PHEDRE
TO SARAH BERNHARDT
HOW vain and dull this common world must seem
To such a One as thou, who should'st have talked
At Florence with Mirandola, or walked
Through the cool olives of the Academe:
Thou should'st have gathered reeds from a green stream
For Goat-foot Pan's shrill piping, and have played
With the white girls in that
Phaeacian
glade
Where grave Odysseus wakened from his dream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
Binkie turned over on his back on the hearth-rug, and Dick stirred him
with a
meditative
foot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Ah, but
wherefore
beside thee came
That fearful sight of another mood?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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_this forward heresie,
That women can no parts of
friendship
bee.
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ymb-beorgan, _to
surround
protectingly_: pret.
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Beowulf |
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Rodrigue
Chasing the harsh course of my
wretched
fate.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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VI
SUNTHIN' IN THE
PASTORAL
LINE
TO THE EDITORS OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
JAALAM, 17th May, 1862.
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James Russell Lowell |
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ay
louelych
le3ten leue at ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Rodrigue
No, that dear object to whom I brought terror,
Cannot in punishing show too fierce an anger;
I'd evade a thousand deaths that
threaten
pain,
If I'd die the sooner by angering her again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"I mean that if you want to be well with
Masha Mironoff, you need only make her a present of a pair of earrings
instead of your
languishing
verses.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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THE
SLEEPING
FLOWERS.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_The farting Tanner and
familiar
King.
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Robert Herrick |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XVII
Of high and
superhuman
genius, tied
By love and blood, lo!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This
assemblage
of the learned had a powerful influence on Petrarch's
fine imagination.
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Petrarch |
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Douce land of France, o very precious clime,
Laid
desolate
by such a sour exile!
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
This criticism is not very trenchant, but its
weakness
is due, I think,
more to timidity of statement than to lack of perception.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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or shall I leave
Woman amid these
hungers?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_ 'Thou gost and
prechest
povertee?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Give me the freedom of that hour,
The tear of joy, the
pleasing
pain,
Of hate and love the thrilling power,
Oh, give me back my youth again!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And whistle: All's for the best
In this best of
Carnivals!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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XLVII
"Yet him a cruel proposition made,
Granting
a year his purpose to complete;
Condemned to privy death, till then delayed,
Save in that time, through force or through deceit,
He by his friends' and kindred's utmost aid,
Doing or plotting, me from my retreat
Conveyed into his prisons; so that he
Can only saved by my destruction be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'Twas always thus, and will be; hand and head
Are ever rivals: but, though this be swift,
The other slow,--this the Prometheus,
And that the Jove,--yet,
howsoever
hid,
It was from Jove the other stole his fire,
And, without Jove, the good had never been.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Three weeks passed since I had seen her, --
Some disease had vexed;
'T was with text and village singing
I beheld her next,
And a company -- our pleasure
To discourse alone;
Gracious now to me as any,
Gracious
unto none.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Poe - 5 |
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How
different
was it with thee, Margy,
When, innocent and artless,
Thou cam'st here to the altar,
From the well-thumbed little prayer-book,
Petitions lisping,
Half full of child's play,
Half full of Heaven!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by purchase a large
six column tablet nearly complete,
carrying
originally, according to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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On as we move a softer
prospect
opes,
Calm huts, and lawns between, and sylvan slopes.
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And while he hears,
I speak this word for omen in his ears:
"Aegisthus dies,
Aegisthus
dies.
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Euripides - Electra |
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But all I hear is silence,
And
something
that may be leaves or may be sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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XI
How soon he learnt to titillate
The heart of the
inveterate
flirt!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_
[153]
"But first he grasps within his awful hand
The mark of sovereign power, the magic wand:
With this he draws the ghosts from hollow graves,
With this he drives them down the Stygian waves,
With this he seals in sleep the wakeful sight,
And eyes, though closed in death,
restores
to light.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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To the dull sailors' sight her
loosened
looks
Seemed like the jagged storm-rack, and her feet
Only the spume that floats on hidden rocks,
And, marking how the rising waters beat
Against the rolling ship, the pilot cried
To the young helmsman at the stern to luff to windward side
But he, the overbold adulterer,
A dear profaner of great mysteries,
An ardent amorous idolater,
When he beheld those grand relentless eyes
Laughed loud for joy, and crying out 'I come'
Leapt from the lofty poop into the chill and churning foam.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Standish
O'Grady, has been acted in the open air
in Kilkenny.
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Yeats |
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As sure as Heaven shall rescue me,
I have no thought what men they be;
Nor do I know how long it is
(For I have lain
entranced
I wis)
Since one, the tallest of the five,
Took me from the palfrey's back,
A weary woman, scarce alive.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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VIII
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
(War Time)
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their
shimmering
sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wordsworth's habit of revision may perhaps explain the
mistakes
into
which he occasionally fell as to the dates of his Poems, and the
difficulty of reconciling what he says, as to the year of composition,
with the date assigned by his sister in her Journal.
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William Wordsworth |
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Thee with my Lesbia durst it make
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes
landscape
or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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Now come; with what swift motion they are borne,
These images, and what the speed assigned
To them across the breezes swimming on--
So that o'er lengths of space a little hour
Alone is wasted, toward whatever region
Each with its divers impulse tends--I'll tell
In verses sweeter than they many are;
Even as the swan's slight note is better far
Than that
dispersed
clamour of the cranes
Among the southwind's aery clouds.
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Lucretius |
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Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one
another in proclaiming her verse the one
unmatched
exemplar of lyric art.
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Sappho |
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Like a Bacchante in her sport
Beside the cup she sang her rhymes
And the young revellers of past times
Vociferously paid her court,
And I, amid the
friendly
crowd,
Of my light paramour was proud.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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--But he who can so fare,
And
stumbleth
not on mischief anywhere,
Blessed on earth is he!
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Euripides - Electra |
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A vast void carried through the fog's drifting,
By the angry wind of words he did not say,
Nothing, to this Man abolished yesterday:
'What is Earth, O you,
memories
of horizons?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Over the city bridge Night comes majestical,
Borne like a queen to a
sumptuous
festival.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The brackish water that we drink
Creeps with a
loathsome
slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LV
"The fear of shameful punishment's pursuit
Made him with many
protestations
swear
To grant in every thing Gabrina's suit,
If from the fortilage they safely fare.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But time is too
precious
to be wasted thus;
I'll forgo speech, wishing you to leave us.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It was later made a temple, and was clearly
abandoned
by the time Du Fu saw it.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Ainsi dans la foret ou mon esprit s'exile
Un vieux
Souvenir
sonne a plein souffle du cor!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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A
graceful
robe her slender body dress'd;
Around her shoulders flew the waving vest;
Her decent hand a shining javelin bore,
And painted sandals on her feet she wore.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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THE
AMERICAN
VOLUNTEERS
MARIE VAN VORST
August, 1914-April, 1917
_In the long months before the United States entered the war many
Americans took service under the flag of France.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Still I find comfort in his Book, who saith,
Though
jealousy
be cruel as the grave,
And death be strong, yet love is strong as death.
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Christina Rossetti |
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It seemeth him but the
skeleton
of a ship.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew
Prophets
to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Child of my
parents!
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William Wordsworth |
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He slides down the
creepers
to
the water's edge, and a friend holds him by the tail, in case he should
fall in.
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Kipling - Poems |
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' quod she, `The
plesaunce
and the Ioye
The whiche that now al torned in-to galle is,
Have I had ofte with-inne yonder walles!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[13] Yet with all his devotion to realism in matters of petty
detail, of local color, and of contemporary allusion, he was, as we
have seen, not without an
inclination
toward allegory.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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When the priest appeared, Pope attempted
to rise from his bed that he might receive the sacrament kneeling, and
the priest came out from the sick room "penetrated to the last degree
with the state of mind in which he found his penitent,
resigned
and
wrapt up in the love of God and man.
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Alexander Pope |
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His black beard was beginning to turn grey;
his large quick eyes roved
incessantly
around.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The day came slow, till five o'clock,
Then sprang before the hills
Like
hindered
rubies, or the light
A sudden musket spills.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Does
nonsense
mend, like brandy, when imported?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,
The spiritual-prescient face, the always welcome common benevolent face,
The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers
and judges broad at the back-top,
The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved
blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
The ugly face of some
beautiful
soul, the handsome detested or
despised face,
The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of
many children,
The face of an amour, the face of veneration,
The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,
The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated face,
A wild hawk, his wings clipp'd by the clipper,
A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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|| _exspui_ scripsi: _expui tussim_ Scaliger:
_expulsus
sim_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Sore I
compleyned
that my sore
On me gan greven more and more.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry "Weep!
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blake-poems |
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They
grappled
with each other
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Why need I sigh far hills to see
If grass is their array,
While here the little paths go through
The
greenest
every day?
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John Clare |
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The frighted women take the boys away,
The
blackguard
laughs and hurries on the fray.
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John Clare |
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And what can I hope for, save pain eternal,
If I hate the crime, but love the
criminal?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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was one of the military
classics
and refers to Guo Ziyi?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Jesus institutes a
memorial
of His death.
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| Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What combat, siege, ambush could not farther
Nor Aragon indeed, nor Grenada,
Neither your foes, nor yet the envious,
The Count has
perpetrated
on us,
Hating your choice, proud of the advantage
Granted him by my weakness at my age.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The rough burr-thistle,
spreading
wide
Amang the bearded bear,
I turn'd the weeder-clips aside,
An' spar'd the symbol dear:
No nation, no station,
My envy e'er could raise;
A Scot still, but blot still,
I knew nae higher praise.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nostra tamen si fas prsesagia jungere vestris,
/ Quo magis
inspexti
sydera spemis humum.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Teeming with
monsters
dread
And plagues on every hand!
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Hugo - Poems |
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"Weary of light, Ulysses here explores
A prosperous voyage to his native shores;
But know--by me
unerring
Fates disclose
New trains of dangers, and new scenes of woes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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La mer est ton miroir; tu
contemples
ton ame
Dans le deroulement infini de sa lame,
Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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is a set phrase for
obviousness
or ease.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Then
bethought
him the hardy Hygelac-thane
of his boast at evening: up he bounded,
grasped firm his foe, whose fingers cracked.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Dwarfs were as common at court, in those days,
as fools; and many
monarchs
would have found it difficult to get through
their days (days are rather longer at court than elsewhere) without both
a jester to laugh with, and a dwarf to laugh at.
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Poe - 5 |
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And hands, which now write only their own shame,
With
bleeding
stumps might sign our blood away.
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Shelley |
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MY DEAR SIR,
My long-projected journey through your country is at last fixed: and
on
Wednesday
next, if you have nothing of more importance to do, take
a saunter down to Gatehouse about two or three o'clock, I shall be
happy to take a draught of M'Kune's best with you.
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Robert Forst |
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Ah, Love of God, which Thine own Self hast given
To me most poor, and made me rich in love,
Love that dost pass the tenfold seven times seven,
Draw Thou mine eyes, draw Thou my heart above,
My treasure ad my heart store Thou in Thee,
Brood over me with yearnings of a dove;
Be Husband, Brother, closest Friend to me;
Love me as very mother loves her son,
Her sucking
firstborn
fondled on her knee: 30
Yea, more than mother loves her little one;
For, earthly, even a mother may forget
And feel no pity for its piteous moan;
But thou, O Love of God, remember yet,
Through the dry desert, through the waterflood
(Life, death) until the Great White Throne is set.
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Christina Rossetti |
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From the bleak northern blast may my cot be completely
Secured by a
neighbouring
hill;
And at night may repose steal upon me more sweetly
By the sound of a murmuring rill:
And while peace and plenty I find at my board,
With a heart free from sickness and sorrow,
With my friends may I share what to-day may afford,
And let them spread the table to-morrow.
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Golden Treasury |
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Not like the dew did she return
At the
accustomed
hour!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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non freta
mercator
tremuit, non classica miles,
non rauci lites pertulit ille fori.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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