While thus the vine its
sprightly
glee inspires,
From whence the fleet, the swarthy chief enquires,
What seas they past, what 'vantage would attain,
And what the shore their purpose hop'd to gain?
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the
tendrils
twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft autumnal vein.
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Light laughs the breeze in her castle of sunshine;
Babbles the bee in a stolid ear;
Pipe the sweet birds in ignorant cadence, --
Ah, what
sagacity
perished here!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I could hear him grunting like a discontented pig in the poppy
field as I waited
shoulder
deep in the dew-dripping Indian corn to catch
him after his meal.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'
Quod
alderfirst
Dame Abstinence, 7505
And thus began she hir sentence:
_Const.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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DEATH BY WATER
Phlebas the Phoenician, a
fortnight
dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
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In 1811 he entered the Lyceum, an
aristocratic
educational
establishment at Tsarskoe Selo, near St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" Thus she spake,
Yet
therefore
naught the more remov'd her Sight
From marking them, or ere her words began,
Or when they clos'd.
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Let them enstyle thee fairest fair,
The pearl of princes, yet despair
That so thou art, because thou must
Believe love speaks it not, but lust;
And this their
flattery
does commend
Thee chiefly for their pleasure's end.
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Robert Herrick |
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For this we see forthwith is manifest:
Whatever
the weight, it can't obliquely go,
Down on its headlong journey from above,
At least so far as thou canst mark; but who
Is there can mark by sense that naught can swerve
At all aside from off its road's straight line?
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What is it, what is it,
But a
direction
out there,
And the bare possibility
Of going somewhere?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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All that the Greeks endured, and all the ills
Inflicted by the Gods on Troy, we know,
Know all that passes on the
boundless
earth.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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A
TREATISE
ON THE SITUATION, MANNERS AND INHABITANTS OF GERMANY.
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Tacitus |
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10
Have the laden galleons been sighted
Stoutly
labouring
up the sea from Tyre?
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Sappho |
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She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898,
studying
first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Space rolls to-day her
splendour
round!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For the
transport
in their rhythm
Was the throb of thy desire,
And thy lyric moods shall quicken 35
Souls of lovers yet unborn.
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is
admirably
selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Among divers opinions of an
art, and most of them contrary in themselves, it is hard to make
election; and, therefore, though a man cannot invent new things after so
many, he may do a welcome work yet to help
posterity
to judge rightly of
the old.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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While Turnus fills the
Rutulian
minds with valour, Allecto on Stygian
wing hastens towards the Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Wer flicht die
unbedeutend
grunen Blatter
Zum Ehrenkranz Verdiensten jeder Art?
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The sonnet `On Violet's Wafers' was
addressed
to a member of the same class,
and is similarly conceived.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING
BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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See, every patriot oak-leaf throws
His elfin length upon the snows,
Not idle, since the leaf all day
Draws to the spot the solar ray,
Ere sunset quarrying inches down,
And halfway to the mosses brown;
While the grass beneath the rime
Has hints of the
propitious
time,
And upward pries and perforates
Through the cold slab a thousand gates,
Till green lances peering through
Bend happy in the welkin blue.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The tapestries of paradise
So
notelessly
are made!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would demonstrate Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the
Egyptians
once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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This then is why you have so
long taken such precautions; your
horoscope
gave you qualms of terror.
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Aristophanes |
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His
beautiful langourous eyes, of a tenebrous and
indefinite
colour, were
like violets still laden with the heavy tears of the storm; his
slightly-parted lips were like heated censers, from whence exhaled the
sweet savour of many perfumes; and each time he breathed, exotic
insects drew, as they fluttered, strength from the ardours of his
breath.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A man who can invent or embellish
an
interesting
story, and put it into a form which others may
easily retain in their recollection, will always be highly
esteemed by a people eager for amusement and information, but
destitute of libraries.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Heorogar was dead,
my elder brother, had
breathed
his last,
Healfdene's bairn: he was better than I!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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With what
mysterious
daring
Didst thou put forth each murmuring, odorous bough
And trust it to the frail support of air?
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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To bed, to bed: there's
knocking
at the gate:
Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What's
done, cannot be vndone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Truth is mine, and Genius mine;
The rich man comes, and knocks at my low door:
Favour'd thus, I ne'er repine,
Nor weary out indulgent Heaven for more:
In my Sabine
homestead
blest,
Why should I further tax a generous friend?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The official release date of all Project
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
Thereat she
vanished
by the Cross
That, entering Kingsbere town,
The two long lanes form, near the fosse
Below the faneless Down.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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How have you changed my life, so tranquil, ere
With the false
witchery
blind,
That alone lured me to his amorous snare!
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Petrarch |
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might such length of days to me be given,
And breath suffice me to rehearse thy deeds,
Nor
Thracian
Orpheus should out-sing me then,
Nor Linus, though his mother this, and that
His sire should aid- Orpheus Calliope,
And Linus fair Apollo.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Erdman indicates that a linking line "must have been dropped in
transcribing
from working notes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'T was a long parting, but the time
For
interview
had come;
Before the judgment-seat of God,
The last and second time
These fleshless lovers met,
A heaven in a gaze,
A heaven of heavens, the privilege
Of one another's eyes.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But one confederate
brotherhood
planting
One flag only, to mark the advance,
Onward and upward, of all humanity.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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As one 'scaped
strangely
from captivity,
Have made the chance be painted ; and go now
To hang it in Saint Peter's for a vow*
Digitized by VjOOQIC
OF MARVELL.
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Marvell - Poems |
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be it weeks, months, or years--an armed race is
advancing
to welcome
it.
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Whitman |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a biography of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later
relationship
with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Though thou starvest,
Provision
is made:
God gathers His harvest
When our hopes fade!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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his solicitorship took no more notice of my
Poem, or of me, than I had been a
strolling
fiddler who had made free
with his lady's name, for a silly new reel.
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Robert Burns |
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When
landlords
turn the drunken bee
Out of the foxglove's door,
When butterflies renounce their drams,
I shall but drink the more!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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There from the troubled sea had
Evangeline
landed, an exile,
Finding among the children of Penn a home and a country.
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Longfellow |
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" then he handed me his flask,
Saying, "Gal, you're looking shaky; have a drop of old Jamaiky:
I'm afraid there'll be more trouble afore this job is done;"
So I took one scorching swallow;
dreadful
faint I felt and hollow,
Standing there from early morning when the firing was begun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The general has mastered
tactical
plans, headquarters abounds with talent.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Nor was I hungry; so I found
That hunger was a way
Of persons outside windows,
The
entering
takes away.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For which me thinketh every maner wight 1555
That
haunteth
armes oughte to biwayle
The deeth of him that was so noble a knight;
For as he drough a king by thaventayle,
Unwar of this, Achilles through the mayle
And through the body gan him for to ryve; 1560
And thus this worthy knight was brought of lyve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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If this interpretation be correct
the
preterite
_edir_ is established.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_Dumu-zi_
I take to have been originally the name of a prehistoric ruler of
Erech, identified with the
primitive
deity Abu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the saddle
shooting
arrows
to the mark!
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Whitman |
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* * * * *
Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and
whispers
of a summer sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I sent for my
bookbinder
to-day, and ordered him to get me an octavo
Bible in sheets, the best paper and print in town; and bind it with
all the elegance of his craft.
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Robert Forst |
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Art thou a
hyacinth
blossom 5
The shepherds upon the hills
Have trodden into the ground?
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Sappho |
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Glory to the tsar
Dimitry!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Your Life shall go to battle with his bow,
A soldier
fighting
in defence of grief.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The rhythmic,
harmonious
gestures
of dancing convey, Plato tells us, both rhythm and
harmony into the mind.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Then, when the mellowing years have made thee man,
No more shall mariner sail, nor pine-tree bark
Ply traffic on the sea, but every land
Shall all things bear alike: the glebe no more
Shall feel the harrow's grip, nor vine the hook;
The sturdy
ploughman
shall loose yoke from steer,
Nor wool with varying colours learn to lie;
But in the meadows shall the ram himself,
Now with soft flush of purple, now with tint
Of yellow saffron, teach his fleece to shine.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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These are the
thoughts
I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;
But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Glaucus alone swims through the
dangerous
seas,
And missing her who should his fancy please,
Curseth the cruel's Love transform'd her shape.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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E'en she had sunk, but Jove's
imperial
bride
Wing'd her fleet sail, and push'd her o'er the tide.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Once having found the beloved,
However sorry or woeful,
However
scornful
of loving, 15
Little it matters.
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Sappho |
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O'er
Cambridge
set the yeomen's mark:
Climb, patriot, through the April dark.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM A Companion Piece For Drafter Jia Zhi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Shivering they sit on
leafless
bush, or frozen stone
Wearied with seeking food across the snowy waste; the little
Heart, cold; and the little tongue consum'd, that once in thoughtless joy
Gave songs of gratitude to [[the]]waving corn fields round their nest.
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure
nocturnal
cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men remember us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this
weeping?
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Crackling with fever, they essay;
I turn my
brimming
eyes away,
And come next hour to look.
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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I'll teach my boy the
sweetest
things;
I'll teach him how the owlet sings.
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From vale to vale, from wood to wood, he flew,
Breathing
upon the flowers his passion new,
And wound with many a river to its head,
To find where this sweet nymph prepar'd her secret bed: 30
In vain; the sweet nymph might nowhere be found,
And so he rested, on the lonely ground,
Pensive, and full of painful jealousies
Of the Wood-Gods, and even the very trees.
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Were neither mid the mighty
captives
seen, _135
Nor mid the ribald crowd that followed them,
Nor those who went before fierce and obscene.
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Wherefore, O Lord of heaven, now also send
Before us a good angel for a fear,
And through the might of thy right arm let those
Be
stricken
with terror that have come this day
Against thy holy people to blaspheme!
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Longfellow |
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The
threshold
they destroyed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm
electronic
work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The language of the
votarist is this: The woman I now love may be infinitely inferior to
many others; the creed I now profess may be a mass of errors and
absurdities; but I exclude myself from all future
information
as to the
amiability of the one and the truth of the other, resolving blindly, and
in spite of conviction, to adhere to them.
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Why is the light of [[Vala]] Enitharmon darken'd in her dewy morn *
Why is the silence of [[Vala lightning]] Enitharmon a Cloud terror & her smile a whirlwind *
Uttering this
darkness
in my halls, in the pillars of my Holy-ones
Why dost thou weep [[O]] as Vala?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Delacroix took up his enthusiastic disciple, and
when the Salons of Baudelaire appeared in 1845, 1846, 1855, and 1859,
the praise and blame they evoked were
testimonies
to the training and
knowledge of their author.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Such were these Giants, men of high renown;
For in those dayes Might onely shall be admir'd,
And Valour and Heroic Vertu call'd;
To overcome in Battel, and subdue
Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite
Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch
Of human Glorie, and for Glorie done 690
Of triumph, to be styl'd great Conquerours,
Patrons of Mankind, Gods, and Sons of Gods,
Destroyers
rightlier call'd and Plagues of men.
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Milton |
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Sickly children, that whine low
To
themselves
and not their mothers,
From mere habit,--never so
Hoping help or care from others.
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