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ever so brazen-faced, he should never escape my
vengeance!
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shoulder
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They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
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Dante -
Purgatorio
XXVI:142-144
I see scarlet; green, blue, white, yellow
Garden, close, hill, valley and field,
And songs of birds echo and ring
In sweet accord, at evening and dawn:
They urge my heart to depict in song
Such a flower that its fruit will be amour,
And joy the seed, and the scent a foil to sadness.
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Th'
unwearied
sweep of wood thy cliffs that scales;
The never-ending waters of thy vales; 1815.
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For she hath no
exchequer
now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
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"
And the daughter of Cyprus said to me,
"Child of the earth, 10
Behold, all things are born and attain,
But only as they desire,---
"The sun that is strong, the gods that are wise,
The loving heart,
Deeds and
knowledge
and beauty and joy,-- 15
But before all else was desire.
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what defence, if fix'd on him, he spy
The languid
sweetness
of the stedfast eye!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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These poems had an enormous influence on all
subsequent
poetry, and many
of the habitual _cliches_ of Chinese verse are taken from them.
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It's like the light, --
A
fashionless
delight
It's like the bee, --
A dateless melody.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Doth any deem me fool, to hold a fair
Maid in my room and seek no joy, but spare
Her
maidenhood?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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At the feast our spirits had soared to the Nine Heavens, but before
evening we were scattered like stars or rain, flying away over hills
and rivers to the
frontier
of Ch'u.
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Li Po |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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blake-poems |
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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Then shall they seek to avail
themselves
of names,
Places and titles, and with these to joine
Secular power, though feigning still to act
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
The Spirit of God, promisd alike and giv'n
To all Beleevers; and from that pretense,
Spiritual Lawes by carnal power shall force 520
On every conscience; Laws which none shall finde
Left them inrould, or what the Spirit within
Shall on the heart engrave.
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Milton |
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"
Mest he wil
vnderstonde
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Note the
Euphuistic
balance in xxvii.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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To-night it almost seems
That all the lights are
gathered
in your eyes,
Drawn somehow toward you.
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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He entertains her with a recital of his adventures, and in his
narration the
principal
events of the poem are recapitulated.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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All the rest I omitted, as
naturally
as
one would the inside of an inedible shell-fish.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by
weltschmerz
.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Aucassin
and Nicolette has a similar context.
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Troubador Verse |
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Therfore
this lessoun oughte I wel to telle
That, nere thy tender herte, we weren spilt.
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WINDOWS where I gazed with you
At eve upon the
landscape
once
Are now illumed with other lights.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet
understand
God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
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Now it so
happened
that I had overheard the colloquy between the two
cronies, when Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a
complete
repose;
Only yourself can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
"Nay, thou art not like me, O, Madman, for thou
shudderest
yet
before pain, and the song of the abyss terrifies thee.
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[In order to
complete
the Life of Solomon, of which his Book of Wisdom, &c.
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A union then of honest men,
Or union
nevermore
again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Even the affairs of private men suffer when
recreation
is preferred to
business.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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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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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_ Thinkest thou that any thing in this world can
confer this
happiness?
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10
Be unwilling to wonder
wherefore
no woman, O Rufus, is wishful to place her
tender thigh 'neath thee, not even if thou dost tempt her by the gift of a
rare robe or by the delights of a crystal-clear gem.
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"
Then
farewell
hopes o' laurel-boughs,
To garland my poetic brows!
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Robert Forst |
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What god shall echo's voice repeat
In mocking game
To Helicon's sequester'd shade,
Or Pindus, or on Haemus chill,
Where once the hurrying woods obey'd
The minstrel's will,
Who, by his mother's gift of song,
Held the fleet stream, the rapid breeze,
And led with
blandishment
along
The listening trees?
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works in the
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_ 'Amber' is here of course 'Ambergris',
which was much used in old cookery, in which considerable importance
was
attached
to scent as well as flavour.
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That I were buried with my
brothers!
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Shelley |
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IV
I
borrowed
deep to carve the screen
And raise the ivoried Rood;
I parted with my small demesne
To make my owings good.
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The harmless rabbit gambols with its young
Across the
trampled
towing-path, where late
A troop of laughing boys in jostling throng
Cheered with their noisy cries the racing eight;
The gossamer, with ravelled silver threads,
Works at its little loom, and from the dusky red-eaved sheds
Of the lone Farm a flickering light shines out
Where the swinked shepherd drives his bleating flock
Back to their wattled sheep-cotes, a faint shout
Comes from some Oxford boat at Sandford lock,
And starts the moor-hen from the sedgy rill,
And the dim lengthening shadows flit like swallows up the hill.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thought Burbank,
meditating
on
Time's ruins, and the seven laws.
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T.S. Eliot |
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)--
Caught by the under-death,
In the drawing of a breath,
Down went
dauntless
Craven,
He and his hundred!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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This
people are remarkable for a
peculiar
custom, that of twisting their hair
and binding it up in a knot.
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Tacitus |
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On graduation from Harvard in the class of 1821,
following
the
traditions of his family, Emerson resolved to study to be a minister,
and meantime helped his older brother William in the support of the
family by teaching in a school for young ladies in Boston, that the
former had successfully established.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Burns--lie at
Lawrence
Kirk--Album
library--Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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The
Assyrians
are afraid: it is your time.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
[Illustration: THETIS CALLING
BRIAREUS
TO THE ASSISTANCE OF JUPITER.
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Iliad - Pope |
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A Muse by these is like a
mistress
us'd,
This hour she's idoliz'd, the next abus'd;
While their weak heads like towns unfortify'd,
'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
brethren
know as well Mount Alban's knight,
And give the warlike kinsmen welcome fair:
They both embrace Rinaldo as a friend,
And of their ancient quarrel make an end.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But what astonished do I find
When harsh
demeanour
hath consigned
A timid love to banishment?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The
trembling
mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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When in an antichamber every guest
Had felt the cold full sponge to pleasure press'd,
By minist'ring slaves, upon his hands and feet,
And fragrant oils with
ceremony
meet
Pour'd on his hair, they all mov'd to the feast
In white robes, and themselves in order placed
Around the silken couches, wondering
Whence all this mighty cost and blaze of wealth could spring.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An
overcoat
of clay.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We lay beneath a spreading oak,
Beside a mossy seat;
And from the turf a
fountain
broke
And gurgled at our feet.
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Golden Treasury |
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In
promenade yclept "The Great," the crowd of
cocottes
straightway did I stop,
O friend, accosting those whose looks I noted were unruffled.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'
thoughte
he, `wher hastow woned,
That art so fair and goodly to devyse?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Quand La lumiere arrive intense et folle
Fouillant a vos cotes les luxes ruisselants,
Vous n'allez pas baver, sans geste, sans parole,
Dans vos verres, les yeux perdus aux
lointains
blancs,
Avalez, pour la Reine aux fesses cascadantes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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With not even one blow
landing?
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Villon |
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" Perhaps a truth
Is so far plain in this, that Italy,
Long
trammelled
with the purple of her youth
Against her age's ripe activity,
Sits still upon her tombs, without death's ruth
But also without life's brave energy.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Kahn et Dujardin disposaient
neanmoins
de revues jeunes et d'aspect
presque imposant, un peu d'outre-Rhin et parfois, pour ainsi dire,
pedantesques; depuis il y a eu encore du plomb dans l'aile de ces
periodiques changes de direction--et Baju, naif, eut aussi son
influence, vraiment.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Though stern I
sometimes
be,
To thee, thou know'st, I was not so.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"But the eyes which
enslaved
me are ever before me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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and who
That marks the fire still
sparkling
in each eye,
Who would but deem their bosom burned anew
With thy unquenched beam, lost Liberty!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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They are cast in a metre not
unsuited
to the dance by which
they are accompanied.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE SPY
Last, let me name yon seventh antagonist,
Thy brother's self, at the seventh portal set--
Hear with what wrath he imprecates our doom,
Vowing to mount the wall, though banished hence,
And peal aloud the wild
exulting
cry--
_The town is ta'en_--then clash his sword with thine,
Giving and taking death in close embrace,
Or, if thou 'scapest, flinging upon thee,
As robber of his honour and his home,
The doom of exile such as he has borne.
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Aeschylus |
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And it is the thought and consideration that affects us more than
the
weariness
itself.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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As to the
little fellow, he is,
partiality
apart, the finest boy I have for a
long time seen.
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Acmon of Lyrnesus, great as his father Clytius, or his brother
Mnestheus, carries a stone,
straining
all his vast frame to the huge
mountain fragment.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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All summarised, the soul,
When slowly we breathe it out
In several rings of smoke
By other rings wiped out
Bears witness to some cigar
Burning skilfully while
The ash is separated far
From its bright kiss of fire
Should the choir of
romantic
art
Fly so towards your lips
Exclude from it if you start
The real because it's cheap
Meaning too precise is sure
To void your dreamy literature.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They tell it to the hills --
The hills just tell the
orchards
--
And they the daffodils!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Therewithal at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and
Damoetas
sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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E'en chilly Albion admires,
The grand example Europe fires;
America shall clap her hands,
When swiftly o'er the
Atlantic
wave,
Fame sounds the news of how the brave,
In three bright days, have burst their bands!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Elbanio's beauty (for so fair to view
Never was any cavalier beside)
So strongly works upon the
youthful
crew,
Which in that council sit the state to guide,
That the opinion of the older few
That like Artemia think, is set aside;
And little lacks but that the assembled race
Absolve Elbanio by especial grace.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime
breathed
the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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I should have been too glad, I see,
Too lifted for the scant degree
Of life's
penurious
round;
My little circuit would have shamed
This new circumference, have blamed
The homelier time behind.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Round about a delicate neck curled short little ringlets;
Up from the crown of her head crinkled the
unbraided
hair.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Elle n'a point prevu la
froideur
matinale,
Ni bien ferme le seuil a la bise hivernale?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The observing augur took the prince aside,
Seized by the hand, and thus
prophetic
cried:
"Yon bird, that dexter cuts the aerial road,
Rose ominous, nor flies without a god:
No race but thine shall Ithaca obey,
To thine, for ages, Heaven decrees the sway.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Our
interview
was transient,--
Of me, himself was shy;
And God forbid I look behind
Since that appalling day!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He won, I lost her; and my loss
I bore I know not how;
But I do think I suffered then
Less
wretchedness
than now.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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If to remember deeds whilome well done be a pleasure
Meet for a man who deems all of his dealings be just,
Nor Holy Faith ever broke nor in
whatever
his compact
Sanction of Gods abused better to swindle mankind,
Much there remains for thee during length of living, Catullus, 5
Out of that Love ingrate further to solace thy soul;
For whatever of good can mortal declare of another
Or can avail he do, such thou hast said and hast done;
While to a thankless mind entrusted all of them perisht.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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