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HE ACKNOWLEDGES THE WISDOM OF HER PAST
COLDNESS
TO HIM.
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Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although
I swear it to myself alone.
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Upon the shining panels, or upon skins gilded with a sombre opulence,
beatified paintings have a
discreet
life, as calm and profound as the
souls of the artists who created them.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Royalty
payments
must be paid
within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are
legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
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Wilde - Poems |
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All, all the godlike worthies that adorn
This realm, she flies:
Phaeacia
is her scorn.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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(See other englisht copies of these '15 Tokens'
attributed
to St.
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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That was the reason, as some folks say,
He fought so well on that
terrible
day.
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ne
ralentis
pas tes flammes;
Rechauffe mon coeur engourdi,
Volupte, torture des ames!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And weary was the long patrol,
The thousand miles of
shapeless
strand,
From Brazos to San Blas that roll
Their drifting dunes of desert sand.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The hunting and
unlacing
the wild boar (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For seven pyres
devoured
young-limbed
Men.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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What rivers and what heights,
What shores and seas between
Me rise and those twin lights,
Which made the storm and blackness of my days
One
beautiful
serene,
To which tormented Memory still strays:
Free as my life then pass'd from every care,
So hard and heavy seems my present lot to bear.
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Our Franks here, each
descending
from his horse,
Will find us dead, and limb from body torn;
They'll take us hence, on biers and litters borne;
With pity and with grief for us they'll mourn;
They'll bury each in some old minster-close;
No wolf nor swine nor dog shall gnaw our bones.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thou olden ducal
dungeon!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Methinks
I find her now, and now perceive
She's distant; now I soar, and now descend;
Now what I wish, now what is true believe.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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--<< Non, madame,
repondit
finement le poete, car elles sont, en effet,
tres bonnes, mais seulement la premiere fois qu'on en mange.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
Love's answer soon the truth forgotten shows--
"This high pure privilege true lovers claim,
Who from mere human feelings
franchised
are!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"
Then I: "When ended the brief dream and vain
That men call life, by you now safely pass'd,
Is death indeed such
punishment
and pain?
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Petrarch |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Grosart and
Chambers
prefer the reading of
the later editions, 'Meane's blest.
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John Donne |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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[Footnote 11: It is
unfortunate
that the 'Memoirs' do not tell us to
what poem the remark applies, or to whom the letter containing it was
addressed.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In a few cases,
where the whole poem has not fallen within the scope of this
volume, only a
fragment
is here given.
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I am neither faint nor weary,
Fill thy will, O
faultless
heart!
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Emerson - Poems |
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Some few there from the common road did stray;
Laelius and Socrates, with whom I may
A longer progress take: Oh, what a pair
Of dear
esteemed
friends to me they were!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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The invalidity or
unenforceability of any provision of this
agreement
shall not void the
remaining provisions.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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The wife replied, you surely are deceiv'd;
An honest, virtuous
creature
she's believ'd.
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La Fontaine |
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And if your hand or foot offend you,
Cut it off, lad, and be whole;
But play the man, stand up and end you,
When your
sickness
is your soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And, in your lug, most
reverend
James,
To hear you roar and rowt,
Few men o' sense will doubt your claims
To rank amang the nowt.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_ For 't is no remedy to bewail this one;
Cherish not vainly
troubles
which avail naught.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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By some fair deed,
Some joyous sacrifice,
Some swift relief
Unto your utmost need,
Some glowing revelation
That, like
sunlight
on a distant hill, Should show you all my heart
In one glad moment yours.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Indeed, in these days
of adaptations, it is to be wondered at that no
enterprising
librettist has
attempted to build a children's comic opera out of the materials supplied
in the four books with which we are now concerned.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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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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Imagists |
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Pro quo dilaceranda feris dabor alitibusque
Praeda, neque iniecta
tumulabor
mortua terra.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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But what severed is
And into sundry parts divides, indeed
Admits it owns no
everlasting
nature.
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Lucretius |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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While Laura smiles, all-conscious of that love
Which from this
faithful
breast no time can e'er remove.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Vain to this
sickening
heart these scenes appear:
No form but hers can meet my tearful eyes;
In every passing gale her voice I hear;
It seems to tell me, "I have heard thy sighs.
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Petrarch |
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Under his
spurning
feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind,
And the steed, like a bark fed with furnace fire,
Swept on, with his wild eye full of ire.
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the
nightingale
100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Why gather the heroes, 645
All the flower of Greece, without
Hippolytus?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Revering Heaven, you rule below;
Be that your base, your coping still;
'Tis Heaven
neglected
bids o'erflow
The measure of Italian ill.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Look upon an effeminate person, his very
gait
confesseth
him.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thie
valourous
actes woulde meinte[38] of menne astounde;
Harde bee yer shappe[39] encontrynge thee ynn fyghte;
Anenst[40] all menne thou bereft to the grounde,
Lyche the hard hayle dothe the tall roshes pyghte[41].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The reader need hardly be told that the officer was no other than
Herman, the would-be gambler, whose
imagination
had been strongly
excited by the story told by Tomsky of the three magic cards.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It is as symmetrical and
exquisitely
finished
as a Grecian temple.
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Alexander Pope |
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To love according to an established order, to entertain one's best
self in a preconceived manner, to worship the gods becomingly,
to
intrigue
the devils artfully--and then to forget all as though
memory were dead.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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We become afraid that we
ourselves
might be
as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Yet the
admission
is made with a smile,
and more than one suggestion is allowed to float across the scene that in
real life such conduct would be hardly wise.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Rapidly then renewed heat
overcomes
those lowering vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more powerful gleams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Goddess, take
vengeance!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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My breath caught, I lurched forward--
stumbled
in the ground-myrtle.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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i'th' name of truth
Are ye fantasticall, or that indeed
Which
outwardly
ye shew?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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85
Him as with yearning glance forthright espied the royal
Maiden, whom pure chaste couch aspiring delicate odours
Cherisht, in soft embrace of a mother comforted all-whiles,
(E'en as the myrtles begot by the flowing floods of Eurotas,
Or as the tincts distinct brought forth by breath of the
springtide)
90
Never the burning lights of her eyes from gazing upon him
Turned she, before fierce flame in all her body conceived she
Down in its deepest depths and burning amiddle her marrow.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For the sentimental no greater foe exists than the
iconoclast
who
dissipates literary legends.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Memory at trifling incidents awakes
And there he keeps them for his children's sakes,
Who when as boys searched every sedgy lane,
Traced every wood and
shattered
clothes again,
Roaming about on rapture's easy wing
To hunt those very pooty shells in spring.
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John Clare |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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þæt hē
þrīttiges
manna mægencræft on his mundgripe hæbbe, 381.
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Beowulf |
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Do I
contradict
myself?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Or if your life be one
continued
treat,
If to live well means nothing but to eat;
Up, up!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So our foe is here--
Like, as I deem, to ply no stinted trade
In blood and broil, but traffick as is meet
In fierce exchange for his long
wayfaring!
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Aeschylus |
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350
But wofull Ladie, let me you intrete
For to unfold the anguish of your hart:
Mishaps are maistred by advice discrete,
And counsell mittigates the
greatest
smart;
Found?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet since this bittersweet ill your virtue
Combats, as it does its charm and power,
Repulsing the assault,
rejecting
the allure,
It will bring peace to your troubled mind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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XLV
So fiersly, when these knights had
breathed
once,
They gan to fight returne, increasing more
Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I shall not bear it: dreamed, it hath made my life
Fail almost, like a storm broken in heaven
By its internal fire; and now I feel
Love like a
dreadful
god coming to do
His pleasure on me, to tear me with his joy
And shred my flesh-wove strength with merciless
Utterance through me of inhuman bliss.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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God suffers not His saints and
servants
dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.
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Robert Herrick |
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you seeme to
vnderstand
me,
By each at once her choppie finger laying
Vpon her skinnie Lips: you should be Women,
And yet your Beards forbid me to interprete
That you are so
Mac.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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There came a day - at Summer's full -
Entirely for me -
I thought that such were for the Saints -
Where Resurrections - be -
The sun - as common - went abroad -
The flowers - accustomed - blew,
As if no soul - that solstice passed -
Which maketh all things - new -
The time was scarce
profaned
- by speech -
The falling of a word
Was needless - as at Sacrament -
The _Wardrobe_ - of our Lord!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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e
emperour
be-gan to chyde,
And fele ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Sappho |
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And my soul is a sepulchre where I,
Ill cenobite, have spent eternity:
On the vile
cloister
walls no pictures rise.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Too weak to win, too fond to shun
The tyrants of his doom,
The much
deceived
Endymion
Slips behind a tomb.
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"Now wenches listen, and let lovers lie,
Ye'll hear a story ye may profit by;
I'm your age treble, with some oddments to't,
And right from wrong can tell, if ye'll but do't:
Ye need not giggle
underneath
your hat,
Mine's no joke-matter, let me tell you that;
So keep ye quiet till my story's told,
And don't despise your betters cause they're old.
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John Clare |
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Ballantyne
does not choose to
interfere more in the business.
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Robert Burns |
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The
remaining
cohorts were despondent, 4 blazing glory, the repute of his family.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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He
returned
to the stage for a
short time through necessity, but found his best friends in the best of
the young poets of the day.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
brackish
water that we drink
Creeps with a loathsome slime,
And the bitter bread they weigh in scales
Is full of chalk and lime,
And Sleep will not lie down, but walks
Wild-eyed, and cries to Time.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This rendered him dearer to woman's
heart than all the lyric effusions of his fancy; and when we add to
such allurements, a warm, flowing, and persuasive eloquence, we need
not wonder that woman
listened
and was won; that one of the most
charming damsels of the West said, an hour with him in the dark was
worth a lifetime of light with any other body; or that the
accomplished and beautiful Duchess of Gordon declared, in a latter
day, that no man ever carried her so completely off her feet as Robert
Burns.
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Robert Forst |
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Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane
Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi,
Destructeur
et gourmand comme la courtisane,
Patient comme la fourmi?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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When Appius Claudius saw that deed, he shuddered and sank
down,
And hid his face some little space with the corner of his gown,
Till, with white lips and bloodshot eyes,
Virginius
tottered
nigh,
And stood before the judgment-seat, and held the knife on high.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XVII
Of high and
superhuman
genius, tied
By love and blood, lo!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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