THE BLACK PREACHER
A BRETON LEGEND
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,
They show you a church, or rather the gray
Ribs of a dead one, left there to bleach
With the wreck lying near on the crest of the beach,
Roofless and splintered with thunder-stone,
'Mid lichen-blurred
gravestones
all alone;
'Tis the kind of ruin strange sights to see
That may have their teaching for you and me.
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Why laugh'st thou not
thereat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Joie
Des chantiers
riverains
a l'abandon, en proie
Aux soirs d'aout qui faisaient germer ces pourritures!
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AELLA, the wardenne of thys[66] castell[67] stede,
Whylest Saxons dyd the Englysche sceptre swaie,
Who made whole troopes of Dacyan men to blede, 10
Then seel'd[68] hys eyne, and seeled hys eyne for aie,
Wee rowze hym uppe before the
judgment
daie,
To saie what he, as clergyond[69], can kenne,
And howe hee sojourned in the vale of men.
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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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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Mirth is the mail of anguish,
In which it
cautions
arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And "You're hurt" exclaim!
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Dryf out the fantasyes yow with-inne; 1615
And
trusteth
me, and leveth eek your sorwe,
Or here my trouthe, I wol not live til morwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Almighty they knew not,
Doomsman of Deeds and
dreadful
Lord,
nor Heaven's-Helmet heeded they ever,
Wielder-of-Wonder.
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XL
A
PERILOUS
path, it proved, he {40a} trod
who heinously hid, that hall within,
wealth under wall!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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All this
according
to Du Camp.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The seal Love's
dimpling
finger hath impressed
Denotes how soft that chin which bears his touch:
Her lips, whose kisses pout to leave their nest,
Bid man be valiant ere he merit such:
Her glance, how wildly beautiful!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Clear with the clear beams of the morrow's sun,
The future
presseth
on.
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This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood
primeval
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Showing by marvel-art the gifts and graces of heroes.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Barrett, as part of his
original
MSS.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"_
Then haste ye,
Prescott
and Revere!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"Since thou shrivest my brother, fair mother," said she
"I count on thy
priesthood
for marrying of me,
And I know by the hills that the battle is done.
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Then, without pomps or perils of the great,
I shall behold the day succeed the night;
Behold the
alternate
seasons take their flight,
And in serene repose old age await.
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Longfellow |
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These
bondwomen
are all
I keep in mine own house.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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, _sword-flame,
flashing
of swords_.
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Beowulf |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It may have to wait long, but it will
certainly
come in use;
When the materials are all prepared, the architects shall appear.
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enterd his world of love]
Not long in harmony they dwell, their life is drawn away
And wintry woes succeed;
successive
driven into the Void
Where Enion craves: successive drawn into the golden feast
[In beauty love & scorn ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires,
Bad husbands of their fires,
Who, when they gave thee breath,
Failed to bequeath
The needful sinew stark as once,
The
Baresark
marrow to thy bones,
But left a legacy of ebbing veins,
Inconstant heat and nerveless reins,--
Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb,
Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
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at he shoulde gone
In to hys chaumbur to hys fere,
And
cowmfort
her in hys manere.
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And it seemed to him that the little soft rose
leaves as they went
fluttering
down into the valley began to change
their shape till they looked like a troop of men and women far off in
the mist, with the colour of the roses on them.
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How the true thunder bellows after the
lightning!
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Whitman |
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I do believe in
avenging
gods
Who plague us for sins we never sinned
But who avenge us.
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scire meos casus siquis
desiderat
omnis,
plus quam quod fieri res sinit ille petit.
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I have won enough fame for myself and ennoblement for my posterity;
for, after the line of the Julians, Claudians, Servians,[320] I have
been the first to bring the
principate
into a new family.
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Tacitus |
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" The young man went away wondering what sort of broken-down
waif this might be who talked like a
gentleman
and consorted with Greek
muleteers.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I tremble lest,
oppressed
by so odious a weight,
Neither will ever dare to lift their gaze.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Roses
IN white and glowing blossomy undulation,
From shrubs encircling distant heights and hollows,
You lost
yourself
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Salacious
Tavern and ye taverner-host,
From Pileate Brothers the ninth pile-post,
D'ye claim, you only of the mentule boast,
D'ye claim alone what damsels be the best
To swive: as he-goats holding all the rest?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For half an
hour I stood there in the grey
November
rain surrounded by a jeering mob.
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in thy
sweetest
wave
Of the most living crystal that was e'er
The haunt of river nymph, to gaze and lave
Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear
Thy grassy banks whereon the milk-white steer
Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Nevertheless he
admitted
that his
apprentice was always to be found at his desk, for he often sent the
footman in to see.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He turned on will-power to increase the load
And slow me down--and I
abruptly
slowed,
Like coming to a sudden railroad station.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Or when the scheming villain
[407-443]pretends to shrink at my abuse, and
sharpens
calumny by
terror!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Hastow nought herd at parlement,' he seyde,
`For Antenor how lost is my
Criseyde?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The willow leaves
Silverly stir on the breath of moving water,
Birch-leaves, beyond them, twinkle, and there on the hill,
And the hills beyond again, and the highest hill,
Serrated
pines, in the dusk, grow almost black.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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You must publicly detach
yourself
from me.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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It may be
rendered
thus:--
"O Thou who burn'st in Heart for those who burn
In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn,
How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Art is our
spirited
protest, our gallant
attempt to teach Nature her proper place.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
Again in a
dissertation
on _Henry VI.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Look you how the cave
Is with the wild vine's
clusters
over-laced!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My hunger regaled by no fruits here I see
Finds equal taste in their learned deficiency:
Let one burst with human
fragrance
and flesh!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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How sour it is
Never
Argenteuil
piquette
Was to my palate sour as this!
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Longfellow |
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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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Lucretius |
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That race which, strong from Ilion's fires,
Its gods, on Tuscan waters tost,
Its sons, its
venerable
sires,
Bore to Ausonia's citied coast;
That race, like oak by axes shorn
On Algidus with dark leaves rife,
Laughs carnage, havoc, all to scorn,
And draws new spirit from the knife.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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How your
impudence
excites my passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Meredith - Poems |
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A
horrible
life and a horrible city!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Po |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Anger as soon as fed is dead;
'T is
starving
makes it fat.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I smite the palace gate
In vain, it seems; what ho, attend within,--
Once more, attend; come forth and ope the halls
If yet
Aegisthus
holds them hospitable.
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Aeschylus |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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From his
footprints
flowed a river,
Leaped into the light of morning,
O'er the precipice plunging downward
Gleamed like Ishkoodah, the comet.
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Longfellow |
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For contemplation sake: yet otherwise, 175
His life he led in
lawlesse
riotise;
By which he grew to grievous malady;
For in his lustlesse limbs through evill guise
A shaking fever raignd continually:
Such one was Idlenesse, first of this company.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" He spoke
haltingly
at first, under a fine
English fear of being laughed at.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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Ronsard |
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what
fluttering
do I hear
Of birds near?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And the fisher with his lamp _45
And spear about the low rocks damp
Crept, and struck the fish which came
To worship the
delusive
flame.
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Shelley |
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was simply "_Songe toe AElle_," with a
small mark of reference to a note below, containing the following
words--"_Lorde of the castelle of
Brystowe
ynne daies of yore_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Can I let this
offender
go free?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Oh chill and stark was the crimson dark
Where huddled men lay deep;
His
comrades
all denied his call--
Long had they lain in sleep.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Now I reform, and surely so will all
Whose happy eyes on thy
translation
fall.
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Marvell - Poems |
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To-morrow will I set before you wine 610
And
plenteous
viands, wages of your toil.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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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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'Ecquid is homo habet aceti in
pectore?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[48] Madeira in
Portuguese
signifies timber.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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No; if you please,
A strange,
mysterious
disease
Fell on him with a sudden blight.
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Longfellow |
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-yang[37]
summoned
us, blowing on his jade _sh?
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Li Po |
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" There are songs about the
children
in this book; they
are called the Lord of Battles, the Sun of Victory, the
Lotus-born, and the Jewel of Delight.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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_John Drinkwater_
THE DEATH OF PEACE
Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring Sun
Behind the
tranquil
trees and old church-tower;
And we who watch him know our day is done;
For us too comes the evening--and the hour.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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replaced
older file is renamed.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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"
At once, as if
obsequious
to my will,
Another prospect shone, unmoved and still;
Eternal as the heavens that glow'd above,
A wide resplendent scene of light and love.
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Petrarch |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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His mistress, who has awaited his return with
what is represented as faithful love, sends him a letter of welcome,
and because he has grown virtuous of a sudden he returns it unopened,
and with so careless a scorn that the husband intercepts it; and the
dramatist
approves
this manner of crying off with an old love, and
rings down the curtain on his marriage bells.
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Yeats |
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10 Seeing Off Attendant Censor Zhangsun (9), Setting Off for a Position as Administrative Assistant in Wuwei The hooves of the dappled gray have
recently
been nailed,5 it has been covered well with a silver saddle.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
The tear-drop
trickled
to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
That made him feel on fire within.
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Lewis Carroll |
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associated
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He deems it sin to sing, yet not to say
A song--a mighty
difference
in his way.
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And why
Doth he himself allow it, nor spare the same
Even for his
enemies?
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Lucretius |
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Series
For the splendour of the day of
happinesses
in the air
To live the taste of colours easily
To enjoy loves so as to laugh
To open eyes at the final moment
She has every willingness.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And many a chief from distant regions[195] came
To share the laurels of Alonzo's fame;
Yet, more for holy Faith's
unspotted
cause
Their spears they wielded, than for Fame's applause.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The
question
for
literature is not whence they came, but how he used them.
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John Donne |
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The outworn
Aeneadae
hasten to run for the nearest shore, and turn to
the coast of Libya.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant
Unshaven, with a pocket full of
currants
210
C.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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Visit the paste and beat the pig
alternately
for some days, and ascertain
if, at the end of that period, the whole is about to turn into Gosky
Patties.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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e lace, with a knot,
2488 [E] In
tokenyng
he wat3 tane in tech of a faute;
[F] & ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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