A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Kamschatka,
Who possessed a
remarkably
fat Cur;
His gait and his waddle were held as a model
To all the fat dogs in Kamschatka.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He said, and with
unerring
aim, all threw
Their glitt'ring spears.
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upon this important question; but he rather chooses, for many reasons,
to leave it to the determination of the
unprejudiced
and intelligent
Reader.
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But what their care bequeathed us our madness flung away:
All the ripe fruit of threescore years was
blighted
in a day.
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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230
He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,
A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare,
One of the low on whom
assurance
sits
As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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As bodies change, and as I do not weare 45
Those Spirits, humors, blood I did last yeare,
And, as if on a streame I fixe mine eye,
That drop, which I looked on, is presently
Pusht with more waters from my sight, and gone,
So in this sea of vertues, can no one 50
Bee'insisted on; vertues, as rivers, passe,
Yet still remaines that
vertuous
man there was.
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John Donne |
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And now the victims dress'd
They draw, divide, and
celebrate
the feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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* * * * *
ROBERT GRAVES
LOST LOVE
His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the
startled
spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Fix the water-colour,
Too fragile tints that run,
Painter
In enameller's oven;
Make Sirens blue
Tails
writhing
free
For you,
Monsters of heraldry;
And with triple halo
The Virgin and her Jesus
the globe
With the Cross above.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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And this is so with Virgil more,
perhaps, than with any other poet; for more, perhaps, than any other
poet Virgil depends on his
poetical
quality from first to last.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Hugo - Poems |
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And I rest so composedly,
Now, in my bed,
That any beholder
Might fancy me dead--
Might start at beholding me,
Thinking
me dead.
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Poe - 5 |
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[73] Letters to John Kempe, 1331, Rymer's _Foedera_; Hulme, _Law
Quarterly
Rev.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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What clamor now is born, what
crashings
rise!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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distribute
it in the United
States without permission and without paying copyright
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How glad I am to be
suffered
to stay.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and, heralding the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a
faithless
bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells;
Could I
describe
her shape and mein;
Our lasses a' she far excels,
An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For thee to bloom, I'll skip the tomb
And sow my
blossoms
o'er!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Besides, this labour--whether due to the industry of admiring friends,
or to the ambition of the literary resurrectionist--is futile; because
the verdict of Time is sure, and
posterity
is certain to consign the
recovered trivialities to kindly oblivion.
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copyright
notice is included.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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FAUST:
Werd ich den Jammer
uberstehen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Meantime Achilles' slaves prepared a bed,
With fleeces, carpets, and soft linen spread:
There, till the sacred morn
restored
the day,
In slumber sweet the reverend Phoenix lay.
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Iliad - Pope |
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I saw it now
as men must see it forever afterwards;
no poet could write again,
"the red-lily,
a girl's laugh caught in a kiss;"
it was his to pour in the vat
from which all poets dip and quaff,
for poets are
brothers
in this.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Do but ask of Nature why all living
creatures are less delighted with meat and drink that
sustains
them than
with venery that wastes them?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The solemn contract of a life
Was
ratified
this way.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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5560
'And thus in poverte is in dede
Trouthe
declared
fro falsehede;
For feynte frendis it wol declare,
And trewe also, what wey they fare.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it,
Nor do those know me best who admire me, and vauntingly praise me,
Nor will the
candidates
for my love (unless at most a very few) prove
victorious,
Nor will my poems do good only--they will do just as much evil, perhaps
more;
For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not
hit--that which I hinted at;
Therefore release me, and depart on your way.
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Whitman |
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Andrew,
translated
from the
Old English, with an Introduction.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_"
[This verse, written early, and
probably
intended for the starting
verse of a song, was found among the papers of the poet.
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Robert Forst |
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these flames nought can subdue--
The
Aqueduct
of Sylla gleams, a bridge o'er hellish brew.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of
luminous
stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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This
pageant was, during several centuries, considered as one of the
most
splendid
sights of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To satin races he is nought;
But
children
on the Don
Beneath his tabernacles play,
And Dnieper wrestlers run.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Something, however, must be allowed for his evident habit of
versifying any phrase or epigram which impressed him, and not all his
poems need be
regarded
as expressions of his personal opinions.
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Robert Herrick |
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And
wherefore
ride ye in such guise
Before the ranks of Rome?
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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He gives
Wisdom to youth, to
weakness
strength.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Is not the "Task"
a
glorious
poem?
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Robert Forst |
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THE LITTLE VAGABOND
Dear mother, dear mother, the Church is cold;
But the
Alehouse
is healthy, and pleasant, and warm.
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blake-poems |
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in that avenging clime
Where Spain was once
synonymous
with crime,
Where Cortes' and Pizarro's banner flew,
The infant world redeems her name of "_New_.
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Byron |
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Aricia
Is
unfeeling
Hippolytus known to you though?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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'Tis this that grieves us most of all, to see
men who have never served or held either lance or oar in defence of their
country,
enriching
themselves at our expense without ever raising a
blister on their hands.
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Aristophanes |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The
darkness
is Thy mercy, Lord!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Singing lowly, meekly, slowly,
"Give us, give us back the holy
Sepulchre of the
Redeemer!
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Longfellow |
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7 Shoulder to shoulder, I scurry at the appointed time,8 48 in my
thinning
hair I lodge hatpins and ribbons.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Oh, Master--I, like thee, have wandered oft
Where mighty trees made arches high aloft,
But ever with a consciousness of strife,
A surging
struggle
of the inner life.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Comes him a Southwind from the scented vine,
It breathes of Beatrice through all his blades,
North, East or West, Guelph-wind or Ghibelline,
'Tis shredded into music down the shades;
All sea-breaths, land-breaths, systol, diastol,
Sway,
minstrels
of that grief-melodious Soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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it bursts, it
thunders
on our heads!
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Iliad - Pope |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Now, gentles, what shall I
produce?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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345
Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe,
And low, where dawning day doth never peepe,
His
dwelling
is; there Tethys?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thus was I
manacled
for life; while she,
Proud of my bonds, enjoy'd her liberty.
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Petrarch |
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Ward eines Menschen Geist, in seinem hohen Streben,
Von
deinesgleichen
je gefasst?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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But followes it that I
Must serve her onely, when I may have choice
Of other beauties, and in change
rejoice?
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John Donne |
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The
sleeping
blood and the shame and the doom!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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In our Country-
dialect
Earthenware
is called 'Clome'; so the Boys of the Village used
to shout out after him--'Go back to the Potter, Old Clomeface, and get
baked over again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Earth of the
slumbering
and liquid trees!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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"
And when
yourself
you come my way
My vision does not cleave, but turns
Without a shiver or salute.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Yet hear one word, and lodge it in thy heart:
No more molest me on Atrides' part:
Is it for him these tears are taught to flow,
For him these
sorrows?
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Iliad - Pope |
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With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his
seraphic
self!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But the other name of
_Desperati_ they rejected as a calumny, retorting it back upon their
adversaries, who more justly
deserved
it.
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Tacitus |
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discuss the
question
coolly; poets must not revile each other
like market wenches.
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Aristophanes |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Imagists |
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So long as I
Stand by the
youthful
tsar, so long he will not
Forsake the throne.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For a smirk of the face, or a favor,
Still
shelters
the cheat where he crawls;
And the truth we began with needs braver
Upholders, and loftier walls.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The surly night-wind rustles through the wood, and warns us to retrace
our steps, while the sun goes down behind the
thickening
storm, and
birds seek their roosts, and cattle their stalls.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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By
Richmond
I raised my knees
Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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International
donations
are accepted, but we don't know ANYTHING about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The
honorable
orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing the syllables "sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The word is
probably
an adverb; hardly a word
for cup, mug (?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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LE JEU
Dans des fauteuils fanes des courtisanes vieilles,
Pales, le sourcil peint, l'oeil calin et fatal,
Minaudant, et faisant de leurs maigres oreilles
Tomber un cliquetis de pierre et de metal;
Autour des verts tapis des visages sans levre,
Des levres sans couleur, des machoires sans dent,
Et des doigts convulses d'une infernale fievre,
Fouillant la poche vide ou le sein palpitant;
Sous de sales plafonds un rang de pales lustres
Et d'enormes quinquets
projetant
leurs lueurs
Sur des fronts tenebreux de poetes illustres
Qui viennent gaspiller leurs sanglantes sueurs:
--Voila le noir tableau qu'en un reve nocturne
Je vis se derouler sous mon oeil clairvoyant,
Moi-meme, dans un coin de l'antre taciturne,
Je me vis accoude, froid, muet, enviant,
Enviant de ces gens la passion tenace,
De ces vieilles putains la funebre gaite,
Et tous gaillardement trafiquant a ma face,
L'un de son vieil honneur, l'autre de sa beaute!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Down rushed the night: east, west, together roar;
And south and north roll
mountains
to the shore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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R: _lube_ O:
_libeat_
R m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He was a
contemporary
of Sappho, and conceived
a passion for her, which she only rewarded with disdain.
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Aristophanes |
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The warld's wrack we share o't,
The warstle and the care o't;
Wi' her I'll
blythely
bear it,
And think my lot divine.
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Robert Forst |
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