Charms and spells 370
Muttered on black and
spiteful
instigation
Have stopped, as some believe, the kindliest growths.
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A thousand times, sweet warrior, to obtain
Peace with those beauteous eyes I've vainly tried,
Proffering my heart; but with that lofty pride
To bend your looks so lowly you refrain:
Expects a stranger fair that heart to gain,
In frail,
fallacious
hopes will she confide:
It never more to me can be allied;
Since what you scorn, dear lady, I disdain.
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Richardson indeed might perhaps be excepted; but unhappily, _dramatis
personae_ are beings of another world; and however they may captivate
the unexperienced,
romantic
fancy of a boy or a girl, they will ever,
in proportion as we have made human nature our study, dissatisfy our
riper years.
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I have even tried to imitate in this extempore thing that irregularity
in the rhymes, which, when
judiciously
done, has such a fine effect on
the ear.
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of
sweetness
and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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For al Appollo, or his clerkes lawes,
Or calculinge
avayleth
nought three hawes;
Desyr of gold shal so his sowle blende,
That, as me lyst, I shal wel make an ende.
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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There's no Art,
To finde the Mindes
construction
in the Face.
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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'T were odd I fear a thing
That
comprehendeth
me
In one or more existences
At Deity's decree.
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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An' now, ye chosen Five-and-Forty,
May still your mither's heart support ye,
Then, though a
minister
grow dorty,
An' kick your place,
Ye'll snap your fingers, poor an' hearty,
Before his face.
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{and} yif he be
felonous
{and} wi?
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But no, go slowly as you will,
I should not bid you hasten so,
For while I wait for love to come,
Some other girl is
standing
dumb,
Fearing her love will go.
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Alas, sweet
Liberty!
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And at o word, with-outen repentaunce,
Wel-come, my knight, my pees, my
suffisaunce!
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild, declares that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some
adventurous
thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some encounter of arms has
occurred to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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Had they but promised us the pick,
Perchance we had joined, all;
But
battering
bastions built of brick--
Bah, give me wooden wall!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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--everything
that she can, from
hairpins
to babies' bottles.
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Kipling - Poems |
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The one you once
travelled
yourself.
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Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5
Having remorse for my comrade,
What town is blessed with thy beauty,
Gladdened and
prospered?
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Sappho |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have
sometime
breathed the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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[61] The negative and
positive
principles in nature.
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She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's
Beautiful
Wife
'She Who Was the Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife'
Auguste Rodin (France, 1840 - 1917)
LACMA Collections
That's how the bon temps we regret
Among us, poor old idiots,
Squatting on our haunches, set
All in a heap like woollen lots
Round a hemp fire men forgot,
Soon kindled, and soon dust,
Once so lovely, that cocotte.
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Thee, Furius, and Fabricius, thee,
Rough Curius too, with untrimm'd beard,
Your sires' transmitted poverty
To
conquest
rear'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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So came to Una, who him joyd to see,
And after little rest, gan him desire 610
Of her
adventure
mindfull for to bee.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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That so your
happiness
in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Propitious heavens I had not you them crossed,
Excise had got the day, and all been lost :
For t'other side all in close quarters lay
Without intelligence, command or pay ;
A
scattered
body, which the foe ne'er tried,
But often did among themselves divide.
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Marvell - Poems |
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My friend, thou art good and
cautious
and wise; nay, thou art
perfect--and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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You shall aid me:
I would have aided you--and also have 380
Been
somewhat
damaged in my name to save
Yours and your son's.
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming
simplicity
of the play,
competent Grecians have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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What not put vpon
His spungie
Officers?
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He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Lowing of cattle and peals of
laughter
were heard in the farm-yard,
Echoed back by the barns.
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But Troilus, thou mayst now, est or west,
Pype in an ivy leef, if that thee lest;
Thus gooth the world; god shilde us fro mischaunce,
And every wight that meneth trouthe
avaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_First
published
in_ 1869.
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But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both;
And when, for instance, I shall speak of soul,
Teaching
the same to be but mortal, think
Thereby I'm speaking also of the mind--
Since both are one, a substance inter-joined.
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The
copyright
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what you can do with this work.
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Imagists |
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" Petrarch replied, "I
certainly have no
assurance
of being free from the attacks of either;
but, if I were attacked by either, I should not think of calling in
physicians.
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Say for my comfort, languishing in bed,
"Just so immortal _Maro_ held his head:" 120
And when I die, be sure you let me know
Great _Homer_ died three
thousand
years ago.
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Who sung the stave I filched from you that day
To
Amaryllis
wending, our hearts' joy?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Riddel if she will favour
him with a perusal of any of her
poetical
pieces which he may not have
seen.
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Then, turning to my love, I said,
'The dead are dancing with the dead,
The dust is
whirling
with the dust.
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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He "never deviates into
sense;" but those who
appreciate
him never feel the need of such deviation.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It looks,
however, as though the sheets
containing
these poems had been torn
out.
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Posthumous Fame_
EDE tuos tandem populo, Faustine, libellos
et cultum docto pectore profer opus,
quod nec Cecropiae damnent Pandionis arces
nec sileant nostri
praetereantque
senes.
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"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
Mandassero
a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
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Iliad - Pope |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to AElla_ in his own
handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which
contained
strange
textual variations.
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e snawe
snitered
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He
maintained
that women were both clever and thrifty, that they
never divulged the Mysteries of Demeter, while you and I go about
babbling incessantly about whatever happens at the Senate.
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Aristophanes |
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Or why not plunge thy blades about
Some maggot
politician
throng
Swarming to parcel out
The body of a land, and rout
The maw-conventicle, and ungorge Wrong?
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Sidney Lanier |
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STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came
Missiues
from
the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title
before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to
the comming on of time, with haile King that shalt be.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The sack of many-peopled towns
Is all their dream:
The way they take
Leaves but a ruin in the brake,
And, in the furrow that the plowmen make,
A
stampless
penny; a tale, a dream.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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All the people
pour from house and field, and mothers crowd to wonder and gaze at her
as she goes, in
rapturous
astonishment at the royal lustre of purple
that drapes her smooth shoulders, at the clasp of gold that intertwines
her tresses, at the Lycian quiver she carries, and the pastoral myrtle
shaft topped with steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Chimene
My honour's there, I must be avenged, still;
However we pride
ourselves
on love's merit,
Excuse is shameful to a noble spirit.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And
suddenly
one more impatient cried--
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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He is, as was shown
by his later history, a man subject to
overpowering
impulses and to fits
of will-less brooding.
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Euripides - Electra |
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General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project
Gutenberg-tm
electronic
works
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The race is ripened for the
judgment
day:
So I, for the last time, climb the witch-mountain, thinking,
And, as my cask runs thick, I say,
The world, too, on its lees is sinking.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[Sidenote A: "It is a great
pleasure
to me," says Sir Gawayne, "to hear you
talk,]
[Sidenote B: but I cannot undertake the task to expound true-love and tales
of arms.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As many
farewells
as be stars in heaven,
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up into a loose adieu,
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
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Shakespeare |
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"
Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning
a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at blushing shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Keats |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Then he
would with the help of an English-Rowley and Rowley-English Dictionary
(which he had laboriously compiled for himself out of the vocabulary
to Speght's _Chaucer_, Bailey's _Universal Etymological Dictionary_,
and Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_) translate the work
into what he probably thought was a very fair
imitation
of fifteenth
century language.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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BROTHER TO A YOUNG LADY, A
PARTICULAR
FRIEND
OF THE AUTHOR'S.
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Robert Burns |
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Grown hard and
stubborn
in the ancient mould,
Grown rigid in the sham of lifelong lies:
We hoped for better things as years would rise,
But it is over as a tale once told.
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Christina Rossetti |
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