_House or Window Flies_
These little window dwellers, in
cottages
and halls, were always
entertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from sunrise
to sunset they would sip of the tea, drink of the beer, and eat of the
sugar, and be welcome all summer long.
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Janet is sad: her husband is alone,
Wrapped in the black shroud of this bitter night:
His
children
are so little, there is none
To give him aid.
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'Please God, now, night fail us not cruelly,
Nor my friend be parted far from me,
Nor day nor dawn, let the
watchman
see!
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Troubador Verse |
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= Sir John
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(ed.
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
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as we have known
In the green dales beside our Rotha's stream,
Greta, or Derwent, or some nameless rill,
To ruminate, with
interchange
of talk,
On rational liberty, and hope in man, 395
Justice and peace.
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birthplace
of deep Love!
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Whate'er of blessed life there be
For high souls to the
darkness
flown,
Be thine for ever, and a throne
Beside the crowned Persephone.
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I had come to a
conclusion
about the
method.
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Fathomless well of fault and
foolishness!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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An elderly waiter
with trembling hands was
hurriedly
spreading a pink and white checked
cloth over the rusty green iron table, saying: "If the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden .
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T.S. Eliot |
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The night had found (to him a night of wo)
Upon a
mountain
crag, young Angelo--
Beetling it bends athwart the solemn sky,
And scowls on starry worlds that down beneath it lie.
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Poe - 5 |
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The sailors, hearing the female Halycon sing,
prepared
to die, safe however around mid-December, when these birds make their nests, and one knows that then the sea will be calm.
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Appoloinaire |
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Who dares the child's true name outright to
mention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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THE FUTURE
After ten
thousand
centuries have gone,
Man will ascend the last long pass to know
That all the summits which he saw at dawn
Are buried deep in everlasting snow.
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All the past we leave behind;
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world;
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labour and the march,
Pioneers!
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The case of Servia is
interesting
in another way.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as a good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath
snatched
up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Lawson, whom I
promised
to call for
in Paisley--like old lady W----, and still more like Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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What Place Is
Besieged?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Phoenix was the
mythical
bird that rose again from the ashes of its own immolation.
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Ronsard |
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Seek out your ancient mother; hence shall the
house of Aeneas sway all regions, his children's
children
and they who
shall be born of them.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye--
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a
nameless
grave!
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Poe - 5 |
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And befits such an ancient homestead of error,
Where the old
falsehoods
moulder and smoulder,
And yearly by many hundred hands
Are carried away in the zeal of youth,
And sown like tares in the field of truth,
To blossom and ripen in other lands.
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Longfellow |
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In a wooden bowl he placed them,
Shook and jostled them together,
Threw them on the ground before him,
Thus exclaiming and explaining:
"Red side up are all the pieces,
And one great Kenabeek standing
On the bright side of a brass piece,
On a
burnished
Ozawabeek;
Thirteen tens and eight are counted.
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Longfellow |
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All
charming
people are spoiled.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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necdum finis erat: restabant Actia bella
dotali commissa acie, repetitaque rerum
alea, et in ponto quaesitus rector Olympi,
femineum sortita iugum cum Roma pependit,
atque ipsa Isiaco
certarunt
fulmina sistro.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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and alas
The trebly hundred
triumphs!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Message
I heard a cry in the night,
A
thousand
miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
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Sara Teasdale |
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I feel as I were welcome to these trees
After long months of weary wandering,
Acknowledged by their hospitable boughs;
They know me as their son, for side by side,
They were coeval with my ancestors,
Adorned with them my country's
primitive
times,
And soon may give my dust their funeral shade.
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Emerson - Poems |
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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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T.S. Eliot |
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The Germans
transact
no business, public or private, without being armed: 84 but it is not customary for any person to assume arms till the state has approved his ability to use them.
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Tacitus |
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Love
conquers
all things; yield we too to love!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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the
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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er,
296 barlay;
& 3et gif hym respite,
[H] A
twelmonyth
& a day;--
Now hy3e, & let se tite
300 Dar any her-inne o3t say.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
Then all the
flatterers
and their squires cried out
Solicitous, with various voice, "Go to,
Old Rogue," or "Shall I brain him, my good Lord?
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Sidney Lanier |
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And equal laws be thine,
And winged words let sail,
Freighted with truth even from the throne of God:
That wealth,
surviving
fate, _100
Be thine.
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Shelley |
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Tasso is
perhaps more
Virgilian
than Camoens; the plastic power of his
imagination is more assured.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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One is accompanied by the following inscription, being two
lines (Hexameter and
Pentameter)
broken into halves:--
"Vive, bibe, obgregare, memor
Fausti hujus et hujus
P?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Once again
the faithful woman instructs her heroic lover in the conventions
of society, this time teaching him the importance of the family
in Babylonian life, and
obedience
to the ruler.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Thou loosest labour
As easie may'st thou the intrenchant Ayre
With thy keene Sword impresse, as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on
vulnerable
Crests,
I beare a charmed Life, which must not yeeld
To one of woman borne
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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XXV
The knight was wroth to see his stroke beguyld,
And smote againe with more outrageous might;
But backe againe the
sparckling
steele recoyld,
And left not any marke, where it did light, 220
As if in Adamant rocke it had bene pight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Now that sword began,
from blood of the fight, in battle-droppings, {23c}
war-blade, to wane: 'twas a
wondrous
thing
that all of it melted as ice is wont
when frosty fetters the Father loosens,
unwinds the wave-bonds, wielding all
seasons and times: the true God he!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou would'st be great,
Art not without Ambition, but without
The
illnesse
should attend it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Far inward stretch the
mournful
sterile dales,
Where on the parch'd hill-side pale famine wails.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Yet she is not by
any means a mere blameless ideal heroine; and the character which
Euripides gives her makes an
admirable
foil to that of Admetus.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mariana, the classical
historian
of Spain, tells the story of the
ill-starred marriage which the King Don Alonso brought about
between the heirs of Carrion and the two daughters of the Cid.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Master, must thou too die, thou beautiful
As Lucifer unstained,
fearless
as Michael helmed
For war?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But
wickedly
we say this.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A large number of well-attested
saturnians
yield only two accents in
the second _colon_.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It had to endure
the wear and tear of quotation, the
commonizing
touch of the school and the
market-place.
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Sappho |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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last she fell a heap of Ashes
Beneath the furnaces a woful heap in living death
Then were the furnaces unscald with spades &
pickaxes
{Alternate reading of "unsealed" for "unscaled.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Ox
Lucas and the Ox
'Lucas and the Ox'
Hieronymus Wierix, 1563 - before 1590, The Rijksmuseun
This
cherubim
sings the praises
Of Paradise where, with Angels,
We'll live once more, dear friends,
When the good God intends.
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Appoloinaire |
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whatever
brought you here.
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Iliad - Pope |
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DIDIER: The Marquis of
Saverny!
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Say what strange motive,
Goddess!
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Alexander Pope |
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Still by the light and laughing sea
Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate;
O Singer of
Persephone!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Our paint-box is
very
imperfectly
filled.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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CXIX
Rodomont
o'er the plain pursues his man.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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You
started making that golden coach, and you were set upon it, and you had
me
tormented
about it.
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Yeats |
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Even Peter
trembles
only for his ears.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I heard it from a little old woman in a white cap, who
sings to herself in Gaelic, and moves from one foot to the other as
though she
remembered
the dancing of her youth.
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Yeats |
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The
fountain
rears up in long
broken spears of disheveled water and flattens into the earth.
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Imagists |
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My beauty as a
branding
now will mark me;
And shame will run before me, and await
My coming, wheresoever I would lodge.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Draghignazzo
anco i volle dar di piglio
giuso a le gambe; onde 'l decurio loro
si volse intorno intorno con mal piglio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The shape of your heart is chimerical
And your love
resembles
my lost desire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Of course I had money in my purse 76 to save you from
shivering
in the cold.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Poscia che m'ebbe ragionato questo,
li occhi lucenti
lagrimando
volse,
per che mi fece del venir piu presto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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of Cilicia,
Teumman of Elam, and other potentates,
suffered
defeat at his hands.
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Byron |
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I feel it all my members haunting--
The glorious
Walpurgis
night.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Are you not of some
coterie?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
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Wilde - Poems |
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II
Tell me ye stones and give me O
glorious
palaces answer.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Quali Fiamminghi tra Guizzante e Bruggia,
temendo 'l fiotto che 'nver' lor s'avventa,
fanno lo schermo perche 'l mar si fuggia;
e quali Padoan lungo la Brenta,
per
difender
lor ville e lor castelli,
anzi che Carentana il caldo senta:
a tale imagine eran fatti quelli,
tutto che ne si alti ne si grossi,
qual che si fosse, lo maestro felli.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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scoop the soil, op'ning a trench
Ell-broad on ev'ry side; then pour around
Libation consecrate to all the dead,
First, milk with honey mixt, then
luscious
wine, 630
Then water, sprinkling, last, meal over all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The
faithful
beauty of the stars.
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Mē tō grunde tēah
"fāh fēond-scaða, fæste hæfde
555 "grim on grāpe:
hwæðre
mē gyfeðe wearð,
"þæt ic āglǣcan orde gerǣhte,
"hilde-bille; heaðo-rǣs fornam
"mihtig mere-dēor þurh mīne hand.
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Beowulf |
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The very roughness of her
rendering is part of herself, and not lightly to be touched; for it
seems in many cases that she
intentionally
avoided the smoother and
more usual rhymes.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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ODE ON THE
PLEASURE
ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE.
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Golden Treasury |
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What a
tiresome
girl!
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Shelley |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Chanson de Roland |
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1085
And with his salte teres gan he bathe
The ruby in his signet, and it sette
Upon the wex deliverliche and rathe;
Ther-with a
thousand
tymes, er he lette,
He kiste tho the lettre that he shette, 1090
And seyde, `Lettre, a blisful destenee
Thee shapen is, my lady shal thee see.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did
proceed?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'Tis great turmoil, when a guest
Comes to a
mourning
house.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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