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o sir
Eufemian
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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One only is wanting, whom our eyes saw
whelmed amid the waves; all else is
answerable
to thy mother's words.
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The eye so weary's
freshened
with a tear
As rises distant drumming,
And wailing cheer--they pass the pale
His army mourns though still's the end hid;
And from his war-stained cloak, he answers "Hail!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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HOSEA BIGLOW,
INCLOSED
IN A NOTE FROM MR.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
disputes are all upon these last, and, I will venture to say, they have
less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other, and
have
diminished
the practice more than advanced the theory of Morality.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Grots, pebbles, roots of trees, and fancies more,
Yet often is perplexed and cannot part
The shadow from the substance, rocks and sky,
Mountains and clouds, reflected in the depth 265
Of the clear flood, from things which there abide
In their true dwelling; now is crossed by gleam
Of his own image, by a sun-beam now,
And wavering motions sent he knows not whence,
Impediments
that make his task more sweet; 270
Such pleasant office have we long pursued
Incumbent o'er the surface of past time
With like success, nor often have appeared
Shapes fairer or less doubtfully discerned
Than these to which the Tale, indulgent Friend!
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William Wordsworth |
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For the king is a lord and a god:
he was born of the golden seed
That erst upon Danae fell--
his
captains
are strong at the need!
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Aeschylus |
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O lonely Himalayan height,
Grey pillar of the Indian sky,
Where saw'st thou last in clanging flight
Our winged dogs of
Victory?
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Wilde - Poems |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Hither with christall vyals, lovers come,
And take my teares, which are loves wine, 20
And try your mistresse Teares at home,
For all are false, that tast not just like mine;
Alas, hearts do not in eyes shine,
Nor can you more judge womans
thoughts
by teares,
Then by her shadow, what she weares.
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John Donne |
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Per l'argine
sinistro
volta dienno;
ma prima avea ciascun la lingua stretta
coi denti, verso lor duca, per cenno;
ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But thou, the war's and fortune's son,
March
indefatigably
on,
And for the last effect.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"Only be no atheist,
Like a non-bear who respects not
His great Maker--Yes, a Maker
Hath this
universe
created.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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ECLOGUE VI
TO VARUS
First my Thalia stooped in
sportive
mood
To Syracusan strains, nor blushed within
The woods to house her.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The sun turns north, the days grow long,
Later the evening star grows bright--
How can the
daylight
linger on
For men to fight,
Still fight?
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Sara Teasdale |
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"They cast me living in a dreary tomb,
Never mine eyes saw
sunlight
pierce the gloom,
Only ye, brother angels, used to sweep
Down from your heaven, and visit me in sleep.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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: _lumina_ p, uulgo
56
_cessaret_
Da: _cessare ne_ (_ue_ C) ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Him Nature giveth for defence
His
formidable
innocence;
The mounting sap, the shells, the sea,
All spheres, all stones, his helpers be;
He shall meet the speeding year,
Without wailing, without fear;
He shall be happy in his love,
Like to like shall joyful prove;
He shall be happy whilst he wooes,
Muse-born, a daughter of the Muse.
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Emerson - Poems |
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36 The La Festival2 On the La Festival in ordinary years warm weather is still far away, this year on the La Festival the ice has
entirely
melted.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Man is now so
developing
Individualism.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Than telleth hit that, fro a sterry place,
How African hath him Cartage shewed,
And warned him before of al his grace, 45
And seyde him, what man, lered other lewed,
That loveth comun profit, wel y-thewed,
He shal unto a blisful place wende,
Ther as Ioye is that last
withouten
ende.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The mother said
gently, "Is that you,
darling?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So, in the like name of that love of ours,
Take back these
thoughts
which here unfolded too,
And which on warm and cold days I withdrew
From my heart's ground.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Do we dare
Question
of matter, and of forces found
'Neath a rude skin-in living verdure bound.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But close around the body, where stood the little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain,
No cries were there, but teeth set fast, low whispers and black
frowns,
And
breaking
up of benches, and girding up of gowns.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The sea, it seemed to hold
In the calm mirror this live globe of gold,
This world, the soul and
torchbearer
of our own.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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their
brooding
was deep,?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Who fears to die
With roses musky breathed
You cast to ground the hope which once was mine
You did late review my lays
Your ringlets, your ringlets
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But in Man's dwellings he became a thing
Restless and worn, and stern and wearisome,
Drooped as a wild-born falcon with clipt wing,
To whom the
boundless
air alone were home:
Then came his fit again, which to o'ercome,
As eagerly the barred-up bird will beat
His breast and beak against his wiry dome
Till the blood tinge his plumage, so the heat
Of his impeded soul would through his bosom eat.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And that thou me
bisoughtest
doon of yore,
Havinge un-to myn honour ne my reste 1735
Right no reward, I dide al that thee leste.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For a
beautiful
and imperious player 15
Is the lord of life.
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Sappho |
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It was prefaced by the
following
words, understood to have been written
by N.
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Poe - 5 |
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`That is to seye, for thee am I bicomen,
Bitwixen
game and ernest, swich a mene
As maken wommen un-to men to comen; 255
Al sey I nought, thou wost wel what I mene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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" In
1832 it was
reinstated
among the "Poems of the Fancy.
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Besides,
innocence
wins you as much as the murder of your
emperor: you will get from us as large a bounty for your loyalty as
you would from others for your crime.
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Tacitus |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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We returned to the citadel along the heights,
plucking
such flowers as
grew there.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair,
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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The Saracen also offered to go as Gama's messenger to the king,
and
promised
to procure him an able pilot to conduct him to Calicut, the
chief port of India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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5
Yet even the high gods at times do err;
Be
therefore
thou not overcome with woe,
But dedicate anew to greater love
An equal heart, and be thy radiant self
Once more, Gorgo.
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Sappho |
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And if it be Prometheus stole from heaven
The fire which we endure, it was repaid
By him to whom the energy was given
Which this poetic marble hath arrayed
With an eternal glory--which, if made
By human hands, is not of human thought
And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid
One ringlet in the dust--nor hath it caught
A tinge of years, but
breathes
the flame with which 'twas wrought.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Note: Bellerie was
situated
on his family estate La Possonniere.
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Ronsard |
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Brittania
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Golden Treasury |
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Many of
the lines, however, are rough and
difficult
of scansion.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I swear there is no
greatness
or power that does not emulate those of the
earth!
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Whitman |
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Think you the wrist that
fashioned
you in clay,
The thumb that set the hollow just that way
In your full throat and lidded the long eye
So roundly from the forehead, will let lie
Broken, forgotten, under foot some day
Your unimpeachable body, and so slay
The work he most had been remembered by?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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blake-poems |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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blake-poems |
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And Phoebus stooped under the craggy roof
Arched over the dark cavern:--Maia's child
Perceived that he came angry, far aloof,
About the cows of which he had been beguiled; _305
And over him the fine and
fragrant
woof
Of his ambrosial swaddling-clothes he piled--
As among fire-brands lies a burning spark
Covered, beneath the ashes cold and dark.
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Shelley |
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The Chorus make discreet
comments
upon him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden wondrous
building
& three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Sweet, sumptuous fables of Baghdad
The splendours of your court recall,
The torches of a
Thousand
Nights
Blaze through a single festival;
And Saki-singers down the streets,
Pour for us, in a stream divine,
From goblets of your love-ghazals
The rapture of your Sufi wine.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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[The English party whisper together in council]
God speed the
parliament!
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Shakespeare |
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ere,
he
brougthe
him In ful sone; 213
And [seyde]: 'sire, ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek,
And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek;
She neer so much as mentioned things to come,
But sighed oer pleasures ere she left her home;
And now and then a
mournful
smile would raise
At freaks repeated of our younger days,
Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground
Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round,
Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away--
Two games, poor thing, Jane dearly loved to play.
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John Clare |
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The Good God and the Evil God
The Good God and the Evil God met on the
mountain
top.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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'Twixt kings and
subjects
there's this mighty odds, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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e sone his fader mette,
Wel
myldeliche
he him grette,
And bad him of his guode.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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You yourself,
condemning
your unjust intent,
Urged our hands to prepare you for this instant:
You yourself, recalling your former strength, 165
Wished to rise again, and see the light at length.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Baker, Thistlethwaite
and a few more were contemporaries of the poet, but the rest of the
circle consisted mainly of men who had reached middle age--dullards,
perhaps, who
condescended
to clever adolescence, whom Chatterton
certainly mocked bitterly enough in satires which he wrote apparently
for his own private satisfaction, but whom he nevertheless took
considerable pains to conciliate as being men of substance who could
lend books and now and then reward the Muse with five shillings.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Besides that it was bordered by
evanescent isthmuses with a great Gulf-Stream running about all over it, so
that it was perfectly beautiful, and
contained
only a single tree, five
hundred and three feet high.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But to return apace,
Easy it is from these same facts to know
In just what wise those things (which from their sort
The Greeks have named "bellows") do come down,
Discharged
from on high, upon the seas.
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Lucretius |
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Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British
Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being made
between their
respective
charges.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their leader was false Sextus,
That wrought the deed of shame:
With
restless
pace and haggard face
To his last field he came.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It is not so marked in the
manuscript
text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It 's far, far
treasure
to surmise,
And estimate the pearl
That slipped my simple fingers through
While just a girl at school!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Demain, apres-demain et
toujours!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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why this
passionate
despair
For cruel Glycera?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Learn each small people's genius, policies,
The ant's republic, and the realm of bees;
How those in common all their wealth bestow,
And anarchy without confusion know;
And these for ever, though a monarch reign,
Their
separate
cells and properties maintain.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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send thy menial women to bring home
The precious charge
committed
to my care, 90
Thy gifts at Menelaus' hands received.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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sed
praecipui
qui nobile gressu
extremo fraudatis opus, date carmina festis
digna toris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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" This, says
Castera,
afforded
the fiction of the floating island of Venus.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Come what come may,
Time, and the Houre, runs through the
roughest
Day
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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),
_promised
them proper
reward_, 2990; wēan oft gehēt earmre teohhe, _with woe often threatened the
unhappy band_, 2938; pret.
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Beowulf |
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And then she soon 'twixt work and leisure
Found out the secret how at pleasure
To
dominate
her worthy lord,
And harmony was soon restored.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They are _Two Stories of Prague_,
_The Touch of Life_ and _The Last_; three volumes of short stories; a
two-act drama, _The Daily Life_, points to a strong Maeterlinck
influence, and finally
_Stories
of God_.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Paul,
Indulge my candour, and grow all to all;
Back to my native
moderation
slide,
And win my way by yielding to the tide.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He has
destroyed
the pillar of your throne,
He has killed my father.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As Jove's great son the
infested
globe did free
From noxious monsters, hell-born tyranny, .
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For
flattering
planets seemed to say
This child should ills of ages stay,
By wondrous tongue, and guided pen,
Bring the flown Muses back to men.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Hyperbole!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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_ But
maturing
Time
Teaches all things.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Indeed never has it been proved by such
terrible
disasters
to Rome or by such clear evidence that Providence
is concerned not with our peace of mind but rather with vengeance for
our sin.
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Tacitus |
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Non perche piu ch'un
semplice
sembiante
fosse nel vivo lume ch'io mirava,
che tal e sempre qual s'era davante;
ma per la vista che s'avvalorava
in me guardando, una sola parvenza,
mutandom' io, a me si travagliava.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Toi qui, meme aux lepreux, aux parias maudits,
Enseignes
par l'amour le gout du Paradis,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Troubador Verse |
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] I
would be
delighted
to see him perform acts of kindness and friendship,
though I were not the object; he does it with such a grace.
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Robert Burns |
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Already would they pass their life, hedged round
By the strong towers; and cultivate an earth
All
portioned
out and boundaried; already
Would the sea flower and sail-winged ships;
Already men had, under treaty pacts,
Confederates and allies, when poets began
To hand heroic actions down in verse;
Nor long ere this had letters been devised--
Hence is our age unable to look back
On what has gone before, except where reason
Shows us a footprint.
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Lucretius |
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Without it, proud Versailles, thy glory falls;
And Nero's terraces desert their walls:
The vast
parterres
a thousand hands shall make;
Lo!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh you, who have founded so
illustrious
a city in the air, you
know not in what esteem men hold you and how many there are who burn with
desire to dwell in it.
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Aristophanes |
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"
Next with both spurs he's gored his horse's flanks,
And
Tencendor
has made four bounds thereat.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Hoc misso in Syriam requierant omnibus aures:
Audibant
eadem haec leniter et leviter,
Nec sibi postilla metuebant talia verba,
Cum subito adfertur nuntius horribilis, 10
Ionios fluctus, postquam illuc Arrius isset,
Iam non Ionios esse, sed Hionios.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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