The great key to the mystery is,
perhaps, the imperfection of our own faculties, which see and feel
strongly the partial evils which press upon us, but know too little of
the general system of the universe, to be aware how the existence of
these is to be reconciled with the
benevolence
of the great Creator.
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I
shall never forget,
One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,
Then onward I sped in the battle, the even-contested battle,
Till late in the night reliev'd to the place at last again I made my way,
Found you in death so cold dear comrade, found your body son of
responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
Bared your face in the starlight, curious the scene, cool blew the
moderate night-wind,
Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the
battlefield spreading,
Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
But not a tear fell, not even a long-drawn sigh, long, long I gazed,
Then on the earth
partially
reclining sat by your side leaning my
chin in my hands,
Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest
comrade--not a tear, not a word,
Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
As onward silently stars aloft, eastward new ones upward stole,
Vigil final for you brave boy, (I could not save you, swift was your death,
I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall
surely meet again,)
Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawn appear'd,
My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,
Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and
carefully under feet,
And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his
grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
Vigil for boy of responding kisses, (never again on earth responding,)
Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as day
brighten'd,
I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
And buried him where he fell.
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As by some artist to whom Vulcan gives
His heavenly skill, a breathing image lives;
By Pallas taught, he frames the
wondrous
mould,
And the pale silver glows with fusile gold:
So Pallas his heroic form improves
With bloom divine, and like a god he moves!
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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And
he showed me above the altar an inscription graven, and I read:
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee;
for it is
profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish,
and not that the whole body should be cast into hell.
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Not the mounds of wheat
That load
Sardinian
threshing floors;
Not Indian gold or ivory--no,
Nor flocks that o'er Calabria stray,
Nor fields that Liris, still and slow,
Is eating, unperceived, away.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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To cope with this
Chimaera
fell
Would task another Pegasus.
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at ye set you most
soverainly
my suster to gete.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I saw nothing like pie for sale, and no good cake
to put in my bundle, such as you can easily find in our towns, but
plenty of fair-looking apples, for which Montreal Island is
celebrated, and also pears cheaper and I thought better than ours, and
peaches, which, though they were
probably
brought from the South, were
as cheap as they commonly are with us.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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<
cio che
credesti
si, che tu vincesti
ver' lo sepulcro piu giovani piedi>>,
comincia' io, <
la forma qui del pronto creder mio,
e anche la cagion di lui chiedesti.
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'68'
Chloe: a
fanciful
name.
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Let the long rhythm 15
Of
crunching
rollers,
Breaking and bellowing
On the white seaboard,
Titan and tireless,
Tell, while the world stands, 20
How I adore thee.
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"
CCLXXVIII
Before the King is come now Pinabel;
Great is he, strong,
vassalous
and nimble;
Who bears his blow has no more time to dwell:
Says to him: "Sire, on you this cause depends;
Command therefore this noise be made an end.
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Chanson de Roland |
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There was a bridge, and we
resolved
to
cross it.
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Poe - 5 |
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A
homeless
dog behind the boulders lay
And watched us both with angry eyes forlorn,
Waiting a chance to come and take away
The morsel she had torn.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So do thou, fair ship, that ow'st
Virgil, thy
precious
freight, to Attic coast,
Safe restore thy loan and whole,
And save from death the partner of my soul!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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However, the
distance
was so great that events outran his
instructions.
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Look you now--
Your flying feet, and rumour of your fears,
Have spread a soulless panic on our walls,
And they without do go from strength to strength,
And we within make breach upon
ourselves!
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a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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a-na pa-ni- su
it-tam-ha-ru i-na ri-bi-tu ma-ti
iluEn-ki-du ba-ba-am ip-ta-ri-ik
i-na si-pi-su
iluGilgamis
e-ri-ba-am u-ul id-di-in
is-sa-ab-tu-ma ki-ma li-i-im
i- lu- du [50]
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu [51]
iluGilgamis u iluEn-ki- du
is-sa-ab-tu-u- ma
ki-ma li-i-im i-lu-du
zi-ip-pa-am 'i-bu- tu
i-ga-rum ir-tu-tu
ik-mi-is-ma iluGilgamis
i-na ga-ga-ag-ga-ri si-ip-su
ip-si-ih [52] us-sa-su- ma
i-ni-'i i-ra-az-zu
is-tu i-ra-zu i-ni-hu [53]
iluEn-ki-du a-na sa-si-im
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamis
ki-ma is-te-en-ma um-ma-ka
u- li- id- ka
ri-im-tum sa zu- pu-ri
ilat-Nin- sun- na
ul-lu e-li mu-ti ri-es-su
sar-ru-tam sa ni-si
i-si-im-kum iluEn-lil
duppu 2 kam-ma
su-tu-ur e-li .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Such was
Horace, an author of much civility, and (if any one among the heathen can
be) the best master both of virtue and wisdom; an
excellent
and true
judge upon cause and reason, not because he thought so, but because he
knew so out of use and experience.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who learns my lesson
complete?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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O born in the time of
joyfuller
ages,
heroes, hail!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
'Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it
threshed
another wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
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Ronsard |
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Then I'd like to be a bull, white as snow,
Transforming myself, for carrying her,
In April, when, through meadows so tender,
A flower, through a
thousand
flowers, she goes.
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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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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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's banner
uplifted
began to pursue
the Swede-men.
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Emerson - Poems |
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That merry day the year begins,
They bar the door on frosty win's;
The nappy reeks wi'
mantling
ream,
An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam;
The luntin pipe, an sneeshin mill,
Are handed round wi' right guid will;
The cantie auld folks crackin' crouse,
The young anes rantin' thro' the house,--
My heart has been sae fain to see them,
That I for joy hae barkit wi' them.
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Robert Forst |
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That merry day the year begins,
They bar the door on frosty win's;
The nappy reeks wi'
mantling
ream,
An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam;
The luntin pipe, an sneeshin mill,
Are handed round wi' right guid will;
The cantie auld folks crackin' crouse,
The young anes rantin' thro' the house,--
My heart has been sae fain to see them,
That I for joy hae barkit wi' them.
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Robert Forst |
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Who ever thought to see in friendship join'd,
On all sides with my
suffering
heart to cope,
The gentle enemies I love so well?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Who ever thought to see in friendship join'd,
On all sides with my
suffering
heart to cope,
The gentle enemies I love so well?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But what avayleth this to Troilus,
That for his sorwe no-thing of it
roughte?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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My
seruauntes
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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My
seruauntes
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Or artow lyk an asse to the harpe,
That hereth soun, whan men the strenges plye,
But in his minde of that no melodye
May sinken, him to glade, for that he
So dul is of his
bestialitee?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O
unspeakable
passionate love.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Would'st _thou_ repeat them--_thou_, a Faliero,
Harp on the deep
dishonour
of our house,
Dishonoured in its Chief--that Chief the Prince
Of Venice, first of cities?
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Byron |
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Titan, know thyself,
And take new
softness
to thy manners since
A new king rules the gods.
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Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, or Riambaut de Vaqueyras, came from
Vacqueyras
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Hodgson ("Edward Melbourne"); "Courage," by
Lieutenant Dyneley Hussey; "Optimism," by
Lieutenant
A.
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" This
introduction
begins:
"O leave the lily on its stem;
O leave the rose upon the spray;
O leave the elder-bloom, fair maids!
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A pleasant sleep,
tsarevich!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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ABOUT THE ELEGIES
Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this
portfolio
of
twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts
of Imperial Rome, Tibullus, Propertius, Catullus.
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Sine his
Ecclesia
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quibus suadeo vos sic habeo.
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NIGHT
Cell in the
Monastery
of Chudov (A.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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at ne hadde 3080
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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REVOLT
AGAINST THE
CREPUSCULAR
SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY
WOULD shake off the lethargy of this our time, I and give
For shadows shapes of power, For dreams men.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I cannot think, why such a
glorious
wealth
As this of love on our hearts should be spent.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Such havock, howling all abroad,
Their utter ruin bring,
The base
apostates
to their God,
Or rebels to their King.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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They played two or
three games for nothing, and then the old man took a four-penny bit,
worn very thin and smooth, out from his pocket, and he called to the
rest to put
something
on the game.
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Yeats |
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For since
Each hand made ready in its wrath to take
A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws
Is now conceded, men on this account
Loathed the old life
fostered
by force.
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Lucretius |
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"
The Other Language
Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing
with
astonished
dismay on the new world round about me, my mother
spoke to the wet-nurse, saying, "How does my child?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For since
Each hand made ready in its wrath to take
A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws
Is now conceded, men on this account
Loathed the old life
fostered
by force.
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Lucretius |
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Lady of wrong and grief,
Blameless
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Did ever Proteus, Merlin, any witch, }
Transform
themselves
so strangely as the rich?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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CLXVII
The count Rollant sees the Archbishop lie dead,
Sees the bowels out of his body shed,
And sees the brains that surge from his forehead;
Between his two arm-pits, upon his breast,
Crossways
he folds those hands so white and fair.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Further, to say that for the sake of men
They willed to prepare this world's magnificence,
And that 'tis therefore duty and behoof
To praise the work of gods as worthy praise,
And that 'tis sacrilege for men to shake
Ever by any force from out their seats
What hath been stablished by the Forethought old
To everlasting for races of mankind,
And that 'tis sacrilege to assault by words
And
overtopple
all from base to beam,--
Memmius, such notions to concoct and pile,
Is verily--to dote.
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But well thou comst
Before thy fellows, ambitious to win 160
From me som Plume, that thy success may show
Destruction to the rest: this pause between
(Unanswerd least thou boast) to let thee know;
At first I thought that Libertie and Heav'n
To heav'nly Soules had bin all one; but now
I see that most through sloth had rather serve,
Ministring Spirits, traind up in Feast and Song;
Such hast thou arm'd, the Minstrelsie of Heav'n,
Servilitie
with freedom to contend,
As both thir deeds compar'd this day shall prove.
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Milton |
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Pavel Tomsky took his leave, and, left to herself,
Lisaveta
glanced
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The infant listened to the strain,
Now here, now there, its
thoughts
were driven--
But the Fay and the Peri waited in vain,
The soul soared above such a sensual gain--
The child rose to Heaven.
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Hugo - Poems |
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He has a great delight who drowns
his gaze in the
immensity
of sky and sea.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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All the old scars of wanton wars are vanished;
And what blue bruises
grappling
Sense had left
And sad remains of redder stains are banished,
And the dim blotch of heart-committed theft.
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Sidney Lanier |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths
outmeasurd
by proportions of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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Blake - Zoas |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths
outmeasurd
by proportions of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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Blake - Zoas |
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XII
For all the Etruscan armies
Were ranged beneath his eye,
And many a
banished
Roman,
And many a stout ally;
And with a mighty following
To join the muster came
The Tusculan Mamilius,
Prince of the Latian name.
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LXIX
Four goodly coursers next, and redder far
Than flame, to that fair chariot yokes the sire;
Who, when the knight and he well seated are,
Collects
the reins; and heavenward they aspire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I am not
master enough of the etiquette of these matters to know, nor did I
stay to inquire, whether formal duty bade, or cold propriety
disallowed, my
thanking
you in this manner, as I am convinced, from
the light in which you kindly view me, that you will do me the justice
to believe this letter is not the manoeuvre of the needy, sharping
author, fastening on those in upper life, who honour him with a little
notice of him or his works.
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Robert Forst |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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I am not
master enough of the etiquette of these matters to know, nor did I
stay to inquire, whether formal duty bade, or cold propriety
disallowed, my
thanking
you in this manner, as I am convinced, from
the light in which you kindly view me, that you will do me the justice
to believe this letter is not the manoeuvre of the needy, sharping
author, fastening on those in upper life, who honour him with a little
notice of him or his works.
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Robert Forst |
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'T is not conferred by any,
But possible to earn
A
pittance
at a time,
Until, to her surprise,
The soul with strict economy
Subsists till Paradise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'T is not conferred by any,
But possible to earn
A
pittance
at a time,
Until, to her surprise,
The soul with strict economy
Subsists till Paradise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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A God hath
counselled
ye.
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Euripides - Electra |
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FRYE"
I saw her first abreast the Boston Light
At anchor; she had just come in, turned head,
And sent her hawsers creaking,
clattering
down.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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CLIMBING THE TERRACE OF KUAN-YIN AND LOOKING AT THE CITY
Hundreds of houses,
thousands
of houses,--like a chess-board.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Elizabeth Browning |
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Line after line the
troopers
came
To the edge of the wood that was ring'd with flame;
Rode in and sabred and shot--and fell;
Nor came one back his wounds to tell.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Through all that year-scarred agony of height,
Unblest of bough or bloom, to where expands
His wandy circlet with his bladed bands
Dividing every wind, or loud or light,
To termless hymns of love and old despite,
Yon tall
palmetto
in the twilight stands,
Bare Dante of these purgatorial sands
That glimmer marginal to the monstrous night.
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Sidney Lanier |
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from pole to pole,
Where winds can carry, or where waves can roll,
For Indian spices, for Peruvian gold,
Prevent the greedy, and out-bid the bold:
Advance thy golden
mountain
to the skies;
On the broad base of fifty thousand rise,
Add one round hundred, and (if that's not fair)
Add fifty more, and bring it to a square.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This small
river falls
perpendicularly
nearly two hundred and fifty feet at one
pitch.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The star of Love, all stars above,
Now reigns o'er earth and sky,
And high and low the
influence
know--
But where is County Guy?
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Golden Treasury |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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--L'oeil d'azur est vaincu par l'oeil noir que tachette
Le cercle
tenebreux
trace par les douleurs
De la male Sapho, l'amante et le poete!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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They are well done to, when
Love of a man their beings like a loom
Seizes, and the loose ends of purposes
Into one
beautiful
desire weaves.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Even the rishi[28] had to wait
For a yellow crane to ride;
But the sailor[29] whose heart had no guile
Was
followed
by the white gulls.
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Li Po |
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