These very
shepherds
of their flocks,
These loving lambs so meek to please,
Are worthy of recording words
And honour in their due degrees:
So I might live a hundred years,
And roam from strand to foreign strand, 30
Yet not forget this flooded spring
And scarce-saved lambs of Westmoreland.
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Sighs ascended,
Thou
gleanest
not?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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His army stands in battle-line arrayed:
His
couriers
fly: all's done: now God decide!
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second conception during
gestation)
is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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If any one asks me, Where
is
Merobaudes?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yet
stranger
that the high sweet fire,
In hearts nigh foreign to desire,
Could burn, sigh, weep, and burn again
As oh, it never has since then!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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[_He
embraces
her and hurries away_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Shuddering
the body stood
One instant in an agony of blood,
And gasped and fell.
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Euripides - Electra |
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So with me, who when I
followed
a
praetor, inscribed more gifts than gains.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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As long-drawn echoes heard far-off and dim
Mingle to one deep sound and fade away;
Vast as the night and
brilliant
as the day,
Colour and sound and perfume speak to him.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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th so forto do;--
his shankes semeden al blood rede;
Myne herte wop for grete drede; 64
Als a
pilgryme
he rood to Rome,
And ?
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The Foundation is
committed
to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now in my palace
I see foot-passengers
Crossing
the river:
Pilgrims of Autumn
In the afternoons.
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Imagists |
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Ye sons of Slavs, speedily will I lead
Your dread
battalions
to the longed-for conflict.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Chief, if it hurt not great Antinous' ear
(Whose sage
decision
I with wonder hear),
And if Eurymachus the motion please:
Give Heaven this day and rest the bow in peace.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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_The Book of Hours_
contains
three parts written at different periods in
the poet's life: _The Book of a Monk's Life_ (1899); _The Book of
Pilgrimage_ (1901), and _The Book of Poverty and Death_ (1903), although
the entire volume was not published until several years later.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note: The
Scythians
at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were regarded as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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How am I honoured so,
If I no honour have for the world, but rather
Hold it an odious and
traitorous
thing,
That means no honour but to those whose spirits
Have yielded to its ancient lechery?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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She
touches these themes
sometimes
lightly, sometimes almost
humorously, more often with weird and peculiar power; but she is
never by any chance frivolous or trivial.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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), but is conveniently classed with it as being also
largely
levelled
against the fair sex.
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Aristophanes |
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Is there a sky
overhead?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Usage guidelines
Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain
materials
and make them widely accessible.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Stephen Crane |
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The noble
craftsman
we promote,
Disown the knave and fool;
Each honest man shall have his vote,
Each child shall have his school.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And all
outrageous
ugliness of time,
Excess and Blasphemy and squinting Crime
Beset me, but I kept my calm sublime:
I hate them not, Nirvana.
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Sidney Lanier |
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No sweeter a
daughter
anywhere,
By as much as the weather's stormy,
Through Adam's lineage went straying.
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Troubador Verse |
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Not falsely to
constrain!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ful foul in
peynting
was that vice; 210
Ful sad and caytif was she eek,
And al-so grene as any leek.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My suggestion is that the old sun-worshippers, who met in
midsummer
eve on Castrigg at the Druid circle or Donn-ring, saw just
the same phenomenon as Strichet and Lancaster saw upon Southen-fell,
and hence the name.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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See, the ox comes home
With plough up-tilted, and the shadows grow
To twice their length with the
departing
sun,
Yet me love burns, for who can limit love?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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But the universal desire to hear
him induced the Senators to postpone their sitting to the
following
day.
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Petrarch |
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Then here
contented
will I lie;
Alone I cannot fear to die.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
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Troubador Verse |
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The strong sea-lion of England's wars
Hath left his
sapphire
cave of sea,
To battle with the storm that mars
The stars of England's chivalry.
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Wilde - Poems |
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What concerne they,
The
generall
cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The cresses drink--the water flows--and round
Upon the slopes the mountain rowans meet,
And 'neath the
brushwood
plant their gnarled feet,
Intwining slowly where the creepers twine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Or Venus, laughter-loving dame,
Round whom gay Loves and Pleasures fly;
Or thou, if
slighted
sons may claim
A parent's eye,
O weary--with thy long, long game,
Who lov'st fierce shouts and helmets bright,
And Moorish warrior's glance of flame
Or e'er he smite!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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So stood these twaine, unmoved as a rocke,
Both staring fierce, and holding idely
The broken
reliques?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Theseus
Yes, you're
condemned
for that same cowardly pride.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O wretched world, unstable,
wayward!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our rifles firmly grasping,
And
heedless
of the din,
We stood in silence waiting
For orders to begin.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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His grandfather
on the paternal side was a
Champenois
peasant, his mother's family
presumably Norman, but not much is known of her forbears.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Catcott, who had a fine library and was the author of a
treatise
on
the Deluge; of Smith, a schoolfellow; of Palmer an engraver, and a
number of others--mere names for the most part.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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--Man is read in his face; God in His creatures; not
as the philosopher, the
creature
of glory, reads him; but as the divine,
the servant of humility; yet even he must take care not to be too
curious.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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the very prison walls
Suddenly
seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Like
resurrection
were the garments white
The wreathed procession walked through trees arched wide
Into the church, as cool as silk inside,
With long aisles of tall candles flaming bright:
The lights all shone like jewels rich and rare
To solemn eyes that watched them gleam and flare.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I have
forgotten
jou long, long ago,
Like the svteet, silver singing of thin bells
Vanished, or music fading faint and low.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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V
Maintenant, les petits sommeillent tristement:
Vous diriez, a les voir, qu'ils pleurent en dormant,
Tant leurs yeux sont gonfles et leur souffle
penible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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TO-DAY we will not cross the garden railing,
For sometimes swiftly, yet in ways unclear,
This soft
caressing
or this sweet exhaling,
With long-forgotten joy again draws near:
And thus it brings us ghosts which goad and harass,
And anguish rendering weary and afraid.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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LXIV
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground,
Why do you stand,
expectant?
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Stephen Crane |
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Is
execution
done on Cawdor?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the
copyright
holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Each in his secret heart
perchance
doth own
Some fond regret 'neath passing smiles concealed;--
Sufferers alike together and alone
Are we; with many a grief to others known,
How many unrevealed!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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In regard to punctuation I have
followed
the old printers except in
obvious misprints, and followed them also, as far as possible, in their
distribution of roman and italic type and in the grouping of words and
lines in the various titles.
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Milton |
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" remarked one of the
men, addressing a young officer of the
Engineering
Corps.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thy own
delightful
days, .
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William Wordsworth |
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This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss
Which close beside the thorn you see,
So fresh in all its
beauteous
dyes,
Is like an infant's grave in size
As like as like can be:
But never, never any where,
An infant's grave was half so fair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The volume
purported
to have no editor, yet
a collection without an editor was pronounced preposterous.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--Green light did pass
Through one small window, where a looking-glass
Placed in the parlour, richly there revealed
A spacious landscape and a
blooming
field.
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John Clare |
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And if he spoke, what name was best,
What first,
What one broke off with
At the
drowsiest?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If the lyric
in _Baile's Strand_ is sung slowly it is like church-singing, but if
sung quickly and with the right expression it becomes an incantation
so old that nobody can quite
understand
it.
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Yeats |
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CCXXXVI
That admiral hath wisdom great indeed;
His son to him and those two kings calls he:
My lords barons, beforehand canter ye,
All my columns
together
shall you lead;
But of the best I'll keep beside me three:
One is of Turks; the next of Ormaleis;
And the third is the Giants of Malpreis.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And there's the
windflower
chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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some statue you would swear, }
Stepped from its
pedestal
to take the air!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Like a wounded
bird
Easily caught, ensnare him, O ye Nymphs,
Ye Oreads chaste, ye dusky
Dryades!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Their virtues, O God, are measured, their sins are weighed, and
even the countless things that pass in the dim
twilight
of neither
sin nor virtue are recorded and catalogued.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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4445
Hir fair biheest
disceyveth
fele,
For she wol bihote, sikirly,
And failen aftir outrely.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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_("Quand
longtemps
a gronde la bouche du Vesuve.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Hence, while in other countries
Literature
_happens_, as the sun and the
air happen--as a part of the working of obscure natural forces--in Rome
it is from the beginning a premeditated self-conscious organization.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O to be a
Carolinian!
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Whitman |
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I left her lying still and beautiful,
More
beautiful
than in life.
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Tennyson |
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Sometimes these
cogitations
still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon's repose.
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T.S. Eliot |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs,
cardboard
boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular
sonorous
lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in variable positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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When he whom I love travels with me, or sits a long while holding me by the
hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold
not, surround us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom--I am silent--I require
nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances, or that of
identity
beyond the
grave;
But I walk or sit indifferent--I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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THE VALLEY OF UNREST
_Once_ it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting
to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sun-light lazily lay.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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It whirred like the water at a mill, and rushed and re-echoed,
terrible
to hear.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And we would often at the fall of dusk
Wander
together
by the silver stream, 5
When the soft grass-heads were all wet with dew,
And purple-misted in the fading light.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Yet these things
Are not so alien from others, that I
Of this same sort am ill
prepared
to name
Ensamples still of things exclusively
To one another adapt.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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the oldest shades 'mong oldest trees
Feel
palpitations
when thou lookest in:
O Moon!
| Guess: |
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Keats |
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By many a sea-holm where the shock
Of ocean's battle falls, and into spray
Gives up its ghosts of strife; by reef and rock
Ravaged by their eternal brute affray
With monstrous frenzies of their shore's green foe;
Where overstream and overfall and undertow
Strive, snatch away;
A wistful voice, without a sound,
Shall dwell beside Pomona, on the sea,
And speak the homeward- and the outward-bound,
And touch the helm of passing minds
And bid them steer as wistfully--
Saying: "He did great work, until the winds
And waters
hereabout
that night betrayed
Him to the drifting death!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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As the
punishment
of your folly
and blindness you shall love me as I truly am.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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203; _Don Juan_
dedicated
to, vi.
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Byron |
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1650
As he deserved, so let me render him honour:
And, the better to appease his spirit's anger,
Despite the
plotting
of her guilty brothers,
Treat his loved one, from today, as my daughter.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Je t'adore a l'egal de la voute nocturne,
O vase de tristesse, o grande taciturne,
Et t'aime d'autant plus, belle, que tu me fuis,
Et que tu me parais, ornement de mes nuits,
Plus
ironiquement
accumuler les lieues
Qui separent mes bras des immensites bleues.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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or did I see all
The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when
Too
vehement
light dilated my ideal,
For my soul's eyes?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How I adore you, you happy things, you dears
Riding the air and carrying all the time
Your little
lanterns
behind you: it cheers
My heart to see you settling and trying to climb
The cornstalks, tipping with fire their spears.
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Imagists |
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IS the clear light of love I praise
That
steadfast
gloweth o'er deep waters,
A clarity that gleams always.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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