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--Some, again who, after they have got authority, or, which is
less, opinion, by their writings, to have read much, dare
presently
to
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CHORUS: Thy son is rather slaying them; that outcry
From
slaughter
of one foe could not ascend.
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--The City of
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And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys
That
exquisite
nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our vacuity.
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It was here
that he took into his
household
two girls, Fan-su and Man-tz?
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surely not without attendant gleams
Of soul-illumination) calls him forth
To industry, by glistenings flung on rocks, 515
Whose evening shadows lead him to repose, [w]
Well might a stranger look with bounding heart
Down on a green recess, [x] the first I saw
Of those deep haunts, an aboriginal vale,
Quiet and lorded over and
possessed
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By naked huts, wood-built, and sown like tents
Or Indian cabins over the fresh lawns
And by the river side.
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
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A remarkable instance of the effect of undue brevity in depressing
a poem, in keeping it out of the popular view, is afforded by the
following
exquisite
little Serenade--
I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright.
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' Across the villages
of
fishermen
and turners of the earth, so different are these from us,
we can write but one line that is certain, 'Here are ghosts.
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Many a time they kiss and cry, and pray
That both be summoned in the self-same day,
And wiseman linnet
tinkling
in his cage
End too with them the friendship of old age,
And all together leave their treasured room
Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom.
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But, in our later lays,
Full
freighted
with your praise,
Fair memory harbors those whose lives, laid down
In gallant faith and generous heat,
Gained only sharp defeat.
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Were silver pink, and had a soul,
Which soul were shy, which shyness might
A visible
influence
be, and roll
Through heaven and earth -- 'twere thou, O light!
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Our king and his lord
chamberlain
have lost their reason.
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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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Bitter tears, from his eyes, gushed silent and fast;
And he strove to
suppress
them in vain.
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But forget not the glory
Of him whose height we try for,
A name to live and die for--
The name of
Washington!
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O, fiercely doth it draw
Them to its chasm'd maw,
And against it in vain
They linger and strain;
And as they slip away
Into the
seething
gray
Fill all the thunderous air
With the horror of their despair,
And their wild terror wreak
In one hoarse, wailing shriek.
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In a mild night when the
harvest or hunter's moon shines unobstructedly, the houses in our
village,
whatever
architect they may have had by day, acknowledge only
a master.
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Quinci si puo veder come si fonda
l'esser beato ne l'atto che vede,
non in quel ch'ama, che poscia seconda;
e del vedere e misura mercede,
che grazia
partorisce
e buona voglia:
cosi di grado in grado si procede.
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VII
"You dance divinely,
stranger
swain,
Such grace I've never known.
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my good friend, did you have a good
journey?
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Ile Charme the Ayre to giue a sound,
While you
performe
your Antique round:
That this great King may kindly say,
Our duties, did his welcome pay.
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HEPHAESTUS
Brutish thy form, thy speech
brutality!
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LAUDANTES
wHEN your beauty is grown old in all men's
And my poor words are lost amid that throng,
Then you will know the truth of my poor words,
And mayhap dreaming of the wistful throng
That
hopeless
sigh your praises in their songs, You will think kindly then of these mad words.
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my
dreaming
soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her flickering tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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* * * * *
O Hermes, master of knowledge,
Measure and number and rhythm,
Worker of wonders in metal, 15
Moulder of malleable music,
So often the giver of secret
Learning to
mortals!
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And rings of
riddling
scholars all surrounding
God who sits in the very middle, expounding
The Torah.
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From within there
resounded
songs,
shouts, and bursts of laughter; Pugatchef was at the table with his
companions.
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The
invalidity
or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Ritson, ranks
with me as my coevals, have always mistaken
vulgarity
for simplicity;
whereas, simplicity is as much _eloignee_ from vulgarity on the one
hand, as from affected point and puerile conceit on the other.
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Ils ecoutent, pensifs, comme un
lointain
murmure.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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'And let us two
henceforth
together feed,
On this green mountain-slope and pastoral plain, _660
The herds in litigation--they will breed
Quickly enough to recompense our pain,
If to the bulls and cows we take good heed;--
And thou, though somewhat over fond of gain,
Grudge me not half the profit.
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_Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find_
BIBLIOGRAPHY _201_
AMY LOWELL
LILACS
Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
Your great puffs of flowers
Are
everywhere
in this my New England.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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From the root
Of toil and pain and brave endurance
Has sprung at last the perfect fruit,
The
treasure
of a rich assurance
That men who nobly work and live
A greater gift than life may give;
Yielding a promise for all time,
Which other men of newer date
Surely redeem in deeds sublime.
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Petrousha shall not go to
Petersburg!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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O, a thousand, a
thousand
times.
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Shakespeare |
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The ivy at the parlour end,
The
woodbine
at the garden gate,
Are all and each affection's friend
That render parting desolate.
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One who
withheld
so long
All that you yearned to take,
Has made a snare too strong
For Beauty's self to break.
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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"
Answers Rollanz: "Utter not such
outrage!
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is
difficult
to beat him, for he
is full of craft and pulls himself out of the worst corners.
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Then had the earth beneath me yawning given
Sign of convulsion; and tho' horrid rifts
Sent up the moaning of unhappy spirits
Imprison'd in her centre, with the heat
Of their infolding element; had the angels,
The watchers at heaven's gate, push'd them apart,
And from the golden
threshold
had down-roll'd
Their heaviest thunder, I had lain as still,
And blind and motionless as then I lay!
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
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Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri
C'est sur eux que pleurent les saules
Le grand Pan l'amour Jesus-Christ
Sont bien morts et les chats miaulent
Dans la cour je pleure a Paris
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
L'amour est mort j'en suis tremblant
J'adore de belles idoles
Les souvenirs lui ressemblant
Comme la femme de Mausole
Je reste fidele et dolent
Je suis fidele comme un dogue
Au maitre le lierre au tronc
Et les Cosaques Zaporogues
Ivrognes pieux et larrons
Aux steppes et au decalogue
Portez comme un joug le Croissant
Qu'interrogent les astrologues
Je suis le Sultan tout-puissant
O mes Cosaques Zaporogues
Votre Seigneur eblouissant
Devenez mes sujets fideles
Leur avait ecrit le Sultan
Ils rirent a cette nouvelle
Et repondirent a l'instant
A la lueur d'une chandelle
Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues au Sultan de Constantinople
Plus criminel que Barrabas
Cornu comme les mauvais anges
Quel Belzebuth es-tu la-bas
Nourri d'immondice et de fange
Nous n'irons pas a tes sabbats
Poisson pourri de Salonique
Long collier des sommeils affreux
D'yeux arraches a coup de pique
Ta mere fit un pet foireux
Et tu naquis de sa colique
Bourreau de Podolie Amant
Des plaies des ulceres des croutes
Groin de cochon cul de jument
Tes
richesses
garde-les toutes
Pour payer tes medicaments
Voie lactee {1}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Regret des yeux de la putain
Et belle comme une panthere
Amour vos baisers florentins
Avaient une saveur amere
Qui a rebute nos destins
Ses regards laissaient une traine
D'etoiles dans les soirs tremblants
Dans ses yeux nageaient les sirenes
Et nos baisers mordus sanglants
Faisaient pleurer nos fees marraines
Mais en verite je l'attends
Avec mon coeur avec mon ame
Et sur le pont des Reviens-t'en
Si jamais reviens cette femme
Je lui dirai Je suis content
Mon coeur et ma tete se vident
Tout le ciel s'ecoule par eux
O mes tonneaux des Danaides
Comment faire pour etre heureux
Comme un petit enfant candide
Je ne veux jamais l'oublier
Ma colombe ma blanche rade
O marguerite exfoliee
Mon ile au loin ma Desirade
Ma rose mon giroflier
Les satyres et les pyraustes
Les egypans les feux follets
Et les destins damnes ou faustes
La corde au cou comme a Calais
Sur ma douleur quel holocauste
Douleur qui doubles les destins
La licorne et le capricorne
Mon ame et mon corps incertains
Te fuient o bucher divin qu'ornent
Des astres des fleurs du matin
Malheur dieu pale aux yeux d'ivoire
Tes pretres fous t'ont-ils pare
Tes victimes en robe noire
Ont-elles vainement pleure
Malheur dieu qu'il ne faut pas croire
Et toi qui me suis en rampant
Dieu de mes dieux morts en automne
Tu mesures combien d'empans
J'ai droit que la terre me donne
O mon ombre o mon vieux serpent
Au soleil parce que tu l'aimes
Je t'ai menee souviens-t'en bien
Tenebreuse epouse que j'aime
Tu es a moi en n'etant rien
O mon ombre en deuil de moi-meme
L'hiver est mort tout enneige
On a brule les ruches blanches
Dans les jardins et les vergers
Les oiseaux chantent sur les branches
Le printemps clair l'Avril leger
Mort d'immortels argyraspides
La neige aux boucliers d'argent
Fuit les dendrophores livides
Du printemps cher aux pauvres gens
Qui resourient les yeux humides
Et moi j'ai le coeur aussi gros
Qu'un cul de dame damascene
O mon amour je t'aimais trop
Et maintenant j'ai trop de peine
Les sept epees hors du fourreau
Sept epees de melancolie
Sans morfil o claires douleurs
Sont dans mon coeur et la folie
Veut raisonner pour mon malheur
Comment voulez-vous que j'oublie
Les sept epees
La premiere est toute d'argent
Et son nom tremblant c'est Paline
Sa lame un ciel d'hiver neigeant
Son destin sanglant gibeline
Vulcain mourut en la forgeant
La seconde nommee Noubosse
Est un bel arc-en-ciel joyeux
Les dieux s'en servent a leurs noces
Elle a tue trente Be-Rieux
Et fut douee par Carabosse
La troisieme bleu feminin
N'en est pas moins un chibriape
Appele Lul de Faltenin
Et que porte sur une nappe
L'Hermes Ernest devenu nain
La quatrieme Malourene
Est un fleuve vert et dore
C'est le soir quand les riveraines
Y baignent leurs corps adores
Et des chants de rameurs s'y trainent
La cinquieme Sainte-Fabeau
C'est la plus belle des quenouilles
C'est un cypres sur un tombeau
Ou les quatre vents s'agenouillent
Et chaque nuit c'est un flambeau
La Sixieme metal de gloire
C'est l'ami aux si douces mains
Dont chaque matin nous separe
Adieu voila votre chemin
Les coqs s'epuisaient en fanfares
Et la septieme s'extenue
Une femme une rose morte
Merci que le dernier venu
Sur mon amour ferme la porte
Je ne vous ai jamais connue
Voie lactee {2}
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Les demons du hasard selon
Le chant du firmament nous menent
A sons perdus leurs violons
Font danser notre race humaine
Sur la descente a reculons
Destins destins impenetrables
Rois secoues par la folie
Et ces grelottantes etoiles
De fausses femmes dans vos lits
Aux deserts que l'histoire accable
Luitpold le vieux prince regent
Tuteur de deux royautes folles
Sanglote-t-il en y songeant
Quand vacillent les lucioles
Mouches dorees de la Saint-Jean
Pres d'un chateau sans chatelaine
La barque aux barcarols chantants
Sur un lac blanc et sous l'haleine
Des vents qui tremblent au printemps
Voguait cygne mourant sirene
Un jour le roi dans l'eau d'argent
Se noya puis la bouche ouverte
Il s'en revint en surnageant
Sur la rive dormir inerte
Face tournee au ciel changeant
Juin ton soleil ardente lyre
Brule mes doigts endoloris
Triste et melodieux delire
J'erre a travers mon beau Paris
Sans avoir le coeur d'y mourir
Les dimanches s'y eternisent
Et les orgues de Barbarie
Y sanglotent dans les cours grises
Les fleurs aux balcons de Paris
Penchent comme la tour de Pise
Soirs de Paris ivres du gin
Flambant de l'electricite
Les tramways feux verts sur l'echine
Musiquent au long des portees
De rails leur folie de machines
Les cafes gonfles de fumee
Crient tout l'amour de leurs tziganes
De tous leurs siphons enrhumes
De leurs garcons vetus d'un pagne
Vers toi toi que j'ai tant aimee
Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines
Les complaintes de mes annees
Des hymnes d'esclave aux murenes
La romance du mal aime
Et des chansons pour les sirenes
LES COLCHIQUES
Le pre est veneneux mais joli en automne
Les vaches y paissant
Lentement s'empoisonnent
Le colchique couleur de cerne et de lilas
Y fleurit tes yeux sont comme cette fleur-la
Violatres comme leur cerne et comme cet automne
Et ma vie pour tes yeux lentement s'empoisonne
Les enfants de l'ecole viennent avec fracas
Vetus de hoquetons et jouant de l'harmonica
Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des meres
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupieres
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dement
Le gardien du troupeau chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pre mal fleuri par l'automne
PALAIS
A Max Jacob
Vers le palais de Rosemonde au fond du Reve
Mes reveuses pensees pieds nus vont en soiree
Le palais don du roi comme un roi nu s'eleve
Des chairs fouettees des roses de la roseraie
On voit venir au fond du jardin mes pensees
Qui sourient du concert joue par les grenouilles
Elles ont envie des cypres grandes quenouilles
Et le soleil miroir des roses s'est brise
Le stigmate sanglant des mains contre les vitres
Quel archet mal blesse du couchant le troua
La resine qui rend amer le vin de Chypre
Ma bouche aux agapes d'agneau blanc l'eprouva
Sur les genoux pointus du monarque adultere
Sur le mai de son age et sur son trente et un
Madame Rosemonde roule avec mystere
Ses petits yeux tout ronds pareils aux yeux des Huns
Dame de mes pensees au cul de perle fine
Dont ni perle ni cul n'egale l'orient
Qui donc attendez-vous
De reveuses pensees en marche a l'Orient
Mes plus belles voisines
Toc toc Entrez dans l'antichambre le jour baisse
La veilleuse dans l'ombre est un bijou d'or cuit
Pendez vos tetes aux pateres par les tresses
Le ciel presque nocturne a des lueurs d'aiguilles
On entra dans la salle a manger les narines
Reniflaient une odeur de graisse et de graillon
On eut vingt potages dont trois couleurs d'urine
Et le roi prit deux oeufs poches dans du bouillon
Puis les marmitons apporterent les viandes
Des rotis de pensees mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux reves mort-nes en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandes en godiveaux
Or ces pensees mortes depuis des millenaires
Avaient le fade gout des grands mammouths geles
Les os ou songe-creux venaient des ossuaires
En danse macabre aux plis de mon cervelet
Et tous ces mets criaient des choses nonpareilles
Mais nom de Dieu!
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No more the vessel plough'd the dreadful wave,
Fear seized the mighty, and
unnerved
the brave;
Each dropp'd his oar; but swift from man to man
With looks serene I turn'd, and thus began:
'O friends!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Again, whether a man's genius is best able to reach thither, it
should more and more contend, lift and dilate itself, as men of low
stature raise
themselves
on their toes, and so ofttimes get even, if not
eminent.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Gone are they, gone--ah,
welladay!
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Aeschylus |
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Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes
a coverlet,
A coverlet for his contented slumber.
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Stephen Crane |
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Beacon fires are still on the Eastern Meadow,4 people look gaunt and
distressed
in court and wilderness.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The cresses drink--the water flows--and round
Upon the slopes the mountain rowans meet,
And 'neath the
brushwood
plant their gnarled feet,
Intwining slowly where the creepers twine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For, fisherman, what fresh or
seawater
catch
equals him, either in form or savour,
that lovely divine fish, Jesus, My Saviour?
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Appoloinaire |
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But no royal arms were engraved upon
his helmet or his shield, and he carried simple weapons not nearly so
gorgeously
emblazoned
as those of some of the others.
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Tennyson |
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Adjust their clothes, and to
confession
draw
Those venial sins, an atom, or a straw;
But oh!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then, through the distant future's boundless space,
We seek the lost
companion
of our days:
"Return, return!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XCIV
The valiant
Norandino
could not choose
(Made by such error temperate and wise),
But full of penitence and sorrow, muse,
With downcast spirit, and in mournful guise,
On having bid his men a knight misuse,
Whom all should worthily reward and prize;
So that he, night and morning, in his thought,
How to content the injured warrior sought.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The lady was the "Gentle Jean," celebrated
somewhere in
Hamilton
of Bangour's poems.
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Robert Burns |
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He left them, poor and
wretched
as he came;
No cross, pile, money:--e'en his coat the same.
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La Fontaine |
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($1 to $5,000) are particularly
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'[522]
Earnest, I see thy wond'ring eyes inquire
Who this
illustrious
chief, his country's sire?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Then Sir
Bedivere
took the king upon his back and so went with him to
that water.
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Tennyson |
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"We have seen woman, stupid slave and proud,
Before her own frail, foolish beauty bowed;
And man, a greedy, cruel, lascivious fool,
Slave of the slave, a ripple in a pool;
"The martyrs groan, the headsman's merry mood;
And banquets seasoned and perfumed with blood;
Poison, that gives the tyrant's power the slip;
And nations amorous of the brutal whip;
"Many
religions
not unlike our own,
All in full flight for heaven's resplendent throne;
And Sanctity, seeking delight in pain,
Like a sick man of his own sickness vain;
"And mad mortality, drunk with its own power,
As foolish now as in a bygone hour,
Shouting, in presence of the tortured Christ:
'I curse thee, mine own Image sacrificed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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important information about your specific rights and
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by
mysterious
sleights a hundred thirsts appease?
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Keats |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A, lord, to me it were a gret comfort;
Than were I quit of
languisshing
in drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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official
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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(Here a
something
occurs which I'll just clap a rhyme to,
And say it myself, ere a Zoilus have time to,--
Any author a nap like Van Winkle's may take,
If he only contrive to keep readers awake,
But he'll very soon find himself laid on the shelf,
If _they_ fall a-nodding when he nods himself.
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James Russell Lowell |
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First, then, when he speaks
Of this homeomeria of things, he thinks
Bones to be sprung from littlest bones minute,
And from minute and littlest flesh all flesh,
And blood created out of drops of blood,
Conceiving gold compact of grains of gold,
And earth concreted out of bits of earth,
Fire made of fires, and water out of waters,
Feigning
the like with all the rest of stuff.
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Lucretius |
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Then turned he round his weary eyes and saw,
And ever nigher still their faces came,
And nigher ever did their young mouths draw
Until they seemed one perfect rose of flame,
And longing arms around her neck he cast,
And felt her
throbbing
bosom, and his breath came hot and fast,
And all his hoarded sweets were hers to kiss,
And all her maidenhood was his to slay,
And limb to limb in long and rapturous bliss
Their passion waxed and waned,--O why essay
To pipe again of love, too venturous reed!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_November_
Sybil of months, and
worshipper
of winds,
I love thee, rude and boisterous as thou art;
And scraps of joy my wandering ever finds
Mid thy uproarious madness--when the start
Of sudden tempests stirs the forest leaves
Into hoarse fury, till the shower set free
Stills the huge swells.
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John Clare |
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PARTING WITH FRIENDS AT A
WINESHOP
IN NANKING
The wind blowing through the willow-flowers fills the shop with scent;
A girl of Wu has served wine and bids the traveller taste.
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Li Po |
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A little
distance
from the prow
Those crimson shadows were:
I turn'd my eyes upon the deck--
O Christ!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It was sweet to hear your note,
I'll not deny,
When April set pale clouds afloat
O'er the blue tides of sky,
And 'mid the wind's
triumphant
drums
You, in your white and azure coat,
A herald proud, came forth to cry,
"The royal summer comes!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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To the good old man
sad in heart, 'twas
heaviest
sorrow.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This subterranean fire has its altar in each man's breast; for in the
coldest day, and on the bleakest hill, the traveler
cherishes
a warmer
fire within the folds of his cloak than is kindled on any hearth.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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* In
Scripture
is this passage--"The sun shall not harm
thee by day, nor the moon by night.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And more
attentive
there doth sit
Than if she were with lime-twigs knit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The damask'd meadows and the pebbly streams
Sweeten and make soft your dreams:
The purling springs, groves, birds, and well weaved bowers,
With fields enamelled with flowers,
Present their shapes, while fantasy discloses
Millions
of Lilies mix'd with Roses.
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Robert Herrick |
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Eventually he
sent some horsemen, who
discovered
that at the time Basilides was
eighty miles away.
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Tacitus |
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There is some strange
misprision
in the princes.
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Shakespeare |
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Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestined
Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The maid
breathes
words--to vent,
It seems, her sense of Nature's scenery,
Of whose life, sentiment,
And essence, very part itself is she.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Let my foes choke, and my friends shout afar,
While through the
thronged
streets your bridal car
Wheels round its dazzling spokes.
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Keats |
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The cellar was empty, each barrel was drained
To its dregs--and Sir John like a rebel remained
In the street--for removal too
powerful
and large
For two or three topers to take into charge.
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John Clare |
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"
On the relics, are in his sword Murgles,
Treason he's sworn,
forsworn
his faith away.
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Chanson de Roland |
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how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet
ornament
which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
"One, as thou seest, who mourn:" he
straight
replied.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ipse Leo damma ceruoque fugacior ibat
sudanti
tremibundus
equo: qui pondere postquam
decidit, implicitus limo cunctantia pronus
per uada reptabat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The stars came out and the lights of the
shipping in the harbour
twinkled
by the head of the Canal.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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þæt hē wið āglǣcean eofoðo dǣle, _that
he bestow his
strength
upon_ (strive with) _the bringer of misery_ the
drake), 2535; inf.
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Beowulf |
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The greete kynge Brutus thanne theie dyd hym greete, 25
Prepared for battle, mareschalled the syghte;
Theie urg'd the warre, the natyves fledde, as flete
As
fleaynge
cloudes that swymme before the syghte;
Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie,
Theie uncted[21] Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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