Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B
lackbirds
too shake theirs then as they sing,
R eceiving their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Now there's nothing at all
So rare, such a wild
adventure
of glee,
As watching love for you in a man beginning;--
To see the sight of you pour into his senses
Like brandy gulpt down by a frozen man,
A thing that runs scalding about his blood;
To see him holding himself firm against
The sudden strength of wildness beating in him!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" He then seems
to have
abandoned
Miss Hsu, who was impatient at his lack of promotion.
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Li Po |
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He was knight of the Order of
the Garter, which honour was
conferred
upon him by his cousin, Henry V.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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XXVII
Then bowing downe her aged backe, she kist 235
The wicked witch, saying; In that faire face
The false resemblance of Deceipt I wist
Did closely lurke; yet so true-seeming grace
It carried, that I scarce in
darkesome
place
Could it discerne, though I the mother bee 240
Of falshood, and roote of Duessaes race.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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176) mentions it as
frequently
used by the mayors
of Doncaster in former days.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Monastic
Zitza!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The thousand-toothed gale,--
Adventurers
too bold!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of
Replacement
or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Who robbed the woods,
The
trusting
woods?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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for neither did the slopes
Of Pindus or
Parnassus
stay you then,
No, nor Aonian Aganippe.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Oh, dear on earth when all did love her,
Oh, dearer lost beyond recover:
Of women all the bravest-hearted
Hath pressed thy lips and
breathed
thy breath.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He called to mind Tattiana's grace,
Pallid and
melancholy
face,
And in a vision, sinless, bright,
His spirit sank with strange delight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou
Diminutive
husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And unpolluted & will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
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Blake - Zoas |
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LIMITED RIGHT OF
REPLACEMENT
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receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
written explanation to the person you received the work from.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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_George Herbert Clarke_
FRANCE
Because for once the sword broke in her hand,
The words she spoke seemed
perished
for a space;
All wrong was brazen, and in every land
The tyrants walked abroad with naked face.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Footnote 27: a
princely
robe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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' And the makers of the Sagas made the squirrel run up and
down the sacred ash-tree
carrying
words of hatred from the eagle to the
worm, and from the worm to the eagle; although they had less of the old
way than the makers of the _Kalevala_, for they lived in a more crowded
and complicated world, and were learning the abstract meditation which
lures men from visible beauty, and were unlearning, it may be, the
impassioned meditation which brings men beyond the edge of trance and
makes trees, and beasts, and dead things talk with human voices.
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Yeats |
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de Crousaz, Professor of
Philosophy and Mathematics in the University of Lausanne, and defended by
Warburton, then
chaplain
to the Prince of Wales, in six letters published
in 1739, and a seventh in 1740, for which Pope (who died in 1744) was
deeply grateful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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With their narrow lobes
and their bold, deep
scallops
reaching almost to the middle, they
suggest that the material must be cheap, or else there has been a
lavish expense in their creation, as if so much had been cut out.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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_ = Riese,
_Anthologia
Latina, Ed.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
No
consummation
exists without being from some long previous
consummation, and that from some other,
Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the
beginning than any.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Architecture,
Existing in itself, and not in seeming
A something it is not,
surpasses
them
As substance shadow.
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Longfellow |
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'Gainst this
pitiless
flame who condemned could prevail?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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By finest crystal ne'er
Were hidden tints reveal'd
So faithfully and fair,
As my sad spirit naked lays and bare
Its every secret part,
And the wild
sweetness
thrilling in my heart,
Through eyes which, restlessly, o'erfraught with tears,
Seek her whose sight alone with instant gladness cheers.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[10,000 x 100,000,000 = 1 Trillion]
This is ten
thousand
titles each to one hundred million readers,
which is only ~5% of the present number of computer users.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I am no king, have laid no kingdoms waste,
Taken no princes captive, led no triumphs
Of weeping women through long walls of trumpets;
Say rather I am no one, or an atom;
Say rather, two great gods in a vault of starlight
Play
ponderingly
at chess; and at the game's end
One of the pieces, shaken, falls to the floor
And runs to the darkest corner; and that piece
Forgotten there, left motionless, is I.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Gull against the wind, in the windy straits
Of Belle Isle, or running on the Horn,
White
feathers
in the snow, the Gulf claims,
And an old man driven by the Trades
To a sleepy corner.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Gretchens
Stube.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive
Foundation
are tax deductible to the full extent
permitted by U.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was descended in the ninth
generation
from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
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Li Po |
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For the which she wept
heartily
and said she cared not.
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Shakespeare |
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Herman watched the
proceedings
with a curiosity not unmingled with
superstitious fear.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
In
lessening
lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
'Mine once,' quoth he, 'now yours, as heir to own.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The
faithful
unto death!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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XVI
But to have forged that
falchion
sorely rued,
Who saw her garden wasted by the brand.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Up to those Patriarchs, which did longer sit 345
Expecting
Christ, then they'have enjoy'd him yet.
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John Donne |
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"An Enigma,"
addressed
to Mrs.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Her visage
scorched
him ere she spoke:
"There are," she said, "a kind of folk
Who have no horror of a joke.
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Lewis Carroll |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Skirmishers flung lightly forward
Moved like
scythemen
skilled to sweep
Westward o'er the field and nor'ward,
Death's first harvest there to reap.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and
confounds
him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet,
Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Faust: Der
Tragodie
erster Teil
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Zueignung.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Hill of Posilipo is
situated
to the west of the city of Naples, and is the site of Virgil's tomb.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If quicksilver were gold,
And troubled pools of it shaking in the sun
It were not such a fancy of
bickering
gleam
As Ryton daffodils when the air but stirs.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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" In this
volume he reverts once more to the
familiar
form adopted in his original
efforts, and with little falling off.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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<< Mais les bijoux perdus de l'antique Palmyre,
Les metaux inconnus, les perles de la mer,
Par votre main montes, ne pourraient pas suffire
A ce beau diademe
eblouissant
et clair;
<< Car il ne sera fait que de pure lumiere,
Puisee au foyer saint des rayons primitifs,
Et dont les yeux mortels, dans leur splendeur entiere,
Ne sont que des miroirs obscurcis et plaintifs!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More pleasantly by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still
guaranteed
to save.
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Keats - Lamia |
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The youthful Hero to the suitors then 410
Repair'd; they silent, listen'd to the song
Of the illustrious Bard: he the return
Deplorable
of the Achaian host
From Ilium by command of Pallas, sang.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The scents of red roses and
sandalwood
flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering garments of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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RESCUE
Wind and wave and the
swinging
rope
Were calling me last night;
None to save and little hope,
No inner light.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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EACH OTHERS EQUALL
PUISSAUNCE
ENVIES, each envies the equal prowess of
the other.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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--What a deal of cold
business
doth a man misspend the
better part of life in!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Hence shall we turn where, heard with fear afar,
Thunders
thro' echoing pines the headlong Aar?
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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blake-poems |
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Now the slow moon
brightens
in heaven,
The stars are ready, the night is here--
Oh why must I lose myself to love you,
My dear?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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He holds huge courts every day in his garden of
all the learned men of all religions--Rajahs and beggars and
saints and downright
villains
all delightfully mixed up, and all
treated as one.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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and may Aeneas
traverse
perils secure in insecurity?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Amorous Prince, the
greatest
lover,
I want no evil that's of your doing,
But, by God, all noble hearts must offer
To succour a poor man, without crushing.
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Villon |
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Gloria sylvarum pariter communis utrique
P^st, et perpetuae
virginitatis
honos.
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Marvell - Poems |
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was thy globe
ordained
for such to win and lose?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Tennyson |
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we have learnt
A
different
lore: we may not thus profane
Nature's sweet voices always full of love
And joyance!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Curse onne mie tardie
woundes!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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LIII
I
Blustering
god,
Stamping across the sky
With loud swagger,
I fear you not.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Lines longer than 78
characters are broken, and the
continuation
is indented two spaces.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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[Illustration]
There was a Young Lady of Clare,
Who was madly pursued by a Bear;
When she found she was tired, she
abruptly
expired,
That unfortunate Lady of Clare.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It
ends in
rejoicing
and gladness against the tragic convention.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE SONG OF PRINCESS ZEB-UN-NISSA
IN PRAISE OF HER OWN BEAUTY
(From the Persian)
When from my cheek I lift my veil,
The roses turn with envy pale,
And from their pierced hearts, rich with pain,
Send forth their
fragrance
like a wail.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Listen, listen, Mary mine,
To the whisper of the Apennine,
It bursts on the roof like the thunder's roar,
Or like the sea on a
northern
shore,
Heard in its raging ebb and flow _5
By the captives pent in the cave below.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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_25
The great ship seems
splitting!
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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The 1635 editor restored 'Prince' and then amended the
verse by his usual device of padding,
changing
'fill'd' to 'fill up'.
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John Donne |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
| Guess: |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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To store the vessel let the care be mine,
With water from the rock and rosy wine,
And life-sustaining bread, and fair array,
And
prosperous
gales to waft thee on the way.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your
pleasure
be it ill or well.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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No
quickening
element thou drinkest,
Till up from thine own soul the fountain breaks.
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In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our
struggles
and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A woman, if her mind
So turn, can light on many a
pleasant
thing
To fill her board.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I, a human chaos, a nebula of confused elements, I move amongst
finished worlds--peoples of complete laws and pure order, whose
thoughts are assorted, whose dreams are arranged, and whose visions
are
enrolled
and registered.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A sorrowful sweet face; a look that pierced me
With meek reproach; a voice of resignation
That had a life of
suffering
in its tone;
And that was all!
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Longfellow |
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) mais vierge
de toute
platitude
ou decadence--comme il fut un homme mort jeune aussi
[(a trente] sept ans [le] 10 Novembre 1891 a l'hopital de la Conception
de Marseille), mais dans son voeu bien formule d'independance et de haut
dedain de n'importe quelle adhesion a ce qu'il ne lui plaisait pas de
faire ni d'etre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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35
At libet
innuptis
ficto te carpere questu.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Planh for From this faint world, now full of
bitterness
EnJlisT* Love takes his wa^ and holds his J oy deceitful>
King
Sith no thing is but turneth unto anguish
And each to-day Vails less than yestere'en,
Let each man visage this young English King That was most valiant mid all worthiest men !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Better a serpent than a
stepmother!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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