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_Fearing
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Hence a grave frigid rheum and
frequent
cough
Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And, by that amorous hope which soothed thy care,
What time
expectant
thou wert doom'd to sigh
Dispel those vapours which disturb our sky!
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Mussulmans
and Giaours
Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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LIII
THE TRUE LOVER
The lad came to the door at night,
When lovers crown their vows,
And
whistled
soft and out of sight
In shadow of the boughs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now I reform, and surely so will all
Whose happy eyes on thy
translation
fall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
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Euripides - Electra |
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If still Boris pursue his crafty ways,
Let us
contrive
by skilful means to rouse
The people.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Nor shall the
grateful
Muse forget to tell,
That--not the least among his many claims
To deathless honor--he was MILTON'S friend,
A man not second among those who lived 330
To show us that the poet's lyre demands
An arm of tougher sinew than the sword.
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James Russell Lowell |
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THAT
DIVELISH
YRON ENGIN, cannon.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--"O faultless is her dainty form,
And luminous her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect
womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But to the grete effect: than sey I thus, 505
That stonding in concord and in quiete,
Thise ilke two,
Criseyde
and Troilus,
As I have told, and in this tyme swete,
Save only often mighte they not mete,
Ne layser have hir speches to fulfelle, 510
That it befel right as I shal yow telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Cleomenes
and Dion,
Being well arriv'd from Delphos, are both landed,
Hasting to th' court.
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Shakespeare |
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Life flows down to death; we cannot bind
That current that it should not flee:
Life flows down to death, as rivers find
The
inevitable
sea.
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Christina Rossetti |
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LVI
Much weighs the Grecian's eloquence; but more
Than
eloquence
with good Rogero weighed
The mighty obligation which he bore;
That debt which cannot ever be repaid.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And ye, weak
conquerors!
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Shelley |
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wile,
_I know my
gracious
H.
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Beowulf |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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Nunc est mens adducta_ || _tua, mea Lesbia, culpa, Atque ita se
officio perdidit ipsa suo, Vt iam nec bene uelle queam tibi, si
optima fias, Nec
desistere
amare, omnia si facias.
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Latin - Catullus |
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, "_written three
hundred years ago by one Rowley, a Monk_"
concerning
dress in the age
of Henry II; the other, "ETHELGAR, _a Saxon poem_" in bombast prose.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
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ANYTHING
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Rilke - Poems |
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8
_affixus_
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Latin - Catullus |
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_pro quibus_) G || _pregestit apisci_ G,
sed rasura est sub litteris _re_, et spatium ante _apisci_:
_p'gestit adipisci_ O: _apisci_ RVenBLa1ACDh
148 _meminere_ Czalina
151
_falaci_
G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Let me tell you, my friends, the whole question depends
On an ancient
manorial
right.
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Empty, unless for a huge bed of state
Shrouded with rusty curtains drooped awry
(A puppet theatre where
malignant
fancy
Peoples the wings with fear).
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_Crowdie time_,
breakfast
time.
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Robert Burns |
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Protect your honour from
shameful
reproach, 1335
And ensure your father's vow is revoked.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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He threw with
weighted
dice.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou clears the head o'doited Lear;
Thou cheers ahe heart o' drooping Care;
Thou strings the nerves o' Labour sair,
At's weary toil;
Though even
brightens
dark Despair
Wi' gloomy smile.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I
worshipped
the god's temple, an ancient pile of
stone.
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The
fountain
rears up in long
broken spears of disheveled water and flattens into the earth.
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Imagists |
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What are you
cackling
of bastardy under the Queen's own
nose?
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As the municipal
government had made a particular ass of itself in the prosecution of
Gustave
Flaubert
and his Madame Bovary, the Baudelaire matter was
disposed of in haste.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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), has been
illuminatingly
developed in an
unpublished monograph by Mr.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[Illustration]
The Absolutely
Abstemious
Ass,
who resided in a Barrel, and only lived on
Soda Water and Pickled Cucumbers.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
And the
daughter
spoke, and she said: "O hateful woman, selfish
and old!
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Summoning
spirits isn't "Button, button,
Who's got the button?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Tierri, the King takes in his arms to kiss;
And wipes his face with his great marten-skins;
He lays them down, and others then they bring;
The
chevaliers
most sweetly disarm him;
An Arab mule they've brought, whereon he sits.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Che voce avrai tu piu, se vecchia scindi
da te la carne, che se fossi morto
anzi che tu
lasciassi
il 'pappo' e 'l 'dindi',
pria che passin mill' anni?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter she
is
perfectly
satisfied.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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as early as I knew
This town, I had the sense to hate it too;
Yet here; as even in hell, there must be still
One giant-vice, so
excellently
ill,
That all beside, one pities, not abhors;
As who knows Sappho, smiles at other whores.
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you seeme to
vnderstand
me,
By each at once her choppie finger laying
Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women,
And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete
That you are so
Mac.
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|| _Canopieis_ Auantius: _gratia ca_(_co_
O)_nopicis_
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hold me, my love — I know the answer now, O wayward, ever
wandering
feet of man— Always the journey ends where it began !
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But into some dark corner gliding,
'Mong beggars and
cripples
wilt be hiding;
And even should God thy sin forgive,
Wilt be curs'd on earth while thou shalt live!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Whose grievous fall, when false Duessa spide,
Her golden cup she cast unto the ground,
And crowned mitre rudely threw aside;
Such percing griefe her stubborne hart did wound, 220
That she could not endure that dolefull stound,
But leaving all behind her, fled away;
The light-foot Squire her quickly turnd around,
And by hard meanes enforcing her to stay,
So brought unto his Lord, as his
deserved
pray.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Some must go off: and yet by these I see,
So great a day as this is
cheapely
bought
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Da l'ora ch'io avea
guardato
prima
i' vidi mosso me per tutto l'arco
che fa dal mezzo al fine il primo clima;
si ch'io vedea di la da Gade il varco
folle d'Ulisse, e di qua presso il lito
nel qual si fece Europa dolce carco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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You were always afraid of a shower,
Just like a flower:
I
remember
you started and ran
When the rain began.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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They pass through meteor changes with a song
Which to all islands and all continents
Says life is neither comfort, wealth, nor fame,
Nor quiet hearthstones, friendship, wife nor child,
Nor love, nor youth's delight, nor manhood's power,
Nor many days spent in a chosen work,
Nor honored merit, nor the
patterned
theme
Of daily labor, nor the crowns nor wreaths
Of seventy years.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Honoured
father, long
Have I desired to ask thee of the death
Of young Dimitry, the tsarevich; thou,
'Tis said, wast then at Uglich.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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They left
their sweet lives or dragged
themselves
on in misery; Sirius scorched
the fields into barrenness; the herbage grew dry, and the sickly harvest
denied sustenance.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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His words are music in my ear,
I see his cowled
portrait
dear;
And yet, for all his faith could see,
I would not the good bishop be.
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Emerson - Poems |
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No chapter met, howe'er, when morrow came;
Another day arrived, and still the same;
The sages of the convent thought it best,
In fact, to let the mystick
business
rest.
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La Fontaine |
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) Thus to the expiatory tomb,
Untimely
sepulchre, I do devote thee
In the name of Lalage!
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Poe - 5 |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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She dropt as softly as a star
From out my summer's eve;
Less skilful than Leverrier
It's sorer to
believe!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Other matters than his poems and
socialities
claimed the attention of
Burns in Edinburgh.
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Robert Forst |
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"
He thus: "Not if thy
Countenance
were mask'd
With hundred vizards, could a thought of thine
How small soe'er, elude me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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O what
coueiten
proude folke to liften vpon hire nekkes in
ydel {and} dedely ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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11 Seeing Off My Cousin Ya on His Way to His Post as
Administrative
Assistant in Anxi The south wind makes sounds of autumn,1 the atmosphere of destruction presses the blazing heat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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In Argos about the fold,
A story
lingereth
yet,
A voice of the mountains old,
That tells of the Lamb of Gold:
A lamb from a mother mild,
But the gold of it curled and beat;
And Pan, who holdeth the keys of the wild,
Bore it to Atreus' feet:
His wild reed pipes he blew,
And the reeds were filled with peace,
And a joy of singing before him flew,
Over the fiery fleece:
And up on the based rock,
As a herald cries, cried he:
"Gather ye, gather, O Argive folk,
The King's Sign to see,
The sign of the blest of God,
For he that hath this, hath all!
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Euripides - Electra |
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The
Princely
revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn;
But are their hearts as light as ours,
Beneath the milk-white thorn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
XIII
The daughter of Duke Aymon stood aghast,
And silent listened to the speech; while she
Knew not, sore
marvelling
at all that passed,
If 'twere a dream or a reality.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Many a purse-string, many a thread
Of gold and silver therein spread,
_Many a counter, many a die,
Half rotten and without an eye,
Lies here about_, and, as we guess,
Some bits of thimbles seem to dress
The brave cheap work; _and for to pave
The excellency of this cave,
Squirrels
and children's teeth late shed_,
Serve here, both which _enchequered_
With castors' doucets, which poor they
Bite off themselves to 'scape away:
Brown _toadstones_, ferrets' eyes, _the gum
That shines_," etc.
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Robert Herrick |
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--But for thee, the band
Of Spirits dread, down, down, in very wrath,
Shall sink beside that Hill, making their path
Through a dim chasm, the which shall aye be trod
By
reverent
feet, where men may speak with God.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And somebody has lost the face
That made
existence
home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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[_A Psalm of many voices strikes their ears, and through
the street pass old men chanting,
followed
and
answered by a troop of young men_.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For I
remember
stopping by the way
To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:
And with its all-obliterated Tongue
It murmur'd--"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I miss the heath, its yellow furze,
Molehills and rabbit tracks that lead
Through beesom, ling, and teazel burrs
That spread a wilderness indeed;
The woodland oaks and all below
That their white powdered
branches
shield,
The mossy paths: the very crow
Croaks music in my native field.
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John Clare |
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He with his
consorted
Eve 50
The storie heard attentive, and was fill'd
With admiration, and deep Muse to heare
Of things so high and strange, things to thir thought
So unimaginable as hate in Heav'n,
And Warr so neer the Peace of God in bliss
With such confusion: but the evil soon
Driv'n back redounded as a flood on those
From whom it sprung, impossible to mix
With Blessedness.
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He found there a people who, far inferior to the Athenians
and Corinthians in the fine arts, in the
speculative
sciences,
and in all the refinements of life, were the best soldiers on the
face of the earth.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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When
_snells_
were mentioned
they went out in the dark and plucked some.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Riddell's Birthday
4th
November
1793.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" return'd she tenderly:
"You have
deserted
me--where am I now?
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Keats - Lamia |
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, ceteris posset haberi
praestabilior, nisi tot
tantasque
passus esset correctiones ut non raro
uix dinoscatur quid uetus scriba exararit, quid emendator intulerit.
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Latin - Catullus |
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This method is easily
distinguishable from the typical, which aims to
satirize
a class.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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The
dictatorial
wreath,--couldst thou divine
To what would one day dwindle that which made
Thee more than mortal?
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Of his
own accord he attached himself as a companion to us;
no one knows who he is, no one knows whence he comes--
and yet he gives himself grand airs; perhaps he has a
close
acquaintance
with the pillory.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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5600
But the povre that recchith nought,
Save of his lyflode, in his thought,
Which that he getith with his travaile,
He dredith nought that it shal faile,
Though he have lytel worldis good, 5605
Mete and drinke, and esy food,
Upon his travel and living,
And also
suffisaunt
clothing.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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