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Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the
revolving
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And patient shine of everlasting stars.
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The weather was tempestuous, and on
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His father slew Troy's
thousands
in their pride;
He hath but one to kill.
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--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the
straggling
green which hides the wood.
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Although
to-day He prunes my twigs with pain,
Yet doth His blood nourish and warm my root:
To-morrow I shall put forth buds again,
And clothe myself with fruit.
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IS the clear light of love I praise
That
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A clarity that gleams always.
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It is but thirty dawns and twilights since
He left his
playmates
back of the eclipse,
It cannot be he has so soon forgot.
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" Ulysses' sire, you see,
Had been at
Appomattox
near the famous apple-tree;
And "Patrick Michael Casey!
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The remainder
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by Mr.
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How bringst thou
Holofernes?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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MY DEAR SIR,
The hurry of a farmer in this
particular
season, and the indolence of
a poet at all times and seasons, will, I hope, plead my excuse for
neglecting so long to answer your obliging letter of the 5th of
August.
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Robert Forst |
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Thus naught of what so seems
Perishes utterly, since Nature ever
Upbuilds
one thing from other, suffering naught
To come to birth but through some other's death.
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I
followed
Marya with
my eyes; she turned round and made me a last sign.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
Archbishop
was too happy to possess him
on these terms.
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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But it is easier to see a Viceroy than to talk to him, unless you chance
to be as
important
as Mellishe of Madras.
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Kipling - Poems |
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thus in part I put my questions new,
If mine be any prize, or run its course,
Be my soul free, or
captived
in close wood.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For pity do not this sad heart belie--
Even as thou
vanishest
so I shall die.
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Keats - Lamia |
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THE KING OF ARGOS
Not at my private hearth ye sit and sue;
And if the city bear a common stain,
Be it the common toil to cleanse the same:
Therefore
no pledge, no promise will I give,
Ere counsel with the commonwealth be held.
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Aeschylus |
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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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e
sup{er}fluite
of fortune.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I alone of all things
Fret with
unsluiced
fire.
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Sappho |
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I was obliged to frame some
sentences
that sounded like French in
order to deal with the market-women, who, for the most part, cannot
speak English.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The lang lad they ca' jumpin' John
Beguiled
the bonnie lassie,
The lang lad they ca' Jumpin' John
Beguiled the bonnie lassie.
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Robert Forst |
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transeat
hic sine nube dies, stent aere uenti,
ponat et in sicco molliter unda minas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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specific
and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis Visscher (II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman
possessing
reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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"
The stranger
vanished
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Li Po |
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Meantime, o'er all the dome, they quaff, they feast,
Derisive taunts were spread from guest to guest,
And each in jovial mood his mate address'd:
"Tremble ye not, O friends, and coward fly,
Doom'd by the stern
Telemachus
to die?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could
scarcely
lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Not the strong impulse hid _415
In those flushed cheeks, bent eyes, and shadowy frame
Had yet performed its ministry: it hung
Upon his life, as
lightning
in a cloud
Gleams, hovering ere it vanish, ere the floods
Of night close over it.
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Shelley |
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Expiring as I lay, I yet essay'd
To grasp my faulchion, but the trayt'ress quick
Withdrew herself, nor would
vouchsafe
to close
My languid eyes, or prop my drooping chin
Ev'n in the moment when I sought the shades.
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For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain
His captive
daughter
from the victor's chain.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The man who was war commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down
Pennsylvania
Avenue--
The man who is peace commander of the armies of the Republic
rides down Pennsylvania Avenue--
for the sake of the Boy, for the sake of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Byron |
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E'en as the lightning's minister,
Whom Jove o'er all the feather'd breed
Made sovereign, having proved him sure
Erewhile on auburn Ganymede;
Stirr'd by warm youth and inborn power,
He quits the nest with timorous wing,
For winter's storms have ceased to lower,
And zephyrs of returning spring
Tempt him to launch on unknown skies;
Next on the fold he stoops downright;
Last on resisting serpents flies,
Athirst for foray and for flight:
As tender kidling on the grass
Espies,
uplooking
from her food,
A lion's whelp, and knows, alas!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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My will fulfilled shall be,
For, in
daylight
or in dark,
My thunderbolt has eyes to see
His way home to the mark.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Balk logic with acquaintance that you have,
And practise
rhetoric
in your common talk;
Music and poesy use to quicken you;
The mathematics and the metaphysics,
Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you.
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Shakespeare |
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The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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ODE TO BEAUTY
Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,--
Too credulous lover
Of blest and
unblest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Poor
guiltless
I!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
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blake-poems |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she
realized
how imprudently she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Seated in
companies
they sit, with radiance all their own.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Sooner would I have lost my crown than come
Alone at
midnight
to this dreadful place.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Daring the venture,
Glorious
the pay!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And
therfore
at the kynges country brother
Eche man for himself, there is noon other.
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John Donne |
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The hope that hitherto I have denied
Imperious
comes to me as from your side
Serious, unfaltering and swift and strong.
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Meredith - Poems |
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One half of Spain he'll render as your fief
The rest Rollanz, his nephew, shall receive,
Proud
parcener
in him you'll have indeed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is most
singular
that you should laugh
'At nothing at all!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Haus homs ne puet avoir nul vice,
Qui tant li griet cum avarice:
Car hons avers ne puet conquerre
Ne
seignorie
ne grant terre;
Car il n'a pas d'amis plente,
Dont il face sa volente.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is
necessary
to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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At first, 'tis but a little gurgling _pappax,
pappax_!
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Aristophanes |
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"Madonna," with
melodious
moan Sang Mariana, etc.
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Tennyson |
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And Faith shall come forth the finer,
From trampled
thickets
of fire,
And the orient open diviner
Before her, the heaven rise higher.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Stephen Crane |
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" From that day forth
The
serpents
were my friends; for round his neck
One of then rolling twisted, as it said,
"Be silent, tongue!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Before noon we had reached the highlands overlooking
the valley of Lancaster (affording the first fair and open prospect
into the west), and there, on the top of a hill, in the shade of some
oaks, near to where a spring bubbled out from a leaden pipe, we rested
during the heat of the day, reading Virgil and
enjoying
the scenery.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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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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"No, I will win by force the
mountain
stair,"
Rogero said; (but the resolve was vain)
Nor by the beach two miles his way pursued,
Ere he Alcina's lovely city viewed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Grounded
in magic he knew the future and predicted the Christian coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He felt in 1862 that his own
intellectual
eclipse was approaching, for
he wrote: "I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A little up the Bay
The Fort lay green, for it was
springtime
then;
The wind was fresh, rich with the spicy bloom
Of the New England coast that tardily
Escapes, late April, from an icy tomb.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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but
patience
makes more light
What sorrow may not heal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Not Cybele, nor he that haunts
Rich Pytho, worse the brain confounds,
Not Bacchus, nor the Corybants
Clash their loud gongs with fiercer sounds
Than savage wrath; nor sword nor spear
Appals it, no, nor ocean's frown,
Nor
ravening
fire, nor Jupiter
In hideous ruin crashing down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yet the
admission
is made with a smile,
and more than one suggestion is allowed to float across the scene that in
real life such conduct would be hardly wise.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Quante volte, del tempo che rimembre,
legge, moneta, officio e costume
hai tu mutato, e
rinovate
membre!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thou too, O Bride,
whatever
dare
Thy groom, of coy rebuff beware,
Lest he to find elsewhither fare.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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What is the spell that you manage so well,
Commonplace
Potiphar
G.
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Kipling - Poems |
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O so dear
O so dear from far and near and white all
So deliciously you, Mery, that I dream
Of what
impossibly
flows, of some rare balm
Over some flower-vase of darkened crystal.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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1510
The blood froze in our hearts
profoundest
depths
The manes of the startled horses stood erect.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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That glorious victory was
principally
owing to
the judicious conduct and intrepid valour of the gallant laird of
Craigie, who died of his wounds after the action.
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Robert Burns |
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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LVI
From those three monarchs to the cavalier
The invitation was in public told;
So pleasing to Anglante's valiant peer,
To the herald he was liberal of his gold:
From his companions had he heard whilere
That Durindane was in Gradasso's hold:
Hence, to
retrieve
that faulchion from the foe,
To India had the Count resolved to go:
LVII
Deeming he should not find that king elsewhere,
Who, so he heard, had sailed from the French shore.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Francis
Beaumont
wrote one which is found in several MS.
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John Donne |
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Was hilft's, wenn Ihr ein Ganzes
dargebracht?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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O dass kein Flugel mich vom Boden hebt
Ihr nach und immer nach zu
streben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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tortuous
route in flight to Chengdu.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Then I left him, not knowing whether he had
complimented
or belittled
me.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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