Tes yeux,
illumines
ainsi que des boutiques
Ou des ifs flamboyants dans les fetes publiques,
Usent insolemment d'un pouvoir emprunte,
Sans connaitre jamais la loi de leur beaute.
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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--as I walked the woods at dusk, I heard your
long-stretched sighs, up above, so mournful;
I heard the perfect Italian tenor, singing at the opera--I heard the
soprano in the midst of the
quartette
singing.
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Whitman |
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She came towards the bed, and the
knight laid himself down quickly,
pretending
to be asleep.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXIII
When the hyppogryph above the island hung,
And had approached so nigh that
landscape
fair,
That, if his rider from the saddle sprung,
He might the leap with little danger dare,
Rogero lit the grass and flowers among,
But held him, lest he should remount the air:
And to a myrtle, nigh the rolling brine,
Made fast, between a bay-tree and a pine.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Free
subjects
of the kindliest of all thrones,
Headlong they plunge their doubts among old rags and bones.
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Creatress
of man and
woman, 192.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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e seler of
Iuppiter
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Vedi la
compagnia
che la circonda:
li altri dopo 'l grifon sen vanno suso
con piu dolce canzone e piu profonda>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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, First Version,
_Poetical
Works_, 1901, iv.
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Byron |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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But then strange gleams shot through the grey-deep
eyes
As though he saw beyond and saw not me, And when he moved to speak it
troubled
him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Sometimes
a clockwork puppet pressed
A phantom lover to her breast,
Sometimes they seemed to try to sing.
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Wilde - Poems |
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A hen
I keep, which
creeking
day by day,
Tells when
She goes her long white egg to lay.
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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Did ye hear a cry
Under the
rafters?
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Euripides - Electra |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
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Appoloinaire |
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ATOSSA
Yea, hark to Susa's mourning cry for
warriors
laid low!
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Aeschylus |
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] Gunga Dass took a malicious pleasure in emphasizing
this point and in
watching
me wince.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Perhaps, if I the cup should hold awry,
The liquor out might on a sudden fly;
I'm sometimes awkward, and in case the cup
Should fancy me another, who would sup,
The error, doubtless, might unpleasant be:
To any thing but this I will agree,
To give you pleasure, Damon, so adieu;
Then Reynold from the
antlered
corps withdrew.
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La Fontaine |
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And when it showed this relic, damp,
To that father attempting an inimical smile,
The
solitude
shuddered, azure, sterile.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Ye mustering
thunders
from above,
Your willing victim see;
But spare and pardon my fause Love,
His wrangs to Heaven and me.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The young lambs ran a pretty race;
The morning sun shone bright and warm;
"Kilve," said I, "was a
pleasant
place,
"And so is Liswyn farm.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is the giants, nowadays, that have
the science and the intelligence, while the chivalrous Don
Quixotes
of
Conservatism still cumber themselves with the clumsy armor of a bygone
age.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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blake-poems |
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With you I shared Philippi's rout,
Unseemly parted from my shield,
When Valour fell, and warriors stout
Were tumbled on the inglorious field:
But I was saved by Mercury,
Wrapp'd in thick mist, yet trembling sore,
While you to that
tempestuous
sea
Were swept by battle's tide once more.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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For we are right, but these
gluttons
are wrong.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Nature herself her shape admires;
The Gods are wounded in her sight;
And Love forsakes his
heavenly
fires
And at her eyes his brand doth light:
Heigh ho, would she were mine!
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Golden Treasury |
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Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)--
Or
flourished
and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way its waters went.
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Robert Forst |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
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Stephen Crane |
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Ils
ecoutent
le bon pain cuire
Le boulanger au gras sourire
Chante un vieil air.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[That Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath is in the Midrash Yalqut (a legendary
Commentary
on the Old Testament, called Yalqut) to the book Jonah, quoted from the Talmud of Jerusalem.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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at were
enbrauded
abof, wyth bryddes & fly3es,
With gay gaudi of grene, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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your good fortune will be
threefold
as great as your evil
fortune.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Her shape arises,
She less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever;
The gross and soiled she moves among do not make her gross and soiled;
She knows the thoughts as she passes--nothing is concealed from her;
She is none the less considerate or friendly therefor;
She is the best beloved--it is without exception--she has no reason to
fear, and she does not fear;
Oaths, quarrels,
hiccupped
songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as
she passes;
She is silent--she is possessed of herself--they do not offend her;
She receives them as the laws of nature receive them--she is strong,
She too is a law of nature--there is no law stronger than she is.
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Whitman |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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Till the evening, nearing,
One the
shutters
drew --
Quick!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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But this alchemy is, you
know, only the
material
counterpart of a poet's craving for
Beauty, the eternal Beauty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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" said the Bellman in wrath, as he heard
The Butcher
beginning
to sob.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Those things alone
Are to be fear'd, whence evil may proceed,
None else, for none are
terrible
beside.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His look is grave,
--Yea from thejsecret that I never knew--
And
slightly
glazed,
Since to our winter from the spring he came.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Biglow's poems not
elsewhere
printed.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Thus
rendering
thanks that he is lowly bred,
Because from such none look for valorous deeds.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Vacant and giddy, all agog for wonder,
As to a masquerade they wing their way;
The ladies give themselves and all their
precious
plunder
And without wages help us play.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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" KAU}
As[c]ending into her cloudy misty
garments
the blue smoke rolld to revive
Her cold limbs in the absence of her Lord.
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Blake - Zoas |
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CALIFORNIA
CITY LANDSCAPE
On a mountain-side the real estate agents
Put up signs marking the city lots to be sold there.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Alas, this Italy has too long swept
Heroic ashes up for hour-glass sand;
Of her own past,
impassioned
nympholept!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"
Wretched
young fellow, be gone and obey me!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And if I should languish, jaded,
That which was
erewhile
unknown
Now to me this day is clear,
That my final hope hath flown:
That your joys for me have faded
New-born sun, and youthful year.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Robert Herrick |
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The
commonest
thing is delightful if one only hides
it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Autograph supplies title, On the Religious
Memory of
Catherine
Thomson, my Christian Friend, deceased
16 Decemb.
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Milton |
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She now replies, and now doth mute appear,
Like one whose tottering mind regains its power;
I speak my heart: "Thou must this cheat resign;
The thirteen hundred, eight and
fortieth
year,
The sixth of April's suns, his first bright hour,
Thou know'st that soul celestial fled its shrine!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Botte I toe warr mie doeynges moste atturne,
To cheere the
Sabbataneres
to deere dede.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Over the turret, shut in his iron-clad tower,
Craven was conning his ship through smoke and
flame;
Gun to gun he had
battered
the fort for an hour,
Now was the time for a charge to end the game.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Elvire
Through his efforts those two kings were won;
His hand
conquered
them, he was the one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If thy
Phoenician eyes are stayed on
Carthage
towers and thy Libyan city, what
wrong is it, I pray, that we Trojans find our rest on Ausonian land?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The stalk was even and grene upright,
It was theron a goodly sight; 3640
And wel the better,
withouten
wene,
For the seed was not [y]-sene.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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In this affair, if I succeed, I
am afraid I shall but too much need a
patronizing
friend.
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Robert Forst |
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'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;
For which I will divide my crown with her;
And all the priests and friars in my realm
Shall in
procession
sing her endless praise.
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Shakespeare |
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Her fortune, wit, and charm, attention drew,
And many sparks would
anxiously
pursue;
How happy he who should her heart obtain,
And Hymen prove he had not sighed in vain!
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La Fontaine |
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should any mortal man inquire
To whom thy
shameful
loss of sight thou ow'st,
Say, to Ulysses, city-waster Chief,
Laertes' son, native of Ithaca.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Avons-nous donc commis une action
etrange?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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and so
propitious
gales
Attend thy voyage, and impel thy sails;
But if thy impious hands the flocks destroy,
The gods, the gods avenge it, and ye die!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Naroumov
presented
Herman.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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, _the
receiving
of the ring_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Death, violent death, and painful wounds
Upon his
neighbour
he inflicts; and wastes
By devastation, pillage, and the flames,
His substance.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Then Sir Bedivere
returned
again and took the sword in his hand, and
then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword, and so
eft he hid the sword and returned again, and told the king that he had
been to the water and done his commandment.
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Tennyson |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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O Helen fair, beyond
compare!
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Golden Treasury |
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A lizard lifts his head and listens--
Kiss me before the noon goes by,
Here in the shade of the ceiba hide me
From the great black vulture
circling
the sky.
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Sara Teasdale |
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1825
And forth he wente, shortly for to telle,
Ther as
Mercurie
sorted him to dwelle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The gentry hid in the
woods; the authorities had no longer any power anywhere; the leaders of
solitary detachments
punished
or pardoned without giving account of
their conduct.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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" Gawayne says that he must not take
that which is
forbidden
him.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And down this terrible aisle,
While heaven's ranges roar aghast,
Pours a vast file of strange and hidden things:
Forbidden
monsters, crocodiles with wings
And perfumed flesh that sings and glows
With more fresh colors than the rainbow knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Round about a
delicate
neck curled short little ringlets;
Up from the crown of her head crinkled the unbraided hair.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
XXV
This time of year a
twelvemonth
past,
When Fred and I would meet,
We needs must jangle, till at last
We fought and I was beat.
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s Altar, by legend
constructed
by Duke Wen of Qin, was a mound that marked Fuzhou, where Du Fu?
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She tolde eek al the prophesyes by herte,
And how that sevene kinges, with hir route, 1495
Bisegeden
the citee al aboute;
And of the holy serpent, and the welle,
And of the furies, al she gan him telle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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XXIX
All that the Egyptians once devised,
All that Greece, with its Corinthian,
Ionic, Attic, and its Dorian
Ornament, in its temples apprised,
All that the art of
Lysippus
comprised,
The hand of Apelles, or the Phidian,
That used to adorn this city, and this land,
Grandeur that even Heaven once surprised,
All that Athens in its wisdom showed,
All that from richest Asia ever flowed,
All that from Africa strange and new was sent,
Was here on view.
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End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Madman, by Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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LVI
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpened in his former might:
So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love, with a
perpetual
dulness.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The deep
recesses
of her odorous dwelling
Were stored with magic treasures--sounds of air,
Which had the power all spirits of compelling, _155
Folded in cells of crystal silence there;
Such as we hear in youth, and think the feeling
Will never die--yet ere we are aware,
The feeling and the sound are fled and gone,
And the regret they leave remains alone.
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Shelley |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Ronsard |
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Her bosom heaved--she stepped aside,
As conscious of my look she stepped--
Then suddenly, with
timorous
eye
She fled to me and wept.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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