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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Your
patrimonial
stores in peace possess;
Undoubted, all your filial claim confess:
Your private right should impious power invade,
The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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A flowery
kingdom?
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Stephen Crane |
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God's
passion!
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Tennyson |
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The noble lord of the land, arrayed for riding, eats
hastily a sop, and having heard mass,
proceeds
with a hundred hunters
to hunt the wild deer (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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hēt: hēt
him
ȳðlidan
gōdne gegyrwan, _ordered a good vessel to be prepared for
him_, 198; so, hēt, 391, 1115, 3111.
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Beowulf |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She, lest he grieve, hides what she can, her pjiins,
And he, to lessen her*s, his sorrow feigns ;
Yet both perceived, yet both*
concealed
their
skills.
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Marvell - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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I fly along as an
undoubted
man,
On four and twenty legs the road I scour.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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On you the cloud falls,
Nation
perverse!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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If all turncoats were whipped out of palaces, poor Archy
would be
disgraced
in good company.
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Shelley |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Imagining
the poem winging its way
along like a bird.
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Keats |
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* * * * *
WILLIAM KERR
IN
MEMORIAM
D.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But then, my wife is 15
Such an
vntoward
thing!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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No
specification
is necessary--to
add or subtract or divide is in vain.
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Whitman |
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Thou knowest what a thing is Poverty
Among the fallen on evil days:
'Tis Crime, and Fear, and Infamy, _475
And houseless Want in frozen ways
Wandering ungarmented, and Pain,
And, worse than all, that inward stain
Foul Self-contempt, which drowns in sneers
Youth's
starlight
smile, and makes its tears _480
First like hot gall, then dry for ever!
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Shelley |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not
accustomed
to coquetting
with the soldiers she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Farewell, thou
generous
heart and true!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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MANOA: That still lessens
The sorrow and
converts
it nigh to joy.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Paradoxical New England clerks,
Writing
inventories
in ledgers, reading the "Song of Solomon" at
night,
So many verses before bedtime,
Because it was the Bible.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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On the walls, on either side of
the Gate, are
citizens
watching the Assyrian camp;_
OZIAS _also, standing by himself_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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* * * * *
_Wilde's Poems were first
published
in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Woe to the conquering, not the
conquered
host,
Since baffled Triumph droops on Lusitania's coast.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Drew his smile across her folded
Eyelids, as the swallow dips;
Breathed
as finely as the cold did
Through the locking of her lips.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Methinks I hear of leaders proud
With no
uncomely
dust distain'd,
And all the world by conquest bow'd,
And only Cato's soul unchain'd.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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So that not fainting, but
refresht
and astonisht
And strangely spirited and divinely angry
My body may arise out of its passion,
Out of being enjoyed by this fiend's flesh.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The stray ships passing spied a face
Upon the waters borne,
With eyes in death still begging raised,
And hands
beseeching
thrown.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sara Teasdale |
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"It used to ask for gifts of good,
Till came its
severance
self-entailed,
When sudden silence on that side ensued,
And has till now prevailed.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thy lips they are of the finest fashion, yet rather thin
than full; and some would not have it so; but I would, whereas I see
therein a sign of thy
valiancy
and friendliness.
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Yeats |
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But restively the other strove, and broke
The
fittings
of the car, and plunged away
With mouth un-bitted: o'er the broken yoke
My son was hurled, and lo!
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Aeschylus |
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_--A country of Asia Minor
bordering
on the Black
Sea.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
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Appoloinaire |
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Break his bands of sleep asunder,
And rouse him, like a
rattling
peal of thunder.
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Golden Treasury |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Why so glum,
comrade?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Allow him but his
plaything
of a pen,
He ne'er rebels, or plots, like other men:
Flight of cashiers, or mobs, he'll never mind;
And knows no losses while the Muse is kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Beneath these glimmering arches Jessamine
Walked with her lover long ago; and in
The leaf-dimmed light he questioned, and she spoke;
Then on them both, supreme, love's
radiance
broke.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky to
perpetual
penance.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sire, if
compassion
can sway a king,
I beg you to revoke your harsh ruling;
For what lost me my love, his victory,
I leave him my fortune; if he'll forgo me;
That I may weep in some sacred cloister,
To my last breath, for father and for lover.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The _facetum ingenium_, as it manifests itself in satire and invective,
does not
properly
here concern us: it belongs to another order of
poetry.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Meissner
was also here; he caught me unawares,
Scribbling to my old mother.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Duelling
beneath
The edict of the king!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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But hark, the far
Sicilian
sea
Calls, and a noise of men and ships
That labour sunken to the lips
In bitter billows; forth go we,
Through the long leagues of fiery blue,
With saving; not to souls unshriven;
But whoso in his life hath striven
To love things holy and be true,
Through toil and storm we guard him; we
Save, and he shall not die!
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Euripides - Electra |
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And therefore it was clear that all insolent and obscene
speeches, jests upon the best men, injuries to particular persons,
perverse and sinister sayings (and the rather unexpected) in the old
comedy did move laughter, especially where it did imitate any dishonesty,
and scurrility came forth in the place of wit, which, who understands the
nature and genius of
laughter
cannot but perfectly know.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Be
niggards
of advice on no pretence;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
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Alexander Pope |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis
Dorset,
'Tis said, my liege, in
Yorkshire
are in arms.
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Shakespeare |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in
proclaiming
her verse the one unmatched exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
Gaita be, gaiteta del chastel
Keep a watch, watchman there, on the wall,
Kalenda maia
Calends of May
Guillem de Cabestan (1162-1212)
Aissi cum selh que baissa?
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Troubador Verse |
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Mallowe,
fumbling
with the knot of the laces.
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Kipling - Poems |
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'I got your message,' Hanrahan said then; '"he is in the barn with his
three first cousins from Kilchriest," the
messenger
said, "and there
are some of the neighbours with them.
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Yeats |
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For, as against a snarling sea one steers,
He battled vainly with the surging years;
While ever
Jessamine
must watch and pine,
Her vision bounded by the bleak sea-line.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Act I Scene IV (Phaedra, Oenone, Panope)
Panope
I wished to hide the
sorrowful
news from you,
My lady: but now I must reveal it to you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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methinks ye measure
Your
movements
to some heavenly tune!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Horses and
horsemen
that make gazers fear
Are only empty armor.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The old man averted his head, and
muttered
between his teeth--
"Branded!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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[Illustration]
There was a young person in pink,
Who called out for
something
to drink;
But they said, "O my daughter, there's nothing but water!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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CONTENTS
RICHARD ALDINGTON
Childhood 3
The Poplar 10
Round-Pond 12
Daisy 13
Epigrams
15
The Faun sees Snow for the First Time 16
Lemures 17
H.
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Imagists |
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He scampered to the bushes far away;
The
shepherd
called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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John Clare |
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4 The
pheasant
tail fans were part of the imperial regalia.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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All my doing, all my leaving,
Reaches not to my perceiving;
Lost in
whirling
spheres I rove,
And know only that I love.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And it will soothe me, though of thee I borrow
No help, that thou
compassionate
my sorrow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Night and her
admirable
stars again!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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In doing this I
have been much
assisted
by the study of Mr.
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John Donne |
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22--
_E come a l'orlo de l'acqua d'un fosso
Stan li
ranocchi
pur col muso fuori
Si che celano i piedi, e l'altro grosso.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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THE latter having well the project weighed,
Now changed his plan, and other schemes surveyed;
Proposed within himself revenge to take,
With less parade:--less noise it then would make,
And better fruit the action would produce,
Than if he were
apparently
profuse.
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La Fontaine |
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Nor, if accosted now, in thought engrossed,
Moody, or inly troubled, would he seem
To
traveller
who might talk of any casual theme.
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William Wordsworth |
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She hid the trouble of her breast,
Heaved an
involuntary
sigh
And turned to leave immediately,
But first permission did request
Thither in future to proceed
That certain volumes she might read.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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SHE APPEARS TO HIM, AND, WITH MORE THAN WONTED AFFECTION,
ENDEAVOURS
TO
CONSOLE HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
Not long thereafter from the city gates
Issued Sir Lancelot riding airily,
Warm with a
gracious
parting from the Queen,
Peace at his heart, and gazing at a star
And marvelling what it was: on whom the boy,
Across the silent seeded meadow-grass
Borne, clashed: and Lancelot, saying, 'What name hast thou
That ridest here so blindly and so hard?
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Tennyson |
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Those who are happy regret the
shortness
of the day;
Those who are sad tire of the year's sloth.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[In whych
man{er}e
q{uo}d I.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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One stirs my wrath, the other one
restrains
me.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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still
fluttered
to her view;
And young Camillus pretty well she knew;
Howe'er with such severity he spoke,
That e'en the mildest saint it would provoke;
Yet, in a swain so easy, gentle, kind,
'Twas strange so little lenity to find.
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La Fontaine |
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You are the fools, not I--for I did dwell
With a deep thought, and with a softened eye, 40
On that old Sexton's natural homily,
In which there was
Obscurity
and Fame,--
The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.
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Byron |
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Hymne profond,
delicieux!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ON A
HENPECKED
COUNTRY SQUIRE.
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Robert Burns |
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But I must shake the
heavenly
dew of rest
From this sweet folded flower, thus.
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Shelley |
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Or will you think, my friend, your
business
done,
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one?
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The Count was rash;
Rodrigue
replied though:
Played the brave man's part, and still must do so.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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being
included
in the numeration.
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Byron |
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OSWALD But why so violent
Against this
venerable
Man?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Litis, to wake from sleep and find your eyes
Met in their first fresh upward gaze by love,
Filled with love's happy shame from other eyes,
Dazzled with
tenderness
and drowned in light
As tho' you looked unthinking at the sun,
Oh Litis, that is joy!
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Sara Teasdale |
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It
consists
not in individual, but in mutual pleasure.
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Alexander Pope |
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But from the time when he appeared beneath
The ancient town Olgin with the Lithuanians,
Hardy avenger of his injuries,
Rumour hath held her tongue
concerning
him.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Doorways are
alternate
Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the
remaining
provisions.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But while I see that there is
nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is
something
wrong in
what one becomes.
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when
rendered
to Rome:[mh]
'Twas thy last sun went down, and the flames of thy fall
Flashed back on the last glance I gave to thy wall.
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Byron |
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