It is a land of
poverty!
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at al lyke3,
I schal ware my whyle wel, quyl hit laste3,
1236 with tale;
[M] 3e ar welcum to my cors,
Yowre awen won to wale,
Me be-houe3 of fyne force,
1240 [N] Your
seruaunt
be & schale.
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The man who was war
commander
of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
for the sake of the Boy, for the sake of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) This
Relation
of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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Where is my little
Princess?
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCVIII
Oft with desire was good Rinaldo stung
To ask that sorrow's cause, and the request
Was almost on the gentle warrior's tongue,
And there by
courteous
modesty represt.
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On the other side
Old King Latinus, seated by his child
Lavinia, and that Brutus I beheld,
Who Tarquin chas'd, Lucretia, Cato's wife
Marcia, with Julia and
Cornelia
there;
And sole apart retir'd, the Soldan fierce.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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For how do I hold thee but by thy
granting?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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SEMYON
NIKITICH
GODUNOV, secret agent of Boris Godunov.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vainly shall you, in Venus' favour strong,
Your tresses comb, and for your dames divide
On peaceful lyre the several parts of song;
Vainly in chamber hide
From spears and
Gnossian
arrows, barb'd with fate,
And battle's din, and Ajax in the chase
Unconquer'd; those adulterous locks, though late,
Shall gory dust deface.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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1090
But let us now, as in bad plight, devise
What best may for the present serve to hide
The Parts of each from other, that seem most
To shame obnoxious, and
unseemliest
seen,
Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd,
And girded on our loyns, may cover round
Those middle parts, that this new commer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
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Milton |
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Fand þā þǣr inne
æðelinga
gedriht
swefan æfter symble; sorge ne cūðon,
120 won-sceaft wera.
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Beowulf |
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Finally down from its shelf he dragged the
ponderous
Roman,
Seated himself at the window, and opened the book, and in silence
Turned o'er the well-worn leaves, where thumb-marks thick on the margin,
Like the trample of feet, proclaimed the battle was hottest.
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Longfellow |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For gods
infernal
bury deep, and cast
The blood into a trench.
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John Donne |
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Omens
inspired
her soul with fear,
Mysteriously all objects near
A hidden meaning could impart,
Presentiments oppressed her heart.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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2444
{and} graunte [hym] to
enviroune
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Live, and
forgive!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Mon ame
resplendit
de toutes vos vertus!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I ask thee for no meaner pelf
Than that I may not disappoint myself;
That in my action I may soar as high
As I can now discern with this clear eye;
And next in value, which thy kindness lends,
That I may greatly disappoint my friends,
Howe'er they think or hope it that may be,
They may not dream how thou 'st distinguished me;
That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,
And my life practice more than my tongue saith;
That my low conduct may not show,
Nor my relenting lines,
That I thy purpose did not know,
Or
overrated
thy designs.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,
The
injuries
that to myself I do,
Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What a tale their terror tells
Of
Despair!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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But all the virtues are means and
uses; and, if we hinder their tendency to growth and expansion, we
both destroy them as virtues, and degrade them to that rankest
species of
corruption
reserved for the most noble organizations.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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John Donne |
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DESIGN
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted
characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Your languid
beauties
now would move me not
Did not your gentle heart and body cast
The old spell of those happy days forgot.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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'"
And the old man, looking sadly
Across the garden-lawn,
Where here and there a dew-drop
Yet
glittered
in the dawn,
Said "Go to the Adelphi,
And see the 'Colleen Bawn.
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Lewis Carroll |
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And since I've neither heart nor might,
How should I sing or find
delight?
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Troubador Verse |
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Can he make
deathless
Death?
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Milton |
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Abel had loftier views than
alliance
with a
civil servant's child; Eugene was in love elsewhere; but Victor had fallen
enamored with Adele Foucher.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
difference
this betwixt the evil pair,
Faithless to God--for laws without a care--
One was the claw, the other one the will
Controlling.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The man
was totally unknown to her, and as she was not accustomed to coquetting
with the
soldiers
she saw on the street, she hardly knew how to explain
his presence.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Gifford
believes
these lines to be taken from a contemporary
posture-book, but there is no evidence of quotation in the case
of _Underwoods_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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nam gemina est sedes turpem sortita per amnem,
turbaque
diuersa remigat omnis aqua.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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In 1553 he went to Rome as one of the secretaries of
Cardinal
Jean du Bellay, his first cousin.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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SAS}
Whence is this Voice of Enion that soundeth in my ears Porches
Take thou
possession!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Heaven's boughs bent down with their alchemy,
Perfumed airs, and
thoughts
of wonder.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XXXVII
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted, to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,
Whilst that this shadow doth such
substance
give
That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,
And by a part of all thy glory live.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Till with sound of trumpet,
Far, far off the
daybreak
call--hark!
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Whitman |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The eldest first began,
Echeneus sage, a
venerable
man!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD
(Presented at the Ramzan Durbar)
Deign, Prince, my tribute to receive,
This lyric offering to your name,
Who round your jewelled scepter bind
The lilies of a poet's fame;
Beneath whose sway concordant dwell
The peoples whom your laws embrace,
In brotherhood of diverse creeds,
And harmony of diverse race:
The
votaries
of the Prophet's faith,
Of whom you are the crown and chief
And they, who bear on Vedic brows
Their mystic symbols of belief;
And they, who worshipping the sun,
Fled o'er the old Iranian sea;
And they, who bow to Him who trod
The midnight waves of Galilee.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It seems, said he, I'm not alone in name,
And since a prince so handsome is the same,
Although a valet has
supplied
my place,
Yet see, the queen prefers a dwarf's embrace.
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La Fontaine |
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after
expressions
of limit,
etc.
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Beowulf |
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Her war poetry appears in the volume
entitled
_A Chant of
Love for England, and other Poems_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Horribly
loud unlike the former shout.
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Milton |
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Then he
would with the help of an English-Rowley and Rowley-English Dictionary
(which he had laboriously compiled for himself out of the vocabulary
to Speght's _Chaucer_, Bailey's _Universal Etymological Dictionary_,
and Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_) translate the work
into what he probably thought was a very fair
imitation
of fifteenth
century language.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
She thrust a dimpled finger
In each ear, shut eyes and ran:
Curious Laura chose to linger
Wondering
at each merchant man.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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THIRD,
suggested
changes, written by the Poet on a copy of the
stereotyped edition of 1836-7--long kept at Rydal Mount, and bought,
after Mrs.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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From amber platters, the smells ascend
Of
overripe
peaches mingled with dust and heated oils.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Qual sovra 'l ventre e qual sovra le spalle
l'un de l'altro giacea, e qual carpone
si
trasmutava
per lo tristo calle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm,
Home she went bounding from the school, nor dreamed of shame or
harm;
And past those dreaded axes she innocently ran,
With bright frank brow that had not learned to blush at gaze of
man;
And up the Sacred Street she turned, and, as she danced along,
She warbled gayly to herself lines of the good old song,
How for a sport the princes came
spurring
from the camp,
And found Lucrece, combing the fleece, under the midnight lamp.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It may still be objected that these Tales are unfounded or
that they have
everywhere
a foundation easy to destroy; in short that
they are absurdities and have not the least tinge of probability.
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La Fontaine |
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Diegue
Yes, see, she's fainting, and from perfect love,
In this swoon, Sire, see how her
passions
move.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Jia Zhi was a Drafter in the
Secretariat
(zhongshu sheren ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And if as a lad grows older
The
troubles
he bears are more,
He carries his griefs on a shoulder
That handselled them long before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nothing particular occurred for some days after these events, except that,
as the travellers were passing a low tract of sand, they perceived an
unusual and gratifying spectacle; namely, a large number of Crabs and
Crawfish--perhaps six or seven hundred--sitting by the water-side, and
endeavoring to disentangle a vast heap of pale pink worsted, which they
moistened at
intervals
with a fluid composed of lavender-water and
white-wine negus.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And, notwithstanding his
desperate effort to realize Poe's idea, he only proved Poe correct, who
had said that no man can bare his heart quite naked; there always will
be
something
held back, something false ostentatiously thrust forward.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
So they
followed
the man back to the court.
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Tennyson |
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And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their spirits) the
soothsayer
still lives.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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For now, O morning chosen of all days, on thee
A wondrous duty lies:
There was an evening that did
loveliness
foretell;
Thence upon thee, O chosen morn, it fell
To fashion into perfect destiny
The radiant prophecy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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Pleasure for the
beautiful
body, but
pain for the beautiful soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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When I gaze on her hair's golden glow
And her body's fresh
delicate
fires,
I love her more than all else beside.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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O struggling with the darkness all the night,
And visited all night by troops of stars,
Or when they climb the sky or when they sink:
Companion
of the morning-star at dawn,
Thyself Earth's rosy star, and of the dawn
Co-herald: wake, O wake, and utter praise!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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)
Not a
youngster
is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried
and sentenced.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Long as the wild boar
Shall love the mountain-heights, and fish the streams,
While bees on thyme and
crickets
feed on dew,
Thy name, thy praise, thine honour, shall endure.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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He waves it thrice before the People, and exclaims,_
"Justice hath dealt upon the mighty
Traitor!
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Byron |
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Whether the tide so hemmed them round
With its pitiless flow,
That when they would have gone they found
No way to go;
Whether she scorned him to the last
With words flung to and fro,
Or clung to him when hope was past,
None will ever know:
Whether he helped or
hindered
her,
Threw up his life or lost it well,
The troubled sea, for all its stir,
Finds no voice to tell.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Moving my spirit past the last defence
That shieldeth mortal things from mightier sight, Where freedom of the soul knows no alloy,
I saw what forms the lordly powers employ; Three splendours, saw I, of high holiness, From clarity to clarity ascending
Through all the roofless, tacit courts extending In aether which such subtle light doth bless
As ne'er the candles of the stars hath wooed; Know ye
herefrom
of their similitude.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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This they did
with such success that Vologaeses offered
Vespasian
40,000
cavalry.
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Tacitus |
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Lucretius |
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The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line--
"She me forsook for a great duke,"
say
"For Athole's duke she me forsook;"
which I take to be the
original
reading.
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Robert Burns |
|
V
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once Electra her
sepulchral
urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I over-turn
The ashes at thy feet.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The
neighing
troop, the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge, the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor war's wild note nor glory's peal
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that never more may feel
The rapture of the fight.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Aeneas stopped and hung
dismayed
at the tumult.
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Mery,
Without dawn too grossly now inflaming
The rose, that splendid, natural and weary
Sheds even her heavy veil of
perfumes
to hear
Underneath the flesh the diamond weeping,
Yes, without those dewy crises!
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Your
thoughts
are yours, too; naked let them stand.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Blake - Zoas |
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His own parents;
He that had fathered him, and she that had conceived him in her womb, and
birthed him,
They gave this child more of themselves than that;
They gave him
afterward
every day--they became part of him.
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Whitman |
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{136a} "AEneas dedicates these arms
concerning
the conquering
Greeks.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And across these seas
We who cry Peace and treasure life and cling
To cities, happiness, or daily toil
For daily bread, or trail the long routine
Of seventy years, taste not the terrible wine
Whereof you drink, who drain and toss the cup
Empty and ringing by the
finished
feast;
Or have it shaken from your hand by sight
Of God against the olive woods.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE BOY
I wish I might become like one of these
Who, in the night on horses wild astride,
With torches flaming out like
loosened
hair
On to the chase through the great swift wind ride.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whan fader or moder arn in grave, 4860
Hir children shulde, whan they ben deede,
Ful
diligent
ben, in hir steede,
To use that werke on such a wyse,
That oon may thurgh another ryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Enter
Macduffes
Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There no mortal man dares to swear in vain: 1395
Against false oaths, his punishment is certain:
And fearing to meet there with inexorable death,
Nothing more surely constrains
deceitful
breath.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Oh abbondante grazia ond' io presunsi
ficcar lo viso per la luce etterna,
tanto che la veduta vi
consunsi!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The herd approach'd; each guest, with busy brain,
Arriving
at the portal, gaz'd amain,
And enter'd marveling: for they knew the street,
Remember'd it from childhood all complete
Without a gap, yet ne'er before had seen
That royal porch, that high-built fair demesne;
So in they hurried all, maz'd, curious and keen:
Save one, who look'd thereon with eye severe,
And with calm-planted steps walk'd in austere;
'Twas Apollonius: something too he laugh'd,
As though some knotty problem, that had daft
His patient thought, had now begun to thaw,
And solve and melt--'twas just as he foresaw.
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Keats - Lamia |
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You must requite his unseasonable
gaiety with a night of deadly sorrow, in which he may both know and
feel that Vitellius lives and is his emperor, and, if
anything
should
happen, has a son to be his heir.
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Tacitus |
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_ 64);
and other
examples
as late as 1690.
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John Donne |
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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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Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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T.S. Eliot |
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160
That when, opprest by fortune and in
grievous
case, thou didst send me this
epistle o'erwrit with tears, that I might bear up shipwrecked thee tossed
by the foaming waves of the sea, and restore thee from the threshold of
death; thou whom neither sacred Venus suffers to repose in soft slumber,
desolate on a a lonely couch, nor do the Muses divert with the sweet song
of ancient poets, whilst thy anxious mind keeps vigil:--this is grateful to
me, since thou dost call me thy friend, and dost seek hither the gifts of
the Muses and of Venus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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