The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his
eyeballs
hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Une nuit que j'etais pres d'une
affreuse
Juive,
Comme au long d'un cadavre un cadavre etendu,
Je me pris a songer pres de ce corps vendu
A la triste beaute dont mon desir se prive.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"A little while thou shalt be forester here:
And citizen shalt be forever with me,
Of that true Rome, wherein Christ dwells a Roman
To profit the misguided world, keep now
Thine eyes upon the car; and what thou seest,
Take heed thou write,
returning
to that place.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
Wilt thou destroy, in one wild shock of shame,
Thy whole high heaving firmamental frame,
Or
patiently
adjust, amend, and heal?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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O woodland Queen,
What
smoothest
air thy smoother forehead woos?
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Keats |
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The
Lackawanna
hit fair,
He flung her aside like cork,
And still he held for the Flag.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things
[said unto Gilgamish:--]
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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That window where my sun is often seen
Refulgent, and the world's at morning's hours;
And that, where Boreas blows, when winter lowers,
And the short days reveal a clouded scene;
That bench of stone where, with a pensive mien,
My Laura sits, forgetting beauty's powers;
Haunts where her shadow strikes the walls or flowers,
And her feet press the paths or herbage green:
The place where Love assail'd me with success;
And spring, the fatal time that, first observed,
Revives the keen
remembrance
every year;
With looks and words, that o'er me have preserved
A power no length of time can render less,
Call to my eyes the sadly-soothing tear.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
Notes: I have altered the position of the
reference
to Luserna in the poem for clarity.
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Troubador Verse |
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O trina luce che 'n unica stella
scintillando
a lor vista, si li appaga!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"The ultimate end of criticism," said Coleridge, "is much more to establish
the
principles
of writing than to furnish rules how to pass judgment on
what has been written by others.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Dunlop, of
Dunlop
Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended Address spoken by Miss
Fontenelle on her Benefit-night
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a
favourite
character
To Chloris
Poetical Inscription for an Altar to Independence
The Heron Ballads.
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Robert Burns |
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False Sextus to the mountains
Turned first his horse's head;
And fast fled Ferentinum,
And fast
Lanuvium
fled.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for
generations
on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He took a roll of bank-bills from his pocket
and counted out the
required
sum.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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OUR
THRISSLES
FLOURISHED FRESH AND FAIR.
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Robert Forst |
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And never yet did insurrection want
Such water colours to impaint his cause,
Nor moody beggars,
starving
for a time
Of pell-mell havoc and confusion.
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Shakespeare |
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Now it is just a year since she was born;
She is
learning
to sit and cannot yet talk.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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1780
THEL
I
The daughters of Mne
Seraphim
led round their sunny flocks,
All but the youngest: she in paleness sought the secret air.
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blake-poems |
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Until a
wandering
wind crept by,
Like an unwelcome thought, _110
Which from my mind's too faithful eye
Blots thy bright image out.
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Shelley |
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Qu'importe ta betise ou ton
indifference?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Once this-your long
experience
of her wisdom,
Her sober virtue, years, and modesty,
Plead on her part some cause to you unknown;
And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse
Why at this time the doors are made against you.
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Shakespeare |
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Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play--
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair;
When I, (whom sullen care,
Through discontent of my long
fruitless
stay
In princes' court, and expectation vain
Of idle hopes, which still do fly away
Like empty shadows, did afflict my brain)
Walk'd forth to ease my pain
Along the shore of silver-streaming Thames;
Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
Was painted all with variable flowers,
And all the meads adorn'd with dainty gems
Fit to deck maidens' bowers,
And crown their paramours
Against the bridal day, which is not long:
Sweet Thames!
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Golden Treasury |
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But wherever there is a
romantic
movement in art there somehow, and under
some form, is Christ, or the soul of Christ.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Altas ondas que venez suz la mar
Deep waves that roll,
travelling
the sea,
That high winds, here and there, set free,
What news of my love do you bring to me?
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Troubador Verse |
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We are a king and queen,
Our royal carriage is a motor bus,
We watch our
subjects
with a haughty joy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Approving all, she faded at self-will,
And shut the chamber up, close, hush'd and still,
Complete
and ready for the revels rude,
When dreadful guests would come to spoil her solitude.
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Keats - Lamia |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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E se piu fu lo suo parlar diffuso,
non so, pero che gia ne li occhi m'era
quella ch'ad altro
intender
m'avea chiuso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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þæt gē genōge
nēan
scēawiað
bēagas and brād gold, 3105; subj.
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Beowulf |
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Fool, to stand here cursing
When I might be
running!
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Imagists |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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With heavy sighs I often hear
You mourn my hapless woe;
But sure with
patience
I can bear
A loss I ne'er can know.
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Golden Treasury |
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Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a
responsible
man, profit from making this trip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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He
returned
to streets by the Docks,
and lodged himself in one room, where the sheets on the bed were almost
audibly marked in case of theft, and where nobody seemed to go to bed at
all.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_Farmer's Boy_
He waits all day beside his little flock
And asks the passing
stranger
what's o'clock,
But those who often pass his daily tasks
Look at their watch and tell before he asks.
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John Clare |
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At the hour when this wood with gold and ashes heaves
A feast's excited among the
extinguished
leaves:
Etna!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In A New Night
Woman I've lived with
Woman I live with
Woman I'll live with
Always the same
You need a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
And dark stockings
The reasons the proofs
Of seeing you quite naked
Nudity pure O ready finery
Breasts O my heart
Fertile Eyes
Fertile Eyes
No one can know me more
More than you know me
Your eyes in which we sleep
The two of them
Have cast a spell on my male orbs
Greater than worldly nights
Your eyes where I voyage
Have given the road-signs
Directions
detached
from the earth
In your eyes those that show us
Our infinite solitude
Is no more than they think exists
No one can know me more
More than you know me.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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"
For we are growing blind and cannot see,
Beyond the clouds that stand like prison bars,
EN PASSANT By Marx Sabel
Out of the sultry night she came, With tired lips aflame;
Deep in her mutineering eyes The nervous anger of emprise
Wakened and fought the black, Ice-cold
oppression
back;
Fought in the hope of hopelessness, And fought for Artemis;
Fought in the.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Such
cowardice
of that
knight did I never hear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_ Say what thou wilt,
For I
vouchsafe
all.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Were all these
partners
of one native air?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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My
coolness
displeased him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I to the knyghtes onne everyche syde wylle burne, 585
Telleynge
'hem alle to make her foemen blede;
Sythe shame or deathe onne eidher syde wylle bee,
Mie harte I wylle upryse, & inne the battelle slea.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CHORUS
Ruthless thy craving is--
Craving for kindred and forbidden blood
To be outpoured--a sacrifice imbrued
With sin, a bitter fruit of murderous
enmities!
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Aeschylus |
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Akoulina
Pamphilovna brought me
to her room.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Wilamowitz
in _Hermes_, xviii.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
The Other Language
Three days after I was born, as I lay in my silken cradle, gazing
with
astonished
dismay on the new world round about me, my mother
spoke to the wet-nurse, saying, "How does my child?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For Weakness, in freedom, grows stronger than Strength with a chain;
And Error, in freedom, will come to lamenting his stain,
Till freely repenting he whiten his spirit again;
And Friendship, in freedom, will blot out the bounding of race;
And straight Law, in freedom, will curve to the rounding of grace;
And Fashion, in freedom, will die of the lie in her face;
And Desire flame white on the sense as a fire on a height,
And Sex flame white in the soul as a star in the night,
And Marriage plight sense unto soul as the two-colored light
Of the fire and the star shines one with a duplicate might;
And Science be known as the sense making love to the All,
And Art be known as the soul making love to the All,
And Love be known as the marriage of man with the All --
Till Science to knowing the Highest shall lovingly turn,
Till Art to loving the Highest shall
consciously
burn,
Till Science to Art as a man to a woman shall yearn,
-- Then morn!
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Sidney Lanier |
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These
Catilines
their conjured gods did eat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their
youthful
sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night,
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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was he,
And most unlike your Majesty;
He made no wars, and did not gain
New realms to lose them back again;
And (save debates in Warsaw's diet)
He reigned in most unseemly quiet;
Not that he had no cares to vex;
He loved the Muses and the Sex;[256]
And sometimes these so froward are,
They made him wish himself at war; 140
But soon his wrath being o'er, he took
Another mistress--or new book:
And then he gave prodigious fetes--
All Warsaw
gathered
round his gates
To gaze upon his splendid court,
And dames, and chiefs, of princely port.
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Byron |
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Who heard me to deny it or
forswear
it?
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Shakespeare |
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But I hold myself
absolved
from such a
task; for the sixty poems which follow will enable the reader to perform
it for himself.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Tho
sodeinly
doun from his hors he sterte, 200
And thorugh his paleys, with a swollen herte,
To chambre he wente; of no-thing took he hede,
Ne noon to him dar speke a word for drede.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire,
Et quod vides perisse
perditum
ducas.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Stand to your arms, and guard the door--all's lost 230
Unless that fearful bell be
silenced
soon.
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| Source: |
Byron |
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DAMON
"Rise, Lucifer, and,
heralding
the light,
Bring in the genial day, while I make moan
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride,
For Nysa, and with this my dying breath
Call on the gods, though little it bestead-
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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What
chemistry!
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Whitman |
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"
Then thus the goddess-born: "Ulysses, hear
A
faithful
speech, that knows nor art nor fear;
What in my secret soul is understood,
My tongue shall utter, and my deeds make good.
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Iliad - Pope |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"`We'll touch at every chimney-top
(An
Elevated
Track, of course),
Then, as we whisk you by, you'll drop
Each package down: just think, the force
"`You'll save, the time!
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Sidney Lanier |
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[59]
Mentioned
by Koeppel, p.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false
borrowed
face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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When you return, you can take authority, 24 one morning
spiraling
upward ninety thousand leagues.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Yet how they injured the
simplicity
and
unity of the speech!
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Yeats |
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This opinion, in spite of many
testimonies
to the contrary,
could never have been very general.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[Sidenote: But some things under
Providence
are exempt from the
control of Fate; being stably fixed near to the Divinity himself,
and beyond the movement of Destiny.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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If we will
believe Tully, it nourisheth and instructeth our youth, delights our age,
adorns our prosperity,
comforts
our adversity, entertains us at home,
keeps us company abroad, travels with us, watches, divides the times of
our earnest and sports, shares in our country recesses and recreations;
insomuch as the wisest and best learned have thought her the absolute
mistress of manners and nearest of kin to virtue.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And I heard the song
Of spheres and spirits rejoicing over me:
One cried: 'Our sister, she hath
suffered
long.
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Christina Rossetti |
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While to the rival train the prince returns,
The martial goddess with impatience burns;
Like thee, Telemachus, in voice and size,
With speed divine from street to street she flies,
She bids the
mariners
prepared to stand,
When night descends, embodied on the strand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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MADAM,
I had the very great
pleasure
of dining at Dunlop yesterday.
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Robert Forst |
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The creatures
chuckled
on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gnashed their teeth.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Marks, notations and other
marginalia
present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Indeed, in those days here and there a man,
More oftener snatched upon, and gulped by fangs,
Afforded the beasts a food that roared alive,
Echoing through groves and hills and forest-trees,
Even as he viewed his living flesh entombed
Within a living grave; whilst those whom flight
Had saved, with bone and body bitten, shrieked,
Pressing their
quivering
palms to loathsome sores,
With horrible voices for eternal death--
Until, forlorn of help, and witless what
Might medicine their wounds, the writhing pangs
Took them from life.
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Lucretius |
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His persistence finally roused an
interest
entirely
strange to her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your
flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feathers
and make them into
arrow-wings!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But now aread, old father, why of late
Didst thou behight me borne of English blood,
Whom all a Faeries sonne doen
nominate?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Whilome upon his banks did legions throng
Of Moor and Knight, in mailed splendour drest;
Here ceased the swift their race, here sunk the strong;
The Paynim turban and the Christian crest
Mixed on the
bleeding
stream, by floating hosts oppressed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The Earth was form'd, but in the Womb as yet
Of Waters, Embryon
immature
involv'd,
Appeer'd not: over all the face of Earth
Main Ocean flow'd, not idle, but with warme
Prolific humour soft'ning all her Globe, 280
Fermented the great Mother to conceave,
Satiate with genial moisture, when God said
Be gather'd now ye Waters under Heav'n
Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.
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Milton |
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Meeting you in times past by chance,
Warmth I
imagined
in your glance,
But, knowing not the actual truth,
Restrained the impulses of youth;
Also my wretched liberty
I would not part with finally;
This separated us as well--
Lenski, unhappy victim, fell,
From everything the heart held dear
I then resolved my heart to tear;
Unknown to all, without a tie,
I thought--retirement, liberty,
Will happiness replace.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The fraud
celestial
Pallas sees with pain,
Springs to her knight, and gives the scourge again,
And fills his steeds with vigour.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Alas, for their quarrel,
The
brothers
that were!
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Aeschylus |
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50, he uses the
expression,--'which is
authorized
by the folio of 1640.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the
electric
thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much.
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Longfellow |
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III
IN Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a Warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Lady Jingly
answered
sadly,
And her tears began to flow,--
"Your proposal comes too late,
Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less
distance
which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
agitation
of my mind seemed less
hard to bear than the dark melancholy in which I had been previously
plunged.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Tardet
ingenuos
pudor:
* * * *
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Quem tamen magis audiens 80
Flet, quod ire necesse est.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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