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accurate
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
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- Pass by!
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prunelle
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
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(On their knees,
groaning
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Here is Murray's
fragments
o' the ten commands;
Gifted by black Jock to get them aff his hands.
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And then,
voluptuousness
divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And weigh the massy Globes Cubes, then fix them in their awful stations
And all the time in Caverns shut, the golden Looms erected
First spun, then wove the Atmospheres, there the Spider & Worm
Plied the wingd shuttle piping shrill thro' all the list'ning threads
Beneath the Caverns roll the weights of lead & spindles of iron
The enormous warp & woof rage direful in the affrighted deep
While far into the vast unknown, the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Their venturous flight, in Human forms distinct; thro darkness deep
They bear the woven draperies; on golden hooks they hang abroad
The universal curtains & spread out from Sun to Sun
The
vehicles
of light, they separate the furious particles
Into mild currents as the water mingles with the wine.
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let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without
accusing
you of injury.
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His
undiscovered
limbs to ocean roll; 1240
And charity upon the hope would dwell
It was not Lara's hand by which he fell.
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Byron |
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The steel-clad champion death drops all around
As
glaciers
water.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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"'Mong
swelling
floods of reeking gore,
They, ardent, kindling spirits, pour;
Or 'mid the venal senate's roar,
They, sightless, stand,
To mend the honest patriot-lore,
And grace the hand.
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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But how will you make the
journey?
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Aristophanes |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Have I not offered toast on frothing toast
Looking toward the melancholy host;
Praised the old wall-eyed mare to please the groom;
Laughed to the
laughing
maid and fetched her broom;
Stood in the background not to interfere
When the cool ancients frolicked at their beer;
Talked only in my turn, and made no claim
For recognition or by voice or name,
Content to listen, and to watch the blue
Or grey of eyes, or what good hands can do?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Palace
itself is placed in the midst of
extensive
grounds just outside
the city, on the road to Tver, i.
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And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
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The cross with hideous
laughter
Demons mock, 70
By [D] angels planted on the aereal rock.
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at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth
saylande
skyrte3,
[K] ?
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When all my mind I turn to the one part
Where sheds my lady's face its
beauteous
light,
And lingers in my loving thought the light
That burns and racks within me ev'ry part,
I from my heart who fear that it may part,
And see the near end of my single light,
Go, as a blind man, groping without light,
Who knows not where yet presses to depart.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In Chapman's play
Lasso says that the
disposition
of his house for the reception of
guests was placed in the hands of this servant (cf.
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Can such things be,
And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our
speciall
wonder?
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Life has
revealed
to them her latest wonder.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Not only quiet and sweet rest I fly,
But from myself and thought, whose vain pursuit
On pinion'd fancy doth my soul transport:
The
multitude
I did so long defy,
Now as my hope and refuge I salute,
So much I tremble solitude to court.
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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Li Po |
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As he lay silently
growing weaker and weaker, he observed Jessie Lewars, a modest and
beautiful young creature, and sister to one of his brethren of the
Excise, watching over him with moist eyes, and tending him with the
care of a daughter; he
rewarded
her with one of those songs which are
an insurance against forgetfulness.
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Robert Burns |
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To laugh, were want of
goodness
and of grace, 35
And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face.
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To refuse the
recipient of court funds was not
possible
to a public functionary.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The very name of Peter Pindar is an
acquisition
to your work.
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Robert Forst |
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Veiled from the sun in a hollow of the forest,
He sinks down; stretched out on a level stone,
Cleans his paw with a broad lick of his tongue
Blinks golden eyes dull with sleepiness;
And, as his inert forces, in imagination
Make his tail flicker and his flanks quiver,
Dreams himself deep in some green plantation,
Leaping, and plunging
dripping
claws forever
Into bullocks' flesh as they bellow and shiver.
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Others more milde,
Retreated
in a silent valley, sing
With notes Angelical to many a Harp
Thir own Heroic deeds and hapless fall
By doom of Battel; and complain that Fate 550
Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance.
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Think, I adjure you, what it is to slay
The
reverence
living in the minds of men _145
Towards our ancient house, and stainless fame!
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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No, it cannot be a servant's step
It must be Cenci,
unexpectedly
_270
Returned.
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But his own self, he's not forgotten him,
He owns his faults, and God's forgiveness bids:
"Very Father, in Whom no
falsehood
is,
Saint Lazaron from death Thou didst remit,
And Daniel save from the lions' pit;
My soul in me preserve from all perils
And from the sins I did in life commit!
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Chanson de Roland |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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Ond' ella, che vedea me si com' io,
a quietarmi l'animo commosso,
pria ch'io a dimandar, la bocca aprio
e comincio: <
col falso imaginar, si che non vedi
cio che
vedresti
se l'avessi scosso.
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thus far no harm I've wrought to him your son;
But now I give you notice--when night's done,
I will make entry at your city-gate,
Bringing
the prince alive; and those who wait
To see him in my jaws--your lackey-crew--
Shall see me eat him in your palace, too!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Come, all pull
together!
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Aristophanes |
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The Sonnes of Duncane
(From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth)
Liues in the English Court, and is receyu'd
Of the most Pious Edward, with such grace,
That the
maleuolence
of Fortune, nothing
Takes from his high respect.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In the
ploughing
season, no
one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The times has bene,
That when the Braines were out, the man would dye,
And there an end: But now they rise againe
With twenty mortall
murthers
on their crownes,
And push vs from our stooles.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
Or who in sweet
vicissitude
appears
Of mirth and opium, ratafie and tears,
The daily anodyne, and nightly draught,
To kill those foes to fair ones, time and thought.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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ou mist haue be a gret lordyng,
and ben
honoured
as a king,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The imperial tomb winds along a
deserted
bend, troops like bears protect the mountain greenery.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pars obscura cavis
celebrabant
orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani.
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Robert Herrick |
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The freedom of the Lyceum
platform
pleased Emerson.
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Emerson - Poems |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a
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Blake - Zoas |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
The whole is
redolent
with poetry of a very lofty order.
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Poe - 5 |
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Because thou hast heark'nd to the voice of thy Wife,
And eaten of the Tree
concerning
which
I charg'd thee, saying: Thou shalt not eate thereof, 200
Curs'd is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow
Shalt eate thereof all the days of thy Life;
Thornes also and Thistles it shall bring thee forth
Unbid, and thou shalt eate th' Herb of th' Field,
In the sweat of thy Face shalt thou eate Bread,
Till thou return unto the ground, for thou
Out of the ground wast taken, know thy Birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust returne.
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Milton |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To all ready and accessible sources of knowledge he
appears to have had recourse; he sought matter for his muse in the
meetings, religious as well as social, of the district--consorted with
staid matrons, grave plodding farmers--with those who preached as well
as those who listened--with sharp-tongued attorneys, who laid down the
law over a
Mauchline
gill--with country squires, whose wisdom was
great in the game-laws, and in contested elections--and with roving
smugglers, who at that time hung, as a cloud, on all the western coast
of Scotland.
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Robert Forst |
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Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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As for Blackmouth, if you'd seen the scars
Made by wounds he
suffered
for her sake,
You'd have called _him_ true, and no mistake.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Note: Ronsard plays on the
identification
of Helen with Helen of Troy, born of Leda, and Jupiter disguised as a swan.
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Ronsard |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Particularly
I remark
An English countess goes upon the stage.
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is conseil loued wel; his
bondemen
he lete fecche.
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Pope dealt with the
question
of God in Nature, and the world of Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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"Ah," he thought, "if the old
Countess
would only reveal the secret to
me.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Him ever at Corvinus' side we view;
Whether he doth in court or camp command,
Whether against the Turk, or German crew
The puissant monarch leads his martial band,
Watchful
Hippolytus is at his side,
And gathers virtue from his generous guide.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Soon we will see the
drifting
sands cleared, 24 for this are you sent on a mission.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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While Pug is languishing in prison,
Iniquity
appears,
Pug mounts upon his back, and is carried off to hell.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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For we always desire Nuance,
Not Colour, nuance
evermore!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Lovely the suns were in those
twilights
warm,
And space profound, and strong life's pulsing flood,
In bending o'er you, queen of every charm,
I thought I breathed the perfume in your blood.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Little poet people
snatching
ivy,
Trying to prevent one another from snatching ivy.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) as the only Ground he had got to stand
upon, however momentarily
slipping
from under his Feet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Is the master haughty, fierce, and arrogant;
the scholar swells with confidence; his eye threatens prodigious
things, and his harangue is an
ostentatious
display of the
common-places of school oratory, dressed up with dazzling splendour,
and thundered forth with emphasis.
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Tacitus |
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Blount thinks, and
apparently with justice, that Piccadilly took its name from the sale
of the "small stiff collars, so called", which was first set on foot
in a house near the western
extremity
of the present street, by one
Higgins, a tailor.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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FROSCH:
Lass Er uns das zum zweiten Male
bleiben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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11, 10, 17)
Sulpicius
(C.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A
perfumed
thought--no more I ask, for the sake of all dead soldiers.
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Whitman |
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"Death from thy every law my heart has freed;
She who my lady was is pass'd on high,
Leaving me free to count dull hours drag by,
To
solitude
and sorrow still decreed.
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Petrarch |
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Though this was not the method of old Rome,
When Tully
fulmined
o'er each vocal dome,
Demosthenes has sanctioned the transaction, 500
In saying eloquence meant "Action, action!
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Byron |
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"
»s
A CHANGE SONG By Marguerite Wilkinson
0 life, what would you make of me That, turning, I may find no more
A welcome at each
friendly
door
That once stood open wide to me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If I say 'white' or 'purple' in an
ordinary line of poetry, they evoke emotions so exclusively that I
cannot say why they move me; but if I say them in the same mood, in
the same breath with such obvious intellectual symbols as a cross or a
crown of thorns, I think of purity and sovereignty; while innumerable
other meanings, which are held to one another by the bondage of subtle
suggestion, and alike in the emotions and in the intellect, move
visibly through my mind, and move invisibly beyond the threshold of
sleep, casting lights and shadows of an
indefinable
wisdom on what
had seemed before, it may be, but sterility and noisy violence.
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Yeats |
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<
contento
piu digiuno>>,
diss' io, <
e piu di dubbio ne la mente aduno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Upon her aching forehead be there hung
The leaves of willow and of adder's tongue;
And for the youth, quick, let us strip for him
The thyrsus, that his
watching
eyes may swim
Into forgetfulness; and, for the sage,
Let spear-grass and the spiteful thistle wage
War on his temples.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And so for gain, that joy's repay,
Change cheats the landscape every day,
Nor trees nor bush about it grows
That from the hatchet can repose,
And the horizon
stooping
smiles
Oer treeless fens of many miles.
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John Clare |
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