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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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One after one by the horned Moon
(Listen, O
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I will not ask thee what strange anger sent
That blaze of proud
contempt
in the King's face:
But ere the voice of the King seals up thy life
In an unalterable judgment, I
Am granted now to come as his last message:
And, as I will, to speak.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yes, on an isle the air charges
With sight and not with visions
Every flower showed itself larger
Without
entering
our discussions.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His impatient looks devour
Oft the humble and the poor;
And, seeing his eye glare,
They drop their few pale flowers,
Gathered with hope to please,
Along the
mountain
towers,--
Lose courage, and despair.
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Emerson - Poems |
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LXXIX
"But since to abandon thee, to whom a prize
I know not, my sad fate compels, I swear,
My Isabella, by that mouth, those eyes,
By what enchained me first, that lovely hair;
My spirit, troubled and despairing, hies
Into hell's deep and gloomy bottom; where
To think, thou wert
abandoned
so by me,
Of all its woes the heaviest pain will be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Petersburg, Boldino, Tsarskoe Selo, 1880-1881]
I
In the Lyceum's noiseless shade
As in a garden when I grew,
I
Apuleius
gladly read
But would not look at Cicero.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Dare I, Sir, already immensely
indebted
to
your goodness, ask the additional obligation of your being that friend
to me?
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Robert Forst |
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They are dreams of horror clothed in brass,
Which from profoundest depths of evil pass
With futile aim to dare the
Infinite!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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But does a maniac kill the frenzy in him,
When with his fists he beats the
clambering
fiends
That swarm against his limbs?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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the
remembrance
murders me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[in Anhui], poured a
libation
on his grave and
forbade the woodmen to cut down the trees which grew there.
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Li Po |
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The
hillsides
must not know it,
Where I have rambled so,
Nor tell the loving forests
The day that I shall go,
Nor lisp it at the table,
Nor heedless by the way
Hint that within the riddle
One will walk to-day!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Thus saying, she offers him a rich ring of red gold "with a shining
stone
standing
aloft," that shone like the beams of the bright sun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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On Lenski's
matrimonial
fate
They long ago had held debate.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot
endlessly
there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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'376-377'
Suffered Budgell to attribute to his (Pope's) pen the slanderous gossip
of the 'Grub Street Journal',--a paper to which Pope did, as a matter of
fact, contribute--and let him (Budgell) write
anything
he pleased except
his (Pope's) will.
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Alexander Pope |
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The tall hills
Push up their shady groves into the sky,
And fail and cease where the intense light spills
Its
parching
torrent on the gaunt and dry
Rock of the further mountains, whence the snow
That softened their harsh edges long is gone,
And nothing tempers now
The hot flood falling on the barren stone.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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410
Browne as the
fylberte
droppyng from the shelle,
Browne as the nappy ale at Hocktyde game,
So browne the crokyde rynges, that featlie fell
Over the neck of the all-beauteous dame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I had the right, few days ago,
Thy steps to watch, thy place to know:
How have I
forfeited
the right?
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Emerson - Poems |
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The experiments of the Irish National Theatre Society will have of
necessity to be for a long time few and timid, and we must often,
having no money and not a great deal of leisure, accept for a while
compromises, and much even that we know to be
irredeemably
bad.
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Yeats |
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When Milton
states that
They also serve who only stand and wait,
he has
probably
in mind the opinion of Dionysius the
Areopagite (adopted by Aquinas), that the four highest
orders of angels (Dominations, Thrones, Cherubs, and
Seraphim) never leave God's presence to bear messages.
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John Donne |
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--Slave-dhow being
chased round
Tajurrah
Bah.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite
Into the Desert, his Victorious Field
Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence 10
By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire,
As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute,
And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds
With prosperous wing full summ'd to tell of deeds
Above Heroic, though in secret done,
And
unrecorded
left through many an Age,
Worthy t' have not remain'd so long unsung.
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Milton |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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For me, my
faculties
are frozen,
My dearest member nearly dozen'd,
I've sent you here, by Johnie Simson,
Twa sage philosophers to glimpse on;
Smith, wi' his sympathetic feeling,
An' Reid, to common sense appealing.
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Robert Burns |
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THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN
I
The thick lids of Night closed upon me
Alone at the Bill
Of the Isle by the Race {253}--
Many-caverned, bald, wrinkled of face--
And with
darkness
and silence the spirit was on me
To brood and be still.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Oh, if there may departing be
Any forgot by victory
In her imperial round,
Show them this meek apparelled thing,
That could not stop to be a king,
Doubtful
if it be crowned!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Jade bells
suddenly
all a-tinkle!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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If they know nothing of death it is because they know
little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong to those, and
to those only, whom the
sequence
of time affects, and who possess not
merely the present but the future, and can rise or fall from a past of
glory or of shame.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I have been more than once a victim to these crises and outbreaks which
give us cause to believe that evil-meaning demons slip into us, to make
us the
ignorant
accomplices of their most absurd desires.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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what are you
jabbering
about?
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Aristophanes |
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The
fountain
sang and sang
But the satyr never stirred--
Only the great white moon
In the empty heaven heard.
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Sara Teasdale |
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No need of Moorish archer's craft
To guard the pure and stainless liver;
He wants not, Fuscus, poison'd shaft
To store his quiver,
Whether he
traverse
Libyan shoals,
Or Caucasus, forlorn and horrent,
Or lands where far Hydaspes rolls
His fabled torrent.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Your souls, that should have noble lodging here,
Have crept like
peasants
into huts that have
No force within their walls, but must be shored
With borrowed firmness.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'Twas he, indignant at the honor paid
To crime, who with his heel an onslaught made
Upon Duke Lupus' shameful monument,
Tore down, the statue he to fragments rent;
Then column of the
Strasburg
monster bore
To bridge of Wasselonne, and threw it o'er
Into the waters deep.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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Already
standest
there, O Boniface!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the
mountains
my wife and children weep facing the heavens, 12 from your stables I need the wind-chasing brown charger.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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THE
TRAGEDIE
OF MACBETH.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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That ground will take no
footprint!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Keats - Lamia |
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'You Rise the Water Unfolds'
You rise the water unfolds
You sleep the water flowers
You are water ploughed from its depths
You are earth that takes root
And in which all is grounded
You make bubbles of silence in the desert of sound
You sing
nocturnal
hymns on the arcs of the rainbow
You are everywhere you abolish the roads
You sacrifice time
To the eternal youth of an exact flame
That veils Nature to reproduce her
Woman you show the world a body forever the same
Yours
You are its likeness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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my ardent spirit burns,
And all the tribute of my heart returns,
For boons accorded,
goodness
ever new,
The gift still dearer, as the giver, you.
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Robert Forst |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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Pomiers i ot, bien m'en sovient,
Qui chargoient pomes grenades,
C'est uns fruis moult bons a malades; 1340
De noiers i ot grant foison,
Qui chargoient en la saison
Itel fruit cum sunt nois mugades,
Qui ne sunt ameres, ne fades;
Alemandiers
y ot plante,
Et si ot ou vergier plante
Maint figuier, et maint biau datier;
Si trovast qu'en eust mestier,
Ou vergier mainte bone espice,
Cloz de girofle et requelice, 1350
Graine de paradis novele,
Citoal, anis, et canele,
Et mainte espice delitable,
Que bon mengier fait apres table.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Like
lightning
next the Pelean javelin flies:
Its erring fury hiss'd along the skies;
Deep in the swelling bank was driven the spear,
Even to the middle earth; and quiver'd there.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Life is but Thought: so think I will
That Youth and I are
housemates
still.
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Golden Treasury |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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10
To whom
inscribe
my dainty tome--just out and with ashen pumice polished?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Elle croit trouver du pain aux
Tuileries!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Hear you, then,
celestial
fellows!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Now, brave
Tydides!
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Iliad - Pope |
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= From a very early period the 23d of
April was
dedicated
to St.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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15
I would freshen it with flowers,
And the piney hill-wind through it
Should be
sweetened
with soft fervours
Of small prayers in gentle language
Thou wouldst smile to hear.
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Sappho |
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[Sidenote A: Then was Gawayne glad,]
[Sidenote B: and
consents
to tarry awhile at the castle.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Let there be no news going through the land
Out of
Bethulia
but this: that we
At Judith's hands had our deliverance,
But she from Holofernes and his crew
Unwilling and astonisht reverence,
As they were men with minds opprest by God.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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There are
numerous
instances
of horses, sheep, oxen, and even wood-pigeons, having
been taught to live upon flesh, until they have loathed their natural
aliment.
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Shelley |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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MAGUELONNE
(_barring the way_): Stop, I say!
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Hold in thy breast such heart as Perseus had,
The bitter woe work forth,
Appease the summons of the dead,
The wrath of friends on earth;
Yea, set within a sign of blood and doom,
And do to utter death him that
pollutes
thy home.
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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How long ago,
And on what
pilgrimage
and journey far Was lost this land remembered ?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lift not thy spear against the Muses Bowre,
The great Emathian Conqueror bid spare 10
The house of Pindarus, when Temple and Towre
Went to the ground: And the
repeated
air
Of sad Electra's Poet had the power
To save th' Athenian Walls from ruine bare.
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Milton |
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distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I was a virgin sister in the earth;
And if thy mind observe me well, this form,
With such addition grac'd of loveliness,
Will not conceal me long, but thou wilt know
Piccarda, in the
tardiest
sphere thus plac'd,
Here 'mid these other blessed also blest.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Why an Ear, a
whirlpool
fierce to draw creations in?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Then suddenly there was a great light--
"Let me into the
darkness
again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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So many shafts
bloodstained
and shattered,
So many flags and ensigns tattered;
So many Franks lose their young lustihead,
Who'll see no more their mothers nor their friends,
Nor hosts of France, that in the pass attend.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Weak from the baffled fever,
And
shrunken
in each limb,
The swamps of Alabama
Had done their work on him.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Stand up, tall masts of
Mannahatta!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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For myself, though
conquered
I'm content;
And despite my own amorous intent,
And infinite loss, I welcome my defeat,
Rendering a perfect love thus complete.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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In a series of poems he had satirized the rapacity of minor
officials and called attention to the
intolerable
sufferings of the
masses.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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With smiling face he Lenski hears;
The poet's fervid conversation
And judgment which
unsteady
veers
And eye which gleams with inspiration--
All this was novel to Eugene.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Such excess of horror renders my spirit numb:
So many unforeseen blows
together
rain on me
They stifle my words, and rob me of my speech.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Con questa
distinzion
prendi 'l mio detto;
e cosi puote star con quel che credi
del primo padre e del nostro Diletto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And when the evening comes, 5
We sit there
together
in the dusk,
And watch the stars
Appear in the quiet blue.
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Sappho |
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Tell your
jhampanis
not to hurry so, dear.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And he driv by a house whar a man named Brown
Was a livin', not fur from the edge o' town,
And he
bantered
Brown fur to buy his place,
And said that bein' as money was skace,
And bein' as sheriffs was hard to face,
Two dollars an acre would git the land.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin,"
indicating
the
twofold influence which the French sculptor wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Though I did not completely agree with him, I yet felt that duty and
honour alike required my
presence
in the Tzarina's army; so I resolved
to follow in part Zourine's advice, and send Marya to my parents, and
stay in his troop.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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_ See
Introduction
to the Odes,
p.
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Keats |
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Among all that speak English in Australia,
in America, in Great Britain, are there many more than the ten thousand
the prophet saw, who have enough of the written tradition education has
set in room of the unwritten to know good verses from bad ones, even
though their mother-wit has made them
Ministers
of the Crown or what
you will?
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Yeats |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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blake-poems |
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XLVII
While solemn preparation so was made
For the grand obsequies, with reverence due,
According
to old use and honours paid,
In former age, corrupted by each new;
A proclamation of their lord allayed
Quickly the noise of the lamenting crew;
Promising any one a mighty gain
That should denounce by whom his son was slain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--unlimn'd they disappear;
To-day gives place, and fades--the cities, farms,
factories
fade;
A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the air
for a moment,
Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Materiall
Crosses then, good physicke bee, 25
But yet spirituall have chiefe dignity.
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John Donne |
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unsheath
then our chief's scimitar:
Tambourgi!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The poor should be
practical
and prosaic.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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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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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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little marked, how fast they rolled away:
Then rose a mansion proud our woods among,
And cottage after cottage owned its sway,
No joy to see a neighbouring house, or stray
Through
pastures
not his own, the master took;
My Father dared his greedy wish gainsay;
He loved his old hereditary nook,
And ill could I the thought of such sad parting brook.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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