The greete kynge Brutus thanne theie dyd hym greete, 25
Prepared for battle, mareschalled the syghte;
Theie urg'd the warre, the natyves fledde, as flete
As
fleaynge
cloudes that swymme before the syghte;
Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie,
Theie uncted[21] Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie.
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_sanxit_
Itali
22 _seculorum_ GORB.
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Then if to see my verses burn,
Should seem to you a
pleasant
turn,
Take them to freely tear away
Or burn.
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow
sharpened
in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.
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Macneile
Dixon_
"WHEN THERE IS PEACE"
"_When there is Peace our land no more
Will be the land we knew of yore.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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He created an ideal
country where
everything
was possible, even speaking in verse, or
speaking in music, or the expression of the whole of life in a dance,
and I would like to see Stratford-on-Avon decorate its Shakespeare with
like scenery.
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Yeats |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Thy friend, whom 208
Westmoreland
MS.
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John Donne |
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XCIII
When in the spring the swallows all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its
thunders
softened to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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with looks intent
Again she stretch'd, again she bent,
Nor knew the gulf between--
Malignant
Fate sat by and smiled--
The slippery verge her feet beguiled;
She tumbled headlong in!
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Golden Treasury |
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He
welcomed
us as night?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They are Infernal sounds
only that you hear,--the crowing of cocks, the barking of dogs, the
chopping of wood, the lowing of kine, all seem to come from Pluto's
barnyard and beyond the Styx,--not for any
melancholy
they suggest,
but their twilight bustle is too solemn and mysterious for earth.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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No
disguise
avails!
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Longfellow |
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El
comincio
liberamente a dire:
<
qu'ieu no me puesc ni voill a vos cobrire.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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He'll watch the
horologe
a double set,
If drink rock not his cradle.
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Shakespeare |
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Had it been the work of a later period of life, it
would have been
different
in some respects from what it is now.
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IV
JEUNESSE
I
DIMANCHE
Les calculs de cote, l'inevitable descente du ciel, la visite des
souvenirs et la seance des rythmes
occupent
la demeure, la tete et le
monde de l'esprit.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
movement
of your hands is the long, golden running of light from
a rising sun;
It is the hopping of birds upon a garden-path.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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;
costume, xxxviii;
identical
with fool, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix f.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Extinguish
my eyes, I still can see you,
Close my ears, I can hear your footsteps fall,
And without feet I still can follow you,
And without voice I still can to you call.
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Rilke - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O humankind
unhappy!
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Lucretius |
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"
The knight thence pursues his journey by strange paths, over hill and
moor,
encountering
on his way not only serpents, wolves, bulls, bears,
and boars, but wood satyrs and giants.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import
forgetfulness
in me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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every hill replies;
And still the mountain-echoes trill the lay,
Till blushing morn brings on the
noiseful
day.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Keats |
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Poetic Art
For Charles Morice
Music above everything,
The
Imbalanced
preferred
Vaguer more soluble in air
Nothing weighty, fixed therein.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Children, ye heard his
promise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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'Twas my delight to watch your will,
And mark you point with finger-tips
To help your spelling out a word;
To see the pearls between your lips
When I your joyous
laughter
heard;
Your honest brows that looked so true,
And said "Oh, yes!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Next he strikes Lichas, cut from his
mother already dead, and consecrated, Phoebus, to thee, since his
infancy was granted escape from the
perilous
steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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155
In
prospects
thus, some objects please our eyes,
Which out of nature's common order rise,
The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice.
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Alexander Pope |
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At distance I forgive thee; go with that;
Bewail thy falsehood, and the pious works
It hath brought forth to make thee memorable
Among
illustrious
women, faithful wives.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Much
pleasure
we have lost, while we abstain'd
From this delightful Fruit, nor known till now
True relish, tasting; if such pleasure be
In things to us forbidden, it might be wish'd,
For this one Tree had bin forbidden ten.
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Milton |
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a sound,
Far and slight,
Breathes
around
On the night
High and higher,
Nigh and nigher,
Like a fire,
Roaring, bright.
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Hugo - Poems |
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_Et nobis pueris insignes pro Voluseno
Catulo Domitii Afri
orationes
ferebantur.
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Tacitus |
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Keats - Lamia |
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) or less
politely
(?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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`Nay' (so, dear Heart, thou
whisperest
in my soul),
`'Tis a half time, yet Time will make it whole.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But (for it promised vantage) he till night
The assault of their
cantonments
will delay,
Till the third watch or fourth, when heavy sleep
Their senses shall in Lethe's water steep.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What a
shameful
deed!
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Aristophanes |
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To
reverse that process, to
transform
some portions of early Roman
history back into the poetry out of which they were made, is the
object of this work.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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She is praised by
contrast
with the
antitype, Thryth, just as Beowulf was praised by contrast with
Heremod.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But conjugal affection
Prevailing
over fear, and timerous doubt 740
Hath led me on desirous to behold
Once more thy face, and know of thy estate.
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Milton |
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Good valiant Franks, a
thousand
score I'll keep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Strange in this dream-like place, so drear and lone,
The guest
expected
should be living one!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Honour to
Proculeius!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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said Enion
accursed
wretch!
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Blake - Zoas |
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But there he hangs for tavern sign,
With foolish bold regard
For cock and hen and
loitering
men
And wagons down the yard.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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) be the
Phrygian
leas
And summery Nicaea's fertile downs: 5
Fly we to Asia's fame-illumined towns.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
What joy, for
fatherland
to die!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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limitation
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the applicable state law.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
Ceased the full choir, all heaven was hushed to hear,
Bowed the fair face, still wet with many a tear,
In depths of space, the rolling worlds were stayed,
Whilst the Eternal in the
infinite
said:
"O king, I kept thee far from human state,
Who hadst a dungeon only for thy throne,
O son, rejoice, and bless thy bitter fate,
The slavery of kings thou hast not known,
What if thy wasted arms are bleeding yet,
And wounded with the fetter's cruel trace,
No earthly diadem has ever set
A stain upon thy face.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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But, O
pigtails
of Rome, still I'm entrammled in you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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]
[Sidenote J: His spurs are then fixed,]
[Sidenote K: and his sword is
attached
to his side by a silken girdle.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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CXLVIII
Then Rollant looked upon Olivier's face;
Which was all wan and
colourless
and pale,
While the clear blood, out of his body sprayed,
Upon the ground gushed forth and ran away.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And aid this house
unjustly?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The
feasting
day
Shall surely come; now I must needs away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This bliss be mine,
ungrudged
of God, to feel--
To tread no city to the dust,
Nor see my own life thrust
Down to a slave's estate beneath another's heel!
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Aeschylus |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Donations are
accepted
in a number of other
ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And, as Virginius through the press his way in silence cleft,
Ever the mighty
multitude
fell back to right and left.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thus is formed
one-tenth of the population of London:
meanwhile
the evil is twofold.
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Shelley |
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)--
Caught by the under-death,
In the drawing of a breath,
Down went dauntless Craven,
He and his
hundred!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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[32] Confucius was
maltreated
in Ch'?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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gentle deeds; 5
Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broade emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall
moralize
my song.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Our
neighboring
gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If Frenchman Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Who
assisted
thee to ravage and to plunder;
I trow thou hadst full many wicked comrades.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"_CON tal que las costumbres de un autor_," says Don Thomas de las
Torres, in the preface to his "Amatory Poems" _"sean puras y castas,
importo muy poco que no sean igualmente severas sus obras"_--meaning,
in plain English, that, provided the morals of an author are pure
personally, it
signifies
nothing what are the morals of his books.
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Poe - 5 |
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Came, too, on Agamemnon's hall
A lion-pair, twin
swordsmen
strong.
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Aeschylus |
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Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun,
Disporting
there like any other fly,
Nor deemed before his little day was done
One blast might chill him into misery.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Hence Offa was praised
for his
fighting
and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Li Po |
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'
He swor hire, `Yis, by stokkes and by stones,
And by the goddes that in hevene dwelle, 590
Or elles were him levere, soule and bones,
With Pluto king as depe been in helle
As
Tantalus!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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BOOK III
PROEM
O thou who first uplifted in such dark
So clear a torch aloft, who first shed light
Upon the profitable ends of man,
O thee I follow, glory of the Greeks,
And set my footsteps
squarely
planted now
Even in the impress and the marks of thine--
Less like one eager to dispute the palm,
More as one craving out of very love
That I may copy thee!
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Lucretius |
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She now lies out of
commission
in
Rotten Row, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now shake the glittering nimbus of thy hair,
And be God's witness that the elemental
New springs of life are gushing everywhere
To cleanse the watercourses, and prevent all
Concrete
obstructions
which infest the air!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet,
Per
consulatum
peierat Vatinius:
Quid est, Catulle?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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" Addison had been
mentioned
in the 'Spectator'
(No.
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Alexander Pope |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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not
stoundes
whiche ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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" said I, hastily,
interrupting
him.
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(This
file was produced from images
generously
made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.
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A score of airy miles will smooth
Rough
Monadnoc
to a gem.
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Emerson - Poems |
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TO DIANEME
Give me one kiss,
And no more:
If so be, this
Makes you poor
To enrich you,
I'll restore
For that one, two-
Thousand
score.
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SUTTEE
Lamp of my life, the lips of Death
Hath blown thee out with their sudden breath;
Naught shall revive thy
vanished
spark .
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Two things--a portrait and a map there were--
Here hung the
pictured
world, an infant there:
That framed his genius, this enshrined his love.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I was
surprised
to hear that any one who pretended in the least to the
manners of the gentleman, should be so foolish, or worse, as to stoop
to traduce the morals of such a one as I am, and so inhumanly cruel,
too, as to meddle with that late most unfortunate, unhappy part of my
story.
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Robert Forst |
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My old
retainer
at last
decided to get up on the top of the stove,[25] while the host lay down
on the floor.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Drunk with love,
But with confused and bashful air,
Lenski at intervals would dare,
If Olga
smilingly
approve,
Dally with a dishevelled tress
Or kiss the border of her dress.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'igh and Galloway were
suspected
to be hrlUed by
Lor.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my
brothers
more?
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blake-poems |
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