Despairing of my own powers to give you variety enough in English
songs, I have been turning over old collections, to pick out songs, of
which the measure is
something
similar to what I want; and, with a
little alteration, so as to suit the rhythm of the air exactly, to
give you them for your work.
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Robert Burns |
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And yit sich sorwe dide I fele,
That al-day I
chaunged
hewe,
Of my woundes fresshe and newe,
As men might see in my visage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Wenn sonst von deinen Worten, deinen Blicken
Ein ganzer Himmel mich uberdrang
Und du mich kusstest, als
wolltest
du mich ersticken.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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More like, perhaps, that
mountain
piece
Of Dante's paradise,
Disrupt to an hundred hills like these,
In falling from the skies;
Bringing within it, all the roots
Of heavenly trees and flowers and fruits:
V.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--
The humble as the
proudest
sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth wilfully appear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
narcissus
has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ah, Claus, those
premiums!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Sudden he stops; his eye is fixed: away,
Away, thou
heedless
boy!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For seven years you've
lingered
in this land
They have endured much pain and sufferance.
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Chanson de Roland |
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We
resolved
to go and
plant flowers, in both these places to-morrow.
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William Wordsworth |
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Professor Skeat indeed estimates that of the words contained in
Milles'
Glossary
to the Rowley Poems only seven percent are genuine
old words correctly used.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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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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Three women were
assisting
at her toilet.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And can ye thus
unfriended
[29] leave me; 345
Ye Muses!
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William Wordsworth |
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A newspaper is a symbol;
It is fetless life's chronical,
A collection of loud tales
Concentrating
eternal stupidities,
That in remote ages lived unhaltered,
Roaming through a fenceless world.
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Stephen Crane |
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This was a hall (and gate) in the Han palace; Han palace names were liberally
transferred
to places in the Tang palace.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But half a line
conveying
half a meaning from Mr.
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Robert Burns |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Of every lady I
despair!
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Troubador Verse |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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{19c} I do not desire to be equal to those
that went before; but to have my reason
examined
with theirs, and so much
faith to be given them, or me, as those shall evict.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Fitzdottrel
is the Lady Elizabeth Hatton.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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e kyng Edward com
corouned
myd gret blis; 80
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Not
until later was he to reach the height of an
impersonal
objectivity in
his art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"The huge Orion, of
portentous
size,
Swift through the gloom a giant-hunter flies:
A ponderous mace of brass with direful sway
Aloft he whirls, to crush the savage prey!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A Civilisation
is very like a man or a woman, for it comes in but a few years into its
beauty and its strength, and then, while many years go by, it gathers
and makes order about it, the strength and beauty going out of it the
while, until in the end it lies there with its limbs
straightened
out
and a clean linen cloth folded upon it.
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Yeats |
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You must have heard of him, as many
wonderful
stories
have been told about him.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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OSWALD (as if to himself, yet
speaking
aloud)
The truth is hideous, but how stifle it?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Of these I am inform'd; but name the third
Who, dead or living, on the
boundless
Deep
Is still detain'd; I dread, yet wish to hear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The rose that drinks the fountain dew
In the
pleasant
air of noon,
Grows pale and blue with altered hue--
In the gaze of the nightly moon;
For the planet of frost, so cold and bright, _5
Makes it wan with her borrowed light.
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Shelley |
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For in the gladsome sunlight of thy smile
Of heaven or hell I have no thought or fear,
Seeing I know no other god but thee:
No other god save him, before whose feet
In nets of gold the tired planets move,
The
incarnate
spirit of spiritual love
Who in thy body holds his joyous seat.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Stephen Crane |
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Miller, uses the same
expression
several times.
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Beowulf |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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XLI
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,
For still
temptation
follows where thou art.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Stammering
Oracles have ceased,
And the whole earth stands at "why?
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Christina Rossetti |
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More vital than the influence of the personalities and the art treasures
of the countries which Rilke visited and more potent in its effect upon
his creations, like a great sun over the most fruitful years of his
life, stands the towering
personality
of Auguste Rodin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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To Ida's top
successful
Juno flies;
Great Jove surveys her with desiring eyes:
The god, whose lightning sets the heavens on fire,
Through all his bosom feels the fierce desire;
Fierce as when first by stealth he seized her charms,
Mix'd with her soul, and melted in her arms:
Fix'd on her eyes he fed his eager look,
Then press'd her hand, and thus with transport spoke:
"Why comes my goddess from the ethereal sky,
And not her steeds and flaming chariot nigh?
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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For she, as not
unpractised
in that kind,
Denies, and fronts him with untroubled face;
And, as well taught, above a month stands out,
Holding the judge 'twixt certainty and doubt.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The body grows outside, --
The more
convenient
way, --
That if the spirit like to hide,
Its temple stands alway
Ajar, secure, inviting;
It never did betray
The soul that asked its shelter
In timid honesty.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thus spoke the sage: the kings without delay
Dissolve the council, and their chief obey:
The
sceptred
rulers lead; the following host,
Pour'd forth by thousands, darkens all the coast.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I cried out, was
answered
by silence.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The subject,
and some lines of the original version, having been
suggested
by the
poet's friend, Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those dark-red shadows were;
But soon I saw that my own flesh
Was red as in a glare.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Used
quibblingly
in
both senses.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It was in your cup I drank intoxication,
When they saw me praying at Iacchus' feet,
And from your
laughing
eyes' secret lightening,
For the Muses made me one of the sons of Greece.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
What will not
Claudian
hands achieve?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And since the last is dead, there's hope
_Elf
Boniface
shall next be pope_.
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Robert Herrick |
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Is power thy
climbing
aim?
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John Clare |
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And little they mourned
when they had hastily haled it out,
dear-bought
treasure!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Resolved
am I
In the woods, rather, with wild beasts to couch,
And bear my doom, and character my love
Upon the tender tree-trunks: they will grow,
And you, my love, grow with them.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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James Russell Lowell |
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Criseyde, which that coude as muche good
As half a world, tok hede of his preyere;
And sin it ron, and al was on a flood, 640
She thoughte, as good chep may I dwellen here,
And graunte it gladly with a
freendes
chere,
And have a thank, as grucche and thanne abyde;
For hoom to goon, it may nought wel bityde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Sit there
forever!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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George's Day are showne, 10
Are proper to the
wearers?
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John Donne |
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The Nubian prince commands the menial crew
Forthwith to bring the hospitable cheer;
And hopes that now the foul,
rapacious
band,
Will not dare snatch the victual from his hand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Happy old man, who 'mid
familiar
streams
And hallowed springs, will court the cooling shade!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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His grandfather
on the paternal side was a
Champenois
peasant, his mother's family
presumably Norman, but not much is known of her forbears.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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When Orpheus played and sang, the wild animals
themselves
came to hear his singing.
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Appoloinaire |
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Moins d'une lieue d'ici est Saint Apollinaire
In Classe, basilique connue des amateurs
De
chapitaux
d'acanthe que touraoie le vent.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Poor Man--
Murdered!
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William Wordsworth |
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Marya
Ivanofna
pleased me more than usual.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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gif him þonne
Hrēðrīc
tō hofum Gēata
ge-þingeð _(if H.
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Beowulf |
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From impious Babylon, where all shame is dead,
And every good is banish'd to far climes,
Nurse of rank errors, centre of worst crimes,
Haply to
lengthen
life, I too am fled:
Alone, at last alone, and here, as led
At Love's sweet will, I posies weave or rhymes,
Self-parleying, and still on better times
Wrapt in fond thoughts whence only hope is fed.
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Petrarch |
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The
Countess
(in her own right) of Burlatz, and of Beziers, be-
ing the wife of
The Vicomte of Beziers.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand
breakers
of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There,
Everything
that's done is fair and square.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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WHEN thus the two gallants their plan had laid,
And ev'ry promised
pleasure
fully weighed,
They to the husband's mansion made their way,
Where yet the wife between the bed-clothes lay.
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La Fontaine |
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Phalces and Mermer, Nestor's son o'erthrew,
Bold Merion, Morys and
Hippotion
slew.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thenceforth
the right-hand branch of the right horn
Rinaldo takes; and hid are roof and wall:
St.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Experienced age
May timely
intercept
the ruffian rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Such be the plea, and by the plea deceive:
For Jove
infatuates
all, and all believe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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_An Essay on
Chatterton_
by S.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXIII
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
Who counselled, so his race might not moulder,
Nor Rome's citizens be spoiled by leisure,
That Carthage should be spared
destruction!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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At last they turned, and bore to me
Green signs of peace thro'
nightfall
gray.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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[Illustration]
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an
umbrella
for three--
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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TO this harangue the wary youth replied
In truth, fair lady, I could ne'er decide,
To
criticise
what others round may do.
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La Fontaine |
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100
Oh
thoughtless
mortals!
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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34, only 19
comprise
the standard text block; the rest are marginal additions, with 2 sizeable columns at the foot of the page, a 5-line stanza written up the lower righthand side of the page, and 2 additional larger stanzas appearing in the lefthand margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your
periodic
tax
returns.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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About thy face in circles drawing near
My thought floats like a
fluttering
white wing.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
Licinian
laws were carried.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Lycius to all made eloquent reply,
Marrying to every word a
twinborn
sigh;
And last, pointing to Corinth, ask'd her sweet,
If 'twas too far that night for her soft feet.
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Keats - Lamia |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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For they both invent, feign and devise many things, and
accommodate
all
they invent to the use and service of Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Furious he rode, where late he ran,
Lashing and spurring his tame hobby;
Turned to a formal puritan, _550
A solemn and unsexual man,--
He half
believed
"White Obi".
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Shelley |
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Rejoice, brave Land, though pride's
perverted
ire
Rouse hell's own aid, and wrap thy fields in fire:
Lo, from the flames a great and glorious birth;
As if a new-made heaven were hailing a new earth!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Or at the window pane
No fly, no bluebottle, no
starveling
spider?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He was about to embark on
new explanations when Pugatchef
interrupted
him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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