`Was ther non other broche yow liste lete
To feffe with your newe love,' quod he,
`But thilke broche that I, with teres wete, 1690
Yow yaf, as for a
remembraunce
of me?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I pluck
chrysanthemums
under the eastern hedge,
Then gaze long at the distant summer hills.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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E tutto in dubbio dissi: <
Beatrice?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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It is hardly too much to say that all
the rest of Pope's work is
directly
traceable to Bolingbroke.
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Alexander Pope |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine: 405
Me, let the tender office long engage,
To rock the cradle of
reposing
Age,
With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath,
Make Languor smile, and smooth the bed of Death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, 410
And keep a while one parent from the sky!
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Alexander Pope |
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And their long holiday that feared not grief,
For all
belonged
to all, and each was chief.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Illustration:
Minspysia
Deliciosa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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515
Is it not
sufficient
that you will not hate me?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But the seventh self
remained
watching and gazing at nothingness,
which is behind all things.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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20
Now from the Pulpit to the peoples eares,
Whose speech shall send
repentant
sighes, and teares?
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John Donne |
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I stood upon a shore, a pleasant shore,
Where a sweet clime was
breathed
from a land
Of fragrance, quietness, and trees, and flowers.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You think I can't guess what your
business
is?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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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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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Keats - Lamia |
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And he had learned to love,--I know not why,
For this in such as him seems strange of mood,--
The helpless looks of blooming infancy,
Even in its
earliest
nurture; what subdued,
To change like this, a mind so far imbued
With scorn of man, it little boots to know;
But thus it was; and though in solitude
Small power the nipped affections have to grow,
In him this glowed when all beside had ceased to glow.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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LV
Westward on the high-hilled plains
Where for me the world began,
Still, I think, in newer veins
Frets the
changeless
blood of man.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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to
Eufemianes
house,
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And when Pope had once done a good piece of
work, he had all an artist's
reluctance
to destroy it.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Then becometh it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland- dweller amid the rocks and streams
"
consociisfaunts
dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum" Janus of Basel.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Heedless-unawed,
untouched
with serious thought, 1838.
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William Wordsworth |
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O tell me, father; make my joy
complete!
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La Fontaine |
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Not that the deep fundamental
note of humanity is ever absent in his poems; the eternal
diapason
is
there even when least overheard.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For if such holy Song
Enwrap our fancy long,
Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold;
And speckled vanity
Will sicken soon and die,
And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould;
And Hell itself will pass away,
And leave her
dolorous
mansions to the peering day.
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Golden Treasury |
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v
Voices
speaking
to the sun.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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His Le
Drageoir
aux Epices is a
continuation of Petits Poemes en Prose.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Death reached out three crooked claws
To still my
clamoring
pain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Unscrew the doors
themselves
from their jambs!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The honorable orators,
Always the honorable orators,
Buttoning the buttons on their prinz alberts,
Pronouncing
the syllables "sac-ri-fice,"
Juggling those bitter salt-soaked syllables--
Do they ever gag with hot ashes in their mouths?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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While my eyes were
watching
the clouds that travel to the sea.
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Li Po |
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_ Our
Dotterel
then is caught?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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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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and
affecting
lechery,
In veluet!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The Spanish court and
the priests were
supposed
to employ supernatural agencies against the
Protestants.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XX
"Franks, chevaliers," says the Emperour then, Charles,
"Choose ye me out a baron from my marches,
To
Marsilie
shall carry back my answer.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Published monthly at 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now the Arians, besides their
forces, in which they surpass the several nations just recounted, are
in their persons stern and truculent; and even humour and improve their
natural
grimness
and ferocity by art and time.
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Tacitus |
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In
Parliament's address to James 'the tender point of prerogative' was
not disturbed, and it was
contrived
that all the blame and punishment
should fall on the patentees.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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for this lost nymph of thine,
Free as the air, invisibly, she strays
About these thornless wilds; her
pleasant
days
She tastes unseen; unseen her nimble feet
Leave traces in the grass and flowers sweet;
From weary tendrils, and bow'd branches green,
She plucks the fruit unseen, she bathes unseen:
And by my power is her beauty veil'd
To keep it unaffronted, unassail'd
By the love-glances of unlovely eyes,
Of Satyrs, Fauns, and blear'd Silenus' sighs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And naked to the hangman's noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than
strangling
in a string.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Besides are seeds of soul there left behind
In the
breathless
body, or not?
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Lucretius |
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Doubt me, my dim
companion!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim [22]
ha-as-si-nu na-di-i-ma
e-li-su pa-ah- ru
ha-as-si-nu-um-ma sa-ni bu-nu-su
a-mur-su-ma ah-ta-ta a-na-ku
a-ra-am-su-ma ki-ma as-sa-tim
a-ha-ap-pu-up el-su
el-ki-su-ma as-ta-ka-an-su
a-na a-hi-ia
um-mi
iluGilgamish
mu-da-at ka-la-ma
[iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish]
.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Here,
billowing
onward through the narrow straits,
Swift ocean cuts her boundaries from the shores
Of the Italic mainland.
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Lucretius |
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Not more thy wisdom than her virtue shined;
Not more thy
patience
than her constant mind.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
degree of Doctor of Civil Law was
conferred
upon him on May 8, 1917.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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one
Whom day by day the lightning looks upon
Keen; while the
sentenced
man triples his guard
And trembles; for his hour approaches hard.
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Hugo - Poems |
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See that very interesting work, _Hearne's Journey from Hudson's
Bay to the
Northern
Ocean_.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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scīneð, _a gleam stood
therein_
(in the sword)
_just as when .
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Beowulf |
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Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
The laughter and beauty of women long dead;
The sword of old battles, the crown of old kings,
And happy and simple and
sorrowful
things.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He
predeceased
his father, and so never wielded power, dying of dysentery while on campaign in the Limousin.
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Troubador Verse |
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They no longer heeded me;
But laughed to hear Hell's burning rafters
Unwillingly re-echo
laughters!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Shall I not see myself clasped in her arms,
Breathless and
exhausted
by love's charms,
Die a sweet death in her embraces' arc?
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Ronsard |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old man of Cashmere,
Whose movements were
scroobious
and queer;
Being slender and tall, he looked over a wall,
And perceived two fat ducks of Cashmere.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Aeneas
likewise
is first in the work, and
cheers on his crew and arms himself with their weapons.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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I
sometimes
think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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more fierce they are than
serpents
fell
THE KING OF ARGOS
We spake thee fair--speak thou them fair in turn.
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Aeschylus |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' Had
Xanthias
been one of these slaves he could then have treated
his master as he says, for he would have been his equal.
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Aristophanes |
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He deals
immediately
with the dearest concerns of man and of
society.
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Tennyson |
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Rapidly then renewed heat overcomes those lowering vapors,
Sends up a flame that anew bright and more
powerful
gleams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For some years now there has been
published
in England an anthology
entitled Georgian Poetry.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Down the long dusky line
Teeth gleam and eyeballs shine;
And the bright bayonet,
Bristling
and firmly set,
Flashed with a purpose grand,
Long ere the sharp command
Of the fierce rolling drum
Told them their time had come,
Told them what work was sent
For the black regiment.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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amore_ Muretus:
_quae te
flexanimo
mentis p amore_ Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or
gentlest
sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night:
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Beautiful Eyes that gleam with mystic light
As candles lighted at full noon; the sun
Dims not your flame
phantastical
and bright.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour--well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so
precious
as the Goods they sell.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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That foe, who, boastful now, then basely fled,
When your undaunted sires the hero led,
When seven bold earls, in chains, the spoil adorn'd,
And proud Castile through all her
kindreds
mourn'd,
Castile, your awful dread--yet, conscious, say,
When Diniz reign'd, when his bold son bore sway,
By whom were trodden down the bravest bands
That ever march'd from proud Castilia's lands?
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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s ruler, 8 divine troops are
stirring
in Shuofang.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Tho' now they ca' me fornicator,
An' tease my name in kintry clatter,
The mair they talk, I'm kent the better,
E'en let them clash;
An auld wife's tongue's a
feckless
matter
To gie ane fash.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
|
"You're like a man I used to meet,
Who got one day so furious
In arguing, the simple heat
Scorched both his
slippers
off his feet!
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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How poor, how strange, how wrong,
To dream He wrote the little song
I made to Him with love's
unforced
design!
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Rimbaud qui ne savait supporter
la boisson, et que l'on avait contracte dans ces <> pourtant
moderees, la mauvaise habitude de gater au point de vue du vin et des
liqueurs,--Rimbaud qui se trouvait gris, prit mal la chose, se saisit
d'une canne a epee a moi qui etait derriere nous, voisins
immediats
et,
par-dessus la table large de pres de deux metres, dirigea vers M.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Et tout en promenant son petit doigt tremblant
Sur sa joue, un velours de peche rose et blanc,
En faisant, de sa levre enfantine, une moue,
Elle
arrangeait
les plats, pres de moi, pour m'aiser;
--Puis, comme ca,--bien sur pour avoir un baiser,--
Tout bas: <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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