Life, that dares send
A
challenge
to his end,
And when it comes, say, "Welcome friend.
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Golden Treasury |
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No matter--wrong was right and right was wrong,
And freedom's bawl was
sanction
to the song.
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Mynte se mǣra, þǣr hē meahte swā,
wīdre
gewindan
and on weg þanon
765 flēon on fen-hopu; wiste his fingra geweald
on grames grāpum.
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Beowulf |
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Most
unhappily
for me, that merit they no longer
possess; and I hope that Mrs.
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A health to
Lepidus!
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Shakespeare |
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What mortal hath a prize, that other men
May be
confounded
and abash'd withal,
But lets it sometimes pace abroad majestical,
And triumph, as in thee I should rejoice
Amid the hoarse alarm of Corinth's voice.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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On Lenski's
matrimonial
fate
They long ago had held debate.
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Strenuous thro' day and unsurprised by night
He runs a race with Time, and wins the race,
Emptied and
stripped
of all save only Grace,
Will, Love,--a threefold panoply of might.
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Christina Rossetti |
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a chap-balm for lips and face cream came with imperial grace, 8 in an azure tube and silver ewer
descending
from the nine-tiered heavens.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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TO THE
FOUNTAIN
OF VAUOLUSE--CONTEMPLATIONS OF DEATH.
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'Tis no dark cormorants that on the ripple float,
'Tis no dull plume of stone--no oars of Turkish boat,
With measured beat along the water
creeping
slow.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Be
faithful
to thyself, _40
And fear no other witness but thy fear.
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Shelley |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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By standing just aside,
By seeing you go on,
Day after day,
In ways I may not tread; By
watching
your dear feet Stumble in paths
My word could save you from, Yet never speaking it;
By knowing past all doubting That the day will come, When, all else gone,
Alone,
Deserted,
You will turn your face To meet my waiting eyes, And there
Behold your own.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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And Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin
down!
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes,
cigarette
ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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For oak and elm have pleasant leaves
That in the
springtime
shoot:
But grim to see is the gallows-tree,
With its adder-bitten root,
And, green or dry, a man must die
Before it bears its fruit!
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Wilde - Poems |
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As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering
the whirlpool.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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George's
Cannoneers;
And the "villainous saltpetre"
Rung a fierce,
discordant
metre
Round their ears;
As the swift
Storm-drift,
With hot sweeping anger, came the horse-guards' clangor
On our flanks.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
"Felon be I," said Guenes, "aught to
conceal!
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Chanson de Roland |
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In place of tatters far too short
Let the proud garments worn at Court
Fall down with
rustling
fold and pleat
About your feet;
In place of stockings, worn and old,
Let a keen dagger all of gold
Gleam in your garter for the eyes
Of roues wise;
Let ribbons carelessly untied
Reveal to us the radiant pride
Of your white bosom purer far
Than any star;
Let your white arms uncovered shine.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Great princes'
favourites
their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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With oar-strokes timing to their song,
They weave in simple lays
The pathos of remembered wrong,
The hope of better days,--
The triumph-note that Miriam sung,
The joy of uncaged birds:
Softening
with Afric's mellow tongue
Their broken Saxon words.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I was first on the list--
They may forget you tried to shield me
as the
horsemen
passed.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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That
Emperour
by way of hostage guards it;
Four benches then upon the place he marshals
Where sit them down champions of either party.
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Chanson de Roland |
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is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Perhaps, the
trembling
knee
And frantic gape of lonely Niobe,
Poor, lonely Niobe!
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Keats |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most brightly mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's
countless
blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My father, in my arms there, dying,
His blood seeks vengeance, and I
unhearing!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Eliot
To Jean
Verdenal
1889-1915
Certain of these poems appeared first in "Poetry" and "Others"
Contents
The Love Song of J.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me,
That my soul cannot resist;
A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And
resembles
sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He has been Canon of
Carlisle
and
Honorary Chaplain to the King since 1912.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I always
remember that they could give us a number of little books which would
tell, each book for some one country, or some one parish, the verses,
or the stories, or the events that would make every lake or mountain
a man can see from his own door an
excitement
in his imagination.
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Yeats |
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"Then hewed and whacked and
whittled
I;
The wife, the girls and Kris took fire;
They spun, sewed, cut, -- till by and by
We made, at home, my pack entire!
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Sidney Lanier |
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For you, on Latmos, fondling your
sleeping
boy,
Would always wish some languid ploy
As restraint for your flying chariot:
But I whom Love devours all night long,
Wish from evening onwards for the dawn,
To find the daylight that your night forgot.
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Ronsard |
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Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The
thoughtful
Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Meredith - Poems |
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That when the knight beheld, his mightie shild
Upon his manly arme he soone addrest,
And at him
fiercely
flew, with courage fild,
And eger greedinesse through every member thrild.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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By whom he is
restored
to men;
And kept, and bred, and brought up true?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To wreake the guilt of mortall sins is bent,
Hurles forth his
thundring
dart with deadly food, 75
Enrold in flames, and smouldring dreriment,
Through riven cloudes and molten firmament;
The fierce threeforked engin making way
Both loftie towres and highest trees hath rent,
And all that might his angry passage stay, 80
And shooting in the earth, casts up a mount of clay.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'She was as good, so have I reste, 1080
As ever was
Penelope
of Grece,
Or as the noble wyf Lucrece,
That was the beste--he telleth thus,
The Romain Tytus Livius--
She was as good, and no-thing lyke, 1085
Thogh hir stories be autentyke;
Algate she was as trewe as she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more,
And silent rows the
songless
gondolier;
Her palaces are crumbling to the shore,
And music meets not always now the ear:
Those days are gone--but beauty still is here.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It seems, however, that there were
exceptions
to her extreme reserve.
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Petrarch |
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His ears were never silent; sleep forsook 635
His burning eyelids stretched and stiff as lead;
All night from time to time under him shook
The floor as he lay
shuddering
on his bed;
And oft he groaned aloud, "O God, that I were dead!
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William Wordsworth |
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Ah, it was but built in vain
Against the stupid horns of Rome,
That pusht down into the common loam
The
loveliness
that shone in Spain.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Whether as
regarding
author or illustrator, this book is a jewel
rarely to be found now a days.
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Lewis Carroll |
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With which he doth his third
dirnonsiun
stuff.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The royal bed an elder issue bless'd,
Idomeneus whom Ilion fields attest
Of
matchless
deeds: untrain'd to martial toil,
I lived inglorious in my native isle.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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) Good Baron, have you ever
practised
tillage?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And when I passed by him again I saw two crows
building
a nest
under his hat.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It cannot
Be call'd our Mother, but our Graue; where nothing
But who knowes nothing, is once seene to smile:
Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre
Are made, not mark'd: Where violent sorrow seemes
A Moderne extasie: The
Deadmans
knell,
Is there scarse ask'd for who, and good mens liues
Expire before the Flowers in their Caps,
Dying, or ere they sicken
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Let not a woman's voice
Be loud in
council!
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Aeschylus |
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Imagists |
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Fulgeami gia in fronte la corona
di quella terra che 'l Danubio riga
poi che le ripe
tedesche
abbandona.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the
generations
pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.
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Lucretius |
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He
departed
for Paris at the end of August 1557.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Enfin la verite froide se revela:
J'etais mort sans surprise, et la
terrible
aurore
M'enveloppait.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And hou in
pilerynage
he ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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That was the chrism of love, which love's own crown,
With
sanctifying
sweetness, did precede.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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After having vied with returned favours
squandered
treasure
More than a red lip with a red tip
And more than a white leg with a white foot
Where then do we think we are?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Et qui sait si les fleurs nouvelles que je reve
Trouveront
dans ce sol lave comme une greve
Le mystique aliment qui ferait leur vigueur?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a
country as a means of checking the
progress
of Art.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I hoped to make
My grannam's lonely cottage
something
safe
From you and what I hated in you.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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{31c} Onla, son of Ongentheow, who pursues his two nephews Eanmund
and Eadgils to Heardred's court, where they have taken refuge after
their
unsuccessful
rebellion.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In charters and in briefs is written clear,
Four
thousand
fell, and more, the tales declare.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having
for its basis the fineness of
organization
of the senses; and on the
other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being
dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the
technique.
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Rilke - Poems |
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180
Exalted on a rough rock's craggy point
I stood, and on the distant plain, beheld
Smoke which from Circe's palace through the gloom
Of trees and
thickets
rose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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trademark.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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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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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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e bor3
brittened
& brent to bronde3 & aske3,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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LE MASQUE
STATUE
ALLEGORIQUE
DANS LE GOUT DE LA RENAISSANCE
A ERNEST CHRISTOPHE
STATUAIRE
Contemplons ce tresor de graces florentines;
Dans l'ondulation de ce corps musculeux
L'Elegance et la Force abondent, soeurs divines.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Forgive the fever youth inspires,
And
youthful
madness, youthful fires.
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This property
afterwards
passed into the hands of the late Mr.
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But it is
threaded
with gold and powdered with scarlet beads.
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Imagists |
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"Its poetry is
admirably
selected
to find any other American magazine verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Yea, death is better
for
liegemen
all than a life of shame!
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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O furum optime balneariorum
Vibenni pater, et cinaede fili,
(Nam dextra pater inquinatiore,
Culo filius est voraciore)
Cur non exilium
malasque
in oras 5
Itis, quandoquidem patris rapinae
Notae sunt populo, et natis pilosas,
Fili, non potes asse venditare.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And who the forts left
unprepared
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Marvell - Poems |
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We could get no further into the AEneid than
-- atque altae moenia Romae,
-- and the wall of high Rome,
before we were
constrained
to reflect by what myriad tests a work of
genius has to be tried; that Virgil, away in Rome, two thousand years
off, should have to unfold his meaning, the inspiration of Italian
vales, to the pilgrim on New England hills.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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We climbed the
ploughed
land,
dragged the seed from the clefts,
broke the clods with our heels,
whirled with a parched cry
into the woods:
_Can you come,
can you come,
can you follow the hound trail,
can you trample the hot froth?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards;
Where the city stands that is beloved by these, and loves them in return,
and understands them;
Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds;
Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place;
Where the men and women think lightly of the laws;
Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases;
Where the
populace
rise at once against the never-ending audacity of
elected persons;
Where fierce men and women pour forth, as the sea to the whistle of death
pours its sweeping and unripped waves;
Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside
authority;
Where the citizen is always the head and ideal--and President, Mayor,
Governor, and what not, are agents for pay;
Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on
themselves;
Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs;
Where speculations on the Soul are encouraged;
Where women walk in public processions in the streets, the same as the men;
Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
Where the city of the faithfullest friends stands;
Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands;
Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands;
Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,--
There the great city stands.
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Whitman |
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Roaming hill or wood
He looked a wolf was
striving
to do good.
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