In all our delay before that
obstinate
Trojan city, it was Hector and
Aeneas whose hand stayed the Grecian victory and bore back its advance
to the tenth year.
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The Church already is o'erworked with care
Of its
dyspeptic
stomach.
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Though barr'd from all which led me first to love
By
coldness
or caprice,
Not yet from its firm bent can passion cease!
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Petrarch |
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SEMYON
NIKITICH
GODUNOV, secret agent of Boris Godunov.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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")
"And folk who sup on things like these--"
He muttered, "eggs and bacon--
Lobster--and duck--and toasted cheese--
If they don't get an awful squeeze,
I'm very much
mistaken!
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Lewis Carroll |
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o
eufemian
was y-war
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Those cheap
utilities
of rain and sun
Describe the foolish circle of our years,
Until death takes us, doing all undone,
And there's an end at last to hopes and fears.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And she watches them with
amusement as they flutter about her, petting her as if she were a
nice child, a child or a toy, not dreaming that she is saying to
herself sorrowfully: "How utterly empty their lives must be of
all
spiritual
beauty IF they are nothing more than they appear to be.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Carman has
undertaken
in attempting to give us
in English verse those lost poems of Sappho of which fragments have
survived.
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Sappho |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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hit
clatered
in ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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His younger brother John
succeeded
him as king.
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Troubador Verse |
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'49 Pitholeon:'
the name of a foolish poet
mentioned
by Horace.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Z
[Illustration]
Z was a Zebra striped
And
streaked
with lines of black;
Papa said once, he thought he'd like
A ride upon his back.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Durft ich Euch wohl ein andermal beschweren,
Von Eurer
Weisheit
auf den Grund zu horen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[_They
struggle
with _Constables_; the women help
them; all disappear struggling.
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Yeats |
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This poem
may be
regarded
as a prelude to 'The Holy Grail'.
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Tennyson |
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Good love shulde
engendrid
be
Of trewe herte, iust, and secree, 5090
And not of such as sette her thought
To have her lust, and ellis nought,
So are they caught in Loves lace,
Truly, for bodily solace.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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What fine, new
matters?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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thy lineage shared,
And watch'd all night, all day, a
faithful
guard.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Darthula
will enter the battle of steel.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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XIX
This cause made him who in his fury shared,
Good Buovo's bastard, seems a lion fell;
He, without pause, each trusty helmet pared
With his good blade, or crushed it like the shell
Of brittle egg: and who would not have dared --
Would not have shown a Hector's worth as well,
Having two such
companions
in the stower,
Of warlike wights the very choice and flower?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--a shine of hope
Came gold around me,
cheering
me to cope 690
Strenuous with hellish tyranny.
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Keats |
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Wait not to feel the might
Of the potentest spell in all my
treasure!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Friends, do you hear the sacred
formula?
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Aristophanes |
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Keats - Lamia |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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Well hast thou
counselled
me.
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Euripides - Electra |
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There perish'd all
The valiant partners of my toils, and I
My vessel's keel
embracing
day and night 310
With folded arms, nine days was borne along.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Take
yourself
off.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O Beauty, let me know again
The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters
figuring
sky, The one star risen.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Their ribbons just beyond the eye,
They
struggle
some for breath,
And yet the crowd applauds below;
They would not encore death.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XII
For all the
Etruscan
armies
Were ranged beneath his eye,
And many a banished Roman,
And many a stout ally;
And with a mighty following
To join the muster came
The Tusculan Mamilius,
Prince of the Latian name.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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O friend, my friend, as God might be my friend,
Thou only hast not
trampled
on my tears.
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Euripides - Electra |
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2
Watch with me, men, women, and
children
dear,
You whom I love, for whom I hope and fear,
Watch with me this last vigil of the year.
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Christina Rossetti |
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'
The
_Alcestis_
is a very clear instance of this Pro-satyric class of
play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my forehead stopped,
And
wandered
in my face.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Behold,
It is a river, through the permission sent
As through a snarling
breakage
in a cliff;
Turned like a hated thing away from God;
Spat out, the water of man's life, to spill
Down bleak gullies, and thrid the gangways dark
Through the reluctant hills, pouring as if
It knew God were ashamed of it.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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yond the sonne, the candel of
Ielosye!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Sound be your sleep, and
delectable
your dreams!
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Robert Burns |
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Je vous fais chaque soir un
solennel
adieu!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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It is believed that, if the victors had gone
immediately to Venice, they might have taken the city, which was
defenceless, and in a state of consternation; but the Genoese preferred
returning home to
announce
their triumph, and to partake in the public
joy.
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Petrarch |
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But there is one more strong,
Love, that came laughing from the elder seas,
The Cyprian, the mother of the world;
She gave me love who only asked for death--
I who had seen much sorrow in men's eyes
And in my own too
sorrowful
a fire.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you are willing to pledge me your heart, lover,
I'll offer mine: and so we will grasp entire
All the
pleasures
of life, and no strange desire
Will make my spirit prisoner to another.
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Ronsard |
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Hold up those hands of innocence--go, scare your sheep, together,
The blundering, tripping tups that bleat behind the old bell-wether;
And if they snuff the taint and break to find another pen,
Tell them it's tar that
glistens
so, and daub them yours again!
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Kipling - Poems |
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How men are disappointed in their most
expensive
undertakings,
for want of this true Foundation, without which nothing can please long,
if at all: and the best Examples and Rules will but be perverted into
something burdensome or ridiculous, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Li Po |
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But that's little use to me,
She holds me in
suspense
I vow
Like a ship upon the sea.
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Troubador Verse |
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If she be fair and wise,
fairness
and wit,
The one's for use, the other useth it.
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Shakespeare |
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frater ad eloquium uiridi tendebat ab aeuo,
fortia uerbosi natus ad arma fori;
at mihi iam puero
caelestia
sacra placebant,
inque suum furtim Musa trahebat opus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And yet I need not speak
Though the heart
triumphs
with itself in words.
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Shelley |
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Have they
nostrils
breathing flame?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Into his bowels then his launce he thruste, 385
And drew
thereout
a steemie drerie lode;
Quod he; these offals are for ever curst,
Shall serve the coughs, and rooks, and dawes, for foode.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Therfore
is good ye for hir sende, 5875
For thurgh hir may this werk amende.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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, _since,
inasmuch
as_: nū þū lungre geong .
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Beowulf |
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I have not translated the vidas, or biographical lives of the poets, which are highly unreliable, though
charming
as legend, but have referred to them where relevant.
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Troubador Verse |
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And
righteous
was that vengeance; _his_ renown
Achaia's sons shall far and wide diffuse,
To future times transmitting it in song.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And now another in my teeming brain
Prepares
itself: whence I resume the strain.
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Petrarch |
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And while Turnus thus victoriously deals death over the plains,
Mnestheus
meantime
and faithful Achates, and Ascanius by their side, set
down Aeneas in the camp, dabbled with blood and leaning every other step
on his long spear.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
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Keats - Lamia |
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They hanged him as a beast is hanged:
They did not even toll
A requiem that might have brought
Rest to his startled soul,
But
hurriedly
they took him out,
And hid him in a hole.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But fly, O
wretched
men, fly [640-674]and
pluck the cable from the beach.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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340
To-morrow,
summoning
the Grecian Chiefs
To council, speak to them, and call the Gods
To witness that solemnity.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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[This letter has a
business
air about it: the name of Patison is
nowhere else to be found in the poet's correspondence.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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The phrase is possibly derived
from `hackle', an instrument used in the
breaking
of flax.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But the day of
these
artistic
anomalies is over.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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And, moreo'er,
Some force constrains them, scattered through the water,
Forthwith
to burst abroad, and to combine
In flame above.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Wherefore, moon,
Since she
presents
bright look and clear-cut form,
May there on high by us on earth be seen
Just as she is with extreme bounds defined,
And just of the size.
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Lucretius |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Certes, I meant not so
To cross your
pastoral
mood, sir page,
With the crook of the battle-bow;
But a knight may speak of a lady's face,
I ween, in any mood or place,
If the grasses die or grow.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Wilde - Poems |
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80
Snow-flakes come whisperin' on the pane
The charm makes blazin' logs so pleasant,
But I can't hark to wut they're say'n',
With Grant or Sherman ollers present;
The
chimbleys
shudder in the gale,
Thet lulls, then suddin takes to flappin'
Like a shot hawk, but all's ez stale
To me ez so much sperit-rappin'.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She dried her feet on the
riverside
grass;
She looked at me once again,
And the playful beauty then took thought.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What as a gurgling softly simmered through
The soil, within the dead deserted brake,
--And no more than a drop of fragrant dew
That fell from
flowerlet
unto deepest lake:
Becomes the clinging mist that cleaves the heights,
And which in darkest midnights as a beam
The heart of the chasm suddenly be-smites
To spring and ramble like a ruddy stream.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Contents
Translator's Introduction
Mallarme's Preface of 1897
The French Text
The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
The English Translation
The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
Translator's Introduction
The French text
displayed
here is as close as I could achieve to that printed in the edition of July 1914, which produced a definitive version superseding the original publication of 1897.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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[[Pope eras't]]
Anon to
Eufemians
in,--
er ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nor shall it be your excuse, that,
murderer
as you
are, you have spoken daggers, but used none.
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Shelley |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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ou hat3 dalt
disserued
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A skit by John
Hamilton
Reynolds, "Peter Bell,
a Lyrical Ballad", had already appeared (April, 1819), a few days
before the publication of Wordsworth's "Peter Bell, a Tale".
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Shelley |
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E'en as a flow'ret born secluded in garden enclosed,
Unto the flock unknown and ne'er uptorn by the ploughshare, 40
Soothed by the zephyrs and
strengthened
by suns and nourish't by showers
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Loves her many a youth and longs for her many a maiden:
Yet from her lissome stalk when cropt that flower deflowered,
Loves her never a youth nor longs for her ever a maiden:
Thus while the virgin be whole, such while she's the dearling of
kinsfolk; 45
Yet no sooner is lost her bloom from body polluted,
Neither to youths she is joy, nor a dearling she to the maidens.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Alexander Pope |
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wot do they
understand?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their work was
interrupted
by a hairy apparition in a
blue-grey dressing-gown who stared in horror at the bed and cried--"Oh,
my Gawd.
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Kipling - Poems |
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