ATHANASIUS
MIKAILOVICH
PUSHKIN, friend of Prince Shuisky.
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Who saw thee on that bridal day,
When that deep blush _would_ come o'er thee,
Though
happiness
around thee lay,
The world all love before thee.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Curses, inherited from long ago,
Bring heavy freight of woe:
Rich stores of
merchandise
o'erload the deck,
Near, nearer comes the wreck--
And all is lost, cast out upon the wave,
Floating, with none to save!
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Aeschylus |
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"Within your house will strangers sit,
And wonder how first it came;
They'll talk of their schemes for
improving
it,
And will not mention your name.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"How
pleasant
to know Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The grave
receives
us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then she rode back cloth'd on with chastity:
And one low churl, [4] compact of
thankless
earth,
The fatal byword of all years to come,
Boring a little auger-hole in fear,
Peep'd--but his eyes, before they had their will,
Were shrivell'd into darkness in his head,
And dropt before him.
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Tennyson |
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Thou
snatchedst
me from the despairing state
In which my senses, well nigh crazed, were sunken.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
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He would probably introduce some wise
and holy Pontiff enjoining the
magnificent
ceremonial which,
after a long interval, had at length been adopted.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" KAU}
For many a window
ornamented
with sweet ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless torrents {Lowercase "world" mended to "World.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Tarentines were
convinced
that their countrymen were
irresistible in war; and this conviction had emboldened them to
treat with the grossest indignity one whom they regarded as the
representative of an inferior race.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
As when the lightning, in a sudden spleen
Unfolded, dashes from the
blinding
eyes
The visive spirits dazzled and bedimm'd;
So, round about me, fulminating streams
Of living radiance play'd, and left me swath'd
And veil'd in dense impenetrable blaze.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ONE DAY
I will tell you when they met:
In the limpid days of Spring;
Elder boughs were budding yet,
Oaken boughs looked wintry still,
But
primrose
and veined violet
In the mossful turf were set,
While meeting birds made haste to sing
And build with right good will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Headlong
I darted; at one eager swirl
Gain'd its bright portal, enter'd, and behold!
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Keats |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But this true course is not
embraced
by many:
By many!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thus saying, she offers him a rich ring of red gold "with a shining
stone
standing
aloft," that shone like the beams of the bright sun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And he
deserves
your favor and a collar,
He, of the students the accomplished scholar.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Past hath crusted
cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Two
together!
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Whitman |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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TO THE SHAH
FROM ENWERI
From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate,
And the
equipoise
of heaven is thy house's equipoise.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Would'st _thou_ such
stricture
close of bands endure
For golden Venus lying at thy side?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then having bound the friar hand and foot,
And in another room his lady put,
He sallied forth his hapless lot to tell,
And to the mayor exposed the wily spell;
The
corporation
next; then up and down,
The secret he divulged throughout the town.
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La Fontaine |
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Myrtho
Myrtho, I think of you divine enchantress,
And of proud Posilipo, lit with a
thousand
fires,
Of your brow flooded with Eastern light,
And the black grapes twined in your golden hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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net (This book was
produced
from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
project.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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"
{7a} There is no
irrelevance
here.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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and is your mightiness
A sycophant to smug
success?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"--
IX
"I see white flowers upon the floor
Betrodden
to a clot;
My wreath were they?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And they declare
Terreagles
fair,
For their abode they choose it;
There's no a heart in a' the land
But's lighter at the news o't.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XXXIX
I grow weary of the foreign cities,
The sea travel and the
stranger
peoples.
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Sappho |
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A fourth hand,
D, seems to be the latest because it is the
handwriting
in which the
Index was made out, and the poems inserted in this hand are inserted
in odd spaces left by the other writers.
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John Donne |
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Do you
understand
crime and innocence so poorly?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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it nat to enterchau{n}ge
stoundes
of knowynges.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken
according
to metre,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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One could
almost imagine that
Euripides
had not yet conceived that bad opinion of
the sex which so many of the subsequent dramas exhibit.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--"Why, grandma, how you're
winking!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Et comme il
savourait
surtout les sombres choses,
Quand, dans la chambre nue aux persiennes closes,
Haute et bleue, acrement prise d'humidite,
Il lisait son roman sans cesse medite,
Plein de lourds ciels ocreux et de forets noyees,
De fleurs de chair aux bois siderals deployees,
Vertige, ecroulements, deroutes et pitie!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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s post as Reminder was also a
Chancellery
post.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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They toil, they sweat, thick clouds of dust arise,
The
doubling
clamours echo to the skies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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puts
gesēcean
for Gr.
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Beowulf |
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For forty years, he produced and
distributed
Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Tennyson |
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]
XXXVII
And you, my
youthful
damsels fair,
Whom latterly one often meets
Urging your droshkies swift as air
Along Saint Petersburg's paved streets,
From you too Eugene took to flight,
Abandoning insane delight,
And isolated from all men,
Yawning betook him to a pen.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Strict
equality!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The Project Gutenberg
Literary
Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Et ses yeux et sa danse
superieurs
encore aux eclats precieux, aux
influences froides, au plaisir du decor et de l'heure uniques.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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After this, the four little people sailed on again till they came to a vast
and wide plain of astonishing dimensions, on which nothing whatever could
be discovered at first; but, as the travellers walked onward, there
appeared in the extreme and dim distance a single object, which on a nearer
approach, and on an
accurately
cutaneous inspection, seemed to be somebody
in a large white wig, sitting on an arm-chair made of sponge-cakes and
oyster-shells.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore engendered a new ideal;
a synthesis of
Christian
and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Lust-bred
diseases
rot thee; and dwell with thee
Itching desire, and no abilitie.
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John Donne |
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A lurid thought is growthless, dull Privation,
Yet that is but a
Purgatory
curse;
Hell knows a fear far worse,
A fear--a future state;--'tis positive Negation!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Peace is more strong than war, and gentleness,
Where force were vain, makes
conquest
o'er the wave; 10
And love lives on and hath a power to bless,
When they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Divide ye bands influence by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no
indication
of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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When they go into the world, the
world will
disagree
with them.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A queen devoid of beauty is not queen,
She needs the royalty of beauty's mien;
God in His harmony has equal ends
For cedar that resists, and reed that bends,
And good it is a woman
sometimes
rules,
Holds in her hand the power, and manners schools,
And laws and mind;--succeeding master proud,
With gentle voice and smile she leads the crowd,
The sombre human troop.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
hierodule
opened her mouth
and said unto Enkidu:--
"Eat bread, oh Enkidu!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But, O ye Six that round him lay
And
bloodied
up that April day!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And the
Megarians
too are doing nothing, yet look how they are
pulling and showing their teeth like famished curs; the poor wretches are
dying of hunger!
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Aristophanes |
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XLIV
And all the way, with great
lamenting
paine,
And piteous plaints she filleth his dull eares,
That stony hart could riven have in twaine, 390
And all the way she wets with flowing teares:
But he enrag'd with rancor, nothing heares.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What porcelain vase by you was split
To
thousand
pieces?
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
Countess
Anna Fedorovna was seated before her mirror in her
dressing-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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,
_perpetual
night, night after night_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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They lied not then, who sware, and thro' their vows
The King
prevailing
made his realm:--I say,
Swear to me thou wilt love me ev'n when old,
Gray-haired, and past desire, and in despair.
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Tennyson |
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105
Hir fredom fond Arcite in swich manere,
That al was his that she hath, moche or lyte,
Ne to no creature made she chere
Ferther than that hit lyked to Arcite;
Ther was no lak with which he mighte hir wyte, 110
She was so
ferforth
yeven him to plese,
That al that lyked him, hit did hir ese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Had I a load of gold, and should I come
Bribing their friendship, and to buy a home,
They would stare harder and would slightly frown:
I am a
stranger
from the distant town.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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say what flame more
gladsome
in Heavens be shining?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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a genial air abroad,
Winter
resigned
her empire white,
Oneguine ne'er as poet showed
Nor died nor lost his senses quite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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e snawe
snitered
ful snart, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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at may not be
staunched
shal it bynde me to be stedfast.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Duke here
referred
to is said to be the Duke
of Argyle, one of the most influential of the great Whig lords.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Telemachus
assists and brings arms for his father, himself,
Eumaeus, and Philaetius.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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how the masses sally
Streaming and swarming through gardens and fields
How the broad stream that bathes the valley
Is everywhere cut with pleasure boats' keels,
And that last skiff, so heavily laden,
Almost to sinking, puts off in the stream;
Ribbons and jewels of youngster and maiden
From the far paths of the
mountain
gleam.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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What, hath the
firmament
more suns than one?
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,
"My Clay with long
oblivion
is gone dry:
But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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If the sad grave of human
ignorance
bear 660
One flower of hope--Oh pass and leave it there.
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Les saules trempes, et des
bourgeons
sur les ronces--
C'est la, dans une averse, qu'on s'abrite.
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T.S. Eliot |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Naturel
Ce qui dit a l'un:
Sepulture!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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[Greek: en de mues stereoisi brachiosin akron hyp' _omon estasan,
aeute petroi oloitrochoi ous te
kylind_on
cheimarrhous potamos
megalais periexese dinais.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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All they wrought,
Unreasoning they wrought, till I made clear
The laws of rising stars, and
inference
dim,
More hard to learn, of what their setting showed.
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Old uncanonical Stigand--ask of _me_
Who had my pallium from an
Antipope!
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And clap him into furnace ninety-two, 610
And try this
brimstone
on him; if he's bright,
He'll find the masure honest afore night.
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Down
Pennsylvania
Avenue to-day the riders go,
men and boys riding horses, roses in their teeth,
stems of roses, rose leaf stalks, rose dark leaves--
the line of the green ends in a red rose flash.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Among other things, this
requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
eBook or this "small print!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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She may also add, that many islands have
been found which bore not one trace of mankind, and that even Otaheite
bears the evident marks of receiving its
inhabitants
from a shipwreck,
its only animals being the hog, the dog, and the rat.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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He is the
corporate
Silence: dread him not!
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Poe - 5 |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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May then those spirits, set free, a
celestial
council obeying,
Move in this rustling whisper here thro' the dark, shaken trees?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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