But some men, ignorant of matter, think,
Opposing this, that not without the gods,
In such adjustment to our human ways,
Can nature change the seasons of the years,
And bring to birth the grains and all of else
To which divine Delight, the guide of life,
Persuades mortality and leads it on,
That, through her artful blandishments of love,
It propagate the
generations
still,
Lest humankind should perish.
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Appoloinaire |
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CANTO XXVII
Then "Glory to the Father, to the Son,
And to the Holy Spirit," rang aloud
Throughout all Paradise, that with the song
My spirit reel'd, so passing sweet the strain:
And what I saw was equal ecstasy;
One universal smile it seem'd of all things,
Joy past compare,
gladness
unutterable,
Imperishable life of peace and love,
Exhaustless riches and unmeasur'd bliss.
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Was it not
yesterday
we spoke together?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Hold ice up to the sun,
And wax before the fire;
Nor triumph oer the reign
Which they so soon resign;
In this world's ways they gain,
Insurance
safe as thine.
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John Clare |
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here they are just
bringing
a dead man
along.
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Aristophanes |
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"The sudden
approach
and rapid advance of the Spring," says Mr.
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--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue
with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most ambiguous atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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Keats - Lamia |
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61, referred to in the Voyage
Pittoresque
dans la Grece, vol.
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For whan that he me gan espye, 3815
He swoor, afferming sikirly,
Bitwene
Bialacoil
and me
Was yvel aquayntaunce and privee.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[581]
_At strife appear the lawns and purpled skies,
Who from each other stole the
beauteous
dyes.
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To Foreign Lands
I heard that you ask'd for
something
to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Yet she wrote verses in great
abundance; and though brought curiously indifferent to all
conventional rules, had yet a rigorous
literary
standard of her own,
and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own
tenacious fastidiousness.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'
Rogero thanked the tree for all, and taught,
Departed thence with full
instructions
fraught.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[Footnote 48: One
_verchok_
= 3 inches.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Imagists |
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The
outlines
of the distant streets grow shorter,
A murmuring bids the wanderer to respite;
Is it the music of some hidden water?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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With it will sink in dust each
towering
hope,
Cherish'd so long within my faithful breast;
No more shall we resent, fear, smile, complain:
Then shall we clearly trace why some are blest,
Through deepest misery raised to Fortune's top,
And why so many sighs so oft are heaved in vain.
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Petrarch |
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Lin, Prince of Yung, gave him the post of
assistant
on his staff.
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Li Po |
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Far up the great bells
wallowed
in delight,
Tossing their clangors o'er the heedless town,
To call the worshippers who never came,
Or women mostly, in loath twos and threes.
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James Russell Lowell |
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129, 130;
He lifts the tube, and levels with his eye:
Straight
a short thunder breaks the frozen sky:
Ed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Domitian was quite ready to venture, but although the guards to
whom
Vitellius
had entrusted him, promised that they would share his
flight, he was afraid they might be laying a trap for him.
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Tacitus |
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Or to what gelid
fountain
bend ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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Mie hommeur yette somme
drybblet
joie maie fynde, 1190
To the Danes woundes I wylle another yeve;
Whanne thos mie rennome[127] & mie peace ys rynde,
Itte were a recrandize to thyncke toe lyve;
Mie huscarles, untoe everie asker telle,
Gyffe noblie AElla lyved, as noblie AElla felle.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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How grown men raged at Austria's wickedness,
And smoked,--while fifty striplings in a row
Marched straight to
Piedmont
for the wrong's redress!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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How the roaring of the chimney
Terrified
me.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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LFS}
Hearing the march of long resounding strong heroic Verse
Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle
The heavens shall quake, the earth was moved &
shuddered
& the mountains
With all their woods, the streams & valleys: waild in dismal fear
Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity John XVII c.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Cruel one, when has my faith ever
betrayed
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[481] Memnon, the son of Aurora, was killed by Achilles; in the list of
the Tragedies of
Aeschylus
there is one entitled 'Memnon.
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Aristophanes |
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Infanta
My
sweetest
hope's to lose all hope, I fear.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I ween indeed
if ever it hap that Hrethel's heir
by spear be seized, by sword-grim battle,
by illness or iron, thine elder and lord,
people's leader, -- and life be thine, --
no
seemlier
man will the Sea-Geats find
at all to choose for their chief and king,
for hoard-guard of heroes, if hold thou wilt
thy kinsman's kingdom!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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If you
continue so deaf, I am afraid a visit will be no great
pleasure
to
either of us; but if I hear you are got so well again as to be able to
relish conversation, look you to it, Madam, for I will make my
threatenings good.
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Robert Burns |
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They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The
mourners
followed after,
And so to church went she,
And would not wait for me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The bulrush nods unto his brother
The
wheatears
whisper to each other:
What is it they say?
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Tennyson |
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Lord, this is
violence
.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What a
situation
for her, poor girl, without a single friend by her on
such a serious moment.
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Robert Burns |
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When Tiamat, the old foul worm from hell,
Lay coiled and nested in the unmade world,
All the loose stuff dragg'd with her
rummaging
tail
And packt about her belly in a form,
Where she could hutch herself and bark at Heaven,--
The god's bright soldier, Bel, fashioned a wind;
And when her jaws began her whining rage
Against him, into her guts he shot the wind
And rent the membranes of her life.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea in the darkness calls and calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the
footprints
in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.
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Longfellow |
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He has learned much, can
understand
their pangs.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Keats |
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Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the
Galilean
lake,
Two massy Keyes he bore of metals twain, 110
(The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain)
He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,
Anow of such as for their bellies sake,
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
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Milton |
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Ye gods, who of your mercy give
Force to the fainting, let my life
Of honour win me rest from strife,
And from my blood the canker drive;
Ere yet from limb to limb it steal,
And in black
darkness
plunge my soul,
Oh, drive it hence and make me whole;
A caitiff wounds, a god may heal.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LVII
And after this another vision saw,
In France, at Aix, in his Chapelle once more,
That his right arm an evil bear did gnaw;
Out of Ardennes he saw a leopard stalk,
His body dear did
savagely
assault;
But then there dashed a harrier from the hall,
Leaping in the air he sped to Charles call,
First the right ear of that grim bear he caught,
And furiously the leopard next he fought.
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Chanson de Roland |
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thy will is here,
That I the tenour of my creed unfold;
And thou the cause of it hast
likewise
ask'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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XXII
When this brave city,
honouring
the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Instead of all this angry storm,
Another might have thanked you well
For saving prey from that grim cell,
That hollowed den 'neath journals great,
Where editors who poets flout
With their
demoniac
laughter shout.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Give back, I pray, Xanthus and Simois to a
wretched people, and let the
Teucrians
again, O Lord, circle through the
fates of Ilium.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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tell me where
They bide, and to their
knowledge
let me come.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sara Teasdale |
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_Market Day_
With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke
That urges
switching
tail nor mends his pace,
On an old ribbed and weather beaten horse,
The farmer goes jogtrotting to the fair.
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John Clare |
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Ez for dependin' on their oaths an' thet,
'twun't bind 'em more 'n the ribbin roun' my het:
I heared a fable once from Othniel Starns,
That pints it slick ez
weathercocks
do barns;
Onct on a time the wolves hed certing rights
Inside the fold; they used to sleep there nights,
An' bein' cousins o' the dogs, they took
Their turns et watchin', reg'lar ez a book; 290
But somehow, when the dogs hed gut asleep,
Their love o' mutton beat their love o' sheep,
Till gradilly the shepherds come to see
Things warn't agoin' ez they'd ough' to be;
So they sent off a deacon to remonstrate
Along 'th the wolves an' urge 'em to go on straight;
They didn't seem to set much by the deacon,
Nor preachin' didn' cow 'em, nut to speak on;
Fin'ly they swore thet they'd go out an' stay,
An' hev their fill o' mutton every day; 300
Then dogs an' shepherds, after much hard dammin',
[Groan from Deac'n G.
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James Russell Lowell |
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's
["ABC's"
signifes
endemic teashops, found in all parts of
London.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Volscens
cries aloud from his column: 'Stand, men!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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queintise
in book ywrite; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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Our poet's
presence
being no longer necessary, he left Naples,
in spite of the strong solicitations of his friends Barrilli and
Barbato.
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Petrarch |
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LXII
"And many times repeating in his thought,
It was Geneura who his brother slew,
Who was to self-destruction moved by nought
But her ill deed, which he was doomed to view,
So on his mind the thirst of vengeance wrought,
And so his grief his season overthrew;
That he thought little, graced of each estate,
To encounter king and people's common hate;
LXIII
"And, when the throng was fullest in the hall,
Stood up before the
Scottish
king, and said,
`Of having marred my brother's wits withal,
Sir king, and him to his destruction led,
Your daughter only can I guilty call:
For in his inmost soul such sorrow bred
The having seen her little chastity,
He loathed existence, and preferred to die.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
The words of Marya Ivanofna
enlightened
me, and made many things clear
to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Is all the
laughter
gone dead out of thee?
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Tennyson |
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In attempting des oeufs a la Princesse, he had
unfortunately perpetrated an omelette a la Reine; the discovery of a
principle in ethics had been frustrated by the overturning of a stew;
and last, not least, he had been
thwarted
in one of those admirable
bargains which he at all times took such especial delight in bringing
to a successful termination.
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Poe - 5 |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Water is taught by thirst;
Land, by the oceans passed;
Transport, by throe;
Peace, by its battles told;
Love, by
memorial
mould;
Birds, by the snow.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Just girt me for the onset with eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the
disappointed
tide!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Pope dealt with the
question
of God in Nature, and the world of Man.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The Loir is a
tributary
of the larger Loire, in the Vendomois.
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Ronsard |
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my love, and fearless be, 350
For o'er the
southern
moors I have a home for thee.
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Keats |
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Some years afterwards, getting to know our friend Swinburne, I found with
much
satisfaction
that he also was an ardent (not of course a _blind_)
admirer of Whitman.
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Whitman |
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--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the
straggling
green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Several bullets went wide of the proposed mark, one of them flew far
into the heavens, and as the charming creature laughed deliriously,
mocking the clumsiness of her husband, he turned to her
brusquely
and
said: "Observe that doll yonder, to the right, with its nose in the air,
and with so haughty an appearance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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FROM THE WOOLWORTH TOWER
VIVID with love, eager for greater beauty
Out of the night we come
Into the corridor,
brilliant
and warm.
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Sara Teasdale |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Lucretius |
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how blithe the
throstle
sings!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[432] Here, on a spot protected by
the mountains on one side and the Moselle on the other,
Valentinus
had
already taken his stand with a large force of Treviri.
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Tacitus |
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The
conditions
will be done away with, and human nature will
change.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Be mindful of the
strength
your fathers bore;
Be still yourselves, and Hector asks no more.
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Iliad - Pope |
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_, at the
beginning
of the third century A.
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Li Po |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Her clothes spread wide
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes,
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a
creature
native and indued
Unto that element; but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
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1 Has it a
speaking
virtue?
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Robert Herrick |
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After that day
Aegisthus thus decreed: whoso should slay
The old king's
wandering
son, should win rich meed
Of gold; and for Electra, she must wed
With me, not base of blood--in that I stand
True Mycenaean--but in gold and land
Most poor, which maketh highest birth as naught.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
These pictures of town and
landscape
are never separated from their
personal relation to the poet.
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Rilke - Poems |
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CCXXXVII
That even-tide is light as was the day;
Their armour shines beneath the sun's clear ray,
Hauberks
and helms throw off a dazzling flame,
And blazoned shields, flowered in bright array,
Also their spears, with golden ensigns gay.
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Chanson de Roland |
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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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I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Through this May night, if one great ghost should stray
With deep
remembering
eyes,
Where that old meadow of battle smiles away
Its blood-stained memories,
If Washington should walk, where friend and foe
Sleep and forget the past,
Be sure his unquenched heart would leap to know
Their souls are linked at last.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Because
reluctant
to part from the flesh.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Though once beloved and lovely, young and bright,
So
slighted
are we now, my sister sweet
Already plumes for flight
Her wings to bear her to her own old seat;
Myself am but a shadow thin and fleet;
Thus have I told you, in brief words, whate'er
You sought of us to find:
And now farewell!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Heav'n from all
creatures
hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer Being here below?
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Alexander Pope |
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Beneath two trees he climbed the hill and looked,
And Rollant's strokes on three
terraces
knew,
On the green grass saw lying his nephew;
`Tis nothing strange that Charles anger grew.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And thus from year to year, through hope and fear,
With many a curse and many a secret tear,
Striving
in vain his cloud of debt to clear,
At last
He woke to find his foolish dreaming past,
And all his best-of-life the easy prey
Of squandering scamps and quacks that lined his way
With vile array,
From rascal statesman down to petty knave;
Himself, at best, for all his bragging brave,
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave.
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Sidney Lanier |
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He does not know that
sickening
thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
Slips through the padded door,
And binds one with three leathern thongs,
That the throat may thirst no more.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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As through the spirit paling,
The pathways--then across the weald
Caressing breezes sailing
Respond
themselves
o'er fence and field.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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