He gained
Thirty pitched battles, and took, as legends tell,
Three hundred
standards
from the Infidel;
And from the Moorish King Motril, in war,
Won Antiquera, Suez, and Nijar;
And then died poor.
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Why we have not
developed
into friends.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Wherefore
the more are they borne wandering on
By blindfold reason.
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L'anima gloriosa onde si parla,
tornata ne la carne, in che fu poco,
credette
in lui che potea aiutarla;
e credendo s'accese in tanto foco
di vero amor, ch'a la morte seconda
fu degna di venire a questo gioco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And says
I; "Isn't it the laste little bit of a mistake in the world that ye've
been afther the making, yer
leddyship?
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Poe - 5 |
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I did not mind the
pictures
nor the candles,
whether tallow or tin.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Our frigate takes fire,
The other asks if we demand
quarter?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Damp smoke, rank mist fill the dark square;
and round the bend six
bullocks
come.
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Imagists |
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and oft, a moment's space,
What time the moon was lost behind a cloud,
Hath heard a pause of silence; till the moon
Emerging, hath
awakened
earth and sky
With one sensation, and those wakeful birds
Have all burst forth in choral minstrelsy,
As if some sudden gale had swept at once
A hundred airy harps!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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[_The
Attendants
depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone, proceeds to enter the
house_.
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--2) with verbs of
bringing
and
taking (cf.
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Beowulf |
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Oh whence, I asked, and
whither?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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"I take
possession
of men's minds and deeds.
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Tennyson |
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And I made great
provision
for my journey.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus said the Scarlet Whore to her gaOaiit,
Who atrai^t designed his brother to
sapplant
:
Fkrads of ambirioa here his soul possessed,
Ai>d thirst of empire calentared his breast.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the
troubled
soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Such joy he had, their stubborne harts to quell,
And sturdie courage tame with
dreadfull
aw,
That his beheast they feared, as a tyrans law.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Land of
Albania!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love
And these black bodies and this
sunburnt
face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
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blake-poems |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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I have nor hope nor health,
Nor peace within nor calm around,
Nor that Content, surpassing wealth,
The sage in
meditation
found,
And walked with inward glory crown'd--
Nor fame, nor power, nor love, nor leisure;
Others I see whom these surround--
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure;
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
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Golden Treasury |
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That race which, strong from Ilion's fires,
Its gods, on Tuscan waters tost,
Its sons, its
venerable
sires,
Bore to Ausonia's citied coast;
That race, like oak by axes shorn
On Algidus with dark leaves rife,
Laughs carnage, havoc, all to scorn,
And draws new spirit from the knife.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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40
Our old
familiars
are not laid,
Though snapt our wands and sunk our books;
They beckon, not to be gainsaid,
Where, round broad meads that mowers wade,
The Charles his steel-blue sickle crooks.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Suddenly I feel an immense will
Stored up hitherto and
unconscious
till this instant.
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Imagists |
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DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any particular state
visit http://www.
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Stephen Crane |
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māran, 2017; mund-gripe
māran (_a
mightier
hand-grip_), 754; with following gen.
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Beowulf |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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It is clear, however, from a
comparison of
different
copies that as _1633_ passed through the press
this poem underwent considerable correction and alteration; and in
its final printed form there are errors which I have been enabled to
correct from _G_.
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John Donne |
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Glidden stroked his
whiskers
and drew
up the collar of his shirt.
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Poe - 5 |
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_The
Vanities
of Life_
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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John Clare |
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And the helmet white that his head protected
was
destined
to dare the deeps of the flood,
through wave-whirl win: 'twas wound with chains,
decked with gold, as in days of yore
the weapon-smith worked it wondrously,
with swine-forms set it, that swords nowise,
brandished in battle, could bite that helm.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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Do you think
She is
bewitched?
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Longfellow |
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PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING THAT IS, PRINCE HENRY PLANTAGENET, ELDER
all the grief and woe and bitterness, IFAll dolour, ill and every evil chance
That ever came upon this
grieving
world Were set together, they would seem but light
Against the death of the young English King.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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My roses are
battered
into pulp:
And there swells up in me
Sudden desire for something changeless,
Thrusts of sunless rock
Unmelted by hissing wheels.
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Imagists |
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Education is an
admirable
thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Observe the
antithetical
structure of this stanza, both in the
_Stichomuthia_, or balance of line against line, and in the lines
themselves.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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Brydon's brave ward^10 I well could spy,
Beneath old Scotia's smiling eye:
Who call'd on Fame, low
standing
by,
To hand him on,
Where many a patriot-name on high,
And hero shone.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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compared
with me,
Suffering not doing ill--fate far more mild.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And now the noble swine-herd bore the bow
Toward Ulysses, but with one voice all 430
The suitors, clamorous,
reproved
the deed,
Of whom a youth, thus, insolent exclaim'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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CHORUS: His
manacles
remark him; there he sits.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There, -- sandals for the barefoot;
There, -- gathered from the gales,
Do the blue havens by the hand
Lead the
wandering
sails.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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BOOK VII
Song of the Open Road
1
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading
wherever
I choose.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But 'tis a law they make
That their accord
themselves
should never break.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_140
Ask me not what it is, for there are deeds
Which have no form,
sufferings
which have no tongue.
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Shelley |
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Indeed, he
condemned
them
for their weight at the very moment that they were filling with awe and
other more noble sentiments.
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Kipling - Poems |
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to contemn the stranger's
righteous
cause,
And violate all hospitable laws!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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2100
Whan he had doon his wil al-out,
And I had put him out of dout,
Sire,' I seide, 'I have right gret wille
Your lust and
plesaunce
to fulfille.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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" My
journal for the last year or two has been
_selenitic_
in this sense.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To him it seemed to say, 'Stay near to me,' as to Howard it had
said, 'Go yonder, to those other joys and other
sceneries
I have told
you of.
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Yeats |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts
creating
dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the countries of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and
forgotten
it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us,
O God of waters?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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5
_Es
inpudicus
et vorax et aleo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Symington,--every one must feel that the editor should have
informed
his
readers 'when' the title was Wordsworth's, and 'when' it was his own
coinage.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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A power of butterfly must be
The
aptitude
to fly,
Meadows of majesty concedes
And easy sweeps of sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But Woman comes to bless
With an immoderateness,
With a divine excess,
Lust of life and yearn of flesh,
Till there seems naught
hindering
our souls:
Else we should crawl along the years
Labour'd with measurable joys
No greater than our life,
Things carefully devised against tears;
And as snails harden their sweat
To brittle safety, a carried shell,
So we might build out of our woe of toil
Serious delight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For in a people pledged to idleness,
Like swollen tumour in diseased flesh,
Ambition is
engendered
readily.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les convives
mastiquaient
a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The waters boiling and the burning plain;
While clang the giant
steeples
as they reel,
Unprompted, their own tocsin peal.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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for all the gold upon ground I would not go with thee nor bear thee
fellowship
through this wood 'on foot farther.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its thousand feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of
Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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Leaves of day and moss of dew,
Reeds of breeze, smiles perfumed,
Wings covering the world of light,
Boats charged with sky and sea,
Hunters of sound and sources of colour
Perfume
enclosed
by a covey of dawns
that beds forever on the straw of stars,
As the day depends on innocence
The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their sight.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O Helen, O infatuate soul,
Who bad'st the tides of battle roll,
Overwhelming
thousands, life on life,
'Neath Ilion's wall!
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Aeschylus |
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1 That is, an old embroidery with a coherent
sequence
of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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While still our ignorant lives were drowned beneath
The flooding of the earthly fate, and chance
Seemed pouring
mightily
dark and loud between us,
Unspeakable news oft visited our hearts:
We knew each other by desire; yea, spake
Out of the strength of darkness flowing o'er us,
Across the hindering outcry of the world
One to another sweet desirable things.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The nations that in fettered darkness weep
Crave thee to lead them where great
mornings
break .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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þā wæs hāten Heort
innanweard
folmum gefrætwod,
993.
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Beowulf |
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men
revealed
visibly?
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Euripides - Electra |
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--I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, not of
the arts and sciences, but of itself; yet relating to those it is a
pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,
and common confounder of truth, with which a man goes groping in the
dark, no
otherwise
than if he were blind.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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My pride, my hope, my shelter, my resource,
When green hoped not to gray to run its course;
She was enthroned Virtue under heaven's dome,
My idol in the shrine of
curtained
home.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But natheles, he gladded him in this;
He thoughte he
misacounted
hadde his day, 1185
And seyde, `I understonde have al a-mis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The Morphean fount
Of that fine element that visions, dreams,
And fitful whims of sleep are made of, streams 750
Into its airy channels with so subtle,
So thin a breathing, not the spider's shuttle,
Circled a million times within the space
Of a swallow's nest-door, could delay a trace,
A tinting of its quality: how light
Must dreams
themselves
be; seeing they're more slight
Than the mere nothing that engenders them!
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Keats |
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That this
fine romance, the details of which are so full of poetical truth,
and so utterly destitute of all show of historical truth, came
originally from some lay which had often been sung with great
applause at
banquets
is in the highest degree probable.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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' he cryde; 205
And in his throwes
frenetyk
and madde
He cursed Iove, Appollo, and eek Cupyde,
He cursed Ceres, Bacus, and Cipryde,
His burthe, him-self, his fate, and eek nature,
And, save his lady, every creature.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O weary air of dumb despair,
From marble won, to marble
turning!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Some guttural exclamation of surprise
The Red Man gave in poking about the mill
Over the great big
thumping
shuffling mill-stone
Disgusted the Miller physically as coming
From one who had no right to be heard from.
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Robert Forst |
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4
THE SALVATION ARMY'S SONG By Phoebe Hoffman
"It's
Christmas
time, it's Christmas time," Echo the feet in the dusty street.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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CCXLIII
Pure white the horse whereon
Malprimes
sate;
Guided his corse amid the press of Franks,
Hour in, hour out, great blows he struck them back,
And, ever, dead one upon others packed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He made this
somewhat
ironic alba in 1257, a fitting coda to the troubadour era.
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Troubador Verse |
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1115
Phaedra alone
bewitched
your lustful senses.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How with an
undivided
heart I loved you
I fear that you will never know or guess.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The past--the
infinite
greatness of the past!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What wizard, what
Thessalian
spell,
What god can save you, hamper'd thus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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quis huic deo
compararier
ausit?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But thou, false
Infidel!
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Byron |
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Ye, lastly, bonie
blossoms
a',
Ye royal lasses dainty,
Heav'n mak you guid as well as braw,
An' gie you lads a-plenty!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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[Picture: I stood and watched them in the hall] "One day, some
Spectres
chanced to call,
Dressed in the usual white:
I stood and watched them in the hall,
And couldn't make them out at all,
They seemed so strange a sight.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Basmanov
in the council of the tsar
Now sits.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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]
The edition of about a
thousand
copies sold off in less than a year.
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Whitman |
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Pure shrubs, with tender verdure newly dress'd,--
Pale amorous violets,--leafy woods, whose reign
Thy sun's bright rays transpierce, and thus sustain
Your lofty stature, and umbrageous crest;--
O thou, fair country, and thou, crystal stream,
Which bathes her
countenance
and sparkling eyes,
Stealing fresh lustre from their living beam;
How do I envy thee these precious ties!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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