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SEA GARDEN
The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me
permission
to
reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in
"Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review"
(Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology
(New York: A.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Not there your victory on those red
shuddering
fields,
But here and hence your victory.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Upon thy life I charge thee,
Whate'er thou hearest or seest, stand all aloof
And do not
interrupt
me in my course.
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Shakespeare |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She half
enclosed
me with her arms,
She press'd me with a meek embrace;
And bending back her head, look'd up,
And gazed upon my face.
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Golden Treasury |
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"Thou thinkest," he exclaims, "to bear me down,
Because his knight as well with me contends:
But learn that I can win in
fighting
field
From him the horse, from thee good Hector's shield.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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At last she had had her fill of weeping; then
She tore herself away, and rose again,
Walking with
downcast
eyes; yet turned before
She had left the room, and cast her down once more
Kneeling beside the bed.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Only I know while day grew night,
Turning still to the
vanished
years,
Love looked back as he took his flight,
And lo, his eyes were filled with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
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Meredith - Poems |
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Let me go with the poor orphan
whither God shall direct, and whatever befall and
wherever
you be we
will pray God every day that He watch over the safety of your soul.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like Christmas snows where dark ways wind,
Like sea-pearls about turquoise twined,
Like
moonlight
silver when combined
With a loved book's rare gold.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
Those who were not of the cult kept their distance; neophytes trembled,
Waiting in
garments
of white, symbol of all that is pure.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Draw
pictures
of the Plum-pudding flea, and the Moppsikon
Floppsikon Bear, and state by whom waterproof tubs
were first used.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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liability
can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Unworthy of
pleasing
you, or approaching you,
I must only think now of hiding from you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Lo, see how the vanished years,
In robes outworn lean over heaven's rim;
And from the water, smiling through her tears,
Remorse arises, and the sun grows dim;
And in the east, her long shroud
trailing
light,
List, O my grief, the gentle steps of Night.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Thou drawest breath
Even now, long past thy portioned hour of death,
By
murdering
her .
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Then fierce and free
Surged full above my head
The moaning tide of
helpless
misery.
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Christina Rossetti |
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No cloud in heaven; while all around repose,
Come taste with me the fragrance of the rose,
Which loads the night-air with its musky breath,
While
everything
is still as nature's death.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes,
But not too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes;
Disguise
e'en tenderness, if thou art wise;
Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes;
Pique her and soothe in turn, soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied
himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed,
and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing
himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat
down to contemplate the mechanical drama of the Universe which he was
part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime
description of the Roman
Theater)
discolored with the lurid reflex of
the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Imagists |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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--2) contrasted with duguð, _the
younger
warriors
of lower rank_ (about as in the Middle Ages, the squires
with the knights): nom.
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Beowulf |
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It is
two years ago now since Ivan
Kouzmitch
took it into his head to fire his
cannon on my birthday; she was so frightened, the poor little dove, she
nearly ran away into the other world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Nevertheless
it often
drops to the ground before the bird has done with it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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consilia
nullus mente tam pura dedit
uel altiore conditu texit data.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Then the thaws swell the streams,
And swollen rivers swell the sea:--
If the winter ever ends
How
pleasant
it will be!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Therefore
this project
Should have a back or second, that might hold
If this did blast in proof.
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Shakespeare |
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Heav'nly stranger, please to taste
These bounties which our Nourisher, from whom
All perfet good unmeasur'd out, descends,
To us for food and for delight hath caus'd 400
The Earth to yeild; unsavourie food perhaps
To
spiritual
Natures; only this I know,
That one Celestial Father gives to all.
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Milton |
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The dart that flies in darkness, sped from hell
By spirits of the murdered dead who call
Unto their kin for vengeance, formless fear,
The night-tide's visitant, and madness' curse
Should drive and rack me; and my
tortured
frame
Should be chased forth from man's community
As with the brazen scorpions of the scourge.
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Aeschylus |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my
comrades
four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Or said that France, low bowed before their glory,
One day would mindful be
Of them and of their mournful fate no more,
Than of the wrecks its waters have swept o'er
The
unremembering
sea?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meanwhile
did Gyrthe unto Kynge Harolde ride,
And tolde howe he dyd with Duke Willyam fare.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I have
sojourned
in the Muse's land,
Have wandered with the wandering star,
Seeking for strength, and in my hand
Held all philosophies that are;
Yet nothing could I hear nor see
Stronger than That Which Needs Must Be.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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`Distreyne
hir herte as faste to retorne
As thou dost myn to longen hir to see;
Than woot I wel, that she nil nought soiorne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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They turned in the direction of the sea through
unaltered
streets,
and the influence of old things lay upon them.
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Kipling - Poems |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For us the travail and the heat,
The broken secrets of our pride,
The
strenuous
lessons of defeat,
The flower deferred, the fruit denied;
But not the peace, supremely won,
Lord Buddha, of thy Lotus-throne.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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It is usual to close a
biographical
notice with an attempt to describe
the "character" of one's subject.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yeats |
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Now, in the glass
The right part of our members is observed
Upon the left, because, when comes the image
Hitting against the level of the glass,
'Tis not returned unshifted; but forced off
Backwards
in line direct and not oblique,--
Exactly as whoso his plaster-mask
Should dash, before 'twere dry, on post or beam,
And it should straightway keep, at clinging there,
Its shape, reversed, facing him who threw,
And so remould the features it gives back:
It comes that now the right eye is the left,
The left the right.
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Lucretius |
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Fleay's
identification
is little better than a
guess.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death
{According
to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a replacement was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were thoroughly erased.
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Blake - Zoas |
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" Now the rich sound of leaves,
Turning in air to sway their heavy boughs,
Burns in his heart, sings in his veins, as spring
Flowers in veins of trees;
bringing
such peace
As comes to seamen when they dream of seas.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Swythynne
flie from mee, and ne further saie;
Radher thanne heare thie love, I woulde bee dead.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Nay, _he_ might have been there; but I muflled me so,
He could
scarcely
have seen my figure.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Down bent the harsh new-comer
To lift with loving arm
The
wanderer
mute and fallen;
And lo!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ei may
chau{n}gen
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As she leans, so sweet and soft,
Flitting oft,
O'er the mirror to and fro,
Seems that airy
floating
bat,
Like a feather
From some sea-gull's wing of snow.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Questo
triforme
amor qua giu di sotto
si piange: or vo' che tu de l'altro intende,
che corre al ben con ordine corrotto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There, take the darkling gold, the gentle gray
From birches and from box--the zephyrs sway,
Few lingering roses yet their
perfumes
breathe,
Select them, kiss them and a crown enwreathe.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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nam quid ego immensi memorem studia ista laboris,
horrida quid durae tempora
militiae?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I do not know but they interest me more than the maples, they are so
widely and equally dispersed
throughout
the forest; they are so hardy,
a nobler tree on the whole; our chief November flower, abiding the
approach of winter with us, imparting warmth to early November
prospects.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Marvell - Poems |
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And then a
Princess
I became
To whom men bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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So to the bull Europa gave
Her beauteous form, and when she saw
The
monstrous
deep, the yawning grave,
Grew pale with awe.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ever the fiery Pentecost
Girds with one flame the countless host,
Trances the heart through
chanting
choirs,
And through the priest the mind inspires.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The
Arab, both hands to his forehead,
screamed
aloud, then snatched up his
spear and rushed at Torpenhow, who was panting under shelter of Dick's
revolver.
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Kipling - Poems |
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His
resentment was all the more bitter since he fancied that Addison, now at
the height of his power and prosperity in the world of letters and of
politics, had
attempted
to ruin an enterprise on which the younger man
had set all his hopes of success and independence, for no better reason
than literary jealousy and political estrangement.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
"Comrades all, that stand and gaze,
Walk henceforth in other ways;
See my neck and save your own:
Comrades
all, leave ill alone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Now that sword began,
from blood of the fight, in battle-droppings, {23c}
war-blade, to wane: 'twas a
wondrous
thing
that all of it melted as ice is wont
when frosty fetters the Father loosens,
unwinds the wave-bonds, wielding all
seasons and times: the true God he!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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That were leeched with clamorous skill,
(Surgery savage and hard),
Splinted with bolt and beam,
Probed in
scarfing
and seam,
Rudely linted and tarred
With oakum and boiling pitch,
And sutured with splice and hitch
At the Brooklyn Navy-Yard!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such is the
pleasure
of Bassus and Caecina.
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Tacitus |
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Thou'lt wake the guards with thy loud
screaming!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Wilde - Poems |
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* This work the Saints best
represents
* That serves for altar's ornaments.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Jonson's moral
purpose is here plainly visible, especially in contrast to Plautus,
with whom the youthful
intriguer
is also the stock figure.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium with
your written explanation.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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This hadde sotil dame Nature;
For noon goth right, I thee ensure,
Ne hath entent hool ne parfyt;
For hir desir is for delyt,
The which
fortened
crece and eke 4875
The pley of love for-ofte seke,
And thralle hem-silf, they be so nyce,
Unto the prince of every vyce.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Did the
harebell
loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For
somebody
hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you night and day.
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Yeats |
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It follows from all this that the ultimate,
aggregate, or absolute effect of even the best epic under the sun, is a
nullity:--and this is
precisely
the fact.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Note: Ronsard's Helene, was Helene de Surgeres, a lady in waiting to
Catherine
de Medicis.
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Ronsard |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame
conveyer
of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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LXVI
Thence she thee brought into this Faerie lond,
And in an heaped furrow did thee hyde,
Where thee a Ploughman all unweeting fond,
As he his toylesome teme that way did guyde,
And brought thee up in
ploughmans
state to byde 590
Whereof Georgos?
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"When the _high_ Helen _her fair cheeks
Showed to the army of the Greeks;_
At which I'll _rise_
(_Blind though as
midnight
in my eyes_),
And hearing it,
Flutter and crow, _and_, in a fit
Of _young_ concupiscence, and _feel
New flames within the aged steal_.
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begirt with bowers
And
shouting
with a thousand rills.
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Poe - 5 |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be
faceless
if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the reddened light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Once when the Emperor was sitting in the Pavilion of Aloes Wood, he had
a sudden stirring of heart, and wanted Po to write a song
expressive
of
his mood.
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Li Po |
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For doubt is none that by the work of soul
Exist in us this sense, and when by slumber
That sense is thwarted, we are bound to think
The soul confounded and expelled abroad--
Yet not entirely, else the frame would lie
Drenched
in the everlasting cold of death.
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Lucretius |
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The Paphlagonians
Pylaemenes
rules,
Where rich Henetia breeds her savage mules,
Where Erythinus' rising cliffs are seen,
Thy groves of box, Cytorus!
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Iliad - Pope |
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agreement
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distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And just as drama,
whatever
grandeur of purpose it may attempt,
must be a good play, so epic must be a good story.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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nat to 2020
enchaufen
{and} *to ben hote.
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Meredith - Poems |
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His
principal patrons were Henry Burgum and George Catcott, a pair of
pewterers, the former vulgar and uneducated but very
ambitious
to be
thought a man of good birth and education, the latter a credulous,
selfish and none too scrupulous fellow, a would-be antiquary, of
whom there is the most delightfully absurd description in Boswell's
_Johnson_.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Something
from
The Doge; it may be also from a parent.
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Byron |
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And
worschiped
hym in word & dede,
Alle ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Avoid, thou
smellest
all of kitchen-grease.
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Tennyson |
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