The Lilly of the valley
breathing
in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
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{31a} "More
loquacious
than eloquent; words enough, but little
wisdom.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All
creation
slept and smiled.
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blake-poems |
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Take thy veil
From off thy face, Jewess, or thou
straight
goest
To entertain my soldiers.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What page from court with essenced hair
Will tender you the bowl you drain,
Well skill'd to bend the Serian bow
His father
carried?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[Illustration]
There was an old man of Hong Kong,
Who never did
anything
wrong;
He lay on his back, with his head in a sack,
That innocuous old man of Hong Kong.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For when saw he that well-nigh everything
Which needs of man most urgently require
Was ready to hand for mortals, and that life,
As far as might be, was established safe,
That men were lords in riches, honour, praise,
And eminent in goodly fame of sons,
And that they yet, O yet, within the home,
Still had the anxious heart which vexed life
Unpausingly
with torments of the mind,
And raved perforce with angry plaints, then he,
Then he, the master, did perceive that 'twas
The vessel itself which worked the bane, and all,
However wholesome, which from here or there
Was gathered into it, was by that bane
Spoilt from within,--in part, because he saw
The vessel so cracked and leaky that nowise
'T could ever be filled to brim; in part because
He marked how it polluted with foul taste
Whate'er it got within itself.
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Lucretius |
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard,
Ef he _must_ hev beliefs, nut to b'lieve 'em tu hard; 160
For, ez sure ez he does, he'll be blartin' 'em out
'thout regardin' the natur' o' man more 'n a spout,
Nor it don't ask much gumption to pick out a flaw
In a party whose leaders are loose in the jaw:
An' so in our own case I ventur' to hint
Thet we'd better nut air our perceedin's in print,
Nor pass
resserlootions
ez long ez your arm
Thet may, ez things heppen to turn, du us harm;
For when you've done all your real meanin' to smother,
The darned things'll up an' mean sunthin' or 'nother.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The players were all
standing
up now, with their backs to the boards,
shrinking from the hounds, and nearly deafened with the noise of their
yelping, but as quick as the hounds were they could not overtake the
hare, but it went round, till at the last it seemed as if a blast of
wind burst open the barn door, and the hare doubled and made a leap
over the boards where the men had been playing, and went out of the
door and away through the night, and the hounds over the boards and
through the door after it.
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Yeats |
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in
Hibernia belligeranti_), and I have
incorporated
it.
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John Donne |
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XXIX
When he these bitter byting wordes had red,
The tydings
straunge
did him abashed make,
That still he sate long time astonished, 255
As in great muse, ne word to creature spake.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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High hopes were once formed of
democracy; but
democracy
means simply the bludgeoning of the people by
the people for the people.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Four times fifty living men,
With never a sigh or groan,
With heavy thump, a
lifeless
lump
They dropp'd down one by one.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But discipline, however stern in time
of peace, is always relaxed in civil wars, when temptation stands on
either hand and
treachery
goes unpunished.
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Tacitus |
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Singing inside her hut the maid
Spins, whilst the friend of wintry night,
The pine-torch, by her
crackles
bright.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Where
chimneys
do for ever weep
For want of warmth, and stomachs keep,
With noise, the servants' eyes from sleep.
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Robert Herrick |
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Such as are
pleasant
company, then,
Refined and courteous men.
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Troubador Verse |
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Where, hid behind a
spreading
wood,
An ancient Pict-built mansion stood,
I spied, among an angel brood,
A female pair;
Sweet shone their high maternal blood,
And father's air.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
editions, all of which are
confirmed
as not protected by copyright in
the U.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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FOOTNOTE:
[A] The entry in the Parish Register of Kelloe Church is as follows:--
Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett, daughter and first child of Edward
Barrett Moulton Barrett, of Coxhoe Hall, native of St James's, Jamaica,
by Mary, late Clarke, native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was born, March
6th, 1806, and
baptized
10th of February, 1808.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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,
_uer_ a)
_ageret_
(_LXVIII.
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Latin - Catullus |
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then I alone
Wander among the virgins of the summer Look they cry
The poor forsaken Los mockd by the worm the shelly snail
The Emmet & the beetle hark they laugh & mock at Los
Secure now from the smitings of thy Power Demon of Fury {The beginning of this inserted line is set well in from the heads of the accompanying lines, but there seems no reason not to bring it into line with them EJC}
Enitharmon answerd If the God enrapturd me infolds
In clouds of sweet obscurity my beauteous form
dissolving
Howl thou over the body of death tis thine But if among the virgins {The inserted material is clearly written over erased material EJC}
Of summer I have seen thee sleep & turn thy cheek delighted
Upon the rose or lilly pale.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles
Et les convives
mastiquaient
a qui mieux mieux
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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The myrtle groves are those of the Underworld in
Classical
mythology.
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Ronsard |
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980
Criseyde, that was Troilus lady right,
And cleer stood on a ground of sikernesse,
Al thoughte she, hir servaunt and hir knight
Ne sholde of right non untrouthe in hir gesse,
Yet nathelees,
considered
his distresse, 985
And that love is in cause of swich folye,
Thus to him spak she of his Ialousye:
`Lo, herte myn, as wolde the excellence
Of love, ayeins the which that no man may,
Ne oughte eek goodly maken resistence 990
And eek bycause I felte wel and say
Youre grete trouthe, and servyse every day;
And that your herte al myn was, sooth to seyne,
This droof me for to rewe up-on your peyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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þā wæs
Hondscīo
(dat.
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Beowulf |
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`I love thee well, dear Love,' quoth she, `and yet
Would that thy creed with mine
completely
met,
As one, not two.
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Sidney Lanier |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Tennyson |
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A
vengeance
on 't!
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Shakespeare |
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Long she lies in wait,
Makes many a feint, peeps forth, draws coyly back,
Then, from some
southern
ambush in the sky,
With one great gush of blossom storms the world.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes
scattered
on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's unfamiliarity And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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That will neuer bee:
Who can
impresse
the Forrest, bid the Tree
Vnfixe his earth-bound Root?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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His art holds the
mystic depth of the Slav, the musical
strength
of the German, and the
visual clarity of the Latin.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In
reference
to this poem, I will here mention one of the most
remarkable facts in my own poetic history, and that of Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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o
quotiens
ingressus iter mihi tristia dixi
offensum in porta signa dedisse pedem!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XLVII
The vest is of that colour which is spied
In leaf, when gray and yellow are at strife;
When it is
gathered
from the branch, or dried
Is the green blood, that was it's parent's life.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thus in the weird and old
ancestral
tower
For Mahaud now has come the fateful hour,
The lonely supper which her state decrees.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Homesick for
steadfast
honey,
Ah!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Of the bastards you add
What a number of
rascally
lords have been made.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And will this divine grace, this supreme
perfection
depart those for whom life exists only to discover and glorify them?
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Appoloinaire |
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Was halt mich ab, so schlag ich zu,
Zerschmettre
dich und deine Katzengeister!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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--Read before the Sons of the
Revolution, New-York,
February
22, 1887, and adopted as the poem of the
Society.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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He said, and gave into his servants' care
His arms; they swift
proceeded
to the house,
And to the fruitful grove himself as swift
To prove his father.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He follow'd through a lowly arched way,
Brushing
the cobwebs with his lofty plume, 110
And as she mutter'd "Well-a--well-a-day!
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Keats |
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As when from gloomy clouds a whirlwind springs,
That bears Jove's thunder on its dreadful wings,
Wide o'er the blasted fields the tempest sweeps;
Then, gather'd, settles on the hoary deeps;
The afflicted deeps tumultuous mix and roar;
The waves behind impel the waves before,
Wide rolling, foaming high, and
tumbling
to the shore:
Thus rank on rank, the thick battalions throng,
Chief urged on chief, and man drove man along.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the
Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a
gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental
court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he
was
disgraced
and fell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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O, Civil Fury, you alone are the cause,
In
Macedonian
fields sowing new wars,
Arming Pompey against Caesar there,
So that achieving the rich crown of all,
Roman grandeur, prospering everywhere,
Might tumble down in more disastrous fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[67] A
celebrated
actor.
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Aristophanes |
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I keep my countenance,
I remain self-possessed
Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired
Reiterates some worn-out common song
With the smell of hyacinths across the garden
Recalling
things that other people have desired.
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T.S. Eliot |
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you must, at no
additional
cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Keats |
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When the poor heart has all its joys resigned,
Why does their sad
remembrance
cleave behind?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A
charlatan
of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when Christmas is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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She wakes their smiles, she soothes their cares,
On that pure heart so like to theirs,
Her spirit with such life is rife
That in its golden rays we see,
Touched into graceful poesy,
The dull cold
commonplace
of life.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light
exclusively
yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
Last May, a braw wooer cam doun the lang glen,
And sair wi' his love he did deave me;
I said, there was
naething
I hated like men--
The deuce gae wi'm, to believe me, believe me;
The deuce gae wi'm to believe me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For as my flesh out of my father's joy
Came, fraught from him with hunger for like joy,--
As, when roused ages of desire within me
Play with my blood as storms play with the sea,
And all my senses tug one way like sails,
My flesh obeys, and into that perilous dream,
Woman, exults;--so, but much more, my soul,
That had its faculties from far beyond
The
tingling
loam of flesh, obeys a need:
Conquest, and nations to enjoy with war.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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From off the gateway's rusting iron asters,
5The birds take flight to far
sequestered
greens,
?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in
posterity?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Io vidi sopra lei tanta allegrezza
piover, portata ne le menti sante
create a trasvolar per quella altezza,
che quantunque io avea visto davante,
di tanta
ammirazion
non mi sospese,
ne mi mostro di Dio tanto sembiante;
e quello amor che primo li discese,
cantando 'Ave, Maria, gratia plena',
dinanzi a lei le sue ali distese.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) The sermons and papers thus consigned to King
were taken from him later at the instance
apparently
of Donne's son.
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John Donne |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We,
wretched
subjects, though to lawful sway,
In this weak queen some favourite still obey:
Ah!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twould wake sad
thoughts
in me.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Item,
Anchovies
and sack after supper.
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Shakespeare |
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A terrible feeling of
solitude
in the midst of a multitude
oppressed him.
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Yeats |
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A proud man was Lars Porsena
Upon the
trysting
day.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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To
Introduce
Myself.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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With every note
That grows more loud, the angel grows more dim,
Receding
in proportion to approach,
Until he stand afar,--a shade.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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On this side the Tuscan river
shuts us in; on that the
Rutulian
drives us hard, and thunders in arms
about our walls.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With
blindness
linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with interruption short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Massam, a merchant, but as early as 1610 had retired to live
a country life in
Leicestershire
(see 106).
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Robert Herrick |
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At my sloth and greed there is no one but me to laugh;
My
cheerful
vigour none but myself knows.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including
any word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Whan hit was vij yere olde and more,
hys freendys sett hym wnto lore; 46
he was sone Full goode of wytt,
And
wnderstode
the holy wryte;
he loued god in all his thought, 49
And of thys worllde gaffe he nought;
he sawe thys worllde was butt gylle,
for hit showld laste but a whyle;
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neuerthe les whan he was elde,
lone and felde For to wellde,
hys fader puruyde hym a wyffe, 55
Wit whome he soulde led hys lyffe;
A mayden there was fayre and Fre,
Com of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Labours none
Of men or oxen in the land appear'd,
Nor aught beside saw we, but from the earth 120
Smoke rising;
therefore
of my friends I sent
Before me two, adding an herald third,
To learn what race of men that country fed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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S
[Illustration]
S was Papa's new Stick,
Papa's new thumping Stick,
To thump
extremely
wicked boys,
Because it was so thick.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Leesce qui nel' haoit mie,
L'envoisie, la bien chantans,
Qui des lors qu'el n'ot que sept ans
De s'amor li donna l'otroi;
Deduit la tint parmi le doi 840
A la karole, et ele lui,
Bien s'entr'amoient ambedui:
Car il iert biaus, et ele bele,
Bien
resembloit
rose novele
De sa color.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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{15e} Horses are
frequently
led or ridden into the hall where folk
sit at banquet: so in Chaucer's Squire's tale, in the ballad of
King Estmere, and in the romances.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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& his hHorse proudly neighd; he smelt the battle
Afar off, Rushing back, reddning with rage the [[Eternal]] Mighty Father
Siezd his bright
Sheephook
studded with gems & gold, he Swung it round
His head shrill sounding in the sky, down rushd the Sun with noise
Of war.
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Blake - Zoas |
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It should be added that this is not a
haphazard
anthology of picked-over
poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For that Thou givest my soul some pride,
Not
grudging
sorrow for a mate,
For this my wild and lovely bride
I thank Thee, just, compassionate.
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Tennyson |
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His
shoulder
proudly eminent and sharp
Was with a sinner charg'd; by either haunch
He held him, the foot's sinew griping fast.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We are engaged in a free enquiry,
and you know, that, in this kind of debate, the
established
law allows
every man to speak his mind without reserve.
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Tacitus |
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OCEANUS
Thy word is said to me in act to go:
For lo, my
hippogriff
with waving wings
Fans the smooth course of air, and fain is he
To rest his limbs within his ocean stall.
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Aeschylus |
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The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the
twofold influence which the French
sculptor
wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Fitzdottrel
lxvi
Fitzdottrel lxx
Wittipol lxxi
Justice Eitherside lxxi
Merecraft lxxii
Plutarchus Guilthead lxxiii
The Noble House lxxiv
D.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_ The evidence for this reading
is so
overwhelming
that it is impossible to reject it.
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John Donne |
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LIMITED WARRANTY,
DISCLAIMER
OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Thus at the latest hour with insults over-sufficient
E'en to my plaints fere Fate
begrudges
ears that would hear me.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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XII
Thus flocked all the folke him round about, 100
The whiles that hoarie king, with all his traine,
Being arrived where that champion stout
After his foes defeasance did remaine,
Him goodly greetes, and faire does entertaine
With
princely
gifts of yvorie and gold, 105
And thousand thankes him yeelds for all his paine.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Where is the cry of
thought?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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`And your goodnesse have I founde alwey yit, 995
Of whiche, my dere herte and al my knight,
I thonke it yow, as fer as I have wit,
Al can I nought as muche as it were right;
And I, emforth my
conninge
and my might,
Have and ay shal, how sore that me smerte, 1000
Ben to yow trewe and hool, with a myn herte;
`And dredelees, that shal be founde at preve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Here he shall stride up and down and
flourish
his sword.
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Longfellow |
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But Nature
whistled
with all her winds,
Did as she pleased and went her way.
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Emerson - Poems |
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