Before the father and the
conquering
son
Heaps rush on heaps, they fight, they drop, they run
Now by the sword, and now the javelin, fall
The rebel race, and death had swallow'd all;
But from on high the blue-eyed virgin cried;
Her awful voice detain'd the headlong tide:
"Forbear, ye nations, your mad hands forbear
From mutual slaughter; Peace descends to spare.
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Liue you, or are you aught
That man may
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crudelior
ignis?
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Thus
necessity
or chance restored their
fallen fortunes.
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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And he, when he
saw Aeneas advancing to meet him over the greensward, stretched forth
both hands eagerly, while tears rolled over his cheeks, and his lips
parted in a cry: 'Art thou come at last, and hath thy love, O child of
my desire,
conquered
the difficult road?
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Quare habe tibi
quidquid
hoc libelli,
Qualecumque, quod o patrona virgo,
Plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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With guile they Pursue me, with counsel malign,
And unholy their soul;
And as ravens they seize me,
unheeding
the shrine!
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Aeschylus |
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And sullen Moloch, fled,
Hath left in shadows dread
His burning idol all of
blackest
hue;
In vain with cymbals' ring
They call the grisly king,
In dismal dance about the furnace blue;
The brutish gods of Nile as fast
Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
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Golden Treasury |
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There I should meet an aged
parent, now at rest from the many
buffetings
of an evil world, against
which he so long and so bravely struggled.
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I glide on the surface of seas
I have grown sentimental
I no longer know the guide
I no longer move silk over ice
I am
diseased
flowers and stones
I love the most chinese of nudes
I love the most naked lapses of wings
I am old but here I am beautiful
And the shadow that flows from the deep windows
Each evening spares the dark heart of my stare.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
"I saw her in a ravaged aisle,
Bowed down on bended knee;
That her poor ghost
outflickers
there
Is known to none but me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The butternut, which is a
remarkably spreading tree, is turned completely yellow, thus proving
its
relation
to the hickories.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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THE INDIAN GIPSY
In tattered robes that hoard a glittering trace
Of bygone colours,
broidered
to the knee,
Behold her, daughter of a wandering race,
Tameless, with the bold falcon's agile grace,
And the lithe tiger's sinuous majesty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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" The lady's cheek
Trembled; she nothing said, but, pale and meek,
Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain
Of sorrows at his words; at last with pain
Beseeching
him, the while his hand she wrung,
To change his purpose.
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Keats |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Not seeking those who might participate
My deeper
pleasures
(nay, I had not once,
Though not unused to mutter lonesome songs,
Even with myself divided such delight, 240
Or looked that way for aught that might be clothed
In human language), easily I passed
From the remembrances of better things,
And slipped into the ordinary works
Of careless youth, unburthened, unalarmed.
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William Wordsworth |
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Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
Commend my woman-love to thy belief,--
Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,
And rend the garment of my life, in brief,
By a most dauntless,
voiceless
fortitude,
Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"Should we meet with a Jubjub, that
desperate
bird,
We shall need all our strength for the job!
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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And, soothly, when they're thus foregathered there,
Urged yonder into midmost realm of day,
Then, crowded against the lofty
mountain
sides,
They're massed and powerfully pressed.
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O
Britons!
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A very short poem,
while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never
produces
a
profound or enduring effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I
wandered
up, I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
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Emerson - Poems |
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{and} wel more
horrible
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Conqueror
and captive of the earth art thou!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Seethed in mists of Penmanmaur,
Taught by Plinlimmon's Druid power,
England's genius filled all measure
Of heart and soul, of
strength
and pleasure,
Gave to the mind its emperor,
And life was larger than before:
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE'S wit.
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Emerson - Poems |
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I have some time, for curiousness, my Lord
Watch'd children playing at _their_ life to be,
And cruel at it, killing
helpless
flies;
Such is our time--all times for aught I know.
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Tennyson |
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And as to trees the willows wear
Lopped heads as high as bushes are;
Some taller things the distance shrouds
That may be trees or stacks or clouds
Or may be nothing; still they wear
A
semblance
where there's nought to spare.
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John Clare |
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" I began, "who to the west
Through perils without number now have reach'd,
To this the short remaining watch, that yet
Our senses have to wake, refuse not proof
Of the unpeopled world,
following
the track
Of Phoebus.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But as they come,
Leviathan
sneezes twice .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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secret
whispring
in my Ear
In secret of soft wings.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--Enough: but say he wronged thee; slew
By craft thy child:--what wrong had I done, what
The babe
Orestes?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Underneath
the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Scilicet ut nemo est ilia
reverentior
aequi ;
Ilaud ipsas igitur fert sine lege comas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"It Is Not a Word"
It is not a word spoken,
Few words are said;
Nor even a look of the eyes
Nor a bend of the head,
But only a hush of the heart
That has too much to keep,
Only
memories
waking
That sleep so light a sleep.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The
Christian
manhood of the man who reigns!
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Tennyson |
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A monster, that ev'n this worst age outvies,
Conspicuous
and above the common size.
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Tacitus |
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One morn, disputing with my tired soul,
And like a hero stiffening all my nerves,
I trod a suburb shaken by the jar
Of rolling wheels, where the fog magnified
The houses either side of that sad street,
So they seemed like two wharves the ebbing flood
Leaves
desolate
by the river-side.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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_Robert Nichols_
THE DAY'S MARCH
The battery grides and jingles,
Mile
succeeds
to mile;
Shaking the noonday sunshine
The guns lunge out awhile,
And then are still awhile.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Was shown beside upon the solid floor
How dear
Alcmaeon
forc'd his mother rate
That ornament in evil hour receiv'd:
How in the temple on Sennacherib fell
His sons, and how a corpse they left him there.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Curiatius
Maternus
[a] gave a public reading of his tragedy of
Cato.
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Tacitus |
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" He who believes
that peace is
illusory
and spurious, unless it be based upon justice and
liberty, will be proud to battle, if battle he must, for the sake of
those foundations.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And when the vision seemed to swerve,
'T was but the
flickering
shine
That gave new grace, a lovelier curve,
To every dream-like line.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I love the verse that mild and bland
Breathes of green fields and open sky,
I love the muse that in her hand
Bears flowers of native poesy;
Who walks nor skips the pasture brook
In scorn, but by the
drinking
horse
Leans oer its little brig to look
How far the sallows lean across,
And feels a rapture in her breast
Upon their root-fringed grains to mark
A hermit morehen's sedgy nest
Just like a naiad's summer bark.
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John Clare |
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"HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY"
BRET HAUTE
[Sidenote: 1861-1865]
_Early in the war was
organized
the U.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'
`How hastow thus
unkindely
and longe
Hid this fro me, thou fool?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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that one might read the book of fate,
And see the
revolution
of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea; and other times to see
The beachy girdle of the ocean
Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,
And changes fill the cup of alteration
With divers liquors!
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Shakespeare |
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Consider
the great variety of truthful and delicate thought
in the few lines we have quoted the _wonder _of the little maiden at the
fleetness of her favorite-the "little silver feet"--the fawn challenging
his mistress to a race with "a pretty skipping grace," running on
before, and then, with head turned back, awaiting her approach only to
fly from it again-can we not distinctly perceive all these things?
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Poe - 5 |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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So, lost in grief, was lovely Venus[250] seen,
When Jove, her sire, the
beauteous
mourner pray'd
To grant her wand'ring son the promis'd aid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thus[127] the hoarse tenants of the sylvan lake,
A Lycian race of old, to flight betake,
At ev'ry sound they dread Latona's hate,
And doubled vengeance of their former fate;
All sudden
plunging
leave the margin green,
And but their heads above the pool are seen.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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copyright
in these works,
so the Foundation (and you!
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Tacitus |
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And that
unknowing
what he did,
He leaped amid a murderous band,
And saved from outrage worse than death
The Lady of the Land!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"Yes" I
whispered
"this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright splendor what common guise.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Stephane Mallarme (1844-1896)
Stephane Mallarme
'Stephane Mallarme'
Paul Gauguin, 1891, The Rijksmuseum
Sigh
My soul towards your brow, where, O calm sister,
An autumn dreams
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Oh, sweating thieves, and hard-boiled scalawags,
That still will boast your pride until the doom,
Smashing
every caste rule of the world,
Reaching at last your Hindu goal to smash
The caste rules of old India, and shout:
"Down with the Brahmins, let the Romany reign.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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'T is beggars banquets best define;
'T is thirsting
vitalizes
wine, --
Faith faints to understand.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Yet, Porter, while thou keep'st alive,
In death I thrive:
And like a phoenix re-aspire
From out my nard and fun'ral fire:
And as I prune my
feathered
youth, so I
Do mar'l how I could die
When I had thee, my chief preserver, by.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the rymes the
equiva|lence
of final '?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A VISION
By Ts'ao Chih
In the Nine Provinces there is not room enough:
I want to soar high among the clouds,
And, far beyond the Eight Limits of the compass,
Cast my gaze across the
unmeasured
void.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Every great poet has been
persecuted
in this manner: Milton in
particular.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"Non tifidar" it is the sword that speaks
1
Thou trusted'st in thyself and met the blade Thout mask or gauntlet, and art laid
As
memorable
broken blades that be
Kept as bold trophies of old pageantry.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The bright eyes which so struck my fenceless side
That they alone which harm'd can heal the smart
Beyond or power of herbs or magic art,
Or stone which oceans from our shores divide,
The chance of other love have so denied
That one sweet thought alone
contents
my heart,
From following which if ne'er my tongue depart,
Pity the guided though you blame the guide.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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It was probably a vast mound of
earth with a
declivity
outwards.
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Iliad - Pope |
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His prose had a natural grace of its own,
And enough of it, too, if he'd let it alone;
But he twitches and jerks so, one fairly gets tired,
And is forced to forgive where one might have admired; 690
Yet
whenever
it slips away free and unlaced,
It runs like a stream with a musical waste,
And gurgles along with the liquidest sweep;--
'Tis not deep as a river, but who'd have it deep?
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James Russell Lowell |
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The green earth echoed to the feet
Of lambs that bounded through the glade,
From shade to sunshine, and as fleet
From
sunshine
back to shade.
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William Wordsworth |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--Who he was
That piled these stones, and with the mossy sod
First covered o'er, and taught this aged tree,
Now wild, to bend its arms in
circling
shade,
I well remember.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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THE ANIMALS
[_who up to this time have been going through all sorts of queer antics
with each other, bring_
MEPHISTOPHELES
_a crown with a loud cry_].
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Art so anguisshous and mate,
Disfigured
out of astate;
Ther may no wrecche have more of wo,
Ne caitif noon enduren so.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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IN APRIL
Again the woods are odorous, the lark
Lifts on
upsoaring
wings the heaven gray
That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark,
Where branches bare disclosed the empty day.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Elvire
No, I portrayed indifference to either
Raising or
lowering
the hopes of neither,
Your eyes neither too gentle nor severe,
Until your father's choice be made clear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Mon esprit est pareil a la tour qui succombe
Sous les coups du belier
infatigable
et lourd.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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For in the east I see a star rise
Day-bringer, star
familiar
to my eyes,
And soon it will be dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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sed nunc id doleo, quod purae pura puellae
suauia
comminxit
spurca saliua tua.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Crucified
I cried to men, "I would be
crucified!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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So
wretched
the lot to go round begging,
With an evil conscience thy spirit plaguing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--So the green-gowned faeries say
Living over
Blackmoor
way.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The gale, it plies the
saplings
double,
It blows so hard, 'twill soon be gone:
To-day the Roman and his trouble
Are ashes under Uricon.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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A faire garment,
By my faith,
_Ingine_!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I have a good many
original
things of
this kind.
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Robert Burns |
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Oft, wenn es erst durch Jahre durchgedrungen,
Erscheint
es in vollendeter Gestalt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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