On this glad day
Give friend or
stranger
welcome.
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Eight rubbers were already played,
Eight times the heroes of the fight
Change of
position
had essayed,
When tea was brought.
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Beckford,--in all
the crack novels, I say, from those of Bulwer and Dickens to those of
Bulwer and Dickens to those of Turnapenny and Ainsworth, the two little
Latin words cui bono are
rendered
"to what purpose?
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'Tis a glorious
spectacle to see the clouds of incense wafting in light
whirlwinds
before
the breath of the Zephyr!
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The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was
Paradise!
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Whom the wing'd harpy, swift Podarge, bore,
By Zephyr
pregnant
on the breezy shore:
Swift Pedasus was added to their side,
(Once great Aetion's, now Achilles' pride)
Who, like in strength, in swiftness, and in grace,
A mortal courser match'd the immortal race.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Wie ward ein solcher Geist
betrogen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The fable is called the imitation of one entire and perfect
action, whose parts are so joined and knit together, as nothing in the
structure can be changed, or taken away, without impairing or troubling
the whole, of which there is a proportionable
magnitude
in the members.
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These verses are
somewhat
difficult but very
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'Tis not to
be believed; they send us
inspectors
before we have so much as paid
sacrifice to the gods.
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This fact makes the new text the more interesting since the
legend of Gilgamish is said to have originated at Erech and the
hero in fact figures as one of the
prehistoric
Sumerian rulers of
that ancient city.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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With bars they blur the
gracious
moon,
And blind the goodly sun:
And they do well to hide their Hell,
For in it things are done
That Son of God nor son of Man
Ever should look upon!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Ein fahrender
Skolast?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And for the Heav'ns wide Circuit, let it speak 100
The Makers high magnificence, who built
So spacious, and his Line
stretcht
out so farr;
That Man may know he dwells not in his own;
An Edifice too large for him to fill,
Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest
Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Know, that hope is vain;
A
thousand
woes, a thousand toils remain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Maisie hurried
up to assure herself that Dick had not
miscounted
the tale.
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Kipling - Poems |
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And Arthur, 'Have thy
pleasant
field again,
And thrice the gold for Uther's use thereof,
According to the years.
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Raimbaut de
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(c1155- fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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But soon
As thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame,
And of thy father's deeds, and inly learn
What virtue is, the plain by slow degrees
With waving corn-crops shall to golden grow,
From the wild briar shall hang the
blushing
grape,
And stubborn oaks sweat honey-dew.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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O Spring, with all thy sweetheart frolics, say,
Hast thou remembrance of those earlier springs
When we wept answer to the
laughing
day,
And turned aside from green and gracious things?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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of the Attic tomb,--
Were not these better far than to return
To my old fitful restless malady,
Or spend my days within the
voiceless
cave of misery?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Robert Grant_
THREE HILLS
There is a hill in England,
Green fields and a school I know,
Where the balls fly fast in summer,
And the
whispering
elm-trees grow,
A little hill, a dear hill,
And the playing fields below.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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But such as have been drown'd in this wild sea,
For those is kept the Gulf of Hecate,
Where with their own
contagion
they are fed,
And there do punish and are punished.
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Robert Herrick |
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She fear'd me once--now
heavenly
confidence
Reveals my heart's first hope's unchanging stay;
A word, a look, could this alone convey,
My heart she reads now, stripp'd of earth's defence.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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All little birds do sit
With heads beneath their wings:
Nature doth seem in a mystic dream,
Absorbed
from her living things:
That dream by that ladye
Is certes unpartook,
For she looketh to the high cold stars
With a tender human look
Margret, Margret.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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All the way the Death-steed with tolling hoofs shall travel,
Ashen-grey the planets shall be
motionless
as stones,
Loosely shall the systems eject their parts coaeval,
Stagnant in the spaces shall float the pallid moons:
Suns that touch their apogees, reeling from their level,
Shall run back on their axles, in wild low broken tunes.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_Orso, al vostro
destrier
si puo ben porre.
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Petrarch |
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(_Exit the
Scythian
with the
dancing-girl.
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Aristophanes |
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Maisie said nothing, but
encouraged Dick with her eyes, and he behaved
abominably
all that
evening.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
"This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,
And its humming hive of dreams,-"
"These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:
The
immortal
bones obey control
Of dying flesh and dying soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Wherefore the woods and fields, Pan, shepherd-folk,
And Dryad-maidens, thrill with eager joy;
Nor wolf with
treacherous
wile assails the flock,
Nor nets the stag: kind Daphnis loveth peace.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
la la
To
Carthage
then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou pluckest me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Each has brought
something
in hand, 8 and we tip the jars, both the thick and the clear.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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I give you three days; but you're nearly
breaking
my
heart.
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Kipling - Poems |
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A
brawling
woman's tongue, what saint can bear?
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La Fontaine |
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When the earth falters and the waters swoon
With the
implacable
radiance of noon,
And in dim shelters koils hush their notes,
And the faint, thirsting blood in languid throats
Craves liquid succour from the cruel heat,
BUY FRUIT, BUY FRUIT, steals down the panting street.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With
darkness
and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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[181] The insignia of a
tribunus
were a tunic with a broad or
narrow stripe (accordingly as they were of senatorial or
equestrian rank), and a gold ring.
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Tacitus |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Speak now, Love, you have no more to fear:
Cease to hide, this
satisfies
my father;
A single blow brings honour now to me,
My soul to despair, my love to liberty.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Unhappily he chose a spot not far enough from Laura--namely, Vaucluse,
which is fifteen Italian, or about
fourteen
English, miles from Avignon.
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Petrarch |
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Imagists |
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No one whose heart is heavy with human tears
Can cross these little
cressets
of the wood.
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Yeats |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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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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, _so, in such a manner, thus_: swā sceal man dōn,
1173, 1535; swā þā driht-guman
drēamum
lifdon, 99; þæt ge-æfndon swā (_that
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Beowulf |
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What
dramatic
stroke in xxvii?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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His trust shall master the trust of
everything
he touches,
and shall master all attachment.
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Whitman |
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Sixth Self: And I, the working self, the pitiful labourer, who,
with patient hands, and longing eyes, fashion the days into images
and give the formless
elements
new and eternal forms--it is I, the
solitary one, who would rebel against this restless madman.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There, take the
darkling
gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their perfumes breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O vain, O vain;
Not flowers budding in an April rain, 980
Nor breath of
sleeping
dove, nor river's flow,--
No, nor the Eolian twang of Love's own bow,
Can mingle music fit for the soft ear
Of goddess Cytherea!
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Keats |
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For Youthe set bothe man and wyf
In al perel of soule and lyf; 4890
And perel is, but men have grace,
The [tyme] of youthe for to pace,
Withoute
any deth or distresse,
It is so ful of wildenesse;
So ofte it doth shame or damage 4895
To him or to his linage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: XLIII
Now fearfulness, and now hopefulness
Pitch camp in every part of my heart:
Neither, in war, can take the victor's part,
Equal in
fortitude
and forcefulness.
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Ronsard |
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Emulously
they renew the feast, and, glad at the high omen, array
the flagons and engarland the wine.
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X Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
XI And therefore if to love can be desert
XII Indeed this very love which is my boast
XIII And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought
XV Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
XVI And yet, because thou
overcomest
so
XVII My poet thou canst touch on all the notes
XVIII I never gave a lock of hair away
XIX The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize
XX Beloved, my beloved, when I think
XXI Say over again, and yet once over again
XXII When our two souls stand up erect and strong
XXIII Is it indeed so?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The men who spoke he
recognized
the while
He rested in the thicket; words of guile
Most horrible were theirs as they passed on,
And to the ears of Eviradnus one--
One word had come which roused him.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She, who, the rage of Athamas to shun,[414]
Plung'd in the billows with her infant son;
A goddess now, a god the smiling boy,
Together
sped; and Glaucus lost to joy,[415]
Curs'd in his love by vengeful Circe's hate,
Attending, wept his Scylla's hapless fate.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
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Robert Herrick |
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Somebody
tells the poacher-court
The hale affair.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But in this, as in other cases, "habit" alleviates
their lot, and they bear the cold with a
wonderful
equanimity.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Stephen Crane |
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The vulgar of my sex I most exceed
In real fame, when most humane my deed;
And vainly to the praise of queen aspire,
If,
stranger!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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{16j} The high place chosen for the funeral: see
description
of
Beowulf's funeral-pile at the end of the poem.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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O tonet fort, ihr sussen
Himmelslieder!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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e kyng
comaundet
ly3t,
[J] Sir Gawen his leue con nyme,
& to his bed hym di3t.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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CCXXXIX
Charles the Great, when he sees the admiral
And the dragon, his ensign and standard;--
(In such great strength are
mustered
those Arabs
Of that country they've covered every part
Save only that whereon the Emperour was.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Imagists |
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The Chorus make
discreet
comments upon him.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Mangeons
l'air,
Le roc, les terres, le fer,
Charbons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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So, loving dreams, this life I choose--
The tramp's with
tattered
coat and shoes,
Yet happier than it seems.
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Tennyson |
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Is it not bliss to
exchange
tender kisses containing no dangers,
Sucking into our lungs, carefree, our partner's own life?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Grant me one line and I'm
contented!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Who bade the
harassed
maiden's peace return?
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Aeschylus |
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And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lanier, as "that ample stretch
of generous soil, where the Appalachian ruggednesses calm themselves
into
pleasant
hills before dying quite away into the sea-board levels" --
where "a man can find such temperances of heaven and earth --
enough of struggle with nature to draw out manhood, with enough of bounty
to sanction the struggle -- that a more exquisite co-adaptation
of all blessed circumstances for man's life need not be sought.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Behold his wretchedness
Gilded at last with beauty
pleasant
to God!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For a discussion
of all this, see
_Professor Worthy's Page_
For now, it is enough to say that among Schiller's examples for
"aesthetic education," as he called it, were these Elegies by his much
admired friend,
Wolfgang
Goethe.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Compliance
requirements
are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ov' e 'l buon Lizio e Arrigo
Mainardi?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nay, it is deeper than my sister's
depth and
stronger
than my brother's strength, and stranger than
the strangeness of my madness.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In vain your immolated bulls are slain,
Your living
coursers
glut his gulfs in vain!
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Iliad - Pope |
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The
Russians
flee again.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In that stillness
Which most becomes a woman, calm and holy,
Thou sittest by the
fireside
of the heart,
Feeding its flame.
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Longfellow |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
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Troubador Verse |
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And with glad voice Maeve answered him, 'What king
Of the far
wandering
shadows has come to me?
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Yeats |
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This heaven-discover'd truth to thee consign'd,
Reserve the treasure of thy inmost mind:
Else, if the gods my vengeful arm sustain,
And
prostrate
to my sword the suitor-train;
With their lewd mates, thy undistinguish'd age
Shall bleed a victim to vindictive rage.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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1015
`But now ne enforce I me nat in shewinge
How the ordre of causes stant; but wel wot I,
That it
bihoveth
that the bifallinge
Of thinges wist biforen certeynly
Be necessarie, al seme it not ther-by 1020
That prescience put falling necessaire
To thing to come, al falle it foule or faire.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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