From Fiffe, great King,
Where the
Norweyan
Banners flowt the Skie,
And fanne our people cold.
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I was reading then one of those dear poems (whose flakes of rouge have more charm for me than young flesh), and dipping a hand into the pure animal fur, when a street organ sounded
languishingly
and sadly under my window.
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I've wandered twenty years, in distant lands,
With sore heart forced to stay:
Why fell the blow Fate only
understands!
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I think they do as the
gluttons
do, who are the first to
pounce upon the dishes.
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Aristophanes |
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A day it was when I could bear
To think, and think, and think again;
With so much
happiness
to spare,
I could not feel a pain.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Just gods, who see the grief that overwhelms me, 1165
How could I ever
engender
a child so guilty?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What bodes it now that forth they fare,
To men revealed
visibly?
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Euripides - Electra |
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I feel,
allotted
is my span;
But, that life longer may remain,
At morn I must assuredly
Know that thy face that day I see.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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this overweening
Of
underhand
diplomatical tricks,
Dared for the country while scorned for the counter!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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One stanza has been here omitted, in accordance with
the
principle
noticed in the Preface.
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Golden Treasury |
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Of them
will they even haply claim
vengeance
for my flight, and wash away this
crime in their wretched death.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And rarely thither came ;
For, with one spark of these, he
straight
All nature could inflame.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Were it not that his art's glory, full of fire
Till the dark
communal
moment all of ash,
Returns as proud evening's glow lights the glass,
To the fires of the pure mortal sun!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A LITTLE GIRL LOST
Children of the future age,
Reading this
indignant
page,
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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His teeth and hair daily withered and decayed:
His ears and eyes
gradually
lost their keenness.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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those heav'nly shapes
Will dazle now this earthly, with thir blaze
Insufferably
bright.
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Milton |
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Onne Ruddeborne[1] bank twa pynynge Maydens fate,
Theire teares faste
dryppeynge
to the waterre cleere;
Echone bementynge[2] for her absente mate,
Who atte Seyncte Albonns shouke the morthynge[3] speare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Stephen Crane |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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_gymnasiis_ (61)
72 _silui
cultrix_
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Latin - Catullus |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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As to trees the vine
Is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
Bulls to the herd, to
fruitful
fields the corn,
So the one glory of thine own art thou.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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II
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares
Washed
marvellously
with sorrow, swift to mirth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She can wrythe hir heed awey,
This is the
concours
of hir pley; 4360
She can areyse that doth morne,
And whirle adown, and overturne
Who sittith hieghst, [al] as hir list;
A fool is he that wol hir trist.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Still shine the words that
miniature
his deeds.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet Instructor Zheng 283 At the end of my rope, I see how a real friend behaves, the age is blocked, I grieve at the hard ways.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Byron |
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Hedge has come nearer than any one to
reconciling
meaning and melody
thus:--
"Christ has arisen!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Back he reined his steed back-thrown on the
slippery
coping-stone:
_Toll slowly.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This both
Penelope
and I afford:
Then, prince!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Took
farewell
of Jedburgh, with some melancholy, disagreeable
sensations.
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Robert Burns |
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Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode,
atheling-born, a band of twelve,
lament to make, to mourn their king,
chant their dirge, and their
chieftain
honor.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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As one who strives a hill to climb,
Who never climbed before:
Who finds it, in a little time,
Grow every moment less sublime,
And votes the thing a bore:
Yet, having once begun to try,
Dares not desert his quest,
But, climbing, ever keeps his eye
On one small hut against the sky,
Wherein he hopes to rest:
Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
With many a puff and pant:
Who still, as rises the ascent,
In language grows more violent,
Although in breath more scant:
[Illustration]
Who, climbing, gains at length the place
That crowns the upward track;
And, entering with
unsteady
pace,
Receives a buffet in the face
That lands him on his back:
And feels himself, like one in sleep,
Glide swiftly down again,
A helpless weight, from steep to steep,
Till, with a headlong giddy sweep,
He drops upon the plain--
So I, that had resolved to bring
Conviction to a ghost,
And found it quite a different thing
From any human arguing,
Yet dared not quit my post
But, keeping still the end in view
To which I hoped to come,
I strove to prove the matter true
By putting everything I knew
Into an axiom:
Commencing every single phrase
With 'therefore' or 'because,'
I blindly reeled, a hundred ways,
About the syllogistic maze,
Unconscious where I was.
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Lewis Carroll |
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THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
For we did not meet in the holy night,
But in the
shameful
day.
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Wilde - Poems |
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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This, then, is the humble, the
nameless,--
The lover, the husband and father, the struggler with shadows,
The one who went down under
shoutings
of chaos!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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About the Mossie Trunk I wound me soon,
For high from ground the
branches
would require 590
Thy utmost reach or Adams: Round the Tree
All other Beasts that saw, with like desire
Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.
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Milton |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all true jewels
of majesty; others furnish them with feathers, bells, and ribands, and
are
therefore
esteemed the fitter servants.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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It was important to him to find
thresholds
of temples so sacred
Pure when, enamoured, he sought powerful entry to them.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thus the
relation between lender and
borrower
was mixed up with the
relation between sovereign and subject.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Soe, gyff thou lovest
Pleasure
and herr trayne,
Onknowlachynge[142] ynn whatt place herr to fynde,
Thys rule yspende[143], and ynn thie mynde retayne;
Seeke Honnoure fyrste, and Pleasaunce lies behynde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"Herman is a German,
therefore
economical; that explains it," said
Tomsky.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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His known patrons include Geoffrey II, Duke of
Brittany
and Dalfi d'Alvernha; he was at one time in Poitiers at the court of Richard I of England, on whose death he wrote this planh.
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Troubador Verse |
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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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The _Losely
Manuscripts_
(ed.
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John Donne |
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Now o're the one halfe World
Nature seemes dead, and wicked Dreames abuse
The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates
Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther,
Alarum'd by his Centinell, the Wolfe,
Whose howle's his Watch, thus with his
stealthy
pace,
With Tarquins rauishing sides, towards his designe
Moues like a Ghost.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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So valiant a warrior
snatched
from you,
Un-avenged, kills the wish to serve you.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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clinging
to the dungeon walls of his
native city, and expiring from his dread of leaving them.
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Byron |
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I intend to make it a
description of some kind: the whining cant of love, except in real
passion, and by a masterly hand, is to me as
insufferable
as the
preaching cant of old Father Smeaton, whig-minister at Kilmaurs.
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Robert Forst |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He is
imputing
his own malady to others.
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Aristophanes |
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So it is I,
hands accursed -
who
bequeathed
you!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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(On their knees,
groaning
and wailing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Shakespeare |
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A
thousand
times I fondly ask the boon;
Let's take it to the woods: 'tis not too soon;
Young as it is, I'll feed it morn and night,
And always make it my supreme delight.
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La Fontaine |
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And none more boastingly weep his ruin than
they that procured and
practised
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But he has, I think,
insufficiently
analysed the diverse strains in Donne's
love-poetry.
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John Donne |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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My passions, from that hapless hour,
Usurp'd a tyranny which men
Have deem'd, since I have reach'd to power;
My innate nature--be it so:
But, father, there liv'd one who, then,
Then--in my boyhood--when their fire
Burn'd with a still intenser glow,
(For passion must, with youth, expire)
E'en _then_ who knew this iron heart
In woman's
weakness
had a part.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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--
That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes:
'Tis a heart, I believe, that will burn
marvellously!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A
perjured
prince a leaden saint revere,
A godless regent tremble at a star?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Non illi quisquam bello se
conferet
heros,
Cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine + tenen,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello 345
Periuri Pelopis vastabit tertius heres.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thy voice is as the hill-wind over me,
And all my
changing
heart gives heed, my lover.
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Sappho |
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He carries on his shawl-wrapped
shoulders
now
The bitterness, the folly, and the pain.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting
you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Contrived
joy
Is sex in life; and by no other thing
Than by a perfect sundering, could life
Change the dark stream of unappointed joy
To perfect praise of itself, the glee that loves
And worships its own Being.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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How glad I am to be
suffered
to stay.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I woke; it was the
midnight
hour,
The clock was echoing in the tower;
But though my slumber was gone by,
This dream it would not pass away--
It seems to live upon my eye!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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The third day, from the
harboured
vessel's side,
In Holland, Roland disembarks, not joined
By the complaining dame; whom to descend
He will not till she hear that tyrant's end.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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active links or
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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And where shall Israel lave her
bleeding
feet?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
|
"And when I also claim a nook,
And your feet tread me in,
Bestow me, under my old name,
Among my kith and kin,
That
strangers
gazing may not dream
I did a husband win.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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QUESTIONABLE
SONG AT SUNSET
LONGINGS FOR HOME
APPEARANCES
THE FRIEND
MEETING AGAIN
A DREAM
PARTING FRIENDS
TO A STRANGER
OTHER LANDS
ENVY
THE CITY OF FRIENDS
OUT OF THE CROWD
AMONG THE MULTITUDE
LEAVES OF GRASS:
PRESIDENT
LINCOLN'S FUNERAL HYMN
O CAPTAIN!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The irreparable result of rash anger
Shamed me by
dishonouring
my father.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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at herest my bone,
whi
helestou
my leoue sone
So long in my house, 477
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Explicit Pyte: dan
Chaucer
Lauteire
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Two notes are
especially
struck by them: the passions and
the absurdity of half-drunken revellers, and the joy and mystery of the
wild things in the forest.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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at
namely
prisou{n}
lawe {and} ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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For his capacity, you are to be quicker and fuller of those reaches and
glances of wit or learning, as he is able to
entertain
them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Redistribution is subject to the
trademark license,
especially
commercial redistribution.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Voici toujours _ma_ phrase sur les jambes en question,
extraite
des
_Homme d'aujourd'hui_.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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My
shrivelled
wings were beaten,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
Before the box was opened
For the moth to fly.
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Imagists |
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On this, with
piercing
cries she rent the air;
But no one came:--she sunk to dire despair.
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La Fontaine |
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Then
henceforth
may earth grow trees!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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One can view as from the clouds
Our whole
dominion
at a glance; its frontiers,
Its towns, its rivers.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--In arriere, the peace-talk with the Iroquois, the aborigines--the
calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and endorsement,
The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the
earth,
The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural
exclamations,
The setting-out of the war-party--the long and
stealthy
march,
The single-file--the swinging hatchets--the surprise and slaughter of
enemies.
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Whitman |
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He is in _Romeo and
Juliet_, in the _Winter's Tale_, in
Provencal
poetry, in the _Ancient
Mariner_, in _La Belle Dame sans merci_, and in Chatterton's _Ballad of
Charity_.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Perplexed,
distraught
I stand, and fear alike
The twofold chance, to do or not to do.
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Aeschylus |
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Has the
unprincipled
god, Cupid, seduced you now too?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Travels to Paris--travels through
Flanders
and Brabant,
and visits a part of Germany.
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Petrarch |
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