Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat
(Hail, Goddess; he who is about to die salutes you)
To Judith Gautier
Death and beauty are two things profound,
So of dark and azure, that one might say that
They were two sisters
terrible
and fecund
Possessing the one enigma, the one secret.
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In heat I shiver, and in cold I glow,
Now thrill'd with love, with jealousy now torn:
As if her thin robe by a rival worn,
Or veil, had screen'd him from my vengeful blow
But more 'tis mine to burn by night, by day;
And how I love the death by which I die,
Nor thought can grasp, nor tongue of bard can sing:
Not so my
freezing
fire--impartially
She shines to all; and who would speed his way
To that high beam, in vain expands his fluttering wing.
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What
lightning
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But, Lord,
remember
me an' mine
Wi' mercies temp'ral an' divine,
That I for grace an' gear may shine,
Excell'd by nane,
And a' the glory shall be thine,
Amen, Amen!
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Again,
One need not wonder how it comes about
That through those places (through which eyes cannot
View objects
manifest)
sounds yet may pass
And assail the ears.
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(_The menu is
produced
and discussed in
scathing terms.
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What sage remarks on the good-for-nothing sons and
daughters of
indiscretion
and folly!
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l'automne l'automne a fait mourir l'ete
Dans le
brouillard
s'en vont deux silhouettes grises
L'EMIGRANT DE LANDOR ROAD
A Andre Billy.
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such I ween
But they have
vanished
long, alas!
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"Tell him to read further,"
rejoined
Saveliitch, quite unmoved.
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I know how hard it is in Latian verse
To tell the dark discoveries of the Greeks,
Chiefly because our pauper-speech must find
Strange terms to fit the
strangeness
of the thing;
Yet worth of thine and the expected joy
Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me on
To bear all toil and wake the clear nights through,
Seeking with what of words and what of song
I may at last most gloriously uncloud
For thee the light beyond, wherewith to view
The core of being at the centre hid.
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A peaceful
rumbling
there,
The town's at our feet.
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When Death's dark stream I ferry o'er,
A time that surely shall come;
In Heaven itself I'll ask no more
Than just a
Highland
welcome.
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That he's the poor man's friend in need,
The
gentleman
in word and deed,
It's no thro' terror of damnation;
It's just a carnal inclination.
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And even as they
came, they see on the dry beach Misenus cut off by untimely death,
Misenus the Aeolid, excelled of none other in
stirring
men with brazen
breath and kindling battle with his trumpet-note.
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"
They came and told me a
messenger
from Shang-chou
Had brought a letter,--a single scroll from you!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The partiality of my COUNTRYMEN has brought me forward
as a man of genius, and has given me a
character
to support.
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Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie
And see the
coloured
counties,
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[33] The soldiers and
navigators
were the only considerable gainers by
their acquirements in the Indies.
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[Sidenote F: Then the
hastlets
are removed.
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Our trav'ller glad, an
appetite
displayed;
The lady carefully her guest surveyed,
And anxious seemed to gratify his wish,
By helping what appeared his favourite dish.
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La Fontaine |
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What man, what hero, Clio sweet,
On harp or flute wilt thou
proclaim?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The women of Athens, led by Lysistrata and supported by female delegates
from the other states of Hellas,
determine
to take matters into their own
hands and force the men to stop the War.
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You will see me any morning in the park
Reading the comics and the
sporting
page.
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Perchance
'tis joy,
To see Orestes' comrade, that he feels.
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Euripides - Electra |
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325
One gives his vote to your son the Prince: another,
Madame,
forgetting
the laws of his country,
Dares grant support to the son of your enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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THERE were no ruins, neither fragments,
There was no chasm, nor grave nor pall,
There was no longing, was no wooing,
Where but one hour
rendered
all.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The numb hand of Time
Vainly his glass turns; here is endless prime;
Here lips their roses keep and locks their gold;
Here Love in pristine innocency bold
Speaks what our grosser
conscience
makes a crime.
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James Russell Lowell |
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By the bold son Amphimedon was slain,
And Polybus renown'd, the
faithful
swain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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135
XVI
The knight gan fairely couch his steadie speare,
And
fiercely
ran at him with rigorous might:
The pointed steele arriving rudely theare,
His harder hide would neither perce, nor bight,
But glauncing by forth passed forward right; 140
Yet sore amoved with so puissaunt push,
The wrathfull beast about him turned light,
And him so rudely passing by, did brush
With his long tayle, that horse and man to ground did rush.
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His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What
interested
scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
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CCLXXXVI
Sees Tierris then 'that in the face he's struck,
On grassy field runs clear his flowing blood;
Strikes Pinabel on 's helmet brown and rough,
To the nose-piece he's broken it and cut,
And from his head
scatters
his brains in th' dust;
Brandishes him on th' sword, till dead he's flung.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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suggests
the son is continuing his father?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Land of
Albania!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
The last part of _The Book of Hours_, _The Book of Poverty and Death_,
is finally a symphony of variations on the two great
symbolic
themes in
the work of Rilke.
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I'd just dropt asleep when I dreamed Robin spoke,
And the
casement
it gave such a shake,
As if every pane in the window was broke;
Such a patter the gravel did make.
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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Fairer than Enna's field when Ceres sows
The stars of hyacinth and puts off grief,
Fairer than petals on May morning blown Through apple-orchards where the sun hath shed
His
brighter
petals down to make them fair; Fairer than these the Poppy-crowned One flees, And Joy goes weeping in her scarlet train.
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Fir-Flower Tablets
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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you shall
disgrace
him
worse then by tossing him in a blancket .
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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All
night long Vassilissa
Igorofna
lay awake trying to think what her
husband could have in his head that she was not permitted to know.
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" " by
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Nos grands bois
sentiraient
la seve,
Et le soleil
Sablerait d'or fin leur grand reve
Sombre et vermeil!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sardis urged a later
authority, namely, a grant from the Great Alexander; and Miletus
insisted on one from King Darius: as to the deities of these two cities;
one
worshipped
Diana; the other, Apollo.
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[723]
Nickname
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"
While overhead bird
whistles
to bird,
And round about plays a gamesome herd:
"Safe with us,"--some take up the word,--
"Safe with us, dear lord and friend:
All the sweeter if long deferred
Is rest in the end.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Io m'era mosso, e seguia volontieri
del mio maestro i passi, e amendue
gia
mostravam
com' eravam leggeri;
ed el mi disse: <
buon ti sara, per tranquillar la via,
veder lo letto de le piante tue>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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o sir
Eufemian
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With it will sink in dust each
towering
hope,
Cherish'd so long within my faithful breast;
No more shall we resent, fear, smile, complain:
Then shall we clearly trace why some are blest,
Through deepest misery raised to Fortune's top,
And why so many sighs so oft are heaved in vain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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On a Dead Lady
She was beautiful, if Night
Who sleeps in the darkened chapel
Where
Michelangelo
made light,
Unmoving, can be beautiful.
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Text Society, by Dr Horstmann, after he has edited for us all the Extra Legends not in the
Collection
or in the Vernon Gospel-stories.
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Zum Teufel
hinterdrein
den Sanger!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is the house of Ovid in
Scythian
lands now?
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, etiam R antequam mutatus erat: _deuicta_
Santenianus
et p: fort.
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nec Ceres nec Bacchus absunt nec
poetarum
deus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LYCIDAS
Your pleas but linger out my heart's desire:
Now all the deep is into silence hushed,
And all the
murmuring
breezes sunk to sleep.
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[Footnote 4: Dean Milles has a delightful account of the reception
accorded to Rowley in the
Chatterton
household.
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I ought to speak out freely
With words though that will take,
For it can scarcely please me
When the
tricksters
rake
More love in than is at stake
For the lover who loves truly.
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Troubador Verse |
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With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
Agape they heard me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A Short
Biographical
Notice of Alexander Pushkin.
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distraught of soul,
And all astray, and like some sorry leech
Art thou, repining at thine own disease,
Unskilled,
unknowing
of the needful cure.
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
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Imagists |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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(FURTHER
INTERVAL
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The idea of Fate 'arose from the
observation
of the
regularity of the sidereal movements'.
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John Donne |
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A glove hung by him {28f}
wide and wondrous, wound with bands;
and in artful wise it all was wrought,
by
devilish
craft, of dragon-skins.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Beatrice
mi guardo con li occhi pieni
di faville d'amor cosi divini,
che, vinta, mia virtute die le reni,
e quasi mi perdei con li occhi chini.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The while the change was easily perceived,
Some months went by, ere I the tales believed;
For there are people nowadays, Lord knows,
Will sooner hatch up lies than mend their clothes;
And when with such-like tattle they begin,
Don't mind whose character they spoil a pin:
But passing neighbours often marked them smile,
And watched him take her milkpail oer a stile;
And many a time, as wandering closer by,
From Jenny's bosom met a heavy sigh;
And often marked her, as
discoursing
deep,
When doubts might rise to give just cause to weep,
Smothering their notice, by a wished disguise
To slive her apron corner to her eyes.
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John Clare |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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[16]
Cloud-piercing pine-trees nod their
troubled
heads, [17]
Spires, rocks, and lawns a browner night o'erspreads;
Strong terror checks the female peasant's sighs, 65
And start the astonished shades at female eyes.
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And voice is
deadened
by the evening breeze,
The shepherd's song, or maiden's in her bower,
Mix with the rustling of the neighboring trees,
Within whose foliage is lulled the power.
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How soon the blasts of woe that bloom
destroy!
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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And no daughter
would be that, if she had a
legitimate
brother.
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But Enkidu
understood
not.
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It seems, however, that there were
exceptions
to her extreme reserve.
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Auant, & quit my sight, let the earth hide thee:
Thy bones are marrowlesse, thy blood is cold:
Thou hast no
speculation
in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with
La.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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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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the status of compliance for any
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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