LXXX
To good Orlando it
appeared
as he,
Mid odorous flowers, upon a grassy bed,
Were gazing on that beauteous ivory,
Which Love's own hand had tinged with native red;
And those two stars of pure transparency,
With which he in Love's toils his fancy fed:
Of those bright eyes, and that bright face, I say,
Which from his breast had torn his heart away.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Ma se le mie parole esser dien seme
che frutti infamia al traditor ch'i' rodo,
parlar e
lagrimar
vedrai insieme.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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1811
THE
VISIONARY
HOPE
Sad lot, to have no Hope!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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at length a brooded *
Smile broke from Urizen for Enitharmon
brightend
more & more
Sullen he lowerd on Enitharmon but he smild on Los
Saying Thou art the Lord of Luvah into thine hands I give
The prince of Love the murderer his soul is in thine hands
Pity not Vala for she pitied not the Eternal Man
Nor pity thou the cries of Luvah.
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Blake - Zoas |
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eten by whiche
gouernement?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Then I, long tried
By natural ills,
received
the comfort fast,
While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim's staff
Gave out green leaves with morning dews impearled.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Maupassant
went insane
because he would work and he would play the same day.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But I delay too long, let me seek Chimene,
And in
welcoming
her relieve my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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quaque
uaporiferis
iunctus fornacibus amnis
ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
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blake-poems |
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He will perhaps be inclined
to regard the princes who are said to have founded the civil and
religious institutions of Rome, the sons of Mars, and the husband
of Egeria, as mere
mythological
personages, of the same class
with Perseus and Ixion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Though steep'd in all
Socratic
lore
He will not slight you; do not fear.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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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 conclude the King a beast;
Verily a lion if you will--the world
A most obedient beast and fool--myself
Half beast and fool as appertaining to it;
Altho' your
Lordship
hath as little of each
Cleaving to your original Adam-clay,
As may be consonant with mortality.
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Tennyson |
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The
delicate
shells lay on the shore;
The bubbles of the latest wave
Fresh pearls to their enamel gave,
And the bellowing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe escape to me.
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Emerson - Poems |
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others shall pass, as we have passed,
As we have come, so others shall meet,
And the dream that our mind had
sketched
in haste,
Shall others continue, but never complete.
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Hugo - Poems |
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how my spirit would rejoice,
And leap within me at the cry)
The battle-cry of
Victory!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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How
ardently
for it!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What have I still of wreathing for the head
Stored in my
chambers?
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Euripides - Electra |
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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 only good
of these
inspectors
is to worry passers-by and rob us poor
folk.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But tell me: and if too secure I loose
The rein with a friend's license, as a friend
Forgive me, and speak now as with a friend:
How chanc'd it
covetous
desire could find
Place in that bosom, 'midst such ample store
Of wisdom, as thy zeal had treasur'd there?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_The Book of Poverty and Death_
Her mouth is like the mouth of a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, nor kiss,
But that had once from Life
received
all this
Which shaped its subtle curves, and ever must
From fullness of past knowledge dwell alone,
A thing apart, a parable in stone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
blessing
falls: we call it tribulation,
And fancy that we wear a sorrow's yoke,
Even at the moment of our consecration.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Enter the JAILER,
followed
by
RICHARD GARDNER.
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Longfellow |
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In Fiesone she
The
fairest!
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Hugo - Poems |
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But the blind one, in her wicker cage, without ceasing
Haunts this night of spring with her
stuttering
call,
Knowing nothing of the terror that walks in darkness,
Knowing only that some cruelty has stolen the light
That is life, and that she must cry until she dies.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Still, at her summons, round her
Unfading
spring ye see.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now, Menelaus, think,
illustrious
Chief!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Thy spousal ornament
neglected
lies;
Arise, prepare the bridal train, arise!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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His
prisoner
Love nor frees, nor will detain;
In toils he holds me not, nor will release;
He slays me not, nor yet will he unchain;
Nor joy allows, nor lets my sorrow cease.
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Petrarch |
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LXXV
If verily most Christian you would be,
-- I speak to you, that
catholic
are hight --
Why slain by you Christ's people do I see?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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"Within your house will strangers sit,
And wonder how first it came;
They'll talk of their schemes for
improving
it,
And will not mention your name.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Nor is this
predilection
for Petrarch
the result of female vanity and the mere love of homage.
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Petrarch |
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Is he not
eyeless?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--
He must have put his curls away from the axe;
Or did they part
themselves
when he knelt down,
And let the stroke have his nape white and bare?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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So spake the king,
Inspired at heart with over-confidence,
Unwitting
of the gods' predestined will.
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Aeschylus |
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Jonson plays on the names of
Pinnacia
in the _New Inn_, _Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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He was
reported
"missing" in July, 1916.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And,
sweetest
thoughts
Of forgone Eden!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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If it be thy
pleasure
let us rather cast
a lot.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Fame lives not in the breath of words,
In public praises' hue and cry;
The music of these summer birds
Is silent in a winter sky,
When thine shall live and
flourish
on,
Oer wrecks where crowds of fames are gone.
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John Clare |
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XVII
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
Bearing the fire of Heaven's menaces,
Heaven feared not the dire audaciousness,
That so stoked the Giants'
reckless
might.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Thus arrayed, the Green Knight
enters the hall without
saluting
any one.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The leaves unhooked
themselves
from trees
And started all abroad;
The dust did scoop itself like hands
And throw away the road.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Avez-vous donc pu croire,
hypocrites
surpris,
Qu'on se moque du maitre, et qu'avec lui l'on triche,
Et qu'il soit naturel de recevoir deux prix.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And said, that, gathering Leeches, far and wide
He travelled;
stirring
thus about his feet
The waters of the Ponds .
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William Wordsworth |
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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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AFTER DEATH
Sonnet
The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept
And strewn with rushes,
rosemary
and may
Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay,
Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Some were red like
cinnabar
pebbles, 40 others, black like spots of lacquer.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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No creature owns it in the first degree,
But thinks his
neighbour
farther gone than he;
Even those who dwell beneath its very zone,
Or never feel the rage, or never own;
What happier nations shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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His tragedy is
enthusiastically praised by Schlegel for "the
celestial
purity, the fresh
breath of life and youth, that is diffused over so dreadful a subject.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The glory of evening was spread through the west;
--On the slope of a
mountain
I stood;
While the joy that precedes the calm season of rest
Rang loud through the meadow and wood.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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7, 8, which occur in all
the other
manuscripts
and editions, are omitted by _1633_ and by
_D_, _H49_, _Lec_.
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John Donne |
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What but design of
darkness
to appal?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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She rose to her feet with a spring,--
"That was a
Piedmontese!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Let it not be supposed that I
mean to
dogmatise
upon a subject, concerning which all men are equally
ignorant, or that I think the Gordian knot of the origin of evil can
be disentangled by that or any similar assertions.
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Shelley |
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"
The hostess doth interrogate:
"He hath
neglected
us of late.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--tell me--tell me, I
implore!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A sorry lover, how can I be
resigned?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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IT happened that the night our Job arrived,
And,
stretched
on straw, misfortune just survived,
The lady thought her fond gallant to see,
And ev'ry moment hoped with him to be.
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La Fontaine |
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It is the hush of night, and all between
Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear,
Mellowed and mingling, yet
distinctly
seen.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Presently, as the day grows lighter,
the_ CHORUS _enters: it consists of
Citizens
of Pherae, who speak
severally.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Keats - Lamia |
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whose choking elms each year
With eddying dust before their time turn gray,
Pining for rain,--to me thy dust is dear;
It
glorifies
the eve of summer day,
And when the westering sun half sunken burns, 250
The mote-thick air to deepest orange turns,
The westward horseman rides through clouds of gold away.
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James Russell Lowell |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Hazlitt bases his conjecture
that Herrick may have held some
subordinate
post in the Chapel Royal.
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Robert Herrick |
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We shall not spend a large expence of time,
Before we reckon with your
seuerall
loues,
And make vs euen with you.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Redistribution is
subject to the trademark license,
especially
commercial
redistribution.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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III
Winter Sun
(_Lenox_)
There was a bush with scarlet berries,
And there were
hemlocks
heaped with snow,
With a sound like surf on long sea-beaches
They took the wind and let it go.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The
countryside
of Crete 505
Offers the son of Phaedra a rich retreat.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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_339
lightenings
B.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Much must he toil who serves the
Immortal
Gods,
And I, who am their herald, most of all.
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Longfellow |
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And you,
Libertad
of the world!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The hero once got honour by his sword ;
He got his wealth by breaking of his word ;
And now his
daughter
he hath got with child.
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Marvell - Poems |
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546, a quo uersus tamquam Catulli
Veronensis
allatus est.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And than
comaunden
they to sleen 7195
Alle tho that with Peter been;
But they shal nevere have that might,
And, god toforn, for stryf to fight,
That they ne shal y-nough [men] finde
That Peters lawe shal have in minde, 7200
And ever holde, and so mayntene,
That at the last it shal be sene
That they shal alle come therto,
For ought that they can speke or do.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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)
Note
Not meaningless flurries like
Those that
frequent
the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I find them
poisoned
too.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Byron |
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'Mid the green
mountains
many and many a song
We two had sung, like little birds in May.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I knew a boy who, from
his
peculiar
energy, was called "Buster" by his playmates, and this
rightly supplanted his Christian name.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of
Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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By thee the seeds of
conscious
worth are fir'd,
Hero by hero, fame by fame inspir'd:
Without thine aid how soon the hero dies!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Death
only consolation
exists,
thoughts
- balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of survival in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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3 Birds of prey were
associated
with the Censorate; autumn was their season to strike.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy
straying
youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:--
Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine by thy beauty being false to me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They would naturally attribute the project of Romulus
to some divine intimation of the power and
prosperity
which it
was decreed that his city should attain.
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