His owne deare Una hearing evermore
His ruefull shriekes and gronings, often tore
Her guiltlesse garments, and her golden heare,
For pitty of his paine and anguish sore; 250
Yet all with
patience
wisely she did beare;
For well she wist his crime could else be never cleare.
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Heavenly
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That heart, already more than lost,
The imp beleaguer'd all perdue;
For
frowning
Honour kept his post--
To meet that frown, he shrunk to do.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF
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ALLITERATIVE
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Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried,
Asking, "What Lamp had Destiny to guide
Her little
Children
stumbling in the Dark?
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THE
PLAINTIVE
SONG OF A BIRD RECALLS TO HIM HIS OWN KEENER SORROW.
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She that in bed such love does win,
Is
cleansed
forever of her sin.
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LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling
Chaunted from breasts divine
prophetic
verse the Parcae.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I never wear my
best coat on a journey, though
perchance
I could show a certificate to
prove that I have a more costly one, at least, at home, if that were
all that a gentleman required.
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Who sent thee there
requires
thee here!
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Byron |
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Hippolyte
Madame, my
feelings
are not as base as that.
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Shakes, great, _of
considerable
consequence_.
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[335] The sun is in the
constellation
Leo in July.
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LXXIX
He held
unsheathed
that thundering sword in hand,
Which with so many foes has heaped the plain,
That he who thinks to count the slaughtered band,
Has undertaken, hard emprize and vain.
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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is
Aphrodite
under a twilight falling from the
wings of numberless sparrows, and about her feet are the grey and white
doves.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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the sun upsprings behind,
Broad, red, radiant, half-reclined
On the level quivering line
Of the waters crystalline;
And before that chasm of light,
As within a furnace bright,
Column, tower, and dome, and spire,
Shine like obelisks of fire,
Pointing
with inconstant motion
From the altar of dark ocean
To the sapphire-tinted skies;
As the flames of sacrifice
From the marble shrines did rise
As to pierce the dome of gold
Where Apollo spoke of old.
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Golden Treasury |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Very few perhaps are
familiar
with these lines--yet no less a poet
than Shelley is their author.
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Abstinence, no falsehood, no gluttony, lust;
The open air I sing, freedom, toleration,
(Take here the mainest lesson--less from books--less from the schools,)
The common day and night--the common earth and waters,
Your farm--your work, trade, occupation,
The
democratic
wisdom underneath, like solid ground for all.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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These priestly
litanies
are accompanied by wild dances--the
Salii are, etymologically, 'the Dancing men'--and by the clashing of
shields.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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His everlasting jokes about the
Commandant's family, and, above all, his witty remarks upon Marya
Ivanofna,
displeased
me very much.
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b) _to, towards, at, on_
(motion to):
dēaðes
wylm hrān æt heortan, _seized upon the heart_, 2271;
gehēton æt hærgtrafum, _vowed at_ (or _to_) _the temples of the gods_, 175.
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but in the church
With saints, with
gluttons
at the tavern's mess.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of
terrible
workmanship the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It might have been the
lighthouse
spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had importuned to see!
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Yet, see, he
mastereth
himself, and makes
His torture tributary to his will.
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Byron |
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A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten
at foot of castle wall.
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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What fierce
conflict
I feel!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The
bounteous
largess given thee to give?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Tho' something like moisture
conglobes
in my eye,
Let no one misdeem me disloyal;
A poor friendless wand'rer may well claim a sigh,
Still more, if that wand'rer were royal.
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Who walks in wind-blown dust of streets,
That hath a garden where the roses
breathe?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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attables
dans le splendide orgie.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Nō hē wiht fram mē
"flōd-ȳðum feor
flēotan
meahte,
"hraðor on holme, nō ic fram him wolde.
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Beowulf |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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He is not the only great artist who has
advanced this
untenable
theory.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The
phraseology of the old
minstrels
becomes obsolete.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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UNCOLLECTED POEMS
FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER
(FOR MUSIC)
IN the glad springtime when leaves were green,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Although, of course, he'd known
That there were stars, somehow before the war
He'd never
realised
them--so thick-sown,
Millions and millions.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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s role for a
military
position, as Ban Chao did when he went to serve in the army in the Eastern Han.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--"Your hands were like paws then, your face blue and bleak,
But now I'm bewitched by your
delicate
cheek,
And your little gloves fit as on any la-dy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Would it not be better, Minos' worthy daughter, 755
To search for repose amongst the nobler cares,
Rule, in opposition to that
ungrateful
man
Who resorts to flight: and govern in the land?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Or if some erring crossbow-bolt should break
Thine unarmed head, shot from behind a house,
So, evil falls, and a fool
foretells
the truth.
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Secondary,
author of prize peace essay,
presents
sword to Lieutenant-Colonel,
a fluent orator,
found to be in error.
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James Russell Lowell |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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how apt we are to indulge prejudices in our
judgments
of one
another!
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Robert Forst |
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Oh, the grey garner that is full of half-grown apples,
Oh, the golden
sparkles
laid extinct--!
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even years after the official
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose embraces Clasp but wind that past thee
bloweth?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I've heard my
grandmother
say, that Heaven gives almonds
To those who have no teeth.
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Longfellow |
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OR OUGHT HAVE DONE, or have done
something
to displease you.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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" KAU}
Severe the labour, female slaves the mortar trod oppressed
Twelve halls after the names of his twelve sons composd
The golden
wondrous
building & three [centr f[orm]] Central Domes after the Names {Erdman posits that Blake erased the words "centr f[orm]" and replaced them with "Central Domes.
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
MENALCAS
"It
profiteth
me naught, Amyntas mine,
That in your very heart you spurn me not,
If, while you hunt the boar, I guard the nets.
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before me lies
Dawn and the Day; the Night behind me; that
Suffices
me; I break the bounds; I _see_,
And nothing more; _believe_, and nothing less.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Chimene
And Rodrigue's arm
performed
these miracles?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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3
Disaster
turns to the Year for Destroying the Hu; the situation produces the Month for Seizing the Hu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Whereat the star of Lethe not delay'd
His rosy eloquence, and thus inquired:
"Thou smooth-lipp'd serpent, surely high
inspired!
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Keats - Lamia |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I Sir: there are a crew of
wretched
Soules
That stay his Cure: their malady conuinces
The great assay of Art.
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
II
I looked there as the seasons wore,
And still his soul
continuously
upbore
Its life in theirs.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If you by craft
contrive
to set me free,
Silver and gold, you'll have your fill of me,
Manors and fiefs, I'll give you all your need.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"Is it
possible?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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(Omitting the first of the two
following
couplets.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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"
So again I saw,
And leaped, unhesitant,
And struggled and fumed
With outspread
clutching
fingers.
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Stephen Crane |
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On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy
hyacinth
hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
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Poe - 5 |
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XXXVII
They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325
That rang down a bare slope not far remote:
The barrows
glistered
bright with drops of rain,
Whistled the waggoner with merry note,
The cock far off sounded his clarion throat;
But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330
Only were told there stood a lonely cot
A long mile thence.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Zourine
received
orders to cross the River Volga.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Bent and The Dancing Master, I
whooping in a chair, and The Dowd
dropping
in from the clouds.
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Kipling - Poems |
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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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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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A pregnant
experiment towards something like this has already been seen--in George
Meredith's magnificent set of _Odes in
Contribution
to the Song of the
French History_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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A
different
lot befel Rinaldo; who
Had chanced another pathway to pursue.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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XI
On your
midnight
pallet lying
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow;
Pity me before.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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there did appear
A curious rainbow smiling there;
Which was the
covenant
that she
No more would drown mine eyes or me.
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Robert Herrick |
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<>, cantava, <
che '
marinari
in mezzo mar dismago;
tanto son di piacere a sentir piena!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
blisfulnesse
of mortel ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thou wanting, never son and heir
The Hearth can bear, nor parents be
By issue girt, yet can it bear,
Thou willing:--with such Deity,
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Yes, looking with
dreaming
eyes, I have found them sitting
under the olives, in their grave, strong, antique beauty--Etruscan
gods!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Note: Ronsard's later
tributes
to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose mistress Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The yellow apples glowed like fire,
O merrily the
throstle
sings!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Thou wilt tell _460
With the grimace of hate, how horrible
It was to meet my love when thine grew less;
Thou wilt admire how I could e'er address
Such
features
to love's work.
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Shelley |
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What shall
compensate
an ideal dimmed?
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James Russell Lowell |
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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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Such, father, is not (now) my theme--
I will not madly deem that power
Of Earth may shrive me of the sin
Unearthly
pride hath revell'd in--
I have no time to dote or dream:
You call it hope--that fire of fire!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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and
Euphrates
floweth by,
And Gehons golden waves doe wash continually.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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On one condition thou shalt have the place
For thee I
seriously
intend the grace,
If thou 'lt on me a day or two attend,
As page of honour:--dost thou comprehend?
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La Fontaine |
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