This air is most
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thronged
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more of Ufens' nurture, are taken by him alive to
slaughter
in sacrifice
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And savage rapture, like a tooth
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reluctant
truth.
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cleansing
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Bolswert, Abraham Bloemaert, Anonymous, 1590 - 1662
The Rijksmuseum
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
By chance, I heard the belle complain,
The one we called the Armouress,
Longing to be a girl again,
Talking like this, more or less:
'Oh, old age, proud in wickedness,
You've
battered
me so, and why?
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LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour
shamefully
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And captive good attending captain ill:
Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
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Loud grief resounded through the towers of Troy,
But my pleased bosom glow'd with secret joy:
For then, with dire remorse and
conscious
shame
I view'd the effects of that disastrous flame.
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They threw up the filthy rain-water from the hollow lines
And then the water ran back
Full of
brownish
foam bubbles.
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THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON
SIDNEY LANIER
[Sidenote: April 19, 1775]
_The skirmish at
Lexington
and the fight at Concord closed all
political bickering between Great Britain and her colonies and
began the War of the Revolution.
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The mountain sat upon the plain
In his eternal chair,
His
observation
omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CANZON
TO BE SUNG BENEATH A WINDOW
I
HEART mine, art mine, whose
embraces
Clasp but wind that past thee bloweth?
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fyrndagum
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And
outmatch
the bubbling call
From the beechwoods in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
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redouted
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MA BOHEME
(_Fantaisie_)
Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevees;
Mon paletot aussi
devenait
ideal;
J'allais sous le ciel, Muse!
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But he whose ring Jemima wore,
By want and
weariness
all unstrung,
Though strong and honest of heart and young,
Shrank at the blast that pierced so frore--
Like a huge, invisible bird of prey
Furious launched from Labrador
And the granite cliffs of Saguenay!
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Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman
Went up from each valley and glen,
And the bugles re-echoed the music
That came from the lips of the men;
For we knew that the stars in our banner
More bright in their splendor would be,
And that
blessings
from Northland would greet us,
When Sherman marched down to the sea.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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While to the eastward holding straight,
With
rhythmical
thrust and mighty drive,
Every inch of her palpitate, Keenly, powerfully alive,
The "Commonwealth" speeds over the sound As a strong swimmer breasts the sea,
Alert and sure, through a world around,
Wrapped in silence and mystery.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He went into direful thickets,
And
ultimately
he died thus, alone;
But they said he had courage.
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Or burst the vanished hero's lofty mound;
Far on the solitary shore he sleeps;
He fell, and falling nations mourned around;
But now not one of saddening
thousands
weeps,
Nor warlike worshipper his vigil keeps
Where demi-gods appeared, as records tell.
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And right as they declamed this matere,
Lo, Troilus, right at the stretes ende,
Com ryding with his tenthe some y-fere,
Al softely, and
thiderward
gan bende 1250
Ther-as they sete, as was his way to wende
To paleys-ward; and Pandare him aspyde,
And seyde, `Nece, y-see who cometh here ryde!
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Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once
vouchsafe
to hide my will in thine?
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When in Bologna the low artisan,
And in Faenza yon
Bernardin
sprouts,
A gentle cyon from ignoble stem.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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So, when man's arms had circled all man's race,
The liberal compass of his warm embrace
Stretched bigger yet in the dark bounds of space;
With hands a-grope he felt smooth Nature's grace,
Drew her to breast and kissed her sweetheart face:
Yea man found neighbors in great hills and trees
And streams and clouds and suns and birds and bees,
And
throbbed
with neighbor-loves in loving these.
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Sidney Lanier |
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' He made
everybody
work
so hard that nobody saw what happened to the faeries.
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Yeats |
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"
Tiberius
was not ignorant to what mighty
power in the state, that demand tended; but, that he might betray no
tokens of resentment or fear, he left her, though instant with him,
without an answer.
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Tacitus |
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IV
If my praise her grace effaces,
Then 't is not my heart that showeth, But the skilless tongue that soweth Words
unworthy
of her graces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The hour is growing late--the Duke awaits use--
Thy presence is
expected
in the hall
Below.
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xlxix
constitutes his principal claim on the
admiration
of posterity, and which sheds a redeeming lustre
on one of the darkest pages of the English annals.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I know not why--but
standing
thus by thee
It seems as if I had thine inmate known,
Thou Tomb!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recur'd
By those swift messengers return'd from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assur'd,
Of thy fair health,
recounting
it to me:
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again, and straight grow sad.
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The snowy splendours of her modest ray
Stream o'er the glist'ning waves, and quiv'ring play:
Around her, glitt'ring on the heaven's arch'd brow,
Unnumber'd stars, enclos'd in azure, glow,
Thick as the dew-drops of the April dawn,
Or May-flowers
crowding
o'er the daisy-lawn:
The canvas whitens in the silvery beam,
And with a mild pale red the pendants gleam:
The masts' tall shadows tremble o'er the deep;
The peaceful winds a holy silence keep;
The watchman's carol, echo'd from the prows,
Alone, at times, awakes the still repose.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The original Rubaiyat (as,
missing an Arabic Guttural, these Tetrastichs are more musically
called) are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of
equal, though varied, Prosody;
sometimes
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here imitated) the third line a blank.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Meantime
touch piously the Delphic harp, 10
And not a wind of heaven but will breathe
In aid soft warble from the Dorian flute;
For lo!
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Keats |
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Under the
greenwood
tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And tune his merry note
Unto the sweet bird's throat--
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
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Golden Treasury |
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For never, in all memory, as to thee,
To mortal man so sure and
straight
the way
Of everlasting honour open lay,
For thine the power and will, if right I see,
To lift our empire to its old proud state.
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sic Memnonis umbris
annua
sollemni
caede parentet auis!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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* * * * *
O Hermes, master of knowledge,
Measure and number and rhythm,
Worker of wonders in metal, 15
Moulder of
malleable
music,
So often the giver of secret
Learning to mortals!
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Sappho |
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This was Prince William Henry,
third son of George III,
afterward
King William IV.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Where the field stretches toward the north
And setting sun to Hyla brook, I gave it
To flames without twice thinking, where it verges
Upon the road, to flames too, though in fear
They might find fuel there, in
withered
brake,
Grass its full length, old silver golden-rod,
And alder and grape vine entanglement,
To leap the dusty deadline.
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Robert Forst |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thus freely do the Reprobates commit
Such measure of iniquity as fits them
For the
intended
measure of God's wrath
And even in violating God's commands
Are they fulfilling the divine decree!
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Longfellow |
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Each age must worship its own thought of God,
More or less earthy, clarifying still
With subsidence continuous of the dregs;
Nor saint nor sage could fix immutably
The fluent image of the unstable Best,
Still
changing
in their very hands that wrought: 410
To-day's eternal truth To-morrow proved
Frail as frost-landscapes on a window-pane.
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And when, more near against the marble cold
He had touch'd his forehead, he began to thread
All courts and passages, where silence dead
Rous'd by his whispering
footsteps
murmured faint:
And long he travers'd to and fro, to acquaint 270
Himself with every mystery, and awe;
Till, weary, he sat down before the maw
Of a wide outlet, fathomless and dim
To wild uncertainty and shadows grim.
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Keats |
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It is your
rightful
place.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Fond impious man, think'st thou yon
sanguine
cloud
Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day?
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Golden Treasury |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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copyright
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Yeats |
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"
la la
To Carthage then I came
Burning burning burning burning
O Lord Thou
pluckest
me out
O Lord Thou pluckest me out 310
IV.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Let me
confess!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The
plenteousness
of all, that there are no bounds,
To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying
clouds, as one with them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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forsake not thy
plighted
bridal
chamber.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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It is not with
couriers and
dispatches
that I serve my master, but with my sword in
my hand.
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Tacitus |
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I must not 430
Hear those sweet lips grow
eloquent
in aught
That throws me into shade; yet you speak truth.
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Byron |
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Dysorder
throughe oure hoaste 575
Is fleynge, borne onne wynges of AElla's name;
Styr, styr, mie lordes!
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Beowulf |
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ANTIGONE, ISMENE, _and_ CHORUS
(_Processional Chant_)
Thou wert smitten, in smiting,
Thou didst slay, and wert slain--
By the spear of each other
Ye lie on the plain,
And
ruthless
the deed that ye wrought was,
and ruthless the death of the twain!
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Aeschylus |
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But with a free and graceful soul
To strike the old
familiar
lyre,
And to a self-appointed goal
Sweep lightly o'er the trembling wire,
There lies, old gentlemen, to-day
Your task; fear not, no vulgar error blinds us.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Rest here content; for neither me nor these
Thou
weariest
aught, and when Ulysses' son
Shall come, he will with vest and mantle fair
Cloath thee, and send thee whither most thou would'st.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Goodfellow)
would make every exertion in his power, would employ all the little
eloquence in his possession to--to--to--soften down, as much as he could
conscientiously do so, the worst
features
of this really exceedingly
perplexing piece of business.
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Poe - 5 |
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Out of clay
hast thou
fashioned
me and to thee I owe mine all.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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sez he, "I guess,
Though physic's good," sez he,
"It doesn't foller that he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed 'J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now come; and unto thee I will unfold,
As to the Birdless spots and Birdless tarns,
What sort of nature they are
furnished
with.
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Lucretius |
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PREFACE
IT is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde's early verses may be of
interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always
popular _Ballad of Reading Gaol_, also
included
in this volume.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"In this
roadstead
I have ridden," verse, 414.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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KAU}
Casting their
sparkies
dire abroad into the dismal deep {Alternate reading of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Good-bye, two happy
children
in the light.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And
tliought
all safe if they were so far off.
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Marvell - Poems |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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xix, 467; his article in
_Westminster
Review_ on _Don
Juan_, _vi.
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Byron |
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There is such a
consociation
of
offices between the prince and whom his favour breeds, that they may help
to sustain his power as he their knowledge.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Show me in all the world anything braver
Than the bold sweep of his fearless battalions,
Three half-miles over ground unsheltered
Up to the cannon, where
regiments
weltered
Prone in the batteries' blast that raked
Swaths of men and, flame-tongued, drank
Their blood with eager thirst unslaked.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It would be sweet to find her alone,
While she slept, or
pretended
to,
Then a sweet kiss I'd make my own,
Since I'm not worthy to ask for two.
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Troubador Verse |
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--Bags of money to a
prodigal
person are the same
that cherry-stones are with some boys, and so thrown away.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Learn to conquer, learn to fight
In the
foremost
flanks of right,
Like Valmiki's heroes bold,
Rubies girt in epic gold.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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And his lordship
assures us there is
abundance
of all.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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In the
_Calendar
of State Papers_ the name of 'Savery' appears
four times.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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It had to endure
the wear and tear of quotation, the
commonizing
touch of the school and the
market-place.
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Sappho |
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What though thy
favourite
path be trod by few;
Let it but urge thee more, dear gentle friend!
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Petrarch |
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THE INFINITY OF THE UNIVERSE
Now learn of what
remains!
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Lucretius |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She turned, she toss'd herself in bed,
On all sides doubts and terrors met her;
Point after point did she discuss;
And while her mind was
fighting
thus,
Her body still grew better.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I cannot find anything
eminently
characteristic
in any of the rest of the group.
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John Donne |
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How happy should I be to pass a winter evening
under their
venerable
roof!
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Robert Forst |
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On the right
Raged for hours the heady fight,
Thundered the battery's double bass,--
Difficult music for men to face;
While on the left--where now the graves
Undulate like the living waves
That all that day unceasing swept
Up to the pits the Rebels kept--
Round shot ploughed the upland glades,
Sown with bullets, reaped with blades;
Shattered fences here and there
Tossed their splinters in the air;
The very trees were stripped and bare;
The barns that once held yellow grain
Were heaped with harvests of the slain;
The cattle bellowed on the plain,
The turkeys screamed with might and main,
And
brooding
barn-fowl left their rest
With strange shells bursting in each nest.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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What can laws, that needs must fail
Shorn of the aid of manners form'd within,
If the merchant turns not back
From the fierce heats that round the tropic glow,
Turns not from the regions black
With northern winds, and hard with frozen snow;
Sailors override the wave,
While guilty poverty, more fear'd than vice,
Bids us crime and suffering brave,
And shuns the ascent of virtue's
precipice?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And bound for the same bourn as I,
On every road I wandered by,
Trod beside me, close and dear,
The beautiful and death-struck year:
Whether in the woodland brown
I heard the beechnut rustle down,
And saw the purple crocus pale
Flower about the autumn dale;
Or littering far the fields of May
Lady-smocks a-bleaching lay,
And like a skylit water stood
The
bluebells
in the azured wood.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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