Ihr bringt mit euch die Bilder froher Tage,
Und manche liebe Schatten steigen auf;
Gleich einer alten, halbverklungnen Sage
Kommt erste Lieb und Freundschaft mit herauf;
Der Schmerz wird neu, es wiederholt die Klage
Des Lebens
labyrinthisch
irren Lauf,
Und nennt die Guten, die, um schone Stunden
Vom Gluck getauscht, vor mir hinweggeschwunden.
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[The Young Highland Rover of this strain is supposed by some to be the
Chevalier, and with more
probability
by others, to be a Gordon, as the
song was composed in consequence of the poet's visit to "bonnie
Castle-Gordon," in September, 1787.
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Robert Forst |
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"
He found him in a little
moonlight
room,
Pale, lattic'd, chill, and silent as a tomb.
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Keats |
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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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Now right across proud Tarquin
A corpse was Julius laid;
And Titus groaned with rage and grief,
And at
Valerius
made.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Adieu too, to you too,
My Smith, my bosom frien';
When kindly you mind me,
O then
befriend
my Jean!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Their gallery would necessarily be limited;
but it would be flexible enough to admit, with every fresh exhibit,
three or four new members who had achieved an
importance
and an idiom
of their own.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Difficult
it is
For living man to view the realms of death.
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HANS CARVEL'S RING
HANS CARVEL took, when weak and late in life;
A girl, with youth and beauteous charms to wife;
And with her, num'rous troubles, cares and fears;
For,
scarcely
one without the rest appears.
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La Fontaine |
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Meanwhile I see, how fierce and gallant she
Cares not for me, nor for my misery,
Proud of her virtue, and my overthrow:
And on the other side (if aught I know),
This lord, who hath the world in triumph led,
She keeps in fear; thus all my hopes are dead,
No
strength
nor courage left, nor can I be
Revenged, as I expected once; for he,
Who tortures me and others, is abused
By her; she'll not be caught, and long hath used
(Rebellious as she is!
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Con suoi prieghi devoti e con sospiri
tratto m'ha de la costa ove s'aspetta,
e
liberato
m'ha de li altri giri.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Providence
At length conducted us to Rossland,--there,
Our
melancholy
story moved a Stranger
To take thee to her home--and for myself,
Soon after, the good Abbot of St.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybebe's deep grove,
Hie to the Dindymenean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
The which
affecting
stranger steads as bound in exile's brunt
My sect pursuing led by me have nerved you to confront 15
The raging surge of salty sea and ocean's tyrant hand
As your hate of Venus' hest your manly forms unmann'd,
Gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I reared her and she
heartily
loved me.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Study in detail the fine
description
of Duessa's descent to Erebus.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It has a
supernatural
quality.
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Beowulf |
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The soul of a high intent, be it known,
Can die no more than any soul
Which God keeps by Him under the throne;
And this, at
whatever
interim,
Shall live, and be consummated
Into the being of deeds made whole.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather,
And
shattered
wrecks lie thicker on the strand.
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Longfellow |
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IV
JEUNESSE
I
DIMANCHE
Les calculs de cote, l'inevitable descente du ciel, la visite des
souvenirs et la seance des rythmes
occupent
la demeure, la tete et le
monde de l'esprit.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And I have known the arms already, known them all--
Arms that are
braceleted
and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!
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T.S. Eliot |
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"The
Spectres
said the place was low,
And that you kept bad wine:
So, as a Phantom had to go,
And I was first, of course, you know,
I couldn't well decline.
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Lewis Carroll |
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thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by
elements
so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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, often use _wove_ as a
participle
in place of the
harsh-sounding _woven_, a word almost incompatible with the elegance of
versification.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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There were many, very many
demanding
consideration.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Beating the
cliffs and circling the rocks, they thunder in a
thousand
valleys.
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Li Po |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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But here in Heorot a hand hath slain him
of
wandering
death-sprite.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And where the dungeon's
anguish?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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comfortable
and healing to the weary,
wounded soul of man!
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Robert Forst |
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Penelope scarcely credits her; but
supposes some god has
punished
them, and descends from her
department in doubt.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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For never, I fancy, did a golden cord
From off the firmament above let down
The mortal
generations
to the fields;
Nor sea, nor breakers pounding on the rocks
Created them; but earth it was who bore--
The same to-day who feeds them from herself.
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Lucretius |
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THE QUEEN: With a pure, steady,
honourable
love,
Working and waiting with a patient heart
Till I am free to marry you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Shortly after he had quitted the house of Laelius,
where he usually lodged when he went to Avignon, Guglielmo,
expecting
to
find him there, knocked at the door, but no one opened it--called out,
but no one answered him.
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Petrarch |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Person of Ischia,
Whose conduct grew friskier and friskier;
He danced hornpipes and jigs, and ate
thousands
of figs,
That lively Old Person of Ischia
[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of Vienna,
Who lived upon Tincture of Senna;
When that did not agree, he took Camomile Tea,
That nasty Old Man of Vienna.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Already
He is
completely
tangled in her toils.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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God grant that it may find you and yours in prospering health and
good
spirits!
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Robert Forst |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Underneath
this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die
Which in life did harbour give
To more virtue than doth live.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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And, if each system in gradation roll
Alike
essential
to th' amazing Whole,
The least confusion but in one, not all
That system only, but the Whole must fall.
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Alexander Pope |
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Then worthy Glenriddel, so
cautious
and sage,
No longer the warfare ungodly would wage;
A high Ruling Elder to wallow in wine;
He left the foul business to folks less divine.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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With a broader and deeper background of experience
and environment, which by some divine special privilege belongs to
the poetic imagination, it is easier to set apart and contrast these
opposing words and sympathies in a poet; but here we find them evoked
in a
restricted
locale- an English county-where the rich, cool tranquil
landscape gives a solid texture to the human show.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus saying, she offers him a rich ring of red gold "with a shining
stone
standing
aloft," that shone like the beams of the bright sun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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A watcher of Thy spaces make me,
Make me a
listener
at Thy stone,
Give to me vision and then wake me
Upon Thy oceans all alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Monsieur
Roberval
administered good justice, and punished each
according to his offense.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With this, there growes
In my most ill-composd Affection, such
A
stanchlesse
Auarice, that were I King,
I should cut off the Nobles for their Lands,
Desire his Iewels, and this others House,
And my more-hauing, would be as a Sawce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels vniust against the Good and Loyall,
Destroying them for wealth
Macd.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Among the tawny tasselled reed
The ducks and
ducklings
float and feed.
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John Clare |
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"
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases
pancakes
and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I shall know why, when time is over,
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each
separate
anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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blake-poems |
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Es kann nicht anders sein,
Ich tret heran und fuhre dich herein,
Und ich
verbinde
dich aufs neue.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ne barrier wall, ne river deep and wide,
Ne horrid crags, nor
mountains
dark and tall
Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul
XXXIII.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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from what power hast thou this powerful might,
With
insufficiency
my heart to sway?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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none, mine own soul,
Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n
"For the most fair," in
aftertime
may breed
Deep evilwilledness of heaven and sore
Heartburning toward hallowed Ilion;
And all the colour of my afterlife
Will be the shadow of to-day.
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Tennyson |
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gia nessuno
le seconde
aspettava
ne le terze.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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" on a tip-top ash-tree,
May is white clouds behind pine-trees
Puffed out and
marching
upon a blue sky.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Hast thou a city, is there a door
That knows thy footfall,
Wandering
One?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Quivi venimmo; e quindi giu nel fosso
vidi gente
attuffata
in uno sterco
che da li uman privadi parea mosso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Die
Botschaft
hor ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube;
Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Charme profond, magique, dont nous grise
Dans le present le passe
restaure!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Never, please God His Angels and His Saints,
Never by me shall
Frankish
valour fail!
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Chanson de Roland |
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NEIGHBOUR
But patience, if you please: attend I pray
You've no
conception
what I meant to say:
The playful fair was actively employ'd,
In plucking am'rous flow'rs--they kiss'd and toy'd.
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La Fontaine |
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850
Forthwith from out the Arke a Raven flies,
And after him, the surer messenger,
A Dove sent forth once and agen to spie
Green Tree or ground whereon his foot may light;
The second time returning, in his Bill
An Olive leafe he brings, pacific signe:
Anon drie ground appeers, and from his Arke
The ancient Sire
descends
with all his Train;
Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout,
Grateful to Heav'n, over his head beholds 860
A dewie Cloud, and in the Cloud a Bow
Conspicuous with three lifted colours gay,
Betok'ning peace from God, and Cov'nant new.
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Milton |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson sparkling
precious
stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Evermore
Fresh shall my honours grow, while
pontiffs
still
Do climb the Capitol with silent maid.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Does it answer
universal
needs?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Extremes
in nature equal ends produce,
In man they join to some mysterious use;
Though each by turns the other's bound invade,
As, in some well-wrought picture, light and shade,
And oft so mix, the difference is too nice
Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou wast no true
begetter
of my blood,
Nor she my mother who dares call me child.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In her consists my
happiness
and thine;
Without her, follows to myself and thee,
Herself, the land, and many a Christian soul,
Death, desolation, ruin, and decay.
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Shakespeare |
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A pleasant sleep,
tsarevich!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Over the city bridge Night comes majestical,
Borne like a queen to a
sumptuous
festival.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Grudge no expense, be gen'rous, and be bold,
Your
handfuls
scatter, lavish be of gold.
| Guess: |
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La Fontaine |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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So that these mornings you come as his sweetheart, awakening me at
His festive altar again, where I must
celebrate
him?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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5
There we heard the breath among the grasses
And the gurgle of soft-running water,
Well
contented
with the spacious starlight,
The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance,
Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.
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" It was famous in the
classical ages for
cultivating
literature.
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Petrarch |
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Ma quando disse: <
che qui e buono con l'ali e coi remi,
quantunque puo, ciascun pinger sua barca>>;
dritto si come andar vuolsi rife'mi
con la persona, avvegna che i pensieri
mi
rimanessero
e chinati e scemi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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"I have seen," he said,
"Rome's eagle in a Punic fane,
And armour, ne'er a blood-drop shed,
Stripp'd from the soldier; I have seen
Free sons of Rome with arms fast tied;
The fields we spoil'd with corn are green,
And
Carthage
opes her portals wide.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Geography, the world, is in it;
The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond;
The coast you henceforth are facing--you
Libertad!
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Whitman |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
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William Wordsworth |
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I saw the Days deformed and low,
Short and bent by cold and snow;
The merry Spring threw wreaths on them,
Flower-wreaths gay with bud and bell;
Many a flower and many a gem,
They were
refreshed
by the smell,
They shook the snow from hats and shoon,
They put their April raiment on;
And those eternal forms,
Unhurt by a thousand storms,
Shot up to the height of the sky again,
And danced as merrily as young men.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Aux yeux du
souvenir
que le monde est petit!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I cling to you
Conscious
of the chasm under us,
And a terrible whirring deafens my ears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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_ This
is the
punctuation
of _H39_, and is obviously right, 'in equitie'
going with what follows.
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John Donne |
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She doth not wait for June;
Before the world is green
Her sturdy little countenance
Against the wind is seen,
Contending with the grass,
Near kinsman to herself,
For
privilege
of sod and sun,
Sweet litigants for life.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As music is the language of nature; and poetry, particularly
songs, are always less or more localized (if I may be allowed the
verb) by some of the modifications of time and place, this is the
reason why so many of our Scots airs have
outlived
their original, and
perhaps many subsequent sets of verses; except a single name or
phrase, or sometimes one or two lines, simply to distinguish the tunes
by.
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Robert Forst |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To test his
perception
and prove her feigned
truth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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