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On barren days,
At hours when I, apart, have
Bent low in thought of the great charm thou hast, Behold with music's many
stringed
charms
The silence groweth thou.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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In this line in the poem Thalestris
insinuates
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tamely to the rape of the lock, her position as a toast will be
forfeited.
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earthbound bride &
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Blake - Zoas |
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To portray a
Roman of the age of Camillus or Curius as superior to national
antipathies, as mourning over the devastation and slaughter by
which empire and triumphs were to be won, as looking on human
suffering with the
sympathy
of Howard, or as treating conquered
enemies with the delicacy of the Black Prince, would be to
violate all dramatic propriety.
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Newby
Chief
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Resemble
nothing that is ours.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Apres se tenoit Courtoisie,
Qui moult estoit de tous prisie,
Si n'ere
orguilleuse
ne fole.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an
adjoining
room.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The general has mastered tactical plans,
headquarters
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_Robert Haven Schauffler_
FLEURETTE
THE WOUNDED
CANADIAN
SPEAKS:
My leg?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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veil your
deathless
tree, --
Him you chasten, that is he!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But good Aeneas, his head bared, kept
stretching
his unarmed hand and
calling loudly to his men: 'Whither run you?
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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at ich take god to
witnesse!
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Not Thames, not Teme is the river,
Nor London nor Knighton the town:
'Tis a long way further than Knighton,
A quieter place than Clun,
Where
doomsday
may thunder and lighten
And little 'twill matter to one.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the
wandering
eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the evidence ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Shuttleworthy, just by way of showing you how very
intimate an
understanding
existed between the two friends.
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Poe - 5 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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Finding
explanation
of
no avail, she asked had they ever heard of Christ?
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`Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,
Men mighten deme that he loveth me; 730
What
dishonour
were it un-to me, this?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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) I can tell you that the
Szechwan
Road as
described in the poem that Mr.
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Li Po |
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On every side,
Battered
with stones, they fell, while arrows flew
From many a string, and smote them to the death.
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Aeschylus |
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Not that he
actually
laid
wagers--no.
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Poe - 5 |
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_diuidamus_)
G
17 _nunc_ T: _non_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thou shalt tell me now
Why thou
refusest
the life given thee.
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She that has dealt with such a pride of spirit
In all her ways of life, so that she seemed
To feel like shadow, falling on the light
Her own mind made, the common thoughts of men;
Ay, she that to-day came down into our woe
And stood among the griefs that buzz upon us,
Like one who is forced aside from a bright journey
To stoop in a small-room'd cottage, where loud flies
Pester the inmates and the windows darken;
This she, this Judith, out of her quiet pride,
And out of her guarded purity, to walk
Where God himself from violent whoredom could
Scarcely
preserve
her shuddering flesh!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
So
smoothly
it was strewn!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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"And why were you obliged to shut up
Polashka?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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LXX
Hence 'tis among the Moors amazement all,
While hence the
Christians
take such heart and pride,
The bands do nought but quit their ground and fall,
And break their order on the Paynim side,
What time the Christian troops come on, and gall
Their flying rants, which nowhere will abide:
And had not one arrived to aid their host.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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Semichor: But he though blind of sight,
Despis'd and thought extinguish't quite,
With inward eyes illuminated
His fierie vertue rouz'd 1690
From under ashes into sudden flame,
And as an ev'ning Dragon came,
Assailant on the perched roosts,
And nests in order rang'd
Of tame
villatic
Fowl; but as an Eagle
His cloudless thunder bolted on thir heads.
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Milton |
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'We know not what will come--yet, Laon, dearest, _3640
Cythna shall be the
prophetess
of Love,
Her lips shall rob thee of the grace thou wearest,
To hide thy heart, and clothe the shapes which rove
Within the homeless Future's wintry grove;
For I now, sitting thus beside thee, seem _3645
Even with thy breath and blood to live and move,
And violence and wrong are as a dream
Which rolls from steadfast truth, an unreturning stream.
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Shelley |
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Where is the
sovereign?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
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Sara Teasdale |
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All in
alternate
fours and threes*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O feet, where'er your path extends
I long enough
deceived
have erred.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And the charm of the carol rapt me,
As I held as if by their hands my
comrades
in the night,
And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Its Sybillic
splendor
is beaming
With Hope and in Beauty to-night--
See!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Out of earth's vast unknown of air,
Out of all summer, from wave to wave,
He'll perch, and prank his feathers fair,
Jangle a glass-clear wildering stave,
And take his commons there--
This tiny son of life; this spright,
By momentary Human sought,
Plume will his wing in the dappling light,
Clash timbrel shrill and gay--
And into time's
enormous
nought,
Sweet-fed, will flit away.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And still it lives, that keen and
heavenward
flame,
Lives in his eye, and trembles in his tone:
And these wild words of fury but proclaim
A heart that beats for thee, for thee alone!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Is it not
beautiful?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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When all the
children
sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky
With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The same as of yore
All that has
happened
once again must be.
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Rilke - Poems |
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O baffled, baulked, bent to the very earth,
Oppressed with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
Aware now that, amid all the blab whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not
once had the least idea who or what I am,
But that before all my
insolent
poems, the real ME stands yet untouched,
untold, altogether unreached,
Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows,
With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written,
Pointing in silence to all these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
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Whitman |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
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Troubador Verse |
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now tak kepe every man,
And herkeneth which a reson I shal bringe;
My wit is sharp, I love no taryinge; 565
I seye, I rede him, though he were my brother,
But she wol love him, lat him love
another!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The angel who came down to earth
With tidings of the peace so many years
Wept for in vain, that op'd the
heavenly
gates
From their long interdict, before us seem'd,
In a sweet act, so sculptur'd to the life,
He look'd no silent image.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For even in the shape and stature
of Polyphemus, when he shuts his fleeced flocks and drains their udders
in the cave's covert, an hundred other
horrible
Cyclopes dwell all about
this shore and stray on the mountain heights.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Mother, mother, up in heaven,
Stand up on the jasper sea,
And be witness I have given
All the gifts
required
of me,--
Hope that blessed me, bliss that crowned,
Love that left me with a wound,
Life itself that turneth round!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sooner then you read this line, did the gale,
Like shot, not fear'd till felt, our sailes assaile; 30
And what at first was call'd a gust, the same
Hath now a stormes, anon a
tempests
name.
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John Donne |
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The
Atlantic
is
a Lethean stream, in our passage over which we have had an opportunity
to forget the Old World and its institutions.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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1596 ful tyt;
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Italics uses
_underlines_
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~tildes~.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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And I go not knowing
Whether I've
offended
charms worth adoring.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The ice is glazing over,
Torn
lanterns
flutter,
On the leaves is snow.
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"--Horace
Canto The Second
[Note: Odessa,
December
1823.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The sewers his portion placed
Of meat before him, and the maiden, chief
Directress of the
household
gave him bread.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Hare
River
Landscape
with Hare
'River Landscape with Hare'
Abraham Genoels, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Lodewijk XIV, 1650 - 1690, The Rijksmuseun
Don't be fearful and lascivious
Like the hare and the amorous.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
conscious
air
Quiver'd, and awful horror raised the hair
On ev'ry head.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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If you wish, O
Madelaine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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When wilt thou cure thyself, spirit of the earth,
When wilt thou cure thyself of thy long fever,
That so
insanely
doth ferment in thee?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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VII
The light within her eyes, which slays Base thoughts and
stilleth
troubled waters,
Is like the gold where sunlight plays Upon the still overshadowed waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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When you read these I that was visible am become invisible,
Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me,
Fancying
how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;
Be it as if I were with you.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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OCTOBER
October woods wherein
The boy's dream comes to pass,
And Nature squanders on the boy her pomp,
And crowns him with a more than royal crown,
And unimagined
splendor
waits his steps.
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Emerson - Poems |
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though the crowded factories beget
The blindworm
Ignorance
that slays the soul, O tarry yet!
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Wilde - Poems |
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e
souereyne
goode of nature ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LXXXVIII
As, on a morn, a traveller might emerge
From the deep green
seclusion
of the hills,
By a cool road through forest and through fern,
Little frequented, winding, followed long
With joyous expectation and day-dreams, 5
And on a sudden, turning a great rock
Covered with frondage, dark with dripping water,
Behold the seaboard full of surf and sound,
With all the space and glory of the world
Above the burnished silver of the sea,-- 10
Even so it was upon that first spring day
When time, that is a devious path for men,
Led me all lonely to thy door at last;
And all thy splendid beauty, gracious and glad,
(Glad as bright colour, free as wind or air, 15
And lovelier than racing seas of foam)
Bore sense and soul and mind at once away
To a pure region where the gods might dwell,
Making of me, a vagrant child before,
A servant of joy at Aphrodite's will.
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Sappho |
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er we
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He loues vs not,
He wants the
naturall
touch.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Against me then the Saxon will rebel,
Hungar, Bulgar, and many hostile men,
Romain, Puillain, all those are in Palerne,
And in Affrike, and those in Califerne;
Afresh then will my pain and
suffrance
swell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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To him, his love for his wife and
children
is a beautiful thing, a
subject to speak and sing about as well as an emotion to feel.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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WILLOUGHBY-MEADE: One or two observations occur to me in
connection with the
translation
of this poetry into English.
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Li Po |
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Get us a little wax right off to make the
stoppers!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The wind
disturbs
my yellow locks,
The snow sleeps on my skin.
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John Clare |
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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Dianzi, ne l'alba che procede al giorno,
quando l'anima tua dentro dormia,
sovra li fiori ond' e la giu addorno
venne una donna, e disse: "I' son Lucia;
lasciatemi
pigliar costui che dorme;
si l'agevolero per la sua via".
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Er
schmeichelte
sie doch bei Seit,
Und von der Linde scholl es weit:
Juchhe!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Valuable
screw!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The
popular standard is of such a
character
that no artist can get to it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait
of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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if recreant in the fray
That huge bulk yield this ill-contested day,
Instant thou sail'st, to
Eschetus
resign'd;
A tyrant, fiercest of the tyrant kind,
Who casts thy mangled ears and nose a prey
To hungry dogs, and lops the man away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What prudence more than human did he need
To keep so dear, so
differing
minds agreed ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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" (Under the name of Silvanus he
couches that of Petrarch, in
allusion
to his love of rural retirement.
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Petrarch |
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The meadow grass could be
cemented
down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had inserted "Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is
indicated
on page 22.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Through all these
poems there sounds like a subdued
accompaniment
a note of gratitude for
the ability to thus vision the world, to be sunk in the music of all
things.
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Rilke - Poems |
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On yon long level plain, at distance crowned
With crags, whereon those Moorish turrets rest,
Wide scattered hoof-marks dint the wounded ground;
And, scathed by fire, the greensward's
darkened
vest
Tells that the foe was Andalusia's guest:
Here was the camp, the watch-flame, and the host,
Here the brave peasant stormed the dragon's nest;
Still does he mark it with triumphant boast,
And points to yonder cliffs, which oft were won and lost.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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