I fear that I am not like thee:
For I walk through the vales of Har, and smell the sweetest flowers:
But I feed not the little flowers: I hear the
warbling
birds,
But I feed not the warbling birds, they fly and seek their food:
But Thel delights in these no more because I fade away
And all shall say, without a use this shining women liv'd,
Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
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And at night by the light of the Mulberry moon
They danced to the Flute of the Blue Baboon,
On the broad green leaves of the
Crumpetty
Tree,
And all were as happy as happy could be,
With the Quangle Wangle Quee.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
_Dublin
University
Magazine, 1839_
ENVY AND AVARICE.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Corbet was
likewise
my steady friend; so between Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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By a dim lantern's light I saw that wreaths
Of flowers were in their hands, as if designed
For festive decoration; and they said,
With brutal
laughter
and most foul allusion,
That they should share the banquet with their Lord
And his new Favorite.
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Heavens, with what
graceful
majesty he treads!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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oime il soave sguardo 232
O invidia, nemica di virtute 161
O misera ed orribil visione 219
Onde tolse Amor l' oro e di qual vena 198
O passi sparsi, o pensier vaghi e pronti 154
Or che 'l ciel e la terra e 'l vento tace 156
Or hai fatto 'l estremo di tua possa 283
Orso, al vostro destrier si puo ben porre 94
Orso, e' non furon mai fiumi ne stagni 43
Or vedi, Amor, che giovinetta donna 111
O tempo, o ciel volubil che
fuggendo
294
Ove ch' i' posi gli occhi lassi o giri 152
Ov' e la fronte che con picciol cenno 259
Pace non trovo, e non ho da far guerra 132
Padre del ciel, dopo i perduti giorni 62
Parra forse ad alcun, che 'n lodar quella 216
Pasco la mente d' un si nobil cibo 175
Passa la nave mia colma d' oblio 172
Passato e 'l tempo omai, lasso!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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There is nothing in the world
That has been
friendly
to us but the kisses
That were upon our lips, and when we are old
Their memory will be all the life we have.
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Yeats |
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locutio_ G:
_locutio_
uel _loquutio_ ACBLa1Dahh2: _iocatio_ Heinsius
122 _domino_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And should I then
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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When I awoke, I lay mid friends and foes,
And earnest countenances on me shed _1825
The light of questioning looks, whilst one did close
My wound with
balmiest
herbs, and soothed me to repose;
13.
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Shelley |
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After this line the editions of 1815-1832 have the following
couplet:
While strives a secret Power to hush the crowd,
Pain's wild rebellious burst proclaims her rights aloud,
and this is
followed
by lines 545-6 of the final text.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use,
remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The
monstrous
parricide!
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Wilde - Poems |
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* * * * *
And then there came black Lords; and Dwarfs obscene
With lavish tongues; and Trolls; and
treacherous
Things
Like loose-lipp'd Councillors and cruel Kings
Who sharpen lies and daggers subterrene:
And flashed their evil eyes and weeping cried,
"We ruled the world for Peace.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Fear the gaze in the blind wall that watches:
There is a verb
attached
to matter itself.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between
Heights which appear as lovers who have parted
In hate, whose mining depths so intervene,
That they can meet no more, though broken-hearted;
Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted,
Love was the very root of the fond rage
Which
blighted
their life's bloom, and then departed:
Itself expired, but leaving them an age
Of years all winters--war within themselves to wage.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The
gracious
Duncan
Was pittied of Macbeth: marry he was dead:
And the right valiant Banquo walk'd too late,
Whom you may say (if't please you) Fleans kill'd,
For Fleans fled: Men must not walke too late.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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A damp and death-like odour from the hollow
--Where all must slumber--rises, yet I follow
Thy wafture still, which fire
enkindles
new
And Thy great love which ever watches true.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Those who practice poetry search for and love only the
perfection
that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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Wilde - Poems |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of
watching
up thy pregnant lips for more.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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regardless
of their doom
The little victims play!
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Golden Treasury |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person in black,
A
Grasshopper
jumped on his back;
When it chirped in his ear, he was smitten with fear,
That helpless old person in black.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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54
Through
cloudless
skies, in silvery sheen (_Poems 1809-1818_), iii.
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Byron |
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XLIII
THE
IMMORTAL
PART
When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,
I hear my bones within me say,
"Another night, another day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'
CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',
And will, thy soul knows, is
admitted
there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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--O my God,
How
dreadfully
thou punishest small sins!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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So, when you had risen
from all the
lethargy
of love and its heat,
you would have summoned me, me alone,
and found my hands,
beyond all the hands in the world,
cold, cold, cold,
intolerably cold and sweet.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Another said--"Why, ne'er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love
And Fansy, in an after Rage
destroy!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Listen to that low-laughing string of the moon
And you will recollect my face and voice,
For you have
listened
to me playing it
These thousand years.
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Yeats |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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]
XXXIII
In her friends' albums, time had been,
With blood instead of ink she scrawled,
Baptized
Prascovia
Pauline,
And in her conversation drawled.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What fear
restrains
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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which bindest life around
With music of so strange a sound
And beauty of so wild a birth--
Farewell!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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No taste of sleep these heavy eyes have known,
Confused, and sad, I wander thus alone,
With fears distracted, with no fix'd design;
And all my people's
miseries
are mine.
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Iliad - Pope |
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420
Majestic as the grove of okes that stoode
Before the abbie buylt by Oswald kynge;
Majestic as
Hybernies
holie woode,
Where sainctes and soules departed masses synge;
Such awe from her sweete looke forth issuynge 425
At once for reveraunce and love did calle;
Sweet as the voice of thraslarkes in the Spring,
So sweet the wordes that from her lippes did falle;
None fell in vayne; all shewed some entent;
Her wordies did displaie her great entendement.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The ancient Mariner
inhospitably
killeth the pious bird of good omen.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It is highly probably that the memory of the war
of Porsena was preserved by compositions much
resembling
the two
ballads which stand first in the Relics of Ancient English
Poetry.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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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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Oh, there are words and looks _30
To bend the
sternest
purpose!
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Shelley |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A young fellow is dressed up like an old beggar;
a peruke, commonly made of carded tow, represents hoary locks; an old
bonnet; a ragged plaid, or surtout, bound with a straw rope for a
girdle; a pair of old shoes, with straw ropes twisted round his
ankles, as is done by shepherds in snowy weather: his face they
disguise as like wretched old age as they can: in this plight he is
brought into the wedding-house,
frequently
to the astonishment of
strangers, who are not in the secret, and begins to sing--
"O, I am a silly auld man,
My name it is auld Glenae," &c.
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Robert Burns |
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I have
forgotten
one thing, without which all the rest is
as nothing.
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Aristophanes |
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A Persian by his garb and speed, a courier draws anear--
He
bringeth
news, of good or ill, for Persia's land to hear.
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Aeschylus |
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Haste thou who, from afar, in doubt and fear,
Dost watch, with
straining
eyes, the fated boy--
The loved of heaven!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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and open my heart;
That my
thoughts
torment me no longer,
But glitter in your hair.
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Imagists |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXXXV
Sweet beauty,
murderess
of my life,
Instead of a heart you've a boulder:
Living, you make me waste and shudder,
Impassioned by amorous desire.
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Ronsard |
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Honour
inimical
to my dear prize,
You'll cost me yet a world of tears and sighs!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had
inserted
"Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is indicated on page 22.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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Ronsard |
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Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre
Pour chanter le secret de ses vierges en fleur,
Et je fus des l'enfance admis au noir mystere
Des rires effrenes meles au sombre pleur;,
Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre,
Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate,
Comme une sentinelle, a l'oeil percant et sur,
Qui guette nuit et jour brick, tartane ou fregate,
Dont les formes au loin frissonnent dans l'azur,
--Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne,
Et parmi les sanglots dont le roc retentit
Un soir
ramenera
vers Lesbos qui pardonne
Le cadavre adore de Sapho qui partit
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Why did you not constrain my lady
Before desire took me
completely?
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Troubador Verse |
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there came
A thing which Adam had been posed to name;
Noah had refused it lodging in his Ark,
Where all the race of reptiles might embark:
A verier monster, that on Afric's shore
The sun e'er got, or slimy Nilus bore,
Or Sloane or Woodward's
wondrous
shelves contain,
Nay, all that lying travellers can feign.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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There, by the starlit fences,
The
wanderer
halts and hears
My soul that lingers sighing
About the glimmering weirs.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The nest was full of eggs and round--
I met a
shepherd
in the vales,
And stood to tell him what I found.
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John Clare |
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_ By the bye, you are
indebted your best courtesy to me for this last compliment; as I pay
it from my sincere conviction of its truth--a quality rather rare in
compliments of these grinning, bowing,
scraping
times.
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Robert Burns |
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"
C
Once more the rain on the mountain,
Once more the wind in the valley,
With the soft odours of springtime
And the long breath of remembrance,
O
Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Gilgamish
and Enkidu
grappled with each other,
goring like an ox.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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s dust, how soon will we stop the
training
of troops?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Old Tunes
As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose,
Float in the garden when no wind blows,
Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows;
So the old tunes float in my mind,
And go from me leaving no trace behind,
Like
fragrance
borne on the hush of the wind.
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Sara Teasdale |
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What do you learn of the laws, customs,
and sentiments of
chivalry
in this canto?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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1 with
active links or
immediate
access to the full terms of the Project
Gutenberg-tm License.
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Imagists |
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VI Ferrata and
detachments
from the other Eastern legions.
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Tacitus |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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Encouraged hence,
maintain
the glorious strife,
Till every soldier grasp a Phrygian wife,
Till Helen's woes at full revenged appear,
And Troy's proud matrons render tear for tear.
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Iliad - Pope |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Many vulgar people
expressed
surprise, but Wang replied: 'The
reason why vulgar people find Li Po's poetry congenial is that it is
easy to enjoy.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And would it have been worth it, after all,
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some
overwhelming
question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Earth of the
slumbering
and liquid trees!
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE, LONDON.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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OSWALD When next
inclined
to sleep, take my advice,
And put your head, good Woman, under cover.
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Love in these
labyrinths
his slaves detains,
And mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
|
XXXIX
"O loving damsel (she made answer), I
Offer mine aid, for such as 'tis, to do
The hard and dread adventure, passing by
Causes beside that move me, most that you
A matter of your lover testify,
Which I, in sooth, hear warranted of few;
That he is constant; for i'faith I swear,
I well believed all lovers
perjured
were.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Untainted
sleep and power of wonder-working
He may upon the child's remains bestow;
But vulgar rumour must dispassionately
And diligently be tested; is it for us,
In stormy times of insurrection,
To weigh so great a matter?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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This is no trifler, no short-flighted wit,
No stammerer of a minute,
painfully
500
Delivered.
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In war under water this work I essayed
with endless effort; and even so
my strength had been lost had the Lord not
shielded
me.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Now is the time of
plaintive
robin-song,
When flowers are in their tombs.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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what a small part of his whole work it
represents!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thinks I, while I smoke my pipe
Here beside the
tumbling
Fleet,
Apples drop when they are ripe,
And when they drop are they most sweet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The
earliest
pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
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Tennyson |
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Hsi-ho, Hsi-ho,[21]
Is it true that once you
loitered
in the West
While Lu Yang[22] raised his spear, to hold
The progress of your light;
Then plunged and sank in the turmoil of the sea?
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Li Po |
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Kline (C) Copyright 2004-2009 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that
rediscovers
its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of survival in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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But he
came out now, and he put on the suit he had taken from the first giant,
and he came by the place the
princess
was, but she didn't know him.
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Yeats |
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Why fall the Sparrow & the Robin in the
foodless
winter?
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Blake - Zoas |
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This Castle hath a
pleasant
seat,
The ayre nimbly and sweetly recommends it selfe
Vnto our gentle sences
Banq.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Man:
Brethren
and men of Dan, for such ye seem,
Though in this uncouth place; if old respect,
As I suppose, towards your once gloried friend,
My Son now Captive, hither hath inform'd
Your younger feet, while mine cast back with age
Came lagging after; say if he be here.
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Milton |
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The Muse the truth uncolored speaking)
The Daemons are self-seeking:
Their fierce and
limitary
will
Draws men to their likeness still.
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Emerson - Poems |
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[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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SHCHELKALOV, Russian
Minister
of State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Hee dy'de,
As one that had beene studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
As 'twere a
carelesse
Trifle
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Am I thus whitened by the toil of battles
To witness in a day but
withered
laurels?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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