[251] Lovers were wont to make each other
presents
of birds.
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For I
remember
not t' have seen your face.
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"But at the brook we'll meet,
That ripples down the
boundary
line;
There you may wed, and Heaven shall see't.
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The mattock
tottered
in his hand;
So vain was his endeavour,
That at the root of the old tree
He might have worked for ever.
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So should kinsmen be,
not weave one another the net of wiles,
or with deep-hid
treachery
death contrive
for neighbor and comrade.
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What
dignified
attendants,
What service when we pause!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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This hour shall be
A glass of wine
Poured out into the
unremembering
sea Without regret.
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Or a few cherries, that are not so sweet
As are the songs these
uninvited
guests,
Sing at their feast with comfortable breasts.
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Longfellow |
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dream of it,
My
disinherited
boy!
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Byron |
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If
Maclagan
had know that much
about his business he might have done better.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Seated in companies they sit, with
radiance
all their own.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Farewell
the plain sae rushy, O!
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Robert Burns |
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On this decay the sun shone hot from heaven
As though with chemic heat to broil and burn,
And unto Nature all that she had given
A
hundredfold
return.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Geschrei
und Fiedelbogen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Zum Teufel erst das
Instrument!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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though I love what others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:
If thy
unworthiness
rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What sea spued thee
conceived
from out the spume of his surges!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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We've no
business
down there at all.
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Villon |
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In
what sense is this to be
understood?
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feorum gumena, 73;
frēonda
fēorum,
1307.
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Beowulf |
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'Tis no doubt by
starving
them that you give them that waspish
waist.
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Aristophanes |
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Infected
be the Ayre whereon they ride,
And damn'd all those that trust them.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[35]
Probably
phonetic variant of _edir_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two
contracted
new
Come daily to the banks, that when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Or call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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309) was left for
correction
later.
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Milton |
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"
On the relics, are in his sword Murgles,
Treason he's sworn,
forsworn
his faith away.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--although, of course, I could have found
A better way to pass the afternoon
Than
grinding
discord out of a grindstone,
And beating insects at their gritty tune.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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Words stick: she does not manage to say anything:
She presses her hands
together
and hesitates.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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" His immediate
predecessors
had carried to the highest
refinement the art of writing in elaborate patterns of tone.
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Li Po |
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A modest lot, a fame petite,
A brief
campaign
of sting and sweet
Is plenty!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[4]--Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The
landscape
with the quiet of the sky.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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heofones
gim, _heaven's
jewel_, i.
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Beowulf |
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`And this suffyseth right y-now, certeyn,
For to
destroye
our free chois every del.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_As
Cassiodore
doth prove.
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Robert Herrick |
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Li Po |
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What they've been doing all this time,
Oh could I put it into rhyme,
A most delightful tale
pursuing!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
description
of the palace of Neptune has great
merit.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Though cold it grows,
I will not freeze forever,
In whom love rose
That will my heart deliver
I'll not shiver,
Love hides me from head to toe,
Brings
strength
rather
And tells me which way to go.
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Troubador Verse |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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New
children
play upon the green,
New weary sleep below;
And still the pensive spring returns,
And still the punctual snow!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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THE DAUGHTER OF THE COMMANDANT
A Russian Romance
by
ALEXKSANDR POUSHKIN
Translated by Mrs.
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Estat ai en greu cossirier
I've been in great
distress
of mind,
About a knight whom I possessed,
How I've loved him to excess
I want known, throughout all time;
Now I feel myself betrayed
Because I did not tell my love,
In great torment so I prove,
In bed or in my clothes arrayed.
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Troubador Verse |
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Their discontents too
were inflamed by a rumour which then ran current amongst them; that they
were to be
dispersed
into different regions; and exterminated from their
own, to be mixed with other nations.
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Tacitus |
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The tablet of the
Assyrian
version which
carries the portion related on the new tablet has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Ou le sol palpitait, vert, sous ses pieds de chevre;
Ou, baisant mollement le clair syrinx, sa levre
Modulait sous le ciel le grand hymne d'amour;
Ou, debout sur la plaine, il entendait autour
Repondre a son appel la Nature vivante;
Ou, les arbres muets, bercant l'oiseau qui chante,
La terre bercant l'homme, et tout l'Ocean bleu
Et tous les animaux, aimaient,
aimaient
en Dieu!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Eternity stands alway
fronting
God;
A stern colossal image, with blind eyes
And grand dim lips that murmur evermore
God, God, God!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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By blowing realms of woodland
With
sunstruck
vanes afield
And cloud-led shadows sailing
About the windy weald,
By valley-guarded granges
And silver waters wide,
Content at heart I followed
With my delightful guide.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long, high
snowdrifts
in the hedge
That will not shower on me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Jove's favour is their guiding star,
And
watchful
potencies unweave
For them the tangled paths of war.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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nam quis te maiora gerit
castrisue
foroue?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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770
This Diomede, of whom yow telle I gan,
Goth now, with-inne him-self ay arguinge
With al the
sleighte
and al that ever he can,
How he may best, with shortest taryinge,
In-to his net Criseydes herte bringe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And yet this time removed was summer's time;
The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:
Yet this
abundant
issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are mute:
Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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Then you can return; but
disappear
for the present.
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Aristophanes |
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20
"To kindle her shapely beauty,
And
illumine
her mind withal,
I give to the little person
The glowing and craving soul.
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Sappho |
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Lamia, regal drest,
Silently paced about, and as she went,
In pale contented sort of discontent,
Mission'd her viewless
servants
to enrich
The fretted splendour of each nook and niche.
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Keats - Lamia |
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I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
But I do not
undertake
to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
I merely thee ejaculate!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Beowulf spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: --
"This was my thought, when my thanes and I
bent to the ocean and entered our boat,
that I would work the will of your people
fully, or
fighting
fall in death,
in fiend's gripe fast.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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blake-poems |
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Tell me, on what holy ground
May
Domestic
Peace be found?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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" It is
doubtful
whether one can
call it a tragedy at all.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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No tongue
So vast a theme could equal, speech and thought
Both
impotent
alike.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Scarcely thus: when Juturna's eyes
overbrimmed
with tears, and thrice
and again she smote her hand on her gracious breast.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And
fiercely
by the arm he took her,
And by the arm he held her fast, 90
And fiercely by the arm he shook her,
And cried, "I've caught you then at last!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True
Believer
passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Robortellus
1548 || _nec te_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Goetz is
probably
by this time in our hands.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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What are these,
So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre,
That looke not like th'
Inhabitants
o'th' Earth,
And yet are on't?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Goetz is
probably
by this time in our hands.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And man must wander through a tangled wood
Of symbols watching him with
friendly
eyes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Her charms had struck a sturdy caird,
As weel as poor gut-scraper;
He taks the fiddler by the beard,
And draws a roosty rapier--
He swoor by a' was swearing worth,
To speet him like a pliver,
Unless he wad from that time forth
Relinquish
her for ever.
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Robert Burns |
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Sound on, ye
heavenly
strains, that bliss restore me!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Their errand's purport ere we break the seal;
They wind a sorrow round with circumstance
To stay its feet, nor all
unwarned
displace
The veil that darkened from our sidelong glance
The inexorable face:
But now Fate stuns as with a mace;
The savage of the skies, that men have caught
And some scant use of language taught,
Tells only what he must,-- 30
The steel-cold fact in one laconic thrust.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Did not you know that people hide their love,
Like a flower that seems too
precious
to be picked?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Her public is the noon,
Her providence the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign,
swerveless
tune.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Then, bathed and fresh attired,
Penelope
ascended with her train
The upper palace, and a basket stored
With hallow'd cakes off'ring, to Pallas pray'd.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand
of wild passion and fantastic
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Be unwilling to wonder wherefore no woman, O Rufus, is wishful to place her
tender thigh 'neath thee, not even if thou dost tempt her by the gift of a
rare robe or by the
delights
of a crystal-clear gem.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a hypocrite sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
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eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Mine was th' insensate
frenzied
part,
Ah, why should I such scenes outlive
Scenes so abhorrent to my heart!
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Robert Forst |
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Eftsones
I heard the dash of oars,
I heard the pilot's cheer:
My head was turn'd perforce away
And I saw a boat appear.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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