Howbeit, weak is trust reposed in Heaven--
Yet are we upon Zeus'
victorious
side,
The foe, with those he worsted--if in sooth
Zeus against Typhon held the upper hand,
And if Hyperbius, (as well may hap
When two such foes such diverse emblems bear)
Have Zeus upon his shield, a saving sign.
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Aeschylus |
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_ 'Tis chill; the
tapestry
lets through
The wind to which it waves: my blood is frozen.
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Byron |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away 1
Trillion
eBooks!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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at
necessite
nis nat in
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The heart asks
pleasure
first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But he is a learned poet, and he is a
philosophical poet, and without some attention to the philosophy
and science underlying his
conceits
and his graver thought it is
impossible to understand or appreciate either aright.
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John Donne |
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And I notice that many judges who display nothing but
a fierce
satisfaction
in sending other plays of that author to the block
or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle
daughter of Pelias.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_ D
104
_suspendit_
ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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Al was for nought, she herde nought his pleynte;
And whan that he
bithoughte
on that folye, 545
A thousand fold his wo gan multiplye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For here
availeth
no Swete-Thought, 4505
And Swete-Speche helpith right nought.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water
ploughed
from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing nocturnal hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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IV
Elfish I may rightly name thee; 50
We enslave, but cannot tame thee;
With fierce snatches, now and then,
Thou pluckest at thy right again,
And thy down-trod instincts savage
To stealthy insurrection creep
While thy wittol masters sleep,
And burst in undiscerning ravage:
Then how thou shak'st thy
bacchant
locks!
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James Russell Lowell |
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One watched beside the dreary mound that veiled the battered
thing,
And him the King with
laughter
called the Herald of the King.
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Kipling - Poems |
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How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent
Marinere
came back to
his own Country.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Who's the old trader that has lent this girl
The glittering cash of
pleasure
to pay me with?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True Believer passing by
But shall be
overtaken
unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Therefore what he gives
(Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part
Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found
No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure
Intelligential
substances
require
As doth your Rational; and both contain
Within them every lower facultie 410
Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,
Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,
And corporeal to incorporeal turn.
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Milton |
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22; and nudus does not
necessarily
imply absolute nakedness (see note 4, p.
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Tacitus |
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e kyng Edward com
corouned
myd gret blis; 80
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Come, see him bear the bell,
With laurels decked, with true love graced,
While in his bold hands, fitly placed,
The
bounding
cymbals swell!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"You are a
monster!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Royalty
payments should be clearly marked as such and sent to the Project
Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the address specified in
Section 4, "Information about
donations
to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Memories
How sweet the silent backward
tracings!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Pero disse 'l maestro: <
qualche
fraschetta
d'una d'este piante,
li pensier c'hai si faran tutti monchi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I confess to a
satisfaction
in the
self act of preaching, nor do I esteem a discourse to be wholly thrown
away even upon a sleeping or unintelligent auditory.
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James Russell Lowell |
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mettlesome, mad,
extravagant
city!
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Whitman |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchas'd right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me
farthest
from your sight.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win
Death's royal purple in the foeman's lines;
Peace, too, brings tears; and 'mid the battle-din,
The wiser ear some text of God divines,
For the
sheathed
blade may rust with darker sin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Pennant has a pleasing remark concerning the soil and climate of our island, well agreeing with that of Tacitus:—"The climate of Great Britain is above all others productive of the greatest variety and abundance of wholesome vegetables, which, to crown our happiness, are almost equally diffused through all its parts: this general fertility is owing to those clouded skies, which
foreigners
mistakenly urge as a reproach on our country: but let us cheerfully endure a temporary gloom, which clothes not only our meadows, but our hills, with the richest verdure.
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Tacitus |
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GD}
And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains
Rehumanizing from the Spectre in pangs of maternal love
Ingrate they wanderd
scorning
her drawing her life majesticSpectrous Life
Repelling her away & away by a dread repulsive power
Into Non Entity revolving around in dark despair.
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Blake - Zoas |
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--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur
fenetre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hoc tibi, qua potui,
confectum
carmine munus
Pro multis, Alli, redditur officiis, 150
Ne vostrum scabra tangat rubigine nomen
Haec atque illa dies atque alia atque alia.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Mangeons
l'air,
Le roc, les terres, le fer,
Charbons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
"I
perceive
that," said Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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In all the rage of shame and grief aghast,
The monarch, falt'ring, takes the word at last:
"By whom, great chief, are these proud war-ships sway'd,
Are there thy
mandates
honour'd and obey'd?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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How great her
insolence
to laugh and jeer,
When sins so heavily upon her rest,
And ev'ry thing remains quite unconfessed.
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La Fontaine |
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"
But here she paused; our eyes had met,
And I was
whitening
with the jeer;
She rose: "I went too far," she said;
Spoke low: "Forgive me, dear.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He dressed, and ready to disfumish now
His chamber, whose
compactness
did allow
No empty place for complimenting doubt,
But who came last is forced first to go out ;
I meet one on the stairs who made me stand,
Stopping the passage, and did him demand ;
I answered, " he is here.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Wenn ich so sass bei einem Gelag,
Wo mancher sich beruhmen mag,
Und die Gesellen mir den Flor
Der Magdlein laut gepriesen vor,
Mit vollem Glas das Lob verschwemmt,
Den
Ellenbogen
aufgestemmt,
Sass ich in meiner sichern Ruh,
Hort all dem Schwadronieren zu
Und streiche lachelnd meinen Bart
Und kriege das volle Glas zur Hand
Und sage: "Alles nach seiner Art!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now close, ye Nymphs,
Ye Nymphs of Dicte, close the forest-glades,
If haply there may chance upon mine eyes
The white bull's
wandering
foot-prints: him belike
Following the herd, or by green pasture lured,
Some kine may guide to the Gortynian stalls.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Et Lappos Christina potest et solvere Finnos,
Ultima quos Borese carcere claustra premunt ;
JSoIiis quales venti fremuere sub antris,
Et tentant montis
corripuisse
moras.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then, closing the door, he made
everybody
sit down, except the
"_ouriadnik_," who remained standing, drew a letter from his pocket, and
said to us--
"Gentlemen, important news.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His busy circling orbs, two
restless
spies.
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Marvell - Poems |
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* * * * *
In the first decade of the new century Rilke reached the height of his
art and with a few exceptions the poems represented in this volume are
selected from the poems which were
published
between the years 1900 and
1908.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Mild
thoughts
of man's ungentle race _5
Shall our contented exile reap;
For who that in some happy place
His own free thoughts can freely chase
By woods and waves can clothe his face
In cynic smiles?
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Shelley |
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that he
should bestow and
withhold
crowns and sceptres, and decide that this or
that poet was or was not to count.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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As furious, Hector thunder'd threats aloud,
And rush'd enraged before the Trojan crowd;
Then swift invades the ships, whose beaky prores
Lay rank'd contiguous on the bending shores;
So the strong eagle from his airy height,
Who marks the swans' or cranes'
embodied
flight,
Stoops down impetuous, while they light for food,
And, stooping, darkens with his wings the flood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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_ }
AELLA, a
tragycal
enterlude.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements
concerning
tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Goal of Project Gutenberg is to Give Away One
Trillion
Etext
Files by December 31, 2001.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Her mother in the chimney nook
Heard a startled sea-gull screech,
But never turned her head to look
Towards the
darkening
beach:
Neighbors here and neighbors there
Heard one scream, as if a bird
Shrilly screaming cleft the air:--
That was all they heard.
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Christina Rossetti |
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As 't were a spur upon the soul,
A fear will urge it where
To go without the spectre's aid
Were
challenging
despair.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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'
Therwith
she lough, and seyde, `Go we dyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And never a human voice comes near
To speak a gentle word:
And the eye that watches through the door
Is
pitiless
and hard:
And by all forgot, we rot and rot,
With soul and body marred.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Booths are there none; a stall or two is here; 25
A lame man or a blind, the one to beg,
The other to make music; hither, too,
From far, with basket, slung upon her arm,
Of hawker's wares--books, pictures, combs, and pins--
Some aged woman finds her way again, 30
Year after year, a
punctual
visitant!
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William Wordsworth |
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what more can they
pretend?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How bold advance
The num'rous Moors, and with the rested lance
Hem round the
trembling
Lusians.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Dead calm
succeeded
to the fuss,
As when the loaded omnibus
Has reached the railway terminus:
When, for the tumult of the street,
Is heard the engine's stifled beat,
The velvet tread of porters' feet.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Arthur, whose giddy son
neglects
the Laws,
Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause:
Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25
And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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Now am I war
That Pirous and tho swifte stedes three,
Whiche that drawen forth the sonnes char,
Han goon som by-path in despyt of me; 1705
That maketh it so sone day to be;
And, for the sonne him hasteth thus to ryse,
Ne shal I never doon him
sacrifyse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For who would trust the seeming sighs
Of wife or
paramour?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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But harnessed to the cart as he was, we
heard him barking after we had passed, though we looked
anywhere
but
to the cart to see where the dog was that barked.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'Of all this world is
emperour
7215
Gyle my fader, the trechour,
And emperesse my moder is,
Maugre the Holy Gost, y-wis.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But this bold Lord with manly strength endu'd,
She with one finger and a thumb subdu'd: 80
Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew,
A charge of Snuff the wily virgin threw;
The Gnomes direct, to ev'ry atom just,
The pungent grains of
titillating
dust.
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Alexander Pope |
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[10,000 x 100,000,000 = 1 Trillion]
This is ten thousand titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only ~5% of the present number of
computer
users.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Suddenly
I thought of Hsien-yu Valley
And secretly envied Ch'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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{3d} Or: Not thus openly ever came
warriors
hither; yet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Gebt ihr euch einmal fur Poeten,
So
kommandiert
die Poesie.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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These are the days when skies put on
The old, old
sophistries
of June, --
A blue and gold mistake.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Snowfalls hiss
Fall and how I miss
My beloved in my arms
The Farewell
(Alcools: L'Adieu)
I've gathered this sprig of heather
Autumn is dead you will remember
On earth we'll see no more of each other
Fragrance of time sprig of heather
Remember I wait for you forever
Acrobats
(Alcools:Saltimbanques)
The strollers in the plain
walk the length of gardens
before the doors of grey inns
through villages without churches
And the children gone before
The others follow dreaming
Each fruit tree resigns itself
When they signal from afar
They have burdens round or square
drums and golden tambourines
Apes and bears wise animals
gather coins as they progress
The Bells
(Alcools: Les Cloches)
My gipsy beau my lover
Hear the bells above us
We loved passionately
Thinking none could see us
But we so badly hidden
All the bells in their song
Saw from heights of heaven
And told it everyone
Tomorrow Cyprien Henry
Marie Ursule Catherine
The baker's wife her husband
and Gertrude that's my cousin
Will smile when I go by them
I won't know where to hide
You far and I'll be crying
Perhaps I shall be dying
The Gypsy
(Alcools: La tzigane)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
The Sign
(Alcools: Signe)
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
Parting I love the fruits I detest the flowers
I regret every one of the kisses that I've given
Such a bitter walnut tells his grief to the showers
My Autumn eternal O my spiritual season
The hands of lost lovers juggle with your sun
A spouse follows me it's my fatal shadow
The doves take flight this evening their last one
One Evening
(Alcools: Un soir)
An eagle
descends
from this sky white with archangels
And you sustain me
Let them tremble a long while all these lamps
Pray pray for me
The city's metallic and it's the only star
Drowned in your blue eyes
When the tramways run spurting pale fire
Over the twittering birds
And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams
That a lonely man drinks
Under flames of gas red like a false dawn
O clothed your arm is lifted
See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners
A phantom has committed suicide
The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots
Let us play this love out then to the end
Bells with clear chimes announce your birth
See
The streets are garlanded and the palms advance
Towards thee
Moonlight
(Alcools: Clair de Lune)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight's a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Autumn Ill
(Alcools: Automne malade)
Autumn ill and adored
You die when the hurricane blows in the roseries
When it has snowed
In the orchard trees
Poor autumn
Dead in whiteness and riches
Of snow and ripe fruits
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks cry
Over the sprites with green hair the dwarfs
Who've never been loved
In the far tree-lines
the stags are groaning
And how I love O season how I love your rumbling
The falling fruits that no one gathers
The wind the forest that are tumbling
All their tears in autumn leaf by leaf
The leaves
You press
A crowd
That flows
The life
That goes
Hotels
(Alcools: Hotels)
The room is free
Each for himself
A new arrival
Pays by the month
The boss is doubtful
Whether you'll pay
Like a top
I spin on the way
The traffic noise
My neighbour gross
Who puffs an acrid
English smoke
O La Valliere
Who limps and smiles
In my prayers
The bedside table
And all the company
in this hotel
know the languages
of Babel
Let's shut our doors
With a double lock
And each adore
his lonely love
Hunting Horns
(Alcools: Cors de chasse)
Our story's noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama's chance or magic
no detail that's indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I'll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
Vitam Impendere Amori
(Vitam Impendere Amori: To Threaten Life for Love)
Love is dead within your arms
Do you remember his encounter
He's dead you restore the charms
He returns at your encounter
Another spring of springs gone past
I think of all its tenderness
Farewell season done at last
You'll return as tenderly
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Ursley, she thinks those velvet patches grace
The candid temples of her comely face;
But he will say, whoe'er those
circlets
seeth,
They be but signs of Ursley's hollow teeth.
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"
Then the Banker endorsed a blank cheque (which he crossed),
And changed his loose silver for notes:
The Baker with care combed his whiskers and hair,
And shook the dust out of his coats:
The Boots and the Broker were
sharpening
a spade--
Each working the grindstone in turn:
But the Beaver went on making lace, and displayed
No interest in the concern:
Though the Barrister tried to appeal to its pride,
And vainly proceeded to cite
A number of cases, in which making laces
Had been proved an infringement of right.
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and, that then our periods
Of life may round themselves to memory
As
smoothly
as on our graves the burial-sods,
We now must look to it to excel as ye,
And bear our age as far, unlimited
By the last mind-mark; so, to be invoked
By future generations, as their Dead.
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Disarmed of its teeth and sting ;
To thee chameleons,
changing
hue,
And oak leaves tipt with honey dew ;
Yet thou ungrateful hast not sought
Nor what they are, nor who them brought.
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Marvell - Poems |
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So nature of mind must be corporeal, since
From stroke and spear
corporeal
'tis in throes.
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No, 'tis a need
As
irresistible
within our hearts
As body's need of breathing.
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_"
[167] The
propriety
and artfulness of Homer's speeches have been often
and justly admired.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Amor
condusse
noi ad una morte: 10
Caino attende chi vita ci spense.
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Byron |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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They are the work of Providence, and more _150
The battle's loss may profit those who lose,
Than victory
advantage
those who win.
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Shelley |
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Mere withered stalks and fading trees,
And
pastures
spread with hills and rushes,
Are all my fading vision sees;
Gone, gone are rapture's flooding gushes!
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John Clare |
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Then let us men have so much grace
To take the bullets' place,
And learn that we are held
By laws that weld
Our hearts
together!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Non le fara si bella sepultura
la vipera che
Melanesi
accampa,
com' avria fatto il gallo di Gallura>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I have seen
beautiful
feet
but never beauty welded with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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HOWE'ER the belle was to the altar led,
A virgin still, and doomed the squire to wed,
Who, quite impatient,
consummation
sought,
As soon as he the charmer back had brought;
But she solicited the day apart,
And this obtained, alone by prayers and art.
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La Fontaine |
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And backward now and forward
Wavers the deep array;
And on the tossing sea of steel
To and frow the standards reel;
And the victorious trumpet-peal
Dies
fitfully
away.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sam: Not for thy life, lest fierce
remembrance
wake
My sudden rage to tear thee joint by joint.
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Milton |
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distribute
it in the United States without
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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A
MONSTROUS
BEAST, on which the woman of Babylon sat; _Revelation_,
xiii and xvii, 7.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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how else from bonds be freed,
Or
otherwhere
find gods so nigh to aid?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Tennyson |
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