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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and here for
America!
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Even in an
ornament
its place remark,
Nor in a hermitage set Dr.
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On entering, Bradamant the room surveyed,
And she, that other fair, on every side;
Who as they gaze about the
gorgeous
hall
Filled full of picture, mark each storied wall.
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-- The blade of his lord
-- its edge was iron -- had injured deep
one that guarded the golden hoard
many a year and its murder-fire
spread hot round the barrow in horror-billows
at
midnight
hour, till it met its doom.
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Tapestries were hung on
the walls, and willing hands
prepared
the banquet.
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Humbler smiles and lordlier tears
Shine and fall, shine and fall,
While old voices rise and call
Yonder where the to-and-fro
Weltering of my Long-Ago
Moves about the
moveless
base
Far below my resting-place.
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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On one side of this jagged and shapeless hill
There is a cave, from which there eddies up
A pale mist, like aereal gossamer, _20
Whose breath
destroys
all life--awhile it veils
The rock--then, scattered by the wind, it flies
Along the stream, or lingers on the clefts,
Killing the sleepy worms, if aught bide there.
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`Graunt mercy, goode myn, y-wis,' quod she, 1660
`And blisful Venus lat me never sterve
Er I may stonde of
plesaunce
in degree
To quyte him wel, that so wel can deserve;
And whyl that god my wit wol me conserve,
I shal so doon, so trewe I have yow founde, 1665
That ay honour to me-ward shal rebounde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do
forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that
the Esquimaux sledges are drawn by dogs, and in the
twilight
of the
northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and
walrus on the ice.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered
in straw?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Long have I borne thy service, through the stress
Of rigorous years, sad days and
slumberless
nights,
Performing thine inexorable rites.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Vois se pencher les defuntes Annees,
Sur les balcons du ciel, en robes surannees;
Surgir du fond des eaux le Regret souriant;
Le Soleil
moribond
s'endormir sous une arche,
Et, comme un long linceul trainant a l'Orient,
Entends, ma chere, entends la douce Nuit qui marche.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The character and
adventure are taken from
_Orlando
Furioso_, ii, 12, in which there is a
hypocritical hermit.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But oh, how
changed!
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Ihr naht euch wieder,
schwankende
Gestalten,
Die fruh sich einst dem truben Blick gezeigt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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cuius ego interitu tota de mente fugaui 25
haec studia atque omnis
delicias
animi.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And what is that
temperament?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Instruct
me how to thank thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Thus farr his bold discourse without controule 800
Had audience, when among the Seraphim
Abdiel, then whom none with more zeale ador'd
The Deitie, and divine
commands
obei'd,
Stood up, and in a flame of zeale severe
The current of his fury thus oppos'd.
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Milton |
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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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In the rymes the
equiva|lence
of final '?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Peasants
bring forth in safety.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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he is
fighting
the waves!
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Yeats |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette
ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"Or has the sudden frost
disturbed
its bed?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Nightingales
are singing from the wood — —
And the moonlight through the lattice streaming Silence —and deep midnight —and one face
"Like a moonlit land, desire's kingdom, Luring from the breast the homesick self!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Broached whole
brigades
like larks upon liis
lance.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Dick and Dob, with jostling joll,
Homeward drag the
rumbling
roll;
Whilom Ralph, for Doll to wait,
Lolls him o'er the pasture gate.
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John Clare |
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Do you see
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
Gawain thought he would have a
pleasant
time with Elaine so he stayed.
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Tennyson |
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Though the
dividing
sea
My leg?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
THE STAR TO ITS LIGHT
"THE SUNSHINE OF THINE EYES"
JESSAMINE
THE BOBOLINK
SAILOR'S SONG, RETURNING
FIRST GLANCE
BRIDE BROOK
MAY-ROSE
THE SINGING WIRE
THE HEART OF A SONG
SOUTH-WIND
THE LOVER'S YEAR
NEW WORLDS
NIGHT IN NEW YORK
THE SONG-SPARROW
I LOVED YOU, ONCE----
II
THE BRIDE OF WAR
A RUNE OF THE RAIN
BREAKERS
BLACKMOUTH, OF COLORADO
THE CHILD-YEAR
CHRISTENING
THANKSGIVING TURKEY
BEFORE THE SNOW
III
YOUTH TO THE POET
THE SWORD DHAM
"AT THE GOLDEN GATE"
CHARITY
HELEN AT THE LOOM
THE CASKET OF OPALS
LOVE THAT LIVES
IV
BLUEBIRD'S GREETING
THE VOICE OF THE VOID
"O WHOLESOME DEATH"
INCANTATION
FAMINE AND HARVEST
THE CHILD'S WISH GRANTED
THE FLOWN SOUL
SUNSET AND SHORE
THE PHOEBE-BIRD
A STRONG CITY
THREE DOVES
V
ARISE,
AMERICAN!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Lest these
enclasped
hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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As I gaed down the water-side,
There I met my
shepherd
lad,
He row'd me sweetly in his plaid,
An' he ca'd me his dearie.
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Robert Forst |
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--
Manasses, my Manasses, lost to me,
Gone where my love can nothing search, and hidden
Behind the vapours of these worldly years,
The many years between me and thy death;
Thine ears are sealed with
immortal
blessedness
Against our miserable din of living;
Through thy pure sense goeth no soil of grief.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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We trust, in plumed procession,
For such the angels go,
Rank after rank, with even feet
And
uniforms
of snow.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Merciful
powers,
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature
Gives way to in repose!
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Enowe of odhers; of
mieselfe
to write,
Requyrynge whatt I doe notte nowe possess,
To you I leave the taske; I kenne your myghte
Wyll make mie faultes, mie meynte[31] of faultes, be less.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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[In one of the variations of this song the name of the heroine is
Jeanie: the song itself owes some of the
sentiments
as well as words
to an old favourite Nithsdale chant of the same name.
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Robert Forst |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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How long does she spend in gadding and
storming?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Say 'twas Ulysses: 'twas his deed declare,
Laertes' son, of Ithaca the fair;
Ulysses, far in
fighting
fields renown'd,
Before whose arm Troy tumbled to the ground.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But very few epic poets have
ventured
to do without supernatural
machinery of some sort.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--If men did know what shining
fetters, gilded miseries, and painted happiness thrones and sceptres were
there would not be so frequent strife about the getting or holding of
them; there would be more
principalities
than princes; for a prince is
the pastor of the people.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The doctor's wormwood style, the hash of tongues
A pedant makes, the storm of Gonson's lungs,
The whole
artillery
of the terms of war,
And (all those plagues in one) the bawling bar:
These I could bear; but not a rogue so civil,
Whose tongue will compliment you to the devil.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Twenty Years
Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, I sit, with a new-comer chatting:
He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden,
vehement notion;)
Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
While he the globe was circling round and round, --and now returns:
How changed the place--all the old land-marks gone--the parents dead;
(Yes, he comes back to lay in port for good--to settle--has a
well-fill'd purse--no spot will do but this;)
The little boat that scull'd him from the sloop, now held in leash I see,
I hear the slapping waves, the
restless
keel, the rocking in the sand,
I see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box bound with brass,
I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded--the stout-strong frame,
Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth:
(Then what the told-out story of those twenty years?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_ He ended;
but for all the shield's plating of iron and brass, for all the
bull-hide that covers it round about, the
quivering
spear-head smashes
it fair through and through, passes the guard of the corslet, and
pierces the breast with a gaping hole.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And to enchant ye more, see everywhere
About the roof a siren in a sphere,
As we think, singing to the din
Of many a
warbling
cherubin.
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Robert Herrick |
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--Of which
Aristophanes
affords an ample
harvest, having not only outgone Plautus or any other in that kind, but
expressed all the moods and figures of what is ridiculous oddly.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--Nay,
'Twas only
striking
from the Calendar
Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Jesus said to man: You have a
wonderful
personality.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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In cursed tyme I born was,
weylaway!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Her
thoughts
are on thy image only,
She holds thee, past all utterance, dear.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_zag-sal_,
liturgical
note, 103 f.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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THE GASCON PUNISHED
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,
That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair,)
Was played a wily trick, and nicely served;
'Twas clear, from truth he shamefully had swerved:
But those who scandal
propagate
below,
Are prophets thought, and ev'ry action know;
While good, if spoken, scarcely is believed,
And must be viewed, or not for truth received.
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La Fontaine |
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Rilke - Poems |
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And well they strike and
slaughter
with their lances;
But Franks, to escape they think it no great matter;
On either side dead men to the earth fall crashing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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So Hermes thought, and a
celestial
heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his shoulders bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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But now a wandering land breeze came
And a far sound of feathery quires;
It seemed to blow from the dying flame,
They seemed to sing in the
smouldering
fires.
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Yeats |
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For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
The moon, nor shines of starlight aught
For seaman's guiding:
For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
Can purple buy it,
Grosphus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But from the wretched state to which we're brought,
Leaving another with sereneness fraught,
Nay, e'en from death, one comfort we obtain;
That vengeance follows him who sent us here;
Another's utmost
thraldom
doomed to bear,
Bound he now lies with a still stronger chain.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And all night long the
captains
of the fleet
Kept their crews moving up and down the strait.
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Aeschylus |
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thus in part I put my
questions
new,
If mine be any prize, or run its course,
Be my soul free, or captived in close wood.
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Petrarch |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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ai hym
strangli
scholden; ac ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Upward I reach
To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark,
Pausing an instant, with
uplifted
hand,
To watch, between black ruined portals of cloud,
One star,--the tottering portals fall and crush it.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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hating Death, their best of
friends!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for
constant
heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Beneath the
sheltering
oak tree's shade
He with his little maiden played,
Whilst the fond parents, friends thro' life,
Dreamed in the future man and wife.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A reward was
oflTered
by the government for
the discovery of the author of this " libel," as it
was pleasantly designated.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal
propagates
a fear.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And whan that he in
chaumbre
was allone,
He doun up-on his beddes feet him sette,
And first be gan to syke, and eft to grone, 360
And thoughte ay on hir so, with-outen lette,
That, as he sat and wook, his spirit mette
That he hir saw a temple, and al the wyse
Right of hir loke, and gan it newe avyse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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On a sloped sandy beach,
Which the spring-tide billows reach,
Stand a watchful throng
Who have hoped and waited long:
'Fie on this ship, that tarries
With the
priceless
freight it carries.
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Too far, too far our mortal spirits strive,
Grasping
at utter weal, unsatisfied--
Till the fell curse, that dwelleth hard beside,
Thrust down the sundering wall.
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Aeschylus |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898,
studying
first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Nevertheless we find the _offices _of the trio
marked with a
sufficient
distinction.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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WHO, after this, will doubt the pow'r of
prayers?
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La Fontaine |
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And he that
herkeneth
it gladly, 7515
He is no good man, sikerly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'16'
It was an old
convention
that lovers were so troubled by their passion
that they could not sleep.
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Alexander Pope |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of
suspicion
and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
speaking unto Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream
and its
guarding
depends the final realization of his life's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Beatrice
tutta ne l'etterne rote
fissa con li occhi stava; e io in lei
le luci fissi, di la su rimote.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Most honourable in thee: but
scarcely
wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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a
copyright
notice is included.
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Stephen Crane |
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1220-1265)
Sordello da Goito or Sordel de Goit,
sometimes
Sordell, was born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua.
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Troubador Verse |
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For
additional
contact information:
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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