And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
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Let me
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[] [] The Pear tree mild, the
frowning
Walnut, the sharp Crab, & Apple sweet,
The rough bark opens; twittering peep forth little beaks & wings
The Nightingale, the Goldfinch, Robin, Lark, Linnet & Thrush
The Goat leap'd from the craggy Rock cliff, the Sheep awoke from the mould
Upon its green stalk the Corn, waving innumerable
Infolding the bright Infants from the desolating winds
They sulk upon her breast her hair became like snow on mountains
Weaker & weaker, weeping woful, wearier and wearier
Faded & her bright Eyes decayd melted with pity & love
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[And then they wanderd far away she sought for them in vain *
In weeping blindness stumbling she followd them oer rocks & mountains]
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From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Why
possession
of
his faculties, mental and corporeal?
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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from an unseen stairway which is
supposed
to extend
around the outside of the tower.
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Marya
Ivanofna
scarcely
ever spoke to me, and even tried to avoid me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And if the verse flow free and fast,
Till even the poet is aghast,
A touching Valentine at last
The post shall carry,
When
thirteen
days are gone and past
Of February.
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i
librarie
apparailled
{and} wrou?
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Heaven lit the fatal flame within my breast: 1625
That
detestable
Oenone managed all the rest.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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65
So hit befel,
therafter
sone,
This king wolde wenden over see.
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The dragon-horse will moan, tuning its head, 40
awaiting
to be brought to serve as assistant.
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He then took
foremost
up the shaft and bow,
And, station'd at the portal, strove to bend 180
But bent it not, fatiguing, first, his hands
Delicate and uncustom'd to the toil.
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Or friends or kinsfolk on the citied earth,
To share our
marriage
feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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]
A scene, which 'wildered fancy viewed
In the soul's coldest solitude,
With that same scene when peaceful love
Flings rapture's colour o'er the grove,
When mountain, meadow, wood and stream _5
With
unalloying
glory gleam,
And to the spirit's ear and eye
Are unison and harmony.
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That "irresistible needle-touch,"
as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very
core of a thought, has found a
response
as wide and sympathetic as
it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling
power.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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city of hurried and
glittering
tides!
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Whitman |
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II
You, sir, earned worthy praise, when you o'erbore
The lion of such might by sea, and so
Did by him, where he guarded either shore
From
Francolino
to the mouth of Po,
That I, though yet again I heard him roar,
If you were present, should my fear forego.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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day — perhaps more than ever in her history—is in the minds and hearts of other nations, these two poetic and
romantic
episodes of her past are timely.
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"Taking Three as the subject to reason about--
A convenient number to state--
We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
By One Thousand
diminished
by Eight.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It was roofed over, by way of
protection
from the weather, and
the archway, having but few windows, was thus very uncomfortably dark.
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Poe - 5 |
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Either that blind desire, which life destroys
Counting the hours,
deceives
my misery,
Or, even while yet I speak, the moment flies,
Promised at once to pity and to me.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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ist viel gereist,
Frauleins
alle Hoflichkeit erweist.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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' 690
Quod tho the thridde, `I hope, y-wis, that she
Shal bringen us the pees on every syde,
That, whan she gooth,
almighty
god hir gyde!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Then cease, Love, to torment me so;
But rather than all
thoughts
forego
Of the fair
With flaxen hair,
Give me back her frowns again.
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Longfellow |
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Another so timid that he must cast down his eyes before the gaze of any
man, and summon all his poor will before he dare enter a cafe or pass
the pay-box of a theatre, where the ticket-seller seems, in his eyes,
invested with all the majesty of Minos, AEcus, and Rhadamanthus, will at
times throw himself upon the neck of some old man whom he sees in the
street, and embrace him with enthusiasm in sight of an
astonished
crowd.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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In my youth's summer I did sing of One,
The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind;
Again I seize the theme, then but begun,
And bear it with me, as the rushing wind
Bears the cloud onwards: in that tale I find
The furrows of long thought, and dried-up tears,
Which, ebbing, leave a sterile track behind,
O'er which all heavily the
journeying
years
Plod the last sands of life--where not a flower appears.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The captured standards and colours were carried
round the walls and the
prisoners
also displayed.
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Tacitus |
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So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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LIX
"None can (he said) the action reprehend,
Nor first I make the faulchion mine today;
And to its just
possession
I pretend
Where'er I find it, be it where it may.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Sense failed in the mortal strife:
Like the watch-tower of a town
Which an earthquake
shatters
down,
Like a lightning-stricken mast,
Like a wind-uprooted tree
Spun about,
Like a foam-topped waterspout
Cast down headlong in the sea, 520
She fell at last;
Pleasure past and anguish past,
Is it death or is it life?
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Christina Rossetti |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Means I must use thou say'st, prediction else
Will unpredict and fail me of the Throne:
My time I told thee, (and that time for thee
Were better farthest off) is not yet come;
When that comes think not thou to find me slack
On my part aught endeavouring, or to need
Thy politic maxims, or that cumbersome 400
Luggage of war there shewn me, argument
Of human
weakness
rather then of strength.
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Milton |
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He died spellbound by the
sorceress
Vivien
in a hollow oak.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Ch'u P'ing's[30] prose and verse
Hang like the sun and moon;[31]
The king of Ch'u's arbours and towers
Are only
hummocks
in the ground.
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Li Po |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Still sprung from those swift hoofs, thundering South,
The dust, like smoke from the cannon's mouth;
Or the trail of a comet, sweeping faster and faster,
Foreboding
to traitors the doom of disaster.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Una is informed by the
dwarf of the Knight's
misfortune
and is prostrated with grief.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"If I want to be gentle I must serve and worship
lovely Queen
Guinevere
too.
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Tennyson |
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CITIES
Can we believe--by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
street after street,
each
patterned
alike,
no grace to lighten
a single house of the hundred
crowded into one garden-space.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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not backe the
balefull
body dead;
In which him chaunced false Duessa meete,
Mine onely foe, mine onely deadly dread,
Who with her witchcraft, and misseeming sweete,
Inveigled him to follow her desires unmeete.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then temples rose, and towns, and marts,
The shop of toil, the hall of arts;
Then flew the sail across the seas
To feed the North from tropic trees;
The storm-wind wove, the torrent span,
Where they were bid, the rivers ran;
New slaves
fulfilled
the poet's dream,
Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam.
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Emerson - Poems |
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XXIV
"Wide
circling
still I go, and through that day
I find no other sign of him that fled;
At length return to where Corebo lay,
Who had the ground about him dyed so red,
That he, had I made little more delay,
A grave would have required, and, more than bed
And succour of the leech, to make him sound,
Craved priest and friar to lay him in the ground.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_315
And they shall never more sip laudanum,
From Helicon or Himeros (1);--well, come,
And in despite of God and of the devil,
We'll make our friendly
philosophic
revel
Outlast the leafless time; till buds and flowers _320
Warn the obscure inevitable hours,
Sweet meeting by sad parting to renew;--
'To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
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Shelley |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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all armed warily,
And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin 30
Does care for looke of living
creatures
eye.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Their deaths were dew-drops on Heaven's
amaranth
bower,
And tolled on flowers as Summer gales went by.
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John Clare |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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and what if she should die some afternoon,
Afternoon
grey and smoky, evening yellow and rose;
Should die and leave me sitting pen in hand
With the smoke coming down above the housetops;
Doubtful, for quite a while
Not knowing what to feel or if I understand
Or whether wise or foolish, tardy or too soon .
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T.S. Eliot |
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And some, besides, were by oblivion
Of all things seized, that even
themselves
they knew
No longer.
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Lucretius |
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But seldom ever
when men are slain, does the murder-spear sink
but
briefest
while, though the bride be fair!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Leonor
Yet, Madame,
considering
your success
Your show of sadness runs now to excess.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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[21]
Charioteer
of the Sun.
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Li Po |
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HE NO LONGER CONTEMPLATES THE MORTAL, BUT THE
IMMORTAL
BEAUTIES OF
LAURA.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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She turned away, but with the autumn weather
Compelled my
imagination
many days,
Many days and many hours:
Her hair over her arms and her arms full of flowers.
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T.S. Eliot |
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LXXVII
Thy glass will show thee how thy
beauties
wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I have tamed
The man's
pernicious
brain.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has
corridors
surpassing
Material place.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For
_Ninsun_
as
mother of Gilgamish see SBP.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The house was
soundless
as a tomb,
And she entered her chamber, there to grieve
Lone, kneeling, in the gloom.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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35
VIII In sooth, I speak from feeling, what though now
Old am I, and to genial pleasure slow;
Yet have I felt of
sickness
through the May,
Both hot and cold, and heart-aches every day,--
How hard, alas!
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William Wordsworth |
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Zu neuen Gefuhlen
All meine Sinnen sich
erwuhlen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Why,
certainly
I have, but what then?
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Aristophanes |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Our
covenant
stipulates one stroke, and therefore now
cease.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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He who has
suffered
shipwreck fears to sail
Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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Robert Herrick |
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And
suddenly
I turned and saw again
The gleaming curve of tracks, the bridge above--
They were burned deep into my heart before,
The night I watched them to avoid your eyes,
When you were saying, "Oh, look up at me!
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Sara Teasdale |
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Huc refero quod est in
Achillis
Tatii Isagoge ad
Arati Phaenom.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_ I cannot blame him,
Since I have risked my soul because I find not
That which he
exchanged
the earth for.
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Byron |
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But that as to their collating of any internal
talent or ability, they could never pretend to it ; their
grants and their
prohibitions
are alike invalid, and
they can neither capacitate one man to be witty, nor
hinder another from being so, further than as they
press it at their devotion.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I saw a spectre with a million heads
Come frantic downward through the universe,
And all the mouths of it were
uttering
cries,
Wherein was a sharp agony, and yet
The cries were much like laughs: as if Pain laughed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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Meredith - Poems |
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When we drive out, from the cloud of steam,
majestical
white horses,
Are we greater than the first men who led black ones by the mane?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Aeschylus |
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{32a}
Thus safe through
struggles
the son of Ecgtheow
had passed a plenty, through perils dire,
with daring deeds, till this day was come
that doomed him now with the dragon to strive.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Pursevant
would have ravish'd him away.
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John Donne |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XI
And now hath every city
Sent up her tale of men;
The foot are
fourscore
thousand,
The horse are thousands ten.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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[338] The
Scholiast
informs us that these verses are borrowed from a poet
of the sixth century B.
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Aristophanes |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What are the
imported
half-ripe fruits of the torrid south, to this
fruit matured by the cold of the frigid north?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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" It was a
collection of the work of various young poets,
presented
together as a
school.
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Imagists |
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When in an antichamber every guest
Had felt the cold full sponge to pleasure press'd,
By minist'ring slaves, upon his hands and feet,
And fragrant oils with
ceremony
meet
Pour'd on his hair, they all mov'd to the feast
In white robes, and themselves in order placed
Around the silken couches, wondering
Whence all this mighty cost and blaze of wealth could spring.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The alternative is a request to
the generous reader that he may use the weakness of those earlier
verses, which no subsequent
revision
has succeeded in strengthening,
less as a reproach to the writer, than as a means of marking some
progress in her other attempts.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Madame, you must
remember
your promise.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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No tongue
So vast a theme could equal, speech and thought
Both
impotent
alike.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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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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But suddenly some kindling shock
Struck flashing through the wire: a bird,
Poised on it,
screamed
and flew; the flock
Rose with him; wheeled and whirred.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Coryat was
an eccentric and a
favourite
butt of the wits, but was not without
ability as well as enterprise.
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John Donne |
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Let the contentious spirit know
At this hour when we are silent
The stalks of
multiple
lilies grow
Far too tall for our reason
And not as the riverbank weeps
When its tedious game tells lies
Claiming abundance should reach
Into my first surprise
On hearing the whole sky and the map
Behind my steps, without end, bear witness
By the ebbing wave itself that
This country never existed.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The boyars
Remember
Godunov as erst he was,
Peer to themselves; and even now the race
Of the old Varyags is loved by all.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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35
Either his
slippery
knots at once untie,
And disentangle all his winding snare,
Or shatter too with him my curious frame,
And let these wither so that he may die,
Though set with skill, and chosen out with care,
That they, while thou on both their spoils dost
tread,
May crown thy feet, that could not crown thy
bead.
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Marvell - Poems |
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