Close the inlet of your bower,
Close it close with thorn and flower,
Maiden May;
Lengthen
out the shortening hour,--
Morrows are not as to-day.
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Nearer To Us
Run and run towards deliverance
And find and gather everything
Deliverance and riches
Run so quickly the thread breaks
With the sound a great bird makes
A flag always soared beyond
Open Door
Life is truly kind
Come to me, if I go to you it's a game,
The angels of
bouquets
grant the flowers a change of hue.
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But that which most makes sweet thy country life,
Is the fruition of a wife,
Whom, stars consenting with thy fate, thou hast
Got not so beautiful as chaste;
By whose warm side thou dost securely sleep,
While Love the sentinel doth keep,
With those deeds done by day, which ne'er affright
Thy silken slumbers in the night:
Nor has the
darkness
power to usher in
Fear to those sheets that know no sin.
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Milton |
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[15] The
variants
have _kima kisri_; _ki-[ma]?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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INDIAN DANCERS
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting,
what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyacinth
heavens that glimmer around them in
fountains of light;
O wild and
entrancing
the strain of keen music
that cleaveth the stars like a wail of desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A man who is
overruled
by his wife,
I have often heard described as `under the hack': `She's got him
under the hack.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Pronounce
it for me Sir, to all our Friends,
For my heart speakes, they are welcome.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Some of them, as if conscious where their
weakness
lay, had, when
filling the highest magistracies, taken internal administration
as their department of public business, and left the military
command to their colleagues.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai
tornasse
al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Yet midway my
hope is, if righteous gods can do aught at all, thou wilt drain the cup
of
vengeance
on the rocks, and re-echo calls on Dido's name.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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sire
succeeded
by an equal heir!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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THE LITTLE GIRL LOST
In futurity
I prophesy
That the earth from sleep
(Grave the
sentence
deep)
Shall arise, and seek
For her Maker meek;
And the desert wild
Become a garden mild.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In all
external
grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As it fell upon a day
In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a
pleasant
shade
Which a grove of myrtles made,
Beasts did leap and birds did sing,
Trees did grow and plants did spring,
Every thing did banish moan
Save the Nightingale alone.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A joy at first, and then a growing care,
As if a voice within him cried, "Beware
A vague presentiment of impending doom,
Like ghostly footsteps in a vacant room,
Haunted him day and night; a
formless
fear
That death to some one of his house was near,
With dark surmises of a hidden crime,
Made life itself a death before its time.
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Longfellow |
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Of this heresy Emerson said:
"I deny
personality
to God because it is too little, not too much.
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Emerson - Poems |
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mid or-þance =
argumento
in Haupt XI.
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Beowulf |
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Sleep, sleep my
dreaming
One!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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obedient
to your call:
If in yon camp your powers have doom'd my fall,
Content--By the same hand let me expire!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
THE KISS
BEFORE YOU kissed me only winds of heaven
Had kissed me, and the
tenderness
of rain--
Now you have come, how can I care for kisses
Like theirs again?
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Sara Teasdale |
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With gen'rous ire the brave Alonzo glows;
By Heaven unguarded, on the num'rous foes
He rushes, glorying in his wonted force,
And spurs, with
headlong
rage, his furious horse;
The combat burns, the snorting courser bounds,
And paws impetuous by the iron mounds:
O'er gasping foes and sounding bucklers trod
The raging steed, and headlong as he rode
Dash'd the fierce monarch on a rampire bar--
Low grovelling in the dust, the pride of war,
The great Alonzo lies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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O memory, take and keep
All that my eyes, your servants, bring you home--
Those other days beneath the low white dome
Of smooth-spread clouds that creep
As slow and soft as sleep,
When shade grows pale and the cypress stands upright,
Distinct in the cool light,
Rigid and solid as a dark hewn stone;
And many another night,
That melts in darkness on the narrow quays,
And changes every colour and every tone,
And soothes the waters to a softer ease,
When under
constellations
coldly bright
The homeward sailors sing their way to bed
On ships that motionless in harbour float.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Conversing with the visions of Beulah in dark slumberous bliss *
Nine years they view the turning spheres of Beulah reading the Visions of Beulah
Night the Second {inserted above the
following
lines LFS}
But the two youthful wonders wanderd in the world of Tharmas *
Thy name is Enitharmon; said the bright fierce prophetic boy *
[While they.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Thus arm'd, he sought his wonted couch beneath
A hollow rock where the herd slept, secure
From the sharp current of the
Northern
blast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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So saying, Philo, with uplifted arms,
Advanced in the assembly and exclaimed:
"Spirit of Moses, reigning now in bliss,
Whether in thy celestial robes thou art,
Or whether thy yet mortal
children
now
In council met beneath a humble roof,
Thou deign'st to visit.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Far from me I'll remove
All
thoughts
of irksome love:
And turn to snow,
Or crystal grow,
To keep still free,
O!
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Robert Herrick |
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There are
also various other reasons why repetition and apparent tautology are
frequently
beauties
of the highest kind.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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But what would hurt me most
would be for
Dicaeopolis
to see me wounded thus and laugh at my
ill-fortune.
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Aristophanes |
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Woman and love of her
Is as a
dragging
ivy on the growth
Of that strong tree, man's nature!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Fortunately for us, however, two small but
incomparable
odes and a few
scintillating fragments have survived, quoted and handed down in the
eulogies of critics and expositors.
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Sappho |
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24] "said of the
Dialogues
of
Plato, that Jupiter, if it were his nature to use language, would speak
like him".
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Robert Herrick |
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Only with
speeches
fair
She woos the gentle air
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow;
And on her naked shame,
Pollute with sinful blame,
The saintly veil of maiden white to throw;
Confounded, that her Maker's eyes
Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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e world with stable feith / varieth acordable
chaungynges
//
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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en ho, an auncian hit semed,
& he3ly
honowred
with ha?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Why, nothing, only,
Your inference
therefrom!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This fashion of riding, these games
Ascanius
first revived, when he girt
Alba the Long about with walls, and taught their celebration to the Old
Latins in the way of his own boyhood, with the youth of Troy about him.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A
multitude
of days still heaped on,
Seldom brings order, but confusion.
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Robert Herrick |
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Thence Beowulf fled
through
strength
of himself and his swimming power,
though alone, and his arms were laden with thirty
coats of mail, when he came to the sea!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--
The day was such a day
As
Florence
owes the sun.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Well thanne, goode Johne, sythe ytt must needes be soe,
Thatt thou & I a bowtynge matche must have,
Lette ytt ne
breakynge
of oulde friendshyppe bee,
Thys ys the onelie all-a-boone I crave.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The door--as if it must, yet
scarcely
dare--
Had opened widely to the night's fresh air.
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Hugo - Poems |
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* * * * *
*** Readers, it is hoped, will remember that, by his Ode at the Harvard
Commemoration, the author had
precluded
himself from many of the natural
outlets of thought and feeling common to such occasions as are
celebrated in these poems.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Now blooms the lily by the bank,
The
primrose
down the brae;
The hawthorn's budding in the glen,
And milk-white is the slae:
The meanest hind in fair Scotland
May rove their sweets amang;
But I, the Queen of a' Scotland,
Maun lie in prison strang.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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forgeve, yff I have thee dystreste;
Love,
doughtie
love, wylle beare no odher swaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XLI
Phaon, O my lover,
What should so detain thee,
Now the wind comes walking
Through the leafy
twilight?
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Sappho |
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Impalpable
charm of back streets
In which I find myself:
Cool spaces filled with shadow.
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Imagists |
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At once Aeneas charges and
confounds
the rustic squadrons of the Latins,
and slays Theron for omen of battle.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Let the mad poets say whate'er they please
Of the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,
There is not such a treat among them all, 330
Haunters
of cavern, lake, and waterfall,
As a real woman, lineal indeed
From Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
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Keats |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the lean bare tree is widowed again For
Michault
le Borgne that would confess In "faith and troth" to a traitoress,
"Which of his brothers had he slain?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She often has asked me if I could not find
A place
somewhere
near me that suited her mind;
I know but a single one vacant, which she,
With her rare talent that way, would fit to a T.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Take thy veil
From off thy face, Jewess, or thou straight goest
To
entertain
my soldiers.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXII
Ah, to uphold one's
respectable
name is not easy.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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My office is
To noise abroad that Harry
Monmouth
fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,
And that the King before the Douglas' rage
Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.
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Shakespeare |
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'208'
This line is based upon
physiological
theories which are now obsolete.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thou art a gay an' a bonnie lass,
But thou has a
waukrife
minnie.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Nor couldst aught apply
Unto their members light enough and thin
For shift of aid--but
coolness
and a breeze
Ever and ever.
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Lucretius |
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(Alcools: Le Pont Mirabeau)
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
And our amours
Shall I remember it again
Joy always followed after Pain
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Hand in hand rest face to face
While underneath
The bridge of our arms there races
So weary a wave of eternal gazes
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Love vanishes like the water's flow
Love vanishes
How life is slow
And how Hope lives blow by blow
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Let the hour pass the day the same
Time past returns
Nor love again
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Comes the night sounds the hour
The days go by I endure
Twilight
(Alcools: Crepuscule)
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
On the grass where day expires
Columbine strips bare admires
her body in the pond instead
A charlatan of twilight formed
Boasts of the tricks to be performed
The sky without a stain unmarred
Is studded with the milk-white stars
From the boards pale Harlequin
First salutes the spectators
Sorcerers from Bohemia
Fairies sundry enchanters
Having unhooked a star
He proffers it with outstretched hand
While with his feet a hanging man
Sounds the cymbals bar by bar
The blind man rocks a pretty child
The doe with all her fauns slips by
The dwarf observes with saddened pose
How Harlequin magically grows
Clotilde
(Alcools: Clotilde)
The anemone and flower that weeps
have grown in the garden plain
where Melancholy sleeps
between Amor and Disdain
There our shadows linger too
that the midnight will disperse
the sun that makes them dark to view
will with them in dark immerse
The deities of living dew
Let their hair flow down entire
It must be that you pursue
That lovely shadow you desire
The White Snow
(Alcools: La blanche neige)
The angels the angels in the sky
One's dressed as an officer
One's dressed as a chef today
And the others sing
Fine sky-coloured officer
Sweet Spring when
Christmas
is long gone
Will deck you with a lovely sun
A lovely sun
The chef plucks geese
Ah!
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Appoloinaire |
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I
understood
that to this torment sad
The carnal sinners are condemn'd, in whom
Reason by lust is sway'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Alone the cries
Of the night sentinels arise
And from the Millionaya afar(19)
The sudden
rattling
of a car.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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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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I have
pardoned
all of you.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
As in the days long since gone by,
The ancient
timepiece
makes reply,--
"Forever--never!
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Longfellow |
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For since I saught
By Prayer th' offended Deitie to appease,
Kneel'd and before him humbl'd all my heart, 150
Methought
I saw him placable and mild,
Bending his eare; perswasion in me grew
That I was heard with favour; peace returnd
Home to my brest, and to my memorie
His promise, that thy Seed shall bruise our Foe;
Which then not minded in dismay, yet now
Assures me that the bitterness of death
Is past, and we shall live.
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Milton |
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Roused by the woodland nymphs at early dawn,
The mountain goats came bounding o'er the lawn:
In haste our fellows to the ships repair,
For arms and weapons of the sylvan war;
Straight in three squadrons all our crew we part,
And bend the bow, or wing the missile dart;
The
bounteous
gods afford a copious prey,
And nine fat goats each vessel bears away:
The royal bark had ten.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--850
The Beast bestriding thus, he reached
A spot where, in a
sheltering
cove, [93]
A little chapel stands alone,
With greenest ivy overgrown,
And tufted with an ivy grove; 855
Dying insensibly away
From human thoughts and purposes,
It seemed--wall, window, roof and tower [94]--
To bow to some transforming power,
And blend with the surrounding trees.
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Have you no memory left of
how, in the days when ye wore the tunic of slaves, the Laconians came,
spear in hand, and slew a host of Thessalians and
partisans
of Hippias
the Tyrant?
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Aristophanes |
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After all the friends had taken their last look at the dead
face, the young man
approached
the bier.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Into the sky,
the red earthenware and the
galvanised
iron chimneys
thrust their cowls.
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The cloudless moon
Roofs the whole city as with tiles of silver;
The dim,
mysterious
sea in silence sleeps;
And straight into the air Vesuvius lifts
His plume of smoke.
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Longfellow |
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I see the blood washed entirely away from the axe;
Both blade and helve are clean;
They spirt no more the blood of
European
nobles--they clasp no more the
necks of queens.
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Whitman |
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The angels sang: "See heaven's high arch unfold,
Come, we will crown thee with the stars above,
Will give thee cherub-wings of blue and gold,
And thou shalt learn our ministry of love,
Shalt rock the cradle where some mother's tears
Are
dropping
o'er her restless little one,
Or, with thy luminous breath, in distant spheres,
Shalt kindle some cold sun.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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{and} ne
forleten
nat ne cesen nat of ?
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Oenone
Madame, by the tears for you that wet my face,
By your faltering knees that I here embrace,
Free my spirit from
dreadful
questioning.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And held after his gestes ay his pas;
And aftir swiche
answeres
as he hadde, 1350
So were his dayes sory outher gladde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What fear
restrains
you?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Rabbi bowed his head in silent prayer;
Then said he to the
dreadful
Angel, "Swear,
No human eye shall look on it again;
But when thou takest away the souls of men,
Thyself unseen, and with an unseen sword,
Thou wilt perform the bidding of the Lord.
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I tell you this:
whatever
of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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I think back to when the panic first began, what happened was
different
from all precedent.
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She may also add, that many islands have
been found which bore not one trace of mankind, and that even Otaheite
bears the evident marks of
receiving
its inhabitants from a shipwreck,
its only animals being the hog, the dog, and the rat.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Heauen
preserue
you,
I dare abide no longer.
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how oft through summer hours,
Long listless summer hours when the noon
Being enamoured of a damask rose
Forgets to journey westward, till the moon
The pale usurper of its tribute grows
From a thin sickle to a silver shield
And chides its loitering car--how oft, in some cool grassy field
Far from the cricket-ground and noisy eight,
At Bagley, where the rustling bluebells come
Almost before the blackbird finds a mate
And overstay the swallow, and the hum
Of many murmuring bees flits through the leaves,
Have I lain poring on the dreamy tales his fancy weaves,
And through their unreal woes and mimic pain
Wept for myself, and so was purified,
And in their simple mirth grew glad again;
For as I sailed upon that pictured tide
The strength and
splendour
of the storm was mine
Without the storm's red ruin, for the singer is divine;
The little laugh of water falling down
Is not so musical, the clammy gold
Close hoarded in the tiny waxen town
Has less of sweetness in it, and the old
Half-withered reeds that waved in Arcady
Touched by his lips break forth again to fresher harmony.
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Wilde - Poems |
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It is, this
encounter, what you feel in the Greeks, and as in the Greeks, it is a
spiritual waging of
miraculous
forces.
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Meantime let all in Thessaly who dread
My sceptre join in
mourning
for the dead
With temples sorrow-shorn and sable weed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O Music, Music, breathe
despondingly!
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Keats |
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But beside talking, there was lecturing, with Coleridge a scarcely
different form of talk; and it is to this consequence of a readiness to
speak and a reluctance to write that we owe much of his finest criticism,
in the imperfectly
recorded
"Lectures on Shakespeare.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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the Clarions of War blew loud
The Feast redounds & Crownd with roses & the circling vine
The
Enormous
Bride & Bridegroom sat, beside them Urizen
With faded radiance sighd, forgetful of the flowing wine
And of Ahania his Pure Bride but She was distant far
But Los & Enitharmon sat in discontent & scorn
Craving the more the more enjoying, drawing out sweet bliss
From all the turning wheels of heaven & the chariots of the Slain
At distance Far in Night repelld.
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Blake - Zoas |
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, _hot, glowing,
flaming_
nom sg.
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