but
strength
to reach the place!
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Who's a greater master of
deportment?
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adscriptum
postea huc migrauit
347 _sub tegmine_ R
349 _gnatorum_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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A star that had remarked her pain
Shone
straightway
down that leafy lane,
And wrought his image, mirror-plain,
Within a tear that on her lash hung gleaming.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Though America and the Moluccas were now found to be at a great
distance, the genius of Magalhaens still
suggested
the possibility of a
western passage.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The voice of nymphs that haunt the sylvan bowers,
The fair-hair'd Dryads of the shady wood;
Or azure
daughters
of the silver flood;
Or human voice?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And with the aid of these gods the Romans fought and
conquered their enemies; and having conquered them, they improved their
condition, and made them happier than they were before their defeat;
lessening their fears and making them partners in the
privileges
of
the commonwealth.
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Tacitus |
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The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call
goodness, to think how wide a difference,
To think the difference will still
continue
to others, yet we lie
beyond the difference.
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No want of
conscience
hold it that I call
Her 'love,' for whose dear love I rise and fall.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But now, all
ignorant
of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But we've got our brave Captain to thank"
(So the crew would
protest)
"that he's bought _us_ the best--
A perfect and absolute blank!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
Faces
I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that
was but a single
countenance
as if held in a mould.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Lawrence and
its
tributaries
which I have not seen nor heard of; and above all
there is one which I have heard of, called Niagara, so that I think
that this river must be the most remarkable for its falls of any in
the world.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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XXIV
Let the world's sharpness like a
clasping
knife
Shut in upon itself and do no harm
In this close hand of Love, now soft and warm,
And let us hear no sound of human strife
After the click of the shutting.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stoop, mount, pass by to take her eye, then glare
Like to a dreadful comet in the air:
Next, when thou dost
perceive
her fixed sight
For thy revenge to be most opposite,
Then, like a globe or ball of wild-fire, fly,
And break thyself in shivers on her eye.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thou tellest of an excellent parent
marvellous
in piety, who himself urined
in the womb of his son!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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It is worthy of notice that the
pedigree
made mention of a certain
Radcliffe Chatterton de Chatterton, but Burgum's suspicions were not
aroused by the circumstance.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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An if I could, what should I get
therefore?
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Shakespeare |
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Shakespeare |
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MARMADUKE Would it were
possible!
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"All that can be safely said as to the course of that memorable
morning walk is that, in that neighbourhood, a view of the sea can
only be obtained at a
considerable
elevation; also that if the words
'in _front_ the sea lay laughing' are to be taken as rigidly exact,
the poet's progress towards Hawkshead must have been in a direction
mainly southerly, and therefore from the country north of that place.
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William Wordsworth |
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My little son, my Florentine,
Sit down beside my knee,
And I will tell you why the sign
Of joy which flushed our Italy
Has faded since but yesternight;
And why your
Florence
of delight
Is mourning as you see.
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[33] Which had been stretched all round the
courtyard
to prevent his
escape.
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Aristophanes |
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Across black valleys
Rise blue-white aloft
Jagged,
unwrinkled
mountains, ranges of death.
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Imagists |
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The shattered storm has left its trace
Upon this huge and heaving dome,
For the thin threads of yellow foam
Float on the waves like
ravelled
lace.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And
Sophocles
a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And Beatrice wore
The gown that Dante deified.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Up from the South at break of day,
Bringing
to Winchester fresh dismay,
The affrighted air with a shudder bore,
Like a herald in haste, to the chieftain's door,
The terrible grumble, and rumble, and roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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sources--have been added: while the
chronological
order of the Poems
has, in several instances, been changed, in the light of fresh evidence.
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William Wordsworth |
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_Finis
exspectandus
est in unoquoque hominum_; _animali ad
mutationem promptissmo_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--O, Were I On
Parnassus
Hill
Tune--"My love is lost to me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When news of this reached Vitellius, he left part of his force at 58
Narnia[157] with the prefects of the Guard,[158] and sent his brother
Lucius with six regiments of Guards and five hundred horse to cope
with the threatened
outbreak
in Campania.
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Tacitus |
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Th'
enchaunter
vaine?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But the seventh self remained
watching
and gazing at nothingness,
which is behind all things.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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, but proved
unsuccessful,
Cratinus
and Amipsias being awarded first and second prize.
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Aristophanes |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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As on the road he moved, a clown he met,
Who with his stick an adder tried to get,
From out a thicket, where it hissing lay,
And hoped to drive the countryman away:
Our knight his object asked; the clown replied,
To slay the reptile
anxiously
I tried;
Wherever met, an adder I would kill:
The race should be extinct if I'd my will.
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La Fontaine |
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"
They told him, and he spurred
straight
for the site!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thou
wanderer
through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Educating
your city,
like their own daughter, from her infancy, they did not bring her to
maturity by the discourses of Jesus, nor did they construct the form
of government, through which she is now happy, by the doctrine of the
odious Galilæans.
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Tacitus |
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Weak from the baffled fever,
And
shrunken
in each limb,
The swamps of Alabama
Had done their work on him.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He had written verses from childhood, and to the purified
expression
of
poetry he, through life, eagerly aspired.
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Emerson - Poems |
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While an effort has been made to discover the exact order of the
composition of the poems--and this is shown, not only in the
Chronological Table, but at the beginning of each separate poem--it has
been considered
expedient
to depart from that order in printing some of
the poems.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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would those
treasures
which both Indias
hare
Were buried in as large, and deep a grave !
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Lo thus (the victor cries) we rule the field,
And thus their arms the race of Panthus wield:
From this
unerring
hand there flies no dart
But bathes its point within a Grecian heart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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That he may also draw Ahania's spirit into her Vortex {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 previously written lines EJC}
Ah happy
blindness
[she] Enion sees not the terrors of the uncertain
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Blake - Zoas |
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There is a
reflection
of the joy of the rich deep in the eyes of the
poor that is always interesting.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So, when you had risen
from all the lethargy of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably
cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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His horse he spurs, gallops with great effort,
Wields Durendal, was worth fine gold and more,
Goes as he may to strike that baron bold
Above the helm, that was embossed with gold,
Slices the head, the sark, and all the corse,
The good saddle, that was embossed with gold,
And cuts deep through the
backbone
of his horse;
He's slain them both, blame him for that or laud.
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Chanson de Roland |
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tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through
verdurous
glooms and winding mossy ways.
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Golden Treasury |
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"gold unrīme grimme gecēapod
"and nū æt sīðestan sylfes fēore
3015 "bēagas gebohte; þā sceal brond fretan,
"ǣled þeccean, nalles eorl wegan
"māððum tō gemyndum, nē mægð scȳne
"habban on healse hring-weorðunge,
"ac sceall geōmor-mōd golde berēafod
3020 "oft nalles ǣne el-land tredan,
"nū se here-wīsa
hleahtor
ālegde,
"gamen and glēo-drēam.
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Beowulf |
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An Attic frieze you give, a pictured song;
For as with words the poet paints, for you
The happy pencil at its labor sings,
Stealing his privilege, nor does him wrong,
Beneath the false
discovering
the true,
And Beauty's best in unregarded things.
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James Russell Lowell |
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alternate
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Ay, a
thousand
times.
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Shakespeare |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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I see but Bunker Hill and Sing-Sing, the District
of Columbia and Sullivan's Island, with a few avenues
connecting
them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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),
_The Vision of
Judgment_
(App.
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Byron |
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'He hears the
judgment
of the King of kings,'
Cried the wan Prince; 'and lo, the powers of Doorm
Are scattered,' and he pointed to the field,
Where, huddled here and there on mound and knoll,
Were men and women staring and aghast,
While some yet fled; and then he plainlier told
How the huge Earl lay slain within his hall.
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Tennyson |
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ill
LOVE calls not worthy him whoe'er
renounced
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Try then,
instrument
of flights, O malign
Syrinx by the lake where you await me, to flower again!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And of himself did he imagine oft,
That he was blighted, pale, and waxen less 100
Than he was wont; and that in whispers soft
Men said, what may it be, can no one guess
Why Troilus hath all this
heaviness?
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William Wordsworth |
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But rather would I have
preferred
the most cruel torture to
such an abasement.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I saw the old man gasp as if for breath while
he threw himself amid the crowd; but I thought that the intense agony of
his
countenance
had, in some measure, abated.
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Poe - 5 |
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XI
And
therefore
if to love can be desert,
I am not all unworthy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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" KAU}
Of his three daughters were encompassd by the twelve bright halls
Every hall surrounded by bright
Paradises
of Delight
In which are towns & Cities Nations Seas Mountains & Rivers {Minor grammatical changes, in tense ("were" mended to "are") and capitalization ("mountains" to "Mountains") KAU}
Each Dome opend toward four halls & the Three Domes Encompassd
The Golden Hall of Urizen whose western side glowd bright
With ever streaming fires beaming from his awful limbs
His Shadowy Feminine Semblance here reposd on a [bright] White Couch
Or hoverd oer his Starry head & when he smild she brightend
Like a bright Cloud in harvest.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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with what
device or in what hope loiters he among a hostile race, and casts not a
glance on his
Ausonian
children and the fields of Lavinium?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Perhaps he will die, and the
sacrilegious
vow 1315
Of a maddened father may yet be carried out.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Her eyes are
fascinating; at once expressive of good sense,
tenderness
and a noble
mind.
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He seems the center around which stars glow
While all earth's
ostentations
surge below.
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Rilke - Poems |
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puts
gesēcean
for Gr.
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Beowulf |
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And when we had come out of the temple, I
straightway
left that
Blessed City; for I was not too young, and I could read the scripture.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the
sprinkled
streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?
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T.S. Eliot |
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O
beauteous
hand!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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howne, indeed, no part 20
O' my
_Diuels_
nature.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Beatrice here is probably Boniface's
daughter
Biatrix.
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--In my youth,
Except for that abatement which is paid
By envy as a tribute to desert,
I was the
pleasure
of all hearts, the darling
Of every tongue--as you are now.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A gentle pity
softening
her bright mien,
Her sorrow there so sweet and sad was heard,
Doubt in the gazer's bosom almost stirr'd
Goddess or mortal, which made heaven serene.
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Petrarch |
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