Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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And, indeed,
This is a cloister that a man could like,
This blue-aired space of grassy land, that here,
Just as it touches the sea's bitter mood,
Is troubled into dunes, as it were thrilled,
Like a calm woman
trembling
against love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray
trickles
from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The threatening billow on the deep
Obedient lies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Civil Surgeon
who never
quarrels
is a rarity, appreciated as such.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
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I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch:
How should I use it for your closer
contact?
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last
glimmers
of day
A face like all the forgotten faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
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I cling to your knees
repenting!
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"
And a seventh said, "I have such a clear idea how
everything
will
be, but I cannot put it into words.
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--Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n
Thousand
Years.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Beyond the broad, illimitable plain
Down sinks the sun, red as Apollo's quoit,
That, by the envious Zephyr blown aside,
Struck
Hyacinthus
dead, and stained the earth
With his young blood, that blossomed into flowers.
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tfully {and}
ordeinly
to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still
remember
what the Lord hath done.
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copyright
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Oenone
I've explained, my Lord, all that
happened
then.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I was running to help
him, when several strong Cossacks seized me, and bound me with their
"_kuchaks_,"[54] shouting--
"Wait a bit, you will see what will become of you
traitors
to the Tzar!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Descend once more,
propitious
to my aid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A bird, by chance, that goes that way
Soft
overheard
the whole.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic
heights in thought and rhyme.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Appoloinaire |
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have
thousandes
bie mie anlace bledde,
And muste I nowe for safetie flie awaie?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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LXXVI
He, passing by those heaps, on either hand,
Of this and now of that the meaning sought;
Formed of swollen
bladders
here a hill did stand,
Whence he heard cries and tumults, as he thought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Your lordship's pleasure
Shall be
attended
to.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Who hath imagined them
Round him in fashion'd radiance of desire,
As into light of these
exulting
bodies
Flaming Spirit is uttered?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With the great gale we journey
That
breathes
from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing leaflets whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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My God bless you, my dear friend, and bless me, the
humblest and
sincerest
of your friends, by granting you yet many
returns of the season!
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Robert Burns |
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Thee, Thomas, thee, the
plaintive
Ganges mourn'd,[650]
And Indus' banks the murm'ring moan return'd;
O'er ev'ry valley where thy footsteps stray'd,
The hollow winds the gliding sighs convey'd.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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As the dulce downie barbe beganne to gre,
So was the well thyghte texture of hys lore;
Eche daie
enhedeynge
mockler for to bee, 105
Greete yn hys councel for the daies he bore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Shorter Fragments_
_i_
VIRTVTI sis par, dispar
fortunis
patris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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If thou hadst had a sword,
Insolent prisoner, then (pointing to his sword) with this I'd soon
Have
vanquished
thee.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Of sackcloth was thy wedding garment made:
Thy bridal's fruit is ashes; in the dust
The fair-haired Daughter of the Isles is laid,
The love of
millions!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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'
Scarce had he spoken when the encircling cloud
suddenly
parts and melts
into clear air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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e
schullen
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Sudden the door flies open wide, and lets
Noisily in the dawn-light
scarcely
clear,
And the good fisher, dragging his damp nets,
Stands on the threshold, with a joyous cheer.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at beholding me,
Thinking
me dead.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
XXV
His right hand glove that
Emperour
holds out;
But the count Guenes elsewhere would fain be found;
When he should take, it falls upon the ground.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He is dead, the sweet
musician!
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Longfellow |
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Six in the morning
saw Bobby at the Tonga Office in the drenching rain, the whirl of the
last waltz still in his ears, and an intoxication due neither to wine
nor
waltzing
in his brain.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Too pressed to wait, upon her slate
Fame writes a name or two in doubt;
Scarce written, these no longer please,
And her own finger rubs them out:
It may ensue, fair girl, that you
Years hence this
yellowing
leaf may see,
And put to task, your memory ask
In vain, 'This Lowell, who was he?
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in
sportive
frolic beat the time,
And stubborn oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Verginius
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Why sinkes that
Caldron?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill-timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the
sallying
host:
Who can appease like her a lover's ghost?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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Ronsard |
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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Byron |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Happy as holiday-enjoying face,
Loud tongued, and "merry as a
marriage
bell,"
Thy lightsome step sheds joy in every place;
And where the troubled dwell,
Thy witching smiles wean them of half their cares;
And from thy sunny spell,
They greet joy unawares.
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John Clare |
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Space rolls to-day her
splendour
round!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Wherefore
his ridges are not curls
And ripples of an inland mere?
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Tennyson |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The oldest title I ever heard to this air, was, "The
Highland
Watch's
Farewell to Ireland.
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Robert Forst |
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Self-love and reason to one end aspire,
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;
But greedy that, its object would devour,
This taste the honey, and not wound the flower:
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood,
Our
greatest
evil, or our greatest good.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You stood where, 'mid the white and gold,
The rose-fire through the gloom
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold
With soft,
ethereal
bloom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Odherr Partes bie
_Knyghtes
Mynstrelles_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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188 ||
_rustica_ Turnebus: _et
trirustice_
Munro || _Post 3 reuocaui
uersum qui extat apud Porphynonem ad Hor.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Rude representations of
warriors
show the boar on the helmet
quite as large as the helmet itself.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Her Dick had gone blind and left in his place
some one that she could hardly
recognise
till he spoke.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Commendo
tibi me ac meos amores,
Aureli.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm
Can come to his toes if his nose is warm;
And it's
perfectly
known that a Pobble's toes
Are safe--provided he minds his nose.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Speak forth the whole, make all thine utterance clear,
Have done with words inscrutable, nor cause
To me,
Prometheus!
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Aeschylus |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of
bickering
gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Po |
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Not till that day shall Jove relax his rage,
Nor one of all the
heavenly
host engage
In aid of Greece.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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" Shyly then she said--
"Our
neighbor
died last night; it must have been
When you were gone.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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