"Still rule those minds on earth
At whom sage Milton's
wormwood
words were hurled:
'_Truth like a bastard comes into the world_
_Never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth_'?
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With these faults, Ovid had such
enchanting
graces, that his style and
manner infected every branch of literature.
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In thieving thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high,
surmounted
by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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And he: 'Why seek to
frighten
me, fierce man, now my son is gone?
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What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore,
The Muse herself, for her enchanting son,
Whom
universal
nature did lament,
When by the rout that made the hideous roar
His gory visage down the stream was sent,
Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
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Golden Treasury |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And if my flute can breathe sweet melody,
We may behold Her face who long ago
Dwelt among men by the AEgean sea,
And whose sad house with
pillaged
portico
And friezeless wall and columns toppled down
Looms o'er the ruins of that fair and violet cinctured town.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's
pleasant
king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
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Golden Treasury |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Imagists |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It holds the road west to the Ruo River, 16 it guards the borders of Fuhan
Commandery
to the south.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Who when their powres empaird through labour long, 10
With dew repast they had recured well,
And that weake captive wight now wexed strong,
Them list no lenger there at leasure dwell,
But forward fare, as their adventures fell,
But ere they parted, Una faire besought 15
That straunger knight his name and nation tell;
Least so great good, as he for her had wrought,
Should die unknown, and buried be in
thanklesse?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Admire we, then, what earth's low
entrails
hold, }
Arabian shores, or Indian seas infold.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"
And at the
blindness
of my spirit
They screamed,
"Fool!
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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I know how this
profession
stands to-day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Why do you wish me to write
to Prince
Banojik?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Woe and alack for the sound,
for the rattle of cars to the wall,
And the creak of the
grinding
axles!
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Aeschylus |
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Then, let him sorrow as he might,
And pledge his
daughter
and his throne
To who restored the jewel bright,
The broken spell would ne'er unite;
The grim old ocean held its own.
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James Russell Lowell |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"A
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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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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Aristophanes |
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I cannot smile again:
Yet Heaven avert that ever thou
Shouldst
weep, and haply weep in vain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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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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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Cosi
rispuose
allora il duca mio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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She went that evening from the abbey gray,
Her task
committing
to another's hand;
-- Left it to Fraud to feed, till her return,
The war, and make the fires she kindled burn;
XXVII
And she believed, that she with greater power
Should go, did Pride with her as well repair;
And she (for all were guested in one bower)
In search of her had little way to fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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at Salamon set sum-quyle,
In
bytoknyng
of traw?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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False terrors our
believing
fears devise,
And the French army one from Calais spies.
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Marvell - Poems |
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sez he, "I guess
There's human blood," sez he,
"By fits an' starts, in Yankee hearts,
Though 't may
surprise
J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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Nearing the sea, the river grows broader and broader:
Approaching
autumn,--the nights longer and longer.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Denique testis erit morti quoque reddita praeda,
Cum terrae ex celso coacervatum aggere bustum
Excipiet
niveos percussae virginis artus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That ought to be sufficient for those American
Intellectuals
who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Caterpillar
Plants,
Caterpillars
and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II), Johannes Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Beowulf |
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He becomes
Mere fool, since energy of mind and soul
Confounded
is, and, as I've shown, to-riven,
Asunder thrown, and torn to pieces all
By the same venom.
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Lucretius |
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While to the eastward holding straight,
With rhythmical thrust and mighty drive,
Every inch of her palpitate, Keenly,
powerfully
alive,
The "Commonwealth" speeds over the sound As a strong swimmer breasts the sea,
Alert and sure, through a world around,
Wrapped in silence and mystery.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Treveri 155 and Nervii 156 are ambitious of being thought of German origin; as if the
reputation
of this descent would distinguish them from the Gauls, whom they resemble in person and effeminacy.
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Tacitus |
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REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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ELDRED On a ridge of rocks
A
lonesome
Chapel stands, deserted now:
The bell is left, which no one dares remove;
And, when the stormy wind blows o'er the peak,
It rings, as if a human hand were there
To pull the cord.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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What daemon
introduced
this nuisance here,
This troubler of our feast?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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What porcelain vase by you was split
To
thousand
pieces?
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Hugo - Poems |
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On your hand as it waved adieu
There were veins of blue;
In your voice as it said good-bye
Was a
petulant
cry,
'You have only wasted your life.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Let the glad lark-song
Over the meadow, 30
That melting lyric
Of molten silver,
Be for a signal
To
listening
mortals,
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Non fu nostra intenzion ch'a destra mano
d'i nostri successor parte sedesse,
parte da l'altra del popol cristiano;
ne che le chiavi che mi fuor concesse,
divenisser
signaculo in vessillo
che contra battezzati combattesse;
ne ch'io fossi figura di sigillo
a privilegi venduti e mendaci,
ond' io sovente arrosso e disfavillo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Could you guess what word she
uttered?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Pour n'etre pas changes en betes, ils s'enivrent
D'espace et de lumiere et de cieux embrases;
La glace qui les mord, les soleils qui les cuivrent,
Effacent
lentement la marque des baisers.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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how else from bonds be freed,
Or
otherwhere
find gods so nigh to aid?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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or sprung of the
needs of the less
developed
society of special ranks?
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Whitman |
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_ O
Strength
and Force, for you, our Zeus's will
Presents a deed for doing, no more!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Come, lay thee in my
soothing
shade,
And heal the hurts which sin has made.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Perhaps, with head and heels on fire,
And like the very soul of evil,
He's
galloping
away, away,
And so he'll gallop on for aye,
The bane of all that dread the devil.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And oft, robb'd of my perfect mind, I thought
At last my feet a resting-place had found:
Here will I weep in peace, (so fancy wrought,)
Roaming the illimitable waters round;
Here watch, of every human friend disowned,
All day, my ready tomb the ocean-flood--
To break my dream the vessel reached its bound:
And homeless near a
thousand
homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined, and wanted food.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
She
somewhat
smil'd, then spake: "If mortals err
In their opinion, when the key of sense
Unlocks not, surely wonder's weapon keen
Ought not to pierce thee; since thou find'st, the wings
Of reason to pursue the senses' flight
Are short.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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blake-poems |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The Mountain Ephraim calld out to the
mountain
Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes,
By many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired,
Where mighty pillars, in majestic rows,
Seemed like
basaltic
caves when day expired.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Notes: The Lord of
Excideuil
is Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
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Troubador Verse |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: Omar Khayyam
Translator: Edward Fitzgerald
Posting Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #246]
Release Date: April, 1995
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Contents:
Introduction.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This Diomede, of whom yow telle I gan,
Goth now, with-inne him-self ay arguinge
With al the
sleighte
and al that ever he can,
How he may best, with shortest taryinge,
In-to his net Criseydes herte bringe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Oh ignota
ricchezza!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Then,
hurrying
to the voice of
the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So they ate and drank, talked and laughed about Mark with his long
crane-like legs, and Sir
Tristram
took a harp and sang a song.
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Tennyson |
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HARDCASTLE MARLOW
TONY LUMPKIN KATE HARDCASTLE
HASTINGS
SIR CHARLES MARLOW
MRS.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Meredith - Poems |
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We spoke in a low voice Marya
Ivanofna
reproached
me tenderly for the anxiety my quarrel with Chvabrine had occasioned
her.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All this quite points to, and partly explains, the charm of the poems in
_ A
Shropshire
Lad _.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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That first mild touch of
sympathy
and thought, 115
In which they found their kindred with a world
Where want and sorrow were.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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J'ai plus de
souvenirs
que si j'avais mille ans.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And, indeed,
This is a cloister that a man could like,
This blue-aired space of grassy land, that here,
Just as it touches the sea's bitter mood,
Is troubled into dunes, as it were thrilled,
Like a calm woman
trembling
against love.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Alcides too shall be my theme,
And Leda's twins, for horses be,
He famed for boxing; soon as gleam
Their stars at sea,
The lash'd spray
trickles
from the steep,
The wind sinks down, the storm-cloud flies,
The threatening billow on the deep
Obedient lies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A Civil Surgeon
who never
quarrels
is a rarity, appreciated as such.
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Kipling - Poems |
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But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the
youthful
harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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