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Keats - Lamia |
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Even the rishi[28] had to wait
For a yellow crane to ride;
But the sailor[29] whose heart had no guile
Was
followed
by the white gulls.
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Li Po |
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+ Keep it legal
Whatever
your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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) Ever the
selfsame
dream!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What they've been doing all this time,
Oh could I put it into rhyme,
A most delightful tale
pursuing!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It occurred to him to try to turn his infant talents to account;
and he painted upon cardboard a couple of birds in the style which the
older among us remember as having been called
Oriental
tinting, took them
to a small shop, and sold them for fourpence.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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it may be,
affection
true
Had reconciled the pair anew!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Next morning something heavily
Against the opening door did weigh,
And there, from sin and sorrow free,
A woman on the
threshold
lay.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Everyone
has his own ways, and Father Missail and I
have only one thing which we care for--we drink to the
bottom, we drink; turn it upside down, and knock at
the bottom.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Everyone
has his own ways, and Father Missail and I
have only one thing which we care for--we drink to the
bottom, we drink; turn it upside down, and knock at
the bottom.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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We hardy
skimmers
of the sea
Are lucky in each sally,
And, eighty strong, we send along
The dreaded Pirate Galley.
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Hugo - Poems |
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XV
Neither by tears, nor groans, nor sound of woe,
To move the
stedfast
maid the dwarf had power:
She down the rugged hill descended slow,
Until she reached the plain beneath the tower.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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However, while Augustus looked for a
successor
in his
own family, I have searched throughout the country.
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Tacitus |
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distributed
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Would you tear from my lintels these sacred
green
garlands
of leaves?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Towards the end of August, 1347, one of his
couriers
arrived without
arms, and with only the symbol of his office, the silver rod, in his
hand.
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Petrarch |
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NIGHT IN NEW YORK
Haunted by unknown feet--
Ways of the
midnight
hour!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pythagoras
Free-thinker, Man, do you think you alone
Think, while life explodes
everywhere?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Li Po, styled T'ai-po, was descended in the ninth
generation
from
the Emperor Hsing-sh?
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Li Po |
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On this first
fleeting
day of Spring,
For Winter is gone by,
And every bird on every quivering wing
Floats in a sunny sky;
On this first Summer-like soft day,
While sunshine steeps the air,
And every cloud has gat itself away,
And birds sing everywhere.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, --
delirious
charter!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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A rat crept softly through the vegetation
Dragging
its slimy belly on the bank
While I was fishing in the dull canal
On a winter evening round behind the gashouse 190
Musing upon the king my brother's wreck
And on the king my father's death before him.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O what a
multitude
of thoughts at once
Awakn'd in me swarm, while I consider
What from within I feel my self and hear
What from without comes often to my ears,
Ill sorting with my present state compar'd.
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Milton |
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O what a
multitude
of thoughts at once
Awakn'd in me swarm, while I consider
What from within I feel my self and hear
What from without comes often to my ears,
Ill sorting with my present state compar'd.
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Milton |
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Thou, O father, take the sacred things and the household gods
of our
ancestors
in thine hand.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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II
Unconquerably there must
As my hope hurls itself free
Burst on high and be lost
In silence and in fury
A voice alien to the wood
Or
followed
by no echo,
The bird one never could
Hear again in this life below.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Mortuus uidetur Beneuenutus de
Campesanis
anno 1323 (Schulze,
Prolegg.
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Latin - Catullus |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And does n't care about careers,
And
exigencies
never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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How happy is the little stone
That rambles in the road alone,
And does n't care about careers,
And
exigencies
never fears;
Whose coat of elemental brown
A passing universe put on;
And independent as the sun,
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute decree
In casual simplicity.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Alas the day,
What good could they
pretend?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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So wasted was the vigour which some few
Short days before, in fighting field, availed
To overthrow a banded host, and do
The deeds he did, in
cheating
armour mailed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'Tis sweet, though sad, my trembling
thoughts
to raise,
As memory dwells upon that form so dear,
And think that now e'en angels join to praise
The gentle virtues that adorn'd her here;
That face, that look, in fancy to behold--
To hear that voice that did with music vie--
The bending head, crown'd with its locks of gold--
_All, all_ that charm'd, now but sad thoughts supply.
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Petrarch |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Stranger, their humble graves adorn;
You too may fall, and ask a tear;
'Tis not the beauty of the morn
That proves the evening shall be clear,--
They saw their injur'd country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rush'd to meet the
insulting
foe;
They took the spear--but left the shield.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Imagists |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I think Thorwaldsen desired to
have roses grow over him; a wish
religiously
fulfilled for him to the
present day, I believe.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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= The conception of
this couplet and the lines which
Fitzdottrel
speaks below was later
elaborated in Cocklorrel's song in the _Gipsies Metamorphosed_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I leap beyond the winds,
I cry and shout,
For my throat is keen as a sword
Sharpened
on a hone of ivory.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Canto VIII
Era gia l'ora che volge il disio
ai navicanti e 'ntenerisce il core
lo di c'han detto ai dolci amici addio;
e che lo novo
peregrin
d'amore
punge, se ode squilla di lontano
che paia il giorno pianger che si more;
quand' io incominciai a render vano
l'udire e a mirare una de l'alme
surta, che l'ascoltar chiedea con mano.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He attacks, presses on, yields, defends,
Now strong, now weak, again it ends:
Yet in this harsh
struggle
of the whole,
He tears apart my heart but not my soul;
And whatever power love has over me,
I shall not hesitate to do my duty;
I pass, unwavering, where honour leads,
Rodrigue is dear to me, his merit grieves;
My heart takes his part; yet, there's the head,
I know what I am, and that my father's dead.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Into Moses'
wholesale
shop:
There they bought a hat and bonnet,
And a gown with spots upon it,
A satin sash of Cloxam blue,
And a pair of slippers too.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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our men too, like
wrestlers
in the arena, cannot
endure a rag over their bellies; 'tis an athlete's malady, which only
exercise can remedy.
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Aristophanes |
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namque ferunt olim Pagasae naualibus Argon
egressam longe Phasidos isse uiam,
et iam
praeteritis
labentem Athamantidos undis
Mysorum scopulis applicuisse ratem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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1260
No light
punishment
should be the sister's:
Her crime exceeds that of all her brothers.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Je suis un vieux boudoir plein de roses fanees,
Ou git tout un fouillis de modes surannees,
Ou les pastels
plaintifs
et les pales Boucher,
Seuls, respirent l'odeur d'un flacon debouche.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these
floating
animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the talisman that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A
sergeant
caught mefowling,
and he fired his gun so free .
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Yeats |
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Thou wilt have
another bridegroom--and
handsome
and affable.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This letter serves as an admirable
introduction
to the poem, and
should be read attentively by the student.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thou wilt have
another bridegroom--and
handsome
and affable.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--So he gallantly offered his
hand to his dear, adorable, and
execrable
wife; the mysterious woman to
whom he owed so many pleasures, so many pains, and perhaps also a great
part of his genius.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But none the less the world
believed
that they
Unto the powers of hell their souls had sold.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Study in detail the fine
description
of Duessa's descent to Erebus.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was
consecrate
to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead;
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Immediate
Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this forehead these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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VII
Wert thou some Starr which from the ruin'd roofe
Of shak't Olympus by
mischance
didst fall;
Which carefull Jove in natures true behoofe
Took up, and in fit place did reinstall?
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Milton |
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The same
stealthy
blow .
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Euripides - Electra |
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Great gods, what a number of
assaults!
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Aristophanes |
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We
encourage
the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help.
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Meredith - Poems |
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--
She from her memory oft repeats
Witches' dread powers and fairy feats:
How one has oft been known to prance
In cowcribs, like a coach, to France,
And ride on sheep-trays from the fold
A race-horse speed to Burton-hold;
To join the
midnight
mystery's rout,
Where witches meet the yews about:
And how, when met with unawares,
They turn at once to cats or hares,
And race along with hellish flight,
Now here, now there, now out of sight!
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John Clare |
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The poem is
full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal and
spirting
(MS.
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Robert Herrick |
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TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS
Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne,
With praying eyes and hands elate,
What mystic rapture dost thou own,
Immutable
and ultimate?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And now, when toil and summer's in its prime,
In every vill, at morning's
earliest
time,
To early-risers many a Hodge is seen,
And many a Dob's heard clattering oer the green.
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John Clare |
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Pray for us, now beyond violence,
To the Son of the Virgin Mary,
So of grace to us she's not chary,
Shields us from Hell's
lightning
fall.
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Villon |
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"
Far and faint, yet each moment clearer,
Straight
as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton" westward bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In wide-spread
Iaolchus
Pelias dwelt,
Of num'rous flocks possess'd; but his abode
Amid the sands of Pylus Neleus chose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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" he shouted, long and loud;
And "Who wants my
potatoes?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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Wilde - Poems |
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She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen
branches
of the night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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To define it
with any
narrower
nicety would probably be rash.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Stroud,
Who was horribly jammed in a crowd;
Some she slew with a kick, some she scrunched with a stick,
That
impulsive
old person of Stroud.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ENCOURAGEMENTS
TO A LOVER.
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Golden Treasury |
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Or il n'est d'horreur au monde qui surpasse
La froide cruaute de ce soleil de glace
Et cette immense nuit semblable au vieux Chaos;
Je jalouse le sort des plus vils animaux
Qui peuvent se plonger dans un sommeil stupide,
Tant l'echeveau du temps
lentement
se devide!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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170
The pool is grown deeper,
The sand dance is ending,
The white floor sinks, blending
With skies that below me
Are
deepening
and bending,
And a child's face alone
That seems not to know me,
With hair that fades golden
In the heaven-glow round it,
Looks up at my own; 180
Ah, glimpse through the portal
That leads to the throne,
That opes the child's olden
Regions Elysian!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
harlot
commands
him to eat and drink also:
"It is the conformity of life,
Of the conditions and fate of the Land.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Loosen thou mine arm, yet
steadfast
stay,
Leave the park ere sunlight's parting ray,
And the mists descend o'er mount and lea,
Let's depart ere winter bids us flee.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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That region left, the vale unfolds
Rich groves of lofty stature,
With Yarrow winding through the pomp
Of
cultivated
Nature;
And rising from those lofty groves
Behold a ruin hoary,
The shatter'd front of Newark's Towers,
Renown'd in Border story.
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Golden Treasury |
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I wept for pity watching them, but more
I wept heart-sore
Once and again to see
Some weary man plunge overboard, and swim
To Love or Worm ship
floating
buoyantly:
And there all welcomed him.
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Christina Rossetti |
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looking on thee
Full flashes on the soul the light of ages,
Since the fierce Carthaginian almost won thee,
To the last halo of the chiefs and sages
Who glorify thy consecrated pages;
Thou wert the throne and grave of empires; still,
The fount at which the panting mind assuages
Her thirst of knowledge,
quaffing
there her fill,
Flows from the eternal source of Rome's imperial hill.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Marking of those bright eyes the sun serene
Where reigneth Love, who mine obscures and grieves,
My
hopeless
heart the weary spirit leaves
Once more to gain its paradise terrene;
Then, finding full of bitter-sweet the scene,
And in the world how vast the web it weaves.
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Petrarch |
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Arias
Allow your
feelings
to respond to reason.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Him in this strange disguise she from the cell
Crawling (for such was her
command)
did guide,
Where, prisoned by a stone, in her retreat,
Was hid his beauteous lady's visage sweet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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And as I have
mentioned
the word labour.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Said I, "And what path of wisdom
followest
thou?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We'll mark the little reeling bee
Along the grassy ocean rove,
Tossed like a little boat at sea,
And
interchange
our vows of love.
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John Clare |
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The pewit,
swopping
up and down
And screaming round the passer bye,
Or running oer the herbage brown
With copple crown uplifted high,
Loves in its clumps to make a home
Where danger seldom cares to come.
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John Clare |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that
renowned
Colossus, great in story:
And whatever noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thou hast her: may no god
begrudge
your joy.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I'll stand under the tree just beside the gate:
I'll stand by the door and show off my
enamelled
hair-pins.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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For gem-stoned rings, on hand,
They've
Egyptian
scarabs,
In well-cut buttonholes,
Dandelions from the wasteland.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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ou mist haue be a gret lordyng,
and ben
honoured
as a king,
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[251] Lovers were wont to make each other
presents
of birds.
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Aristophanes |
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For I
remember
not t' have seen your face.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"But at the brook we'll meet,
That ripples down the
boundary
line;
There you may wed, and Heaven shall see't.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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