Even unto us, who made these ancient things,
The fool his public
lamentation
sings.
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I stood
Amid a self-ruled multitude
That by nor sound nor word
Betrayed how
mightily
its heart was stirred,
A memory Time never could efface--
A memory of Grief--
Like a great Silence brooded o'er the place;
And men breathed hard, as seeking for relief
From an emotion strong
That would not cry, though held in check too long.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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multa quidem scripsi, sed quae uitiosa putaui
emendaturis
ignibus ipse dedi.
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LXX
That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The
ornament
of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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On such a dawn, or such a dawn,
Would anybody sigh
That such a little figure
Too sound asleep did lie
For
chanticleer
to wake it, --
Or stirring house below,
Or giddy bird in orchard,
Or early task to do?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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170
No man stood there of whom to crave
Rest for
wayfarer
plodding by:
Though the tenant were churl or knave
The Prince might try.
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Ran ever clearer speech than that did run
When the sweet Seven died at
Lexington?
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Sidney Lanier |
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X
I cannot think that thou
shouldst
pass away,
Whose life to mine is an eternal law,
A piece of nature that can have no flaw,
A new and certain sunrise every day:
But, if thou art to be another ray
About the Sun of Life, and art to live
Free from what part of thee was fugitive,
The debt of Love I will more fully pay,
Not downcast with the thought of thee so high,
But rather raised to be a nobler man,
And more divine in my humanity,
As knowing that the waiting eyes which scan
My life are lighted by a purer being,
And ask high, calm-browed deeds, with it agreeing.
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In England, there is no danger of arbitrary rules, to gratify
the
impatience
of the court, or to stifle justice.
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Tacitus |
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15:
Emendarunt
an quod auentum Munro, an quod amantum Owen,
atque maritum Schmidt, Postgate, Palmer
[paragraphum post u.
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Latin - Catullus |
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'"
As he went through Cold-Bath Fields he saw
A
solitary
cell;
And the Devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint
For improving his prisons in Hell.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
But now that autumn's here,
And the leaves curl up in sheer
Disgust,
And the cold rains fringe the pine,
You really must
Stop that
supercilious
whine---
Or you'll be shot, by some mephitic
Angry critic.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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At college Emerson did not shine as a scholar, though he won prizes for
essays and declamations, being especially unfitted for mathematical
studies, and
enjoying
the classics rather in a literary than grammatical
way.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,
And how, how rare and strange it is, to find
In a life
composed
so much, so much of odds and ends,
(For indeed I do not love it .
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T.S. Eliot |
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The
fountain
sang and sang
But the satyr never stirred--
Only the great white moon
In the empty heaven heard.
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Sara Teasdale |
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No better
expression
of these ideas can be found anywhere
than in the 'Essay' itself, but a brief statement in simple prose of
some of the most important may serve as a guide to the young student of
the essay.
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Alexander Pope |
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I burned
Hot and cold, in a lasting fever, well-earned
By the mortal wound of your glance's
piercing
flight.
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Ronsard |
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quo mea se molli candida diua pede 70
intulit et trito fulgentem in limine plantam
innixsa arguta
constituit
solea.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Tacitus |
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]
[Footnote 69:
Diminutive
of Emelian.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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er sterres
yplounged
in to ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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WAR POEMS
EMBARCATION
(_Southampton Docks_: _October_, 1899)
HERE, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands,
And Cerdic with his Saxons entered in,
And Henry's army leapt afloat to win
Convincing triumphs over neighbour lands,
Vaster
battalions
press for further strands,
To argue in the self-same bloody mode
Which this late age of thought, and pact, and code,
Still fails to mend.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
(With
gathering
murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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At the awful sight
tottered that guest, and terror seized him;
yet the wretched
fugitive
rallied anon
from fright and fear ere he fled away,
and took the cup from that treasure-hoard.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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1745
Criseyde
loveth the sone of Tydeus,
And Troilus mot wepe in cares colde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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swā (_which_) wæter
bebūgeð, 93; efne swā sīde swā sǣ bebūgeð windige weallas, _as far as the
sea
encircles
windy shores_, 1224.
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Beowulf |
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Wilt thou then serve the
Philistines
with that gift
Which was expresly giv'n thee to annoy them?
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Milton |
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The moon she possibly doth shine because
Strook by the rays of sun, and day by day
May turn unto our gaze her light, the more
She doth recede from orb of sun, until,
Facing him opposite across the world,
She hath with full
effulgence
gleamed abroad,
And, at her rising as she soars above,
Hath there observed his setting; thence likewise
She needs must hide, as 'twere, her light behind
By slow degrees, the nearer now she glides,
Along the circle of the Zodiac,
From her far place toward fires of yonder sun,--
As those men hold who feign the moon to be
Just like a ball and to pursue a course
Betwixt the sun and earth.
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Lucretius |
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the
disciple
sank
With anguished cry .
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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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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Chanson de Roland |
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And shee but cheates on Heaven, whom you so winne
Thinking
to share the sport, but not the sinne.
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Keats - Lamia |
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XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled
in thy parts, do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted, to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,
And by a part of all thy glory live.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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It is a false
quarrel against Nature, that she helps
understanding
but in a few, when
the most part of mankind are inclined by her thither, if they would take
the pains; no less than birds to fly, horses to run, &c.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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When I think of Jerusalem in
kingdoms
yet free,
I shall think of its ruins and think upon thee;
Thou beautiful Jewess, content thou mayest roam;
A bright spot in Eden still blooms as thy home.
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John Clare |
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I have fooled him and he has
acquitted
in spite of
himself.
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Aristophanes |
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Again then he intends
To force the life-blood of his foe, and ran on him amain,
With shaken jav'lin; when the queen that lovers love, again
Attended and now ravish'd him from that encounter quite,
With ease, and
wondrous
suddenly; for she, a goddess, might.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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He, the brilliant causeur, the chief blaguer of a circle
in which young James McNeill Whistler was reduced to the role of a
listener--this most
spiritual
among artists, found himself a failure in
the Belgian capital.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, wild and terrible; for my ears are crowded
with cries of
conquered
nations and sighs for forgotten lands.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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" SAS}
The tygers of wrath called the horses of instruction from their mangers
They unloos'd them & put on the harness of gold & silver & ivory
In human forms
distinct
they stood round Urizen prince of Light
Petrifying all the Human Imagination into rock & sand {Erdman notes here that the insertion from line 6-33 begins in a stanza break and continues in the right margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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2 The bold man is
saddened
at his tomb mound, the recluse bows at Tripod Lake.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Somebody
found my chrysalis
And shut it in a match-box.
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Imagists |
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
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with the
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As the poem was not included in the volume
published
in 1820, it is
given here.
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Keats |
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Of the old heroes when the warlike shades
Saw Douglas marching on the Elysian glades,
They all, consulting,
gathered
in a ring,
Which of the poets should his welcome sing ;
And, as a favourable penance, chose
Cleveland, on whom they would that task impose.
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Marvell - Poems |
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He who of those delights can judge, and spare
To
interpose
them oft, is not unwise.
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Milton |
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114
_perculit_
ahp: _pertul_(_ll_ G)_it_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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591
In A schort tyme hit was diht,
ful
richeliche
and Al ari?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Commandant's house
became
unbearable
to me; little by little I accustomed myself to stay
alone in my quarters.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a
complete
repose;
Only yourself can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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[R]
--At once
bewildering
mists around him close,
And cold and hunger are his least of woes;
The Demon of the snow with angry roar 400
Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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" Naturally, people
stared and Baudelaire was happy--he had
startled
a bourgeois.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight,
Into a western couch of thunder-cloud;
And thou, a ghost, amid the
entombing
trees
Didst glide away.
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Poe - 5 |
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A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
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Troubador Verse |
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Advanced upon the field there stood a mound
Of earth congested, wall'd, and trench'd around;
In elder times to guard Alcides made,
(The work of Trojans, with Minerva's aid,)
What time a
vengeful
monster of the main
Swept the wide shore, and drove him to the plain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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About nine o'clock in
the
forenoon
we reached St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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`But, Troilus, yet tel me, if thee lest,
A thing now which that I shal axen thee; 1395
Which is thy brother that thou lovest best
As in thy verray hertes
privetee?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year; _155
The airs and streams renew their joyous tone;
The ants, the bees, the
swallows
reappear;
Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons' bier;
The amorous birds now pair in every brake,
And build their mossy homes in field and brere; _160
And the green lizard, and the golden snake,
Like unimprisoned flames, out of their trance awake.
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Shelley |
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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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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Her delegates in arms with them combined;
Prudence appear'd, the daughter of the mind;
Pure Temperance next, and Steadiness of soul,
That ever keeps in view the eternal goal;
And Gentleness and soft Address were seen,
And Courtesy, with mild inviting mien;
And Purity, and cautious Dread of blame,
With ardent love of clear unspotted fame;
And sage Discretion, seldom seen below,
Where the full veins with youthful ardour glow;
Benevolence and Harmony of soul
Were there, but rarely found from pole to pole;
And there
consummate
Beauty shone, combined
With all the pureness of an angel-mind.
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Petrarch |
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There was the strain of his office-work, and the strain of his
remittances, and the
knowledge
of his boy's death, which touched the boy
more, perhaps, than it would have touched a man; and, beyond all, the
enduring strain of his daily life.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O
fecondite
de l'esprit et immensite de l'univers!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"Suffer without regret," they seem to cry,
"Though dark your suffering is, it may be music,
Waves of blue heat that wash
midsummer
sky;
Sea-violins that play along the sands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,
Asking, "What Lamp had Destiny to guide
Her little
Children
stumbling in the Dark?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Predestination
is the cause alone, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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"
"Leave me not hopeless, ye
unpitying
dames!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A
blooming
boy, a truant mutineer.
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Byron |
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Behold man's river now; it has travelled far
From that divine loathing, and it is made
One with the two main fiends, the Dark and Cold,
The
faithful
lovers of mankind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The inscription ran:
{ ANNAE }
GEORGII} { MORE de } {Filiae
ROBERT}
{Lothesley}
{Soror.
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John Donne |
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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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Sometimes
I kissed you,
And you were always glad to kiss me;
But I was afraid--I was only fourteen.
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Imagists |
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When the Northern Lights, as the same writer
informs us, vary their position in the air, they make a
rustling
and a
crackling noise.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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XXIII
The lads in their
hundreds
to Ludlow come in for the fair,
There's men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold,
The lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there,
And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If we may ask the reason, say
The why and
wherefore
all things here
Seem like the spring-time of the year.
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Robert Herrick |
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PROMETHEUS
Take thine own coin--taunts for a
taunting
slave!
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Aeschylus |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A nymph of quality admires our knight;
He marries, bows at court, and grows polite:
Leaves the dull cits, and joins (to please the fair)
The well bred
c*ck**ds
in St.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He saw my master's grief, but all the more
In he must come, and
shoulders
through the door.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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They began, as I foresaw, at sunset
with a violent tempest of hail and rain, attended by that magnificent
thunder and
lightning
peculiar to the Cisalpine regions.
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Shelley |
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But alas for the
stifling
mist of lies!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Finally Wittipol, like Il Zima,
suspects
a trick when Mrs.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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To him the child of Thaumas spoke
thus with roseate lips:
'Turnus, what no god had dared promise to thy prayer, behold, is brought
unasked by the
circling
day.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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--A puppet-play must be
shadowed
and seen in the dark;
for draw the curtain, _et sordet gesticulatio_.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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horrenda late nomen in ultimas
extendat oras, qua medius liquor
secernit Europen ab Afro,
qua tumidus rigat arua Nilus,
aurum inrepertum et sic melius situm,
cum terra celat, spernere fortior
quam cogere humanos in usus
omne sacrum
rapiente
dextra.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unnumber'd warriors round the burning pile
Urge the fleet coursers or the racer's toil;
Thick clouds of dust o'er all the circle rise,
And the mix'd clamour
thunders
in the skies.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--I am not of that opinion to
conclude
a poet's liberty within
the narrow limits of laws which either the grammarians or philosophers
prescribe.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ich bin's, bin Faust, bin
deinesgleichen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[260] An
allusion
to cock-fighting; the birds are armed with brazen
spurs.
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Aristophanes |
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nam quaecumque homines bene cuiquam aut dicere possunt
aut facere, haec a te dictaque
factaque
sunt.
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Latin - Catullus |
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D'ilecques me parti atant,
Si m'en alai seus
esbatant
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Pleying along ful merily.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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