What rumours and what
portents
of the famine?
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This Freend, whan he wiste of my thought,
He discomforted me right nought,
But seide, 'Felowe, be not so mad,
Ne so
abaysshed
nor bistad.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I take your strong chords--I
intersperse
them, and cheerfully pass them
forward.
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Whitman |
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Remember now thy glory among the living,
And let the beauty of thy renown endure
In a firm people knitted like the stone
Of hills, no
mischief
harms of frost or fire;
But now dust in a gale of fear they are.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The influence of this "classicist" tradition has led to a timid and
unsatisfying
treatment
of the _Alcestis_, in which many of the most
striking and unconventional features of the whole composition were either
ignored or smoothed away.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Come, bring the tither
mutchkin
in,
And here's--for a conclusion--
To ev'ry New Light^12 mother's son,
From this time forth, Confusion!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The nature of room, the space of the abyss
Is such that even the flashing thunderbolts
Can neither speed upon their courses through,
Gliding across eternal tracts of time,
Nor, further, bring to pass, as on they run,
That they may bate their journeying one whit:
Such huge
abundance
spreads for things around--
Room off to every quarter, without end.
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Lucretius |
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You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd
Bedowee!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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nous secouerons toute la nuit les sistres
La voix ligure etait-ce donc un talisman
Et si tu n'es pas de droite tu es sinistre
Comme une tache grise ou le pressentiment
Puisque l'absolu choit la chute est une preuve
Qui double devient triple avant d'avoir ete
Nous avouerons que les grossesses nous emeuvent
Les ventres pourront seuls nier l'aseite
Vois les vases sont pleins d'humides fleurs morales
Va-t'en mais denude puisque tout est a nous
Ouis du choeur des vents les
cadences
plagales
Et prends l'arc pour tuer l'unicorne ou le gnou
L'ombre equivoque et tendre est le deuil de ta chair
Et sombre elle est humaine et puis la notre aussi
Va-t'en le crepuscule a des lueurs legeres
Et puis aucun de nous ne croirait tes recits
Il brillait et attirait comme la pantaure
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
Et les femmes la nuit feignant d'etre des taures
L'eussent aime comme on l'aima puisqu'en effet
Il etait pale il etait beau comme un roi ladre
Que n'avait-il la voix et les jupes d'Orphee
La pierre prise au foie d'un vieux coq de Tanagre
Au lieu du roseau triste et du funebre faix
Que n'alla-t-il vivre a la cour du roi D'Edesse
Maigre et magique il eut scrute le firmament
Pale et magique il eut aime des poetesses
Juste et magique il eut epargne les demons
Va-t'en errer credule et roux avec ton ombre
Soit!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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{34e} Gering would
translate
"kinsman of the nail," as both are made
of iron.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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]
[Footnote 27: Anne
Ivanofna
reigned from 1730-1740.
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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e 3ere after,
& vche sesoun
serlepes
sued after o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For a Magian from a mother
and son must needs be begotten, if there be truth in Persia's vile creed
that one may worship with
acceptable
hymn the assiduous gods, whilst the
caul's fat in the sacred flame is melting.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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1180-1220)
De fin'amor son tot mei pensamen
On true love are all my
thoughts
bent
Anonymous Aubes (12th-13th century)
Quan lo rossinhols escria
While the nightingale sings away
En un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi
In a deep bower under a hawthorn-tree
Anonymous Balade (13th century or later)
Mort m'an li semblan que madona?
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Troubador Verse |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And a sharp cry uttered he, in a
foretold
agony
Of the headlong death below,--
XCV.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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The horses had stopped;
Saveliitch
had hold of
my hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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time such change does bring,
We cannot dream what oer our heads may hing;
The very house she lived in, stick and stone,
Since Goody died, has tumbled down and gone:
And where the marjoram once, and sage, and rue,
And balm, and mint, with curled-leaf parsley grew,
And double marygolds, and silver thyme,
And pumpkins neath the window used to climb;
And where I often when a child for hours
Tried through the pales to get the tempting flowers,
As lady's laces, everlasting peas,
True-love-lies-bleeding, with the hearts-at-ease,
And golden rods, and tansy running high
That oer the pale-tops smiled on passers-by,
Flowers in my time that every one would praise,
Though thrown like weeds from gardens nowadays;
Where these all grew, now henbane stinks and spreads,
And docks and
thistles
shake their seedy heads,
And yearly keep with nettles smothering oer;--
The house, the dame, the garden known no more:
While, neighbouring nigh, one lonely elder-tree
Is all that's left of what had used to be,
Marking the place, and bringing up with tears
The recollections of one's younger years.
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John Clare |
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When I
undertake
to tell the best I find I cannot,
My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,
My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
I become a dumb man.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Chanson de Roland |
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And why thy
mournful
voice?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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Appoloinaire |
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1304, 1560, 1616 missing
caesuras
supplied l.
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Beowulf |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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thy dire
affliction
grieves me much,
Even to tears.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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fāh (_covered with blood_), 420; blōde fāh,
935;
ātertānum
fāh (sc.
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Beowulf |
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We need your
donations
more than ever!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
was never deep in
anything
but--Wine.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The precious ore has
universal
charms,
Enchains the will, or sets the world in arms!
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La Fontaine |
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Non va co' suoi fratei per un cammino,
per lo furto che
frodolente
fece
del grande armento ch'elli ebbe a vicino;
onde cessar le sue opere biece
sotto la mazza d'Ercule, che forse
gliene die cento, e non senti le diece>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The clue here is the title
prefixed
to
that strange poem _The Primrose, being at Montgomery Castle upon the
hill on which it is situate_.
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John Donne |
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'
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
I
'Tis a
woodland
enchanted!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Return forgetful Muse, and
straight
redeem,
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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bull,"
Said a movie news reel camera man,
Said a Washington
newspaper
correspondent,
Said a baggage handler lugging a trunk,
Said a two-a-day vaudeville juggler,
Said a hanky-pank selling jumping-jacks.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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By absence who hath chilled his love,
His hate by slander, and who spends
Existence without wife or friends,
Whom jealous
transport
cannot move,
And who the rent-roll of his race
Ne'er trusted to the treacherous ace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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spread your white sails my little bark athwart the
imperious
waves,
Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every sea,
This song for mariners and all their ships.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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ergo ego sum dubius uitae, tu
forsitan
istic
iucundum nostri nescia tempus agis?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_
Go to bed, and care not when
Cheerful
day shall spring again.
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Robert Herrick |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
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blake-poems |
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Thou art as fair in
knowledge
as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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There ys ne house, athrow thys shap-scurged[85] isle,
Thatte has ne loste a kynne yn these fell fyghtes,
Fatte blodde has sorfeeted the
hongerde
soyle, 605
And townes enlowed[86] lemed[87] oppe the nyghtes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"Al Aaraaf"
first appeared, with the sonnet "To Silence" prefixed to it, in 1829,
and is, substantially, as
originally
issued.
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Poe - 5 |
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salue, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus,
magna uirum: tibi res antiquae laudis et artis
ingredior sanctos ausus recludere fontis,
Ascraeumque
cano Romana per oppida carmen.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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and then
We'll riot, man; for then, at last
"`We'll make with heaven a
contract
fair
To call, each hour, from town to town,
And carry the dead folks' souls up there,
And bring the unborn babies down!
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Sidney Lanier |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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No sleep that night the old man cheereth,
No prayer
throughout
next day he pray'd
Still, still, against his wish, appeareth
Before him that mysterious maid.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Dumoise was wrong in shutting himself from the
world for a year, and he
discovered
his mistake when an epidemic of
typhoid broke out in the Station in the heart of the cold weather, and
his wife went down.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Charles Farish was the author of 'The
Minstrels
of Winandermere'.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
poor girl felt that she had in a sense been an
accomplice
in the death
of her benefactress.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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to my
disciple
plato in his
book of i{n} thimeo.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Yet its voice ever a murmur resumes, as of
multitudes
praying:
Liturgies lost in a moan like the mourning of far-away seas.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look bewildered at lovely things,
Striving
to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Melanthius also is
punished
with miserable mutilation.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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It can't be summer, -- that got through;
It 's early yet for spring;
There 's that long town of white to cross
Before the
blackbirds
sing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in
paragraph
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--Sun, who tarries on high,
contemplating
Rome:
Greater never you've nor shall you in future see greater
Than Rome, O sun, as your priest, Horace, enraptured foretold.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Know thou that whether for Aegyptus' race
Thou dost their wish fulfil,
Or for the gods and for each holy place--
Be thy choice good or ill,
Blow is with blow requited, grace with grace
Such is Zeus'
righteous
will.
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Aeschylus |
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Grosart thought this a
useful
description
of the letter: but a clear indication should have
been given that it was not Wordsworth's.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Leoni's younger brother
Went likewise, and when he
returned
to Spain,
He told Leoni, that the poor mad youth,
Soon after they arrived in that new world,
In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat,
And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight
Up a great river, great as any sea,
And ne'er was heard of more: but 'tis supposed,
He lived and died among the savage men.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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In the uncritical and boisterous atmosphere of the Satyr-play it was
natural hospitality, not
especially
laudable or surprising.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Their joy was soon
heightened
by his marriage
with Julia, the daughter of Drusus.
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Tacitus |
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The work of many days so
transitory!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Solo tre passi credo ch'i' scendesse,
e fui di sotto, e vidi un che mirava
pur me, come
conoscer
mi volesse.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Lo, from the shades of Death's deep night,
Departed
Whigs enjoy the fight,
And think on former daring:
The muffled murtherer[101] of Charles
The Magna Charter flag unfurls,
All deadly gules it's bearing.
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Robert Forst |
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"
The words of Marya
Ivanofna
enlightened me, and made many things clear
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse
Proclaims
those vaults of Acheron to be,
Though thence, he said, nor souls nor bodies fare,
But only phantom figures, strangely wan,
And tells how once from out those regions rose
Old Homer's ghost to him and shed salt tears
And with his words unfolded Nature's source.
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Lucretius |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
So hort die traurige
Geschicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
guardian
waited
ill-enduring till evening came;
boiling with wrath was the barrow's keeper,
and fain with flame the foe to pay
for the dear cup's loss.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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When you did change your ring for mine
My yielding heart to win,
Though mine was of the beaten gold
Yours but of
burnished
tin,
Though mine was all true love without,
Yours but false love within?
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John Clare |
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Those
backwoods
are not far
off then.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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It enlivens the dulness of the Universal History,
and gives a charm to the most meagre
abridgements
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Me-azag,
daughter
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[Footnote 64: The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the
West of Scotland, where those fancy-scaring beings, known by the name
of Ghaists, still
continue
pertinaciously to inhabit.
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It isn't just to make a wind you blow,
But to turn red fire into white
quivering
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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Vigorously
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here the forest ledge slopes--
rain has
furrowed
the roots.
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Take a silver minute from your
treasured
time; Listen to it tinkle a little chime
For the poor lost sheep of the Lord.
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I pity her pain, her lover enchants me;
Peace vanishes, and desire
inflames
me.
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Is Heaven a
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Their
habiliments
belonged to that
order which is pointedly termed the decent.
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And then a
Princess
I became
To whom men bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
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"
Whereat one witling cries, "'tis monstrous fit,
In sooth, a shaven-pated priest should have
A shaven-eared audience;" and another,
"Give thanks, thou Jacques, to this most gracious Duke
That rids thee of the life-long dread of loss
Of thy two ears, by
cropping
them at once;
And now henceforth full safely thou may'st dare
The powerfullest Lord in France to touch
An ear of thine;" and now the knave o' the knife
Seizes the handle to commence again, and saws
And .
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Strangely
you murmur below me,
Strange is your half-silent power.
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The Bonapartes, we know their bees
That wade in honey red to the knees;
Their patent reaper, its sheaves sleep sound
In dreamless garners underground:
We know false glory's
spendthrift
race
Pawning nations for feathers and lace;
It may be short, it may be long,
''Tis reckoning-day!
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