shall I quit thee
For huffing, braggart, puffed
nobility?
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And
it is a thousand pities that the difficulties of Chatterton's language
and the peculiar charm and invention of his metrical technique cannot
be appreciated till the boyish love of adventure, delight in imagined
bloodshed, and
ignorance
of sentimental love, have generally been left
behind.
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e moten seken
outwardes
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Once we met at the Southern end of Wei Bridge, but
scattered
again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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He ate and drank the
precious
words,
His spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was dust.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Better have borne the petulant proud disdain
Of Amaryllis, or
Menalcas
wooed,
Albeit he was so dark, and you so fair!
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Mitte
brachiolum
teres,
praetextate, puellulae.
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since separated from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And
shipwrecked
there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Lawrence and
its tributaries which I have not seen nor heard of; and above all
there is one which I have heard of, called Niagara, so that I think
that this river must be the most
remarkable
for its falls of any in
the world.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I would not be a worm to crawl
A
writhing
suppliant in thy way;
For love is life, is heaven, and all
The beams of an immortal day.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nay, the wild rocks and woods then voiced the roar
Of Afric lions
mourning
for thy death.
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covering
for the neck;
wimpled, i, 4, folded, provided with a wimple.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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George Moore for
declaring
that "in art the democrat
is always reactionary.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Who knowes if Donalbane be with his
brother?
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er weies wyt
byholdi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But bring a
Scotchman
frae his hill,
Clap in his cheek a Highland gill,
Say, such is royal George's will,
An' there's the foe!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The shrivelled seeds
are spilt on the path--
the grass bends with dust,
the grape slips
under its
crackled
leaf:
yet far beyond the spent seed-pods,
and the blackened stalks of mint,
the poplar is bright on the hill,
the poplar spreads out,
deep-rooted among trees.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely
conventional
signs!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Lapped in your Eastern luxury,
No trace ye left in passing by
Upon the dreary
northern
snows,
But better loved the soft repose
Of splendid carpets richly wrought.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And yet I have seen things,
And heard things, that were strangely meaning this,--
Telling me strangely that life can be all
One power undisturbed, one perfect honour,--
Waters at noonday sounding among hills,
Or moonlight lost among vast curds of cloud;--
But never knew I it is only Love
Can rule the noise of life to
heavenly
quiet.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of Shrewsbury gleam
Islanded
in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The following
additional
facts are based on statements in the poet's
own works.
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Li Po |
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His
venerable
hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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while he
Still courts Neaera, fearing lest her choice
Should fall on me, this hireling
shepherd
here
Wrings hourly twice their udders, from the flock
Filching the life-juice, from the lambs their milk.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Through charity will no one take the lead,
And, by example, get her to
proceed?
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La Fontaine |
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an was one of the
happiest
periods of his life.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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sing ye meadow-streams with
gladsome
voice!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Her looks are like the vernal May,
When ev'ning Phoebus shines serene,
While birds rejoice on every spray;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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He
selected
his card and placed upon it his fresh stake.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Lotus-maiden, may you be
Fragrant
of all ecstasy.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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UNITY
Space is ample, east and west,
But two cannot go abreast,
Cannot travel in it two:
Yonder
masterful
cuckoo
Crowds every egg out of the nest,
Quick or dead, except its own;
A spell is laid on sod and stone,
Night and Day were tampered with,
Every quality and pith
Surcharged and sultry with a power
That works its will on age and hour.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Each of these blue
bottles
contained
a Blue-Bottle-Fly; and all these interesting animals live
continually together in the most copious and rural harmony: nor perhaps in
many parts of the world is such perfect and abject happiness to be found.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For me sweet Love had forged a milder spell;
But Myrtale still kept me her fond slave,
More stormy she than the
tempestuous
swell
That crests Calabria's wave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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at
chargeaunt
chace ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then the
initiates
must aimlessly wander about through the eerie
Circles of figures as if pilgriming through their own dreams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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There she sees a damsel bright,
Drest in a silken robe of white,
That shadowy in the
moonlight
shone:
The neck that made that white robe wan,
Her stately neck, and arms were bare;
Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were,
And wildly glittered here and there
The gems entangled in her hair.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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[57] The pilot now stood out to the east, through
the Indian ocean; and after sailing about three weeks, he had the
happiness to congratulate Gama on the view of the
mountains
of Calicut,
who, transported with ecstasy, returned thanks to Heaven, and ordered
all his prisoners to be set at liberty.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gawayne besought the Lord and
Mary to guide him to some
habitation
where he might hear mass (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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In them the wave
Of sorrow and joy that, with a
changing
sweep,
Bore him to misery or else made him blest
Still surges in melodious, wild unrest.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Listen,
Stranger!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Whitman |
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X
Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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>
O Music, from this height of time my Word unfold:
In thy large signals all men's hearts Man's heart behold:
Mid-heaven unroll thy chords as
friendly
flags unfurled,
And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The Greek word
contains
the suggestion of fraud
([Greek: apat_e]).
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Aristophanes |
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" It was
published
in 1817.
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Byron |
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So grieves Achilles; and, impetuous, vents
To all his
Myrmidons
his loud laments.
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Iliad - Pope |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO
REMEDIES
FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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'twill not be long,
Or I am
skilless
quite: an idle tongue,
A humid eye, and steps luxurious,
Where these are new and strange, are ominous.
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Keats |
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XVII
Home is he brought, and laid in sumptuous bed: 145
Where many
skilfull
leaches him abide,
To salve his hurts, that yet still freshly bled.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Now sitting as he was, the cord he drew,
Through every ringlet levelling his view:
Then notch'd the shaft, released, and gave it wing;
The whizzing arrow
vanished
from the string,
Sung on direct, and threaded every ring.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I beheld] my
likeness
in the street.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Rilke - Poems |
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An high lady of greet noblesse,
>>
Envers qui les autres estoiles
Resemblent
petites chandoiles.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Admetus, seeing what way my
fortunes
lie,
I fain would speak with thee before I die.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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CCL
Bitter great grief has
Charlemagne
the King,
Who Duke Naimun before him sees lying,
On the green grass all his clear blood shedding.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Not thus I loved thee, when from Sparta's shore
My forced, my willing heavenly prize I bore,
When first
entranced
in Cranae's isle I lay,(124)
Mix'd with thy soul, and all dissolved away!
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Iliad - Pope |
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For, never since thy griefs and woes began,
Hast thou felt so content: a
grievous
feud 550
Hath let thee to this Cave of Quietude.
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Keats |
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Byron |
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58 _dedis a gremio su(a)e matris_ 59
+ 60 _O hymenee hymen
hymenee_
(_o hymenee_ G)
61 _nihil_ G m.
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Latin - Catullus |
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XII
"Jocundo names a time to wend his way,
And servingmen
meanwhile
purveys and steeds;
And a provision makes of fair array;
For beauty borrows grace from glorious weeds.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In his counsels and
deliberations
he foresees the future times:
in the equity of his judgment he hath remembrance of the past, and
knowledge of what is to be done or avoided for the present.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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No word the experienced man replies,
But thus to heaven (and
heavenward
lifts his eyes):
"O Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Keats |
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HIS PASSION FINDS ITS ONLY
CONSOLATION
IN CONTEMPLATING HER IN HEAVEN.
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Petrarch |
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A drop of blood, as if athwart a dream,
Fell on the shroud, and
reddened
his right hand.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'Tis the
chronicle
of art.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Father
self corporal and a self aetherial
a dweller by streams and in
The Legend thus :
" A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving
salvation
or damnation.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Airy, fairy Lilian,
Flitting, fairy Lilian,
When I ask her if she love me,
Claps her tiny hands above me,
Laughing
all she can;
She'll not tell me if she love me,
Cruel little Lilian.
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Tennyson |
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Easier I count it to explain
The jargon of the howling main,
"Or, stretched beside some babbling brook,
To con, with
inexpressive
look,
An unintelligible book.
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Lewis Carroll |
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LXII Hoc unum carmen
seruatum
est in codice saeculi ix Thuaneo,
nunc Parisino Lat.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Valerius
struck at Titus,
And lopped off half his crest;
But Titus stabbed Valerius
A span deep in the breast.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Hark I hear the hammers of Los
PAGE 16 {The text on this page appears to have been written on top of a page of
sketches
of roughly drafted limbs.
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Blake - Zoas |
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are we unequal in numbers or
bravery?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Count of
Provence
is Raymond Berenger.
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Troubador Verse |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Would God, I had the power, 'mid all this might
Of arm, to break the
dungeons
of the night,
And free thy wife, and make thee glad again!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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That is the dog that so bayed one time at my girl that he almost
Gave our secret away (when she was
visiting
me).
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His
grandeur
we will try for,
His name we 'll live and die for--
The name of Washington!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Then I cried in despair,
"I see
nothing!
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Stephen Crane |
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But think of the
husbands
that must spend their nights
Alongside skin like bark.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But
meanwhile
another has taken my place:
Before his cruel eyes another has found grace.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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D'apres nos recherches, le poeme ecrit en 1871 se
terminait
en effet sur
les mots "la voile".
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sir, having no disease, nor any taint
Nor old hereditament of sin or shame,
-- But, feeling the brave bound and energy
Of daring health that leaps along the veins --
As a hart upon his river banks at morn,
-- Sir, wild with the urgings and hot strenuous beats
Of manhood's heart in this full-sinewed breast
Which thou may'st even now discern is mine,
-- Sir, full aware, each instant in each day,
Of motions of great muscles, once were mine,
And thrill of tense thew-knots, and stinging sense
Of nerves, nice, capable and delicate:
-- Sir, visited each hour by passions great
That lack all instrument of utterance,
Passion of love -- that hath no arm to curve;
Passion of speed -- that hath no limb to stretch;
Yea, even that poor feeling of desire
Simply to turn me from this side to that,
(Which brooded on, into wild passion grows
By reason of the impotence that broods)
Balked of its end and unachievable
Without assistance of some foreign arm,
-- Sir, moved and thrilled like any perfect man,
O, trebly moved and thrilled, since poor desires
That are of small import to happy men
Who easily can compass them, to me
Become mere hopeless Heavens or actual Hells,
-- Sir, strengthened so with manhood's seasoned soul,
I lie in this damned cradle day and night,
Still, still, so still, my Lord: less than a babe
In powers but more than any man in needs;
Dreaming, with open eye, of days when men
Have fallen cloven through steel and bone and flesh
At single strokes of this -- of that big arm
Once wielded aught a mortal arm might wield,
Waking a prey to any foolish gnat
That wills to conquer my defenceless brow
And sit thereon in triumph; hounded ever
By small
necessities
of barest use
Which, since I cannot compass them alone,
Do snarl my helplessness into mine ear,
Howling behind me that I have no hands,
And yelping round me that I have no feet:
So that my heart is stretched by tiny ills
That are so much the larger that I knew
In bygone days how trifling small they were:
-- Dungeoned in wicker, strong as 'twere in stone;
-- Fast chained with nothing, firmer than with steel;
-- Captive in limb, yet free in eye and ear,
Sole tenant of this puny Hell in Heaven:
-- And this -- all this -- because I was a man!
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Sidney Lanier |
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In housewife matters, of aptness to learn and activity to execute, she
is eminently mistress; and during my absence in Nithsdale, she is
regularly and constantly
apprentice
to my mother and sisters in their
dairy and other rural business.
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Robert Forst |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Has flitted from me, like the warmthless flame,
That makes false promise of a place of rest
To the tired Pilgrim's still believing mind;--
Or like some Elfin Knight in kingly court,
Who having won all
guerdons
in his sport,
Glides out of view, and whither none can find!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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