Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me
backward
by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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What deadly poison
Has spread through his whole house with this
passion!
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As soon as seen, the maid who rode at speed
The warrior knew, and, while yet distant, scanned
The angelic
features
and the gentle air
Which long had held him fast in Cupid's snare.
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A ladder I have filched and thro' the streets
Borne it, on
shoulders
little used to weight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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emperour
be-gan to chyde,
And fele ?
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But Jonson twice took
the pains to explain that this is precisely the
opposite
of his own
interpretation of Horace's meaning.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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All but one weighty, grave
request!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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[Professor Walker was a native of Ayrshire, and an accomplished
scholar; he saw Burns often in Edinburgh; he saw him at the Earl of
Athol's on the Bruar; he visited him too at Dumfries; and after the
copyright of Currie's edition of the poet's works expired, he wrote,
with much taste and feeling his life anew, and edited his works--what
passed under his own
observation
he related with truth and ease.
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Robert Forst |
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"
But when the south wind stirs the pools
And
struggles
in the lanes,
Her heart misgives her for her vow,
And she pours soft refrains
Into the lap of adamant,
And spices, and the dew,
That stiffens quietly to quartz,
Upon her amber shoe.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East
With first approach of light, we must be ris'n,
And at our pleasant labour, to reform
Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green,
Our walks at noon, with
branches
overgrown,
That mock our scant manuring, and require
More hands then ours to lop thir wanton growth:
Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms, 630
That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth,
Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease;
Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.
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Milton |
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Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Who rules
now in the
rostrum?
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Aristophanes |
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But still for me 't is the
Celestial
City,
And I would see it once before I die.
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Ronsard |
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Dryden rhymes
_certain_
with _parting_, and Chapman and
Ben Jonson use _certain_, as the Yankee always does, for _certainly_.
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That wondrous and eternal fane,
Where pain and pleasure, good and evil join,
To do the will of strong necessity,
And life, in multitudinous shapes, _235
Still pressing forward where no term can be,
Like hungry and
unresting
flame
Curls round the eternal columns of its strength.
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Shelley |
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In coat of orange, green, and blue
Now on a willow branch I view,
Grey waving to the sunny gleam,
Kingfishers watch the ripple stream
For little fish that nimble bye
And in the gravel
shallows
lie.
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John Clare |
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The hippopotamus's day
Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;
God works in a
mysterious
way-
The Church can sleep and feed at once.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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A village needs these innocent stimulants of bright and cheering
prospects to keep off
melancholy
and superstition.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"It's hard work pulling the beer-handles," she went on, "and they've got
one of them penny-in-the-slot cash-machines, so if you get wrong by a
penny at the end of the day--but then I don't believe the
machinery
is
right.
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Kipling - Poems |
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XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
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--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the
darkness
up
Wherein I breathed you like a smoke or dew.
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And by
suffering
worn and weary,
But beautiful as some fair angel yet,
Thus lamented Margaret,
In her cottage lone and dreary;--
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To each
unthinking
being, Heaven, a friend,
Gives not the useless knowledge of its end:
To man imparts it; but with such a view
As, while he dreads it, makes him hope it too;
The hour concealed, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Antiquest felt at noon
When August, burning low,
Calls forth this
spectral
canticle,
Repose to typify.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_Carl-hemp_, the male stalk of hemp, easily known by its
superior
strength
and stature, and being without seed.
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Robert Burns |
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Us, nobody to be
compared
with, and see _World, passim_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Look up and see the
casement
broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I'll be under the earth, a
boneless
phantom,
At rest in the myrtle groves of the dark kingdom:
You'll be an old woman hunched over the fire,
Regretting my love for you, your fierce disdain,
So live, believe me: don't wait for another day,
Gather them now the roses of life, and desire.
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Ronsard |
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I frequently pluck wild apples of so rich
and spicy a flavor that I wonder all
orchardists
do not get a scion
from that tree, and I fail not to bring home my pockets full.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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[End of the Second Night]
Ahania heard the Lamentation & a swift
Vibration
Spread thro her Golden frame.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Fame and honor and glory, and joy for a noble soul;
For a full and
splendid
life, and laurelled rest at the goal.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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[Sidenote:
Strength
and a good stature seem to give power and
worthiness.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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' Therewith all the Dardanians
murmured
assent, and bade
yield him the promised prize.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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You
descended
through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on nocturnal waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
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Appoloinaire |
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But what
Is this which now
constricts
my breath?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Vast clouds of spears and stones rise from the ground;
But every dart flies past and rocks rebound
To the
disheartened
angels falling around.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Wherefore arise, and make ready with good cheer to arm thy people and
march through thy gates to battle; consume those Phrygian captains that
lie with their painted hulls in the
beautiful
river.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Meanwhile we linger'd by the water's brink,
Like men, who, musing on their road, in thought
Journey, while
motionless
the body rests.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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The earth at
Kongtong
has lost its axis, in Qinghai the heavens are topsy-turvy.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Wherever runs the breathless sun,
Wherever roams the day,
There is its noiseless onset,
There is its
victory!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And
tliought
all safe if they were so far off.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What snake-tressed fury fresh from Hell, with uncouth
gestures
and
unclean,
Stole from the poppy-drowsy queen and led you to a student's cell?
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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55
THE
UNFORTUNATE
LOVER.
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Marvell - Poems |
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and every touch
attempt?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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So again, we see
All breeds of winged creatures trust to wings
And from their
fledgling
pinions seek to get
A fluttering assistance.
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Lucretius |
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18
_incipiaent_
T
20 in marg.
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_Slypet-o'er_, fell over with a slow
reluctant
motion.
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Robert Forst |
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Our selfe will mingle with Society,
And play the humble Host:
Our
Hostesse
keepes her State, but in best time
We will require her welcome
La.
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And they wish it had not fallen from so great a master
and censor in the art, whose bondmen knew better how to judge of Plautus
than any that dare patronise the family of learning in this age; who
could not be ignorant of the judgment of the times in which he lived,
when poetry and the Latin language were at the height; especially being a
man so conversant and
inwardly
familiar with the censures of great men
that did discourse of these things daily amongst themselves.
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[James Johnson, though not an
ungenerous
man, meanly refused to give a
copy of the Musical Museum to Burns, who desired to bestow it on one
to whom his family was deeply indebted.
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Robert Forst |
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Oft have I seen with solemn funeral games
Heroes and kings
committed
to the flames;
But strength of youth, or valour of the brave,
With nobler contest ne'er renown'd a grave.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer,
And
frequent
sights of what is to be borne!
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Golden Treasury |
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First,
mind it well, then pen it, then examine it, then amend it, and you may be
in the better hope of doing
reasonably
well.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Tales that ye tell your
whispering
selves between
The while in clouds to the flood-tide ye pour;
And this it is that gives you, as I ween,
Those mournful voices, mournful evermore,
When ye come in at eve to us who dwell on shore.
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Hugo - Poems |
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_Stumpie_,
diminutive
of stump; a grub pen.
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Robert Burns |
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4
In the swamp in secluded recesses,
A shy and hidden bird is
warbling
a song.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A Boredom, made desolate by cruel hope
Still
believes
in the last goodbye of handkerchiefs!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I saw them next on a
triumphal
car,
Where, known by her chaste cherub ways, aside
My Laura sate and to them sweetly sung.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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An' knows thet freedom ain't a gift
Thet tarries long in han's o'
cowards!
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James Russell Lowell |
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The
henchmen
saw, and straight
Flew to their spears, a host of them to set
Against those twain.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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torn from your hero's arms;
Beneath the hand of Pyrrhus in his pride;
Bent o'er an empty tomb in ecstasy;
Widow of Hector--wife of
Helenus!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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editions
means that no
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(and you!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And, on the morrow again,
Loud the unholy psalm of battle
Burst from the tortured Devil's Den,
In cries of men and musketry rattle
Mixed with the helpless bellow of cattle
Torn by artillery, down in the glen;
While, hurtling through the branches
Of the orchard by the road,
Where Sickles and Birney were walled with steel,
Shot fiery avalanches
That
shivered
hope and made the sturdiest reel.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Oft, too, the
multitudinous
crash of ice
And down-pour of swift hail gives forth a sound
Among the mighty clouds on high; for when
The wind hath packed them close, each mountain mass
Of rain-cloud, there congealed utterly
And mixed with hail-stones, breaks and booms.
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Lucretius |
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Strange in this dream-like place, so drear and lone,
The guest
expected
should be living one!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her
infinite
variety.
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Shakespeare |
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She professes with her spells to relax the purposes of whom she will,
but on others to bring passion and pain; to stay the river-waters and
turn the stars backward: she calls up ghosts by night; thou shalt see
earth moaning under foot and mountain-ashes
descending
from the hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The
creatures
pass to the sounds
Of my tortoise, and the songs I sing.
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Appoloinaire |
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_ersagtugmal_,
penitential
psalm, 118.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Art thou not Lalage and I
Politian?
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Poe - 5 |
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550
My cries alone make the
woodlands
ring,
And the idle horses all forget my calling.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For which me thinketh every maner wight 1555
That haunteth armes oughte to biwayle
The deeth of him that was so noble a knight;
For as he drough a king by thaventayle,
Unwar of this,
Achilles
through the mayle
And through the body gan him for to ryve; 1560
And thus this worthy knight was brought of lyve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[Honest Jamie Thomson, who shot the hare because she browsed with her
companions on his father's "wheat-braird," had no idea he was pulling
down such a burst of
indignation
on his head as this letter with the
poem which it enclosed expresses.
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Robert Forst |
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" He was at first victorious; for his own talents
were superior to those of the captains who were opposed to him;
and the Romans were not
prepared
for the onset of the elephants
of the East, which were then for the first time seen in
Italy--moving mountains, with long snakes for hands.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Brydon's brave ward^10 I well could spy,
Beneath old Scotia's smiling eye:
Who call'd on Fame, low
standing
by,
To hand him on,
Where many a patriot-name on high,
And hero shone.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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III
Puis la Vierge n'est plus que la Vierge du livre;
Les
mystiques
elans se cassent quelquefois,
Et vient la pauvrete des images que cuivre
L'ennui, l'enluminure atroce et les vieux bois.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
narcissus
has copied the arch
of your slight breast:
your feet are citron-flowers,
your knees, cut from white-ash,
your thighs are rock-cistus.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Look, look; all the world,
all Christendom, all of you look how the
governor
is fooled!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Agreed,
rejoined
the husband:--let's begin;
Away he flew, and brought the lady in.
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La Fontaine |
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By the turning, once again,
The moon
thniwfeh
up your visage wan,
And yet too late to call you back.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I went to the
waterside, and saw a cluster of people on the opposite shore; but,
being yet at a distance, they looked more like soldiers
surrounding
a
carriage than a group of men and women; red and green were the
distinguishable colours.
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William Wordsworth |
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