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And sooth to say, why I left you so long,
Was for to seeke adventure in strange place,
Where
Archimago
said a felon strong 255
To many knights did daily worke disgrace;
But knight he now shall never more deface:
Good cause of mine excuse; that mote ye please
Well to accept, and evermore embrace
My faithfull service, that by land and seas 260
Have vowd you to defend: now then your plaint appease.
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VIRGINES
Vt flos in saeptis secretus nascitur hortis,
ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro, 40
quem mulcent aurae, firmat sol, educat imber;
multi illum pueri, multae optauere puellae:
idem cum tenui carptus
defloruit
ungui,
nulli illum pueri, nullae optauere puellae:
sic uirgo, dum intacta manet, dum cara suis est; 45
cum castum amisit polluto corpore florem,
nec pueris iucunda manet, nec cara puellis.
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--I have
discovered
that a feigned familiarity in great
ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less.
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It must be allowed that the light of the moon, sufficient though it is
for the pensive walker, and not
disproportionate
to the inner light we
have, is very inferior in quality and intensity to that of the sun.
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Fine was the mitigated fury, like
Apollo's
presence
when in act to strike
The serpent--Ha, the serpent!
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e
grikkissh
Cee; 591
he gan to shippen atte Ryuage;
wynde aroos wi?
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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There, in a moment, we may plunge our years[317]
In fatal penitence, and in the blight
Of our own Soul turn all our blood to tears,
And colour things to come with hues of Night;
The race of life becomes a
hopeless
flight
To those that walk in darkness: on the sea
The boldest steer but where their ports invite--
But there are wanderers o'er Eternity[je][318]
Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be.
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Byron |
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It was then that his native
Florence, wishing to recall a man who did her so much honour, thought of
asking for him from the Pope the canonry of either
Florence
or Fiesole.
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O
134
_discendens_
G
135 _immemor_ ORVen: _inm.
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It dances with purple and yellow
crocuses
in its hair,
And its feet shine as they flutter over drenched grasses.
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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")
Do I dare
Disturb the
universe?
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light, & rose into the Chariot of Day
Sweet
laughter
siezd me in my sleep!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Within his garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand
expectant
in the shade
Within the chamber where the lyre was played
Where he received you as the eternal One.
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Rilke - Poems |
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'Tis the rash whom God seeks out the first;
They call on their gods, who were deaf to their cries,
For the
punishing
flame caused their cold granite eyes
In tears of hot lava to burst!
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FROM
THE
TAPESTRY
OF LIFE AND
THE SONGS OF DREAM AND
DEATH.
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) Ha, there's
drinking
going on
here; we shall get something here.
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'Tis not the surging billow's roar,
'Tis not that fatal deadly shore;
Tho' death in ev'ry shape appear,
The
wretched
have no more to fear!
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Robert Forst |
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"Dear, I had almost arrived when I saw, by good fortune, your uncle
Standing
right there by the vines, looking now this way, now that.
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inges
p{re}sent
ne brynge?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hercules, hanging on rumours of those labours,
Was already resting from his, in
favouring
yours.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Some things that stay there be, --
Grief, hills, eternity:
Nor this
behooveth
me.
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APOLLO
I say thou shalt anon, thy
pleadings
foiled,
Spit venom vainly on thine enemies.
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Meredith - Poems |
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You are more
beautiful
than they are.
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Imagists |
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What if assail they whom their souls in secrecy
cherish?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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be thou my
jongleur
As ne'er had I other, and when the wind blows,
Sing thou the grace of the Lady of Beziers,
For even as thou art hollow before I fill thee with
this parchment,
So is my heart hollow when she filleth not mine eyes, And so were my mind hollow, did she not fill utterly
my thought.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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(Your highness knows our homely word,)
Millions
for self-government,
But for tribute never a cent.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving
against my swaddling-bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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blake-poems |
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' The
door swung open, and we were in a great
circular
room, and among men
and women who were dancing slowly in crimson robes.
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re; to haue maistri ouer his fo,
To habbe worldes
richesse
ynou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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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The waters broken by her delicate feet
Receive the eager wader, as alone
By
gentlest
pity led, she strives to meet
The wakened babe; and, see, the prize is won!
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Out spake the Consul roundly:
"The bridge must
straight
go down;
For, since Janiculum is lost,
Nought else can save the town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Tis a
concealment
needful in extreme;
And if I guess'd not so, the sunny beam
Thou shouldst mount up to with me.
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proposes
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Wilde - Poems |
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Hark the mavis' e'ening sang,
Sounding
Clouden's woods amang;
Then a-faulding let us gang,
My bonie Dearie.
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Wilde - Poems |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!
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[This and the following poem were published
together
in their original
form as one piece under the title, "The Pine Forest of the Cascine near
Pisa", by Mrs.
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[543]
Marching
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Tacitus |
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Pittheus,
accounted
wise amongst all men,
Deigned to instruct me when I left her hands.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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What leagues are lost before the dawn of day,
Thus
loitering
pensive on the willing seas,
The flapping sails hauled down to halt for logs like these!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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_diuuenti_
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Paris.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In the deep nights I dig for you, O
Treasure!
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Rilke - Poems |
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"A singular monument of poetical, or rather
unpoetical
perversity;" "the
very worst of all his pieces;" are, for instance, the phrases applied to
it by Schlegel.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It is severe
and aristocratic in the application of its laws and
impervious
to appeal
to serve other than its own aims.
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Rilke - Poems |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" in mid pointe of the
chekkere
660
With a poune erraunt, allas!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To this folk
I came, and watched a stranger's herd for pay,
And all his house I have
prospered
to this day.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"No other contemporary poet has more independently yoked the
dominant
thought of the times.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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As it has been suggested that much of the misunderstanding of the former
volume was due to the fact that we did not explain ourselves in a preface,
we have thought it wise to tell the public what our aims are, and why we
are banded
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Imagists |
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qui discurrente meatu
mentis primigenae penetralia dura resoluens
impleuit largo uenas
operatus
amore,
ordinis ut proprii foedus daret.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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XII
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Pile peak on peak to scale the starry sky,
And fight against the very gods on high,
While Jove to his lightning-bolts gave birth:
Then all in thunder, suddenly reversed,
The furious squadrons earthbound lie,
Heaven glorying, while Earth must sigh,
Jove gaining all the honour and the worth:
So were once seen, in this mortal space,
Rome's Seven Hills raising a haughty face,
Against the very
countenance
of Heaven:
While now we see the fields, shorn of honour,
Lament their ruin, and the gods secure,
Dreading no more, on high, that fearful leaven.
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It
suggests
besides, that the
universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Projecting
my body
Across a street, in the face of all its traffic.
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Imagists |
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* * * * *
His presence was a peace to all,
He bade the
sorrowful
rejoice.
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John Clare |
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The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;
No dew upon the grass,
But only on my forehead stopped,
And
wandered
in my face.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I regret that its length
renders it unsuitable for the
purposes
of this lecture.
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Ker's most elegant--he
offers to
accompany
me in my English tour.
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Tracle had a
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The two are
different
things in most men's eyes.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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50
In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Now is their hate allayed,
Now is their life-stream shed,
Ensanguining
the earth with crimson dye--
Lo, from one blood they sprang, and in one blood they lie!
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Aeschylus |
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Your vessel loaded, and your traffic pass'd,
Despatch a wary messenger with haste;
Then gold and costly treasures will I bring,
And more, the infant
offspring
of the king.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--
This misty mid region of Weir:--
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber--
This ghoul-haunted
woodland
of Weir.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I alone was sad,
inconceivably
sad.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He deems it sin to sing, yet not to say
A song--a mighty
difference
in his way.
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John Clare |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the
wrackful
siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_Humans_
for _men_, which Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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(_my
intention
was that .
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Beowulf |
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I have come from the spring-woods,
From the fragrant solitudes;--
Listen what the poplar-tree
And murmuring waters
counselled
me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And they came
bringing
ambiguous
Oracles, darkly and indistinctly uttered.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I lov'd her to the very white of truth,
And she would not
conceive
it.
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Keats |
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No
boasting
like a Foole,
This deed Ile do, before this purpose coole,
But no more sights.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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1195
I flew here only in hope his son might be rescued:
And tore myself from Oenone's
trembling
arms,
Yielding to that remorse that does me harm.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Stephen Crane |
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Let Fortune's wheel at random rin,
And fools may tyne, and knaves may win
My
thoughts
are a' bound up in ane,
And that's my ain dear Philly.
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Robert Burns |
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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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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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blake-poems |
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With clank of scabbards and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred
Pennsylvanians
close
On twice ten thousand gallant foes.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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_alternum_
Riese h.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For long, long years _360
These frozen eyes had shed no tears:
But now--'twas the season fair and mild
When April has wept itself to May:
I sate through the sweet sunny day
By my window bowered round with leaves, _365
And down my cheeks the quick tears fell
Like
twinkling
rain-drops from the eaves,
When warm spring showers are passing o'er.
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Shelley |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Their
shivered
swords are red with rust,
Their plumed heads are bowed;
Their haughty banner, trailed in dust,
Is now their martial shroud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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