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DAMOETAS
"My Muse,
although
she be but country-bred,
Is loved by Pollio: O Pierian Maids,
Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The rocks cut her tender feet,
And the
brambles
tore her fair limbs.
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Stephen Crane |
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It is the advantage of fame
that it is always
privileged
to take the world by the button, and a
thing is weightier for Shakespeare's uttering it by the whole amount of
his personality.
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James Russell Lowell |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Alexander Pope |
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L'altra e colei che s'ancise amorosa,
e ruppe fede al cener di Sicheo;
poi e
Cleopatras
lussuriosa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It's like the morning, --
Best when it's done, --
The
everlasting
clocks
Chime noon.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_As
Cassiodore
doth prove.
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Robert Herrick |
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You've not surprised my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It
trembles
in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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Joulai, a
baptized Kalmuck,
revealed
to the Commandant something very serious.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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On the whole, we think
that Marvell's epitaph, strong as the terms of
panegyric are, records little more than the truth ;
and that it was not in the vain spirit of boasting,
but in the honest
consciousness
of virtue and in-
tegrity, that he himself concludes a letter to one
of his correspondents in the words —
"Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem;
Fortunam ex aliis.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Lo, this day have I thrown
A net, which once
unbroken
from the sea
Drawn home, shall .
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Euripides - Electra |
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The chief yet doubts, or to the shades below
To fell the giant at one vengeful blow,
Or save his life, and soon his life to save
The king resolves, for mercy sways the brave
That instant Irus his huge arm extends,
Full on his shoulder the rude weight descends;
The sage Ulysses, fearful to disclose
The hero latent in the man of woes,
Check'd half his might; yet rising to the stroke,
His jawbone dash'd, the
crashing
jawbone broke:
Down dropp'd he stupid from the stunning wound;
His feet extended quivering, beat the ground;
His mouth and nostrils spout a purple flood;
His teeth, all shatter'd, rush inmix'd with blood.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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requires
that you do not remove, alter or modify the
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Page 63
The bysshope, as he stode hym nye,
A
perchement
leffe in his honde he see, 314
But he hyllde his hand so faste,
That owte he myght hit natt wrast.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Why, when my hand
unconscious
pressing,
Still keep untold the maiden dream?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It is
forced to be
niggardly
in its show of grief.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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This translation or rather adaptation
contains
many of the two hundred or so fragments, in some cases fragments of the fragments, excluding things I found too partial or obscure to resonate.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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As soon's the clockin-time is by,
An' the wee pouts begun to cry,
L--d, I'se hae sportin' by an' by,
For my gowd guinea;
Tho' I should herd the
buckskin
kye
For't, in Virginia.
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Robert Forst |
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O
Cromwell
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Marvell - Poems |
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Eventually
he reaches Olympus, only to
find that the gods have gone elsewhere, and that the heavenly abode is
occupied solely by the demon of War, who is busy pounding up the Greek
States in a huge mortar.
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Aristophanes |
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Augur and lord of silver bow,
Apollo, darling of the Nine,
Who heal'st our frame when languors slow
Have made it pine;
Lov'st thou thine own Palatial hill,
Prolong the
glorious
life of Rome
To other cycles, brightening still
Through time to come!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Like impressionist pictures, or Wagner's rugged music, the very
absence of
conventional
form challenges attention.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody
on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr.
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T.S. Eliot |
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There was a day when England had a wide room
For honest men as well as foolish kings:
But now the uneasy stomach of the time
Turns
squeamish
at them both.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Do you think a great city
endures?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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100
Cum saevom cupiens contra
contendere
monstrum
Aut mortem oppeteret Theseus aut praemia laudis.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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if thou know'st not to rise;
Sit up, thou tortured
sluggard!
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Hugo - Poems |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres,
Derelict of her true task,
dalliance
offered in love.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Our fathers
fashioned
for us after all
Some useful things," said Joss; then Zeno spoke:
"I know what Corbus hides beneath its cloak,
I and the osprey know the castle old,
And what in bygone times the justice bold.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The Clown Chastised
Eyes, lakes of my simple passion to be reborn
Other than as the actor who
gestures
with his hand
As with a pen, and evokes the foul soot of the lamps,
Here's a window in the walls of cloth I've torn.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_120
languished
B.
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Shelley |
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He hath conquered, he cometh to free us
With
garlands
new-won,
More high than the crowns of Alpheus,
Thine own father's son:
Cry, cry, for the day that is won!
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Euripides - Electra |
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an was one of the
happiest
periods of his life.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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You've forgotten the time when you were insane about the
Herriott
woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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let not the fear
To want a guide
distress
thee.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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See social life and glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
'Till, quite transmugrify'd, they're grown
Debauchery
and drinking;
O would they stay to calculate
Th' eternal consequences;
Or your more dreaded hell to state,
D--mnation of expenses!
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Robert Forst |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves,
sounding
out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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The first intrusts (our verse that name abhors)
Plenipotentiary embassadors
To prove by Scripture, treaty does imply
Cessation, as the look
adultery
;
And that by law of arms, in martial strife,
Who yields his sword, has title to his life.
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Marvell - Poems |
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provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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[17] Manchurian,
Mongolian
and Turkestan frontiers.
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Li Po |
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I have, for ancestor, the gods' king and father: 1275
The sky, the
universe
is filled with my ancestors.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I
say fatal, for they are so to some, who, having no money, are obliged
to give up part of their scanty apparel; and if they have no bedding
or straw to sleep on, contract
diseases
which I have known to prove
mortal.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Whene'er we cross a river at a ford,
If we would pass in safety, we must keep
Our eyes fixed
steadfast
on the shore beyond,
For if we cast them on the flowing stream,
The head swims with it; so if we would cross
The running flood of things here in the world,
Our souls must not look down, but fix their sight
On the firm land beyond.
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Longfellow |
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ei ben boun
to wenden & sechen his deore sone,
in
eueriche
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Routledge
and
Sons.
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Byron |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Imagists |
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May know his
freezing
sorrows more.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Will you give me a morning
draught?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The first Satan, by his face, was a creature of
doubtful
sex.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Their faith the everlasting troth;
Their
expectation
fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He was
strongly
suspected of having
forged a will by which Dr.
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Alexander Pope |
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Are these thy boasts,
Champion
of human kind?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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ilke blisfulnesse ne be nat
sorweful
to hym.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So how should I
presume?
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T.S. Eliot |
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There casting glance of weeping eyes where vasty billows brake,
Sad-voiced in
pitifullest
lay his native land bespake.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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1190
Thanne seyde he thus, fulfild of heigh desdayn,
`O cruel Iove, and thou, Fortune adverse,
This al and som, that falsly have ye slayn
Criseyde, and sin ye may do me no werse,
Fy on your might and werkes so
diverse!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To
venerate
the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or me
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Lawrence
and Amy Lowell
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Imagists |
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destroy all copies of the works possessed in a
physical
medium
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Li Po |
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My poor
forsaken
child!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The land lay steeped in peace of silent dreams, There was no sound amid the sacred boughs Nor any
mournful
music in her streams,
Only I saw the shadow on her brows,
Only I knew her for the Yearly Slain
And wept, and weep until she come again.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Full five and twenty years he lived
A running
huntsman
merry;
And, though he has but one eye left,
His cheek is like a cherry.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
"Tell Major Hawks to advance the
Commissary
train.
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Sidney Lanier |
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But
what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose
miseries
are to be
smil'd at, their offences being so capital?
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Shakespeare |
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The
great majority of readers suppose that the device by which
Elfleda was substituted for her young mistress, the
artifice
by
which Athelwold obtained the hand of Elfrida, the detection of
that artifice, the hunting party, and the vengeance of the
amorous king, are things about which there is no more doubt than
about the execution of Anne Boleyn, or the slitting of Sir John
Coventry's nose.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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He is read, if at all, in preference to the combined and
established
wit
of the world.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
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Poe - 5 |
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" They were too typical to omit; and a
comparison of the two
renderings
may be of interest.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Toi dont l'oeil clair connait les
profonds
arsenaux
Ou dort enseveli le peuple des metaux,
O Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
K said, "A
Kangaroo
is here,--this picture let him see.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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[B]
I met a little cottage Girl: 5
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That
clustered
round her head.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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you will fall off behind,
You
propitious
Old Man with a beard!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Who art thyself a Father, pardon me
If for a moment I have thee postponed
To the affections and the thoughts of earth,
Thee, and the
adoration
that I owe thee,
When by thy power alone these darkened eyes
Have been unsealed again to see thy light!
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Longfellow |
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--
But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And full in the midst rose Keenan, tall
In the gloom, like a martyr
awaiting
his fall,
While the circle-stroke of his sabre, swung
'Round his head, like a halo there, luminous hung.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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All but the Sylph--with careful thoughts opprest,
Th'
impending
woe sat heavy on his breast.
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I then
mentioned
our steel; but the foreigner elevated his nose, and
asked me if our steel could have executed the sharp carved work seen on
the obelisks, and which was wrought altogether by edge-tools of copper.
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And none did love him: though to hall and bower
He gathered revellers from far and near,
He knew them flatterers of the festal hour;
The
heartless
parasites of present cheer.
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Next these a buckler, spear, and helm, he brings;
Cast on the plain, the brazen burden rings:
Arms which of late divine Sarpedon wore,
And great
Patroclus
in short triumph bore.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Murmuring
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Sara Teasdale |
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Nor less the storm of
headlong
rage denies,
Or counsel to debate, or thought to rise.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The poet
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perfect as the
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