Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;
Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great
darkness
at broad noon,--
I, only I.
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In they rushed and killed the game, shooting lustily away;
And whene'er they slew a rebel, those who came too late for
slaying,
Not to lose a share of glory, fired their bullets in his clay;
And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
Saw his sons fall dead beside him, and between them laid him
down.
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"
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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At length they reached the sea; on ship-board got;
A quick and pleasing passage was their lot;
Delightfully
serene, which joy increased;
To land they came (from perils thought released;)
At Joppa they debarked; two days remained:
And when refreshed, the proper road they gained;
Their escort was the lover's train alone;
On Asia's shores to plunder bands are prone;
By these were met our spark and lovely fair;
New dangers they, alas!
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A singular circumstance
occurred
in this town on the
20th October, in the family of Deacon Pelatiah Tinkham.
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how
fallible
and vain
Is human judgment, dimmed by clouds obscure!
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The Imperial Patent on the Temple doors is written in letters of
gold;
For nuns'
quarters
and monks' cells ample space is allowed.
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"Is, then, the old faith dead,"
They say, "and in its stead
Is some new faith proclaimed,
That we are forced to remain
Naked to sun and rain,
Unsheltered and
ashamed?
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XXVIII
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
Bearing some trophy as an ornament,
Whose roots from earth are almost rent,
Though to the heavens it still lifts its head;
More than half-bowed towards its final bed,
Showing its naked boughs and fibres bent,
While, leafless now, its heavy crown is leant
Support by a gnarled trunk, its sap long bled;
And though at the first strong wind it must fall,
And many young oaks are rooted within call,
Alone among the devout
populace
is revered:
Who such an oak has seen, let him consider,
That, among cities which have flourished here,
This old honoured dust was the most honoured.
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1641 Gentleman's 1692,
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[253] 241 up.
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Shall a
beardless
boy,
A cock'red silken wanton, brave our fields
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?
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--
Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes
All that Life's
palpitating
tissues feel,
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy surprise?
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8 Such as these have come, touched by
imperial
grace, how can those feeble slaves grapple with them?
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Hung on the wire, between trenches, burning and freezing,
Groaning for water with armies of men so near;
The fall over cliff, the clutch at the rootless grass,
The beach rushing up, the whirling, the turning headfirst;
Stiff writhings of strychnine, taken in error or haste,
Angina pectoris, shudders of the heart;
Failure and crushing by flying weight to the ground,
Claws and jaws, the stink of a lion's breath;
Swimming, a white belly, a crescent of teeth,
Agony, and a spirting shredded limb,
And crimson blood
staining
the green water;
And, horror of horrors, the slow grind on the rack,
The breaking bones, the stretching and bursting skin,
Perpetual fainting and waking to see above
The down-thrust mocking faces of cruel men,
With the power of mercy, who gloat upon shrieks for mercy.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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There are, then, tenuous
effigies
of forms,
Like unto them, which no one can divine
When taken singly, which do yet give back,
When by continued and recurrent discharge
Expelled, a picture from the mirrors' plane.
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Yet 'mid the wreck of cities, and the pride
Of the green valleys and the isles laid low,
The crash of walls, the tumult waste and wide,
O'er sea and land; 'mid all this work of woe,
Vesuvius
still, though close its crater-glow,
Forgetful spares--Heaven wills that it should spare,
The lonely cell where kneels an aged priest in prayer.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Our
treasures
moth and rust corrupt,
Or thieves break through and steal, or they
Make themselves wings and fly away.
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say I love thee not,
When I against myself with thee
partake?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The yellow leopards, strained and lean,
The treacherous Russian knows so well,
With gaping blackened jaws are seen
Leap through the hail of
screaming
shell.
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Oh, some
scholar!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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It is a strange life,
patterned
in fire and letters
on the prison pavement.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But of his robe to devyse
I drede
encombred
for to be.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Mississippi,
discovery
of the, 90;
extent of the, 93;
a panorama of the, 224.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Dare you accept the tasks
He shall impose, to find a spring, trap foxes,
Tell the sun's time,
determine
the true north,
Or stumbling on through vast self-similar woods
To thread by night the nearest way to camp?
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a
succession
of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in variable positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Whoever laughs
somewhere
out in the night
Laughs without cause in the night
Laughs at me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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full
reckless
may ye flow,
Since Time hath reft whate'er my soul enjoyed,
And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloyed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THIS is just the kind of morning;
Balmy breaths o'er brook and tree
Make thine ear more keen and tender
Unto vows I hid for thee;
Sweet
petitions
softly dawning.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Hac ego
pnecipua
credo herbam dote placere,
Hinc tuus has nebulas doctor in astra veliit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Did he not straight
In pious rage, the two delinquents teare,
That were the Slaues of drinke, and
thralles
of sleepe?
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Between the tree-stems, marbled plain at first,
Came jasper pannels; then, anon, there burst
Forth creeping imagery of
slighter
trees,
And with the larger wove in small intricacies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sweet smiles, in the night
Hover over my
delight!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Let my father condescend to
understand
that that is the bill of my
master's goods which have been taken away by the rascals.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And--surely--
This should leave a man
content?
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Stephen Crane |
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I'm wrong, you didn't dance: your feet were fluttering
Over the surface of the ground, your body altering,
Its nature
transformed
that night to the divine.
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Ronsard |
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thy
plaintive
anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
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Golden Treasury |
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"
As day was dawning the party now broke up, each one
draining
his glass
and taking his leave.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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You stand before us with your gently mournful
Memory-haunted eyes and flower-like mouth,
Where
clinging
thoughts--as bees a-cluster
Murmur through the leafy gloom,
Musical in monotone--
Whisper sadly.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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183
He bare hym curteislich & tsllie,
To
fulfille
his faders wille,
Glad as he had ybe.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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One sacred to the nymphs apart they lay:
Another to the winged sons of May;
The rural tribe in common share the rest,
The king the chine, the honour of the feast,
Who sate
delighted
at his servant's board;
The faithful servant joy'd his unknown lord.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And forever it shall haunt you
With its mystic,
changing
ray:
Its light shall live when we lie dead,
With hearts at the heart of day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Paradoxical New England clerks,
Writing
inventories
in ledgers, reading the "Song of Solomon" at
night,
So many verses before bedtime,
Because it was the Bible.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thou
wanderer
through the woods,
How often has my spirit turned to thee!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Thus did alone, with every wand'ring wended
As goal, the shimmer of two eyelets glow,
Thus your faint song as song of the year ascended,
And all befell, since you
ordained
it so.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But, not content with such a
pleasing
prize,
His jealousy appeared without disguise,
Which greater admiration round her drew,
Who doubtless merited, in ev'ry view,
Attention from the first in rank or place
So elegant her form, so fine her face.
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La Fontaine |
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I won't speak common boasts or praise,
But truth, with a thousand witnesses,
Let all desire what I wish always,
The lance of love for the joyous
That wounds the
unprotected
heart
With friendship's pleasant pleasing;
Yet I have felt such blow's assailing,
That from the deepest sleep I start.
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Troubador Verse |
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Ah, my
Perilla!
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Robert Herrick |
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--In the difference of wits I have
observed there are many notes; and it is a little maistry to know them,
to discern what every nature, every
disposition
will bear; for before we
sow our land we should plough it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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VI
Heaven, you say, will be a field in April,
A
friendly
field, a long green wave of earth,
With one domed cloud above it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A
thousand
years the Earth cried, 'Where art thou?
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Shelley |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Iliad - Pope |
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_
Supposed
to be one of the
commonest signs of supernatural power.
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Keats |
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"
XXXV
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he
achieved
it--
It was clay.
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Stephen Crane |
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God that made all that goes or stays
And formed this love from afar
Grant me the power to hope one day
I'll see this love of mine afar,
Truly, and in a
pleasant
hour,
So that her chamber and her bower,
Might seem a palace to my eyes.
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Troubador Verse |
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at is
maydenes
spouse.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And again, when sleep
Has bound our members down in slumber soft
And all the body lies in deep repose,
Yet then we seem to self to be awake
And move our members; and in night's blind gloom
We think to mark the
daylight
and the sun;
And, shut within a room, yet still we seem
To change our skies, our oceans, rivers, hills,
To cross the plains afoot, and hear new sounds,
Though still the austere silence of the night
Abides around us, and to speak replies,
Though voiceless.
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Lucretius |
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goes on
thus: "And also the said Baldewyn, the said first yere of your noble
reign, at
Bristowe
in the shere of Bristowe, before Henry Erle of
Essex William Hastyngs of Hastyngs Knt.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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how shall you look for
wit from him whose leisure and head,
assisted
with the examination of his
eyes, yield you no life or sharpness in his writing?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'
And to the most of praise add
something
more;
But that is in my thought, whose love to you,
Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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(Knocked out of
professional
gravity, tramping across
flower-beds and shaking G's hands.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O could my former life be done away,
And in your recollection naught remain,
But what might virtuous constancy maintain
At all event, my frankness overlook,
Too well I see, the fatal path I took
Has such
displeasure
to your breast conveyed,
My zeal will rather hurt than give me aid;
But hurt or not, I'll idolize you still:
Beat, drive away, contemn me as you will;
Or worse, if you the torment can contrive
I'm your's alone, Camillus, while alive.
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La Fontaine |
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630
`A
whetston
is no kerving instrument,
And yet it maketh sharpe kerving-tolis.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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International
donations
are accepted, but we don't know ANYTHING about
how to make them tax-deductible, or even if they CAN be made
deductible, and don't have the staff to handle it even if there are
ways.
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Aristophanes |
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And if the prest wol him refuse,
I am ful redy him to accuse,
And him
punisshe
and hampre so, 6445
That he his chirche shal forgo.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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(78)
Then my
companions
young with pleasure
In the unfettered hours of leisure
Her utterances ever heard,
And by a partial temper stirred
And boiling o'er with friendly heat,
They first of all my brow did wreathe
And an encouragement did breathe
That my coy Muse might sing more sweet.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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How your
impudence
excites my passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This Ode, beyond doubt one of the finest in our language, and more in
Milton's style than has been reached by any other poet, is occasionally
obscure from imitation of the
condensed
Latin syntax.
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Golden Treasury |
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TO HIS
HOUSEHOLD
GODS.
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Robert Herrick |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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LES SEPT VIEILLARDS
A VICTOR HUGO
Fourmillante cite, cite pleine de reves,
Ou le spectre en plein jour raccroche le
passant!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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Most eloquent 'mid race of Romulus
That is or ever was (Marc
Tullius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to
incestuous
sheets!
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Shakespeare |
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CLXXXI
Rearing the
insidious
blade, the pair are near
The place, where round King Charles' pavilion
Are tented warlike paladin and peer,
Guarding the side that each is camped upon.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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It ceased; yet still the sails made on
A
pleasant
noise till noon,
A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O, my good lord, when I was like this maid,
I found you
wondrous
kind.
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Shakespeare |
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I then explored my thought, what course to prove
(And sure the thought was dictated by Jove):
Oh, had he left me to that happier doom,
And saved a life of
miseries
to come!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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It reaches to the fence,
It wraps it, rail by rail,
Till it is lost in fleeces;
It flings a crystal veil
On stump and stack and stem, --
The summer's empty room,
Acres of seams where
harvests
were,
Recordless, but for them.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but
asserted
by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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T.S. Eliot |
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