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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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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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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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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nat to 2020
enchaufen
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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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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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Avoid, thou
smellest
all of kitchen-grease.
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At
Edinburgh
I was in a new world; I mingled
among many classes of men, but all of them new to me, and I was all
attention to "catch" the characters and "the manners living as they
rise.
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to spreden his
clerenesse
w{i}t{h}
rosene chariettes.
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"
"Felon be I," said Guenes, "aught to
conceal!
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It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have
thousands
of globes and all time.
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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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Evening falls and in the garden
Women tell their histories
to Night that not without disdain
spills their dark hair's mysteries
Little children little children
Your wings have flown away
But you rose that defend yourself
Throw your
unrivalled
scents away
For now's the hour of petty theft
Of plumes of flowers and of tresses
Gather the fountain jets so free
Of whom the roses are mistresses
?
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Appoloinaire |
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If the
greatnesses
are in
conjunction in a man or woman, it is enough--the fact will prevail through
the universe: but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail.
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Whitman |
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If Fortune now compel thee to forego
The prize, and do my will in thy despite,
Grieve not at this, but rather grieve that thou
Art found a
perjured
traitor to thy vow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Have you by any chance heard how that mystical, strange celebration
Followed
victorious
troops back from Eleusis to Rome?
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Had any one told me of
it, I would have
rejected
it.
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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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Would you cast your jewels all to the breezes
blowing?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Neglected the kettle,
scorched
the Frau!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Phaedra
What benefit do you hope for from this
violence?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife Ambroise de Lore, as though
composed
by him.
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Villon |
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Then we our steps
Toward that
territory
mov'd, secure
After the hallow'd words.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long
disgrace
and scorn,
You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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* Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Transcriber's Notes
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
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in paragraph 1.
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To thee, my son, the
suppliant
I resign;
I gave him my protection, grant him thine.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Farewell,
farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Herewarde, borne of parentes brave and wyse, 545
Within this vylle fyrste adrewe the ayre,
A
blessynge
to the erthe sente from the skies,
In anie kyngdom nee coulde fynde his pheer;
Now rybbd in steele he rages yn the fyghte,
And sweeps whole armies to the reaulmes of nyghte.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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so,
bot libbe in woo & wrake; 792
(67)
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But Britain,
changeful
as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I
compleyned
and sighed sore, 3485
And languisshed evermore,
For I durst not over go
Unto the rose I loved so.
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The tyrant Death, with grim control,
May seize my
fleeting
breath;
But tearing Peggy from my soul
Must be a stronger death.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But let them look over all the great
and
monstrous
wickednesses, they shall never find those in poor families.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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She's
followed
him, of course; she's heard of this
Mad escapade and followed after him.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Et Saint Apollinaire, raide et ascetique,
Vieille usine desaffectee de Dieu, tient encore
Dans ses pierres
ecroulantes
la forme precise de Byzance.
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T.S. Eliot |
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When near the famed Phaeacian walls he drew,
The beauteous city opening to his view,
His step a virgin met, and stood before:
A polish'd urn the seeming virgin bore,
And
youthful
smiled; but in the low disguise
Lay hid the goddess with the azure eyes.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Let me, I pray, your
teachings
share!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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There sit an old one and a young together;
They've skipped it well along the
heather!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He was
fond of long walks, unlike the
generality
of his countrymen, and
at one time of his career used daily to foot it into St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But she, the child, knew not the solemn words,
And suddenly yielded to a troublous wailing,
As helpless as the cry of
frightened
birds
Whose untried wings for flight are unavailing.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But it's to Bacchus, the
sensuous
dreamer, Cythera sends glances
Bathed in sweetest desire--even in marble they're damp.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Thick through the
changing
year
The unexpected, rich-charged moments come,
That you twixt wake and sleep
In the lids of the closed eyes shall make appear.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Now
wrinkled
forehead, hair gone grey:
Sparse eyelashes: eyes so dim,
That laughed and flashed once every way,
And reeled their roaming victims in:
Nose bent from beauty, ears thin,
Hanging down like moss, a face,
Pallid, dead and bleak, the chin
Furrowed, a skinny-lipped disgrace.
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Villon |
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Yea, if thou wilt die of a
parching
mouth.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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'
Than aftir, ful deliverly, 3005
Through the breres anoon wente I,
Wherof
encombred
was the hay.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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that sacred pledge,[214]
Which, once partaken, blunts the sabre's edge,
Makes even contending tribes in peace unite,
And hated hosts seem
brethren
to the sight!
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Byron |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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John Donne |
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In the
long run, I fancy, the effect of gracious
loveliness
which Alcestis
certainly makes is not so much due to any words of her own as to what the
Handmaid and the Serving Man say about her.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Now the ancient river,
That all day under the arch was
polished
jade,
Becomes the ghost of a river, thinly gleaming
Under a silver cloud.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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But why this
mourning
hair, this garb of woe?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What are her
feelings
toward the
Knight?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The song you may keep, as I
remember
it.
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Robert Burns |
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" he says,
"For winning me from one
Who ever in her living days
Was pure as
cloistered
nun!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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þē þū hēr tō lōcast (_upon which thou
here lookest_), 1655; folc tō sǣgon (_the folk looked on_), 1423; þæt hī
him tō mihton gegnum gangan (_might proceed thereto_), 313; sē þe him
bealwa tō bōte gelȳfde (_who
believed
in help out of evils from him_, i.
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Beowulf |
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When jumping time away on old Crossberry Way,
And eating awes like
sugarplums
ere they had lost the may,
And skipping like a leveret before the peep of day
On the roly poly up and downs of pleasant Swordy Well,
When in Round Oak's narrow lane as the south got black again
We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain,
With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain;
How delicious was the dinner time on such a showery day!
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John Clare |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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That with their counsels bad her
kingdome
did uphold.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Rewards, that either would to virtue bring
No joy, or be
destructive
of the thing:
How oft by these at sixty are undone
The virtues of a saint at twenty-one!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Diege
Just vengeance
deserves
no such punishment.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Hope: with all the
strength
thou usest
In embracing thy despair.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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) I
understand
this!
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Kipling - Poems |
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)
But what new trouble
disturbs
dear Oenone?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Pour,
Bacchus!
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Emerson - Poems |
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IMPROMPTU
My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green Sirius;
In thick dark groves trees huddle lifting their branches like
beckoning
hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
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Meredith - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet
prodigal
inward joy.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Here spread wide
continents
their bosoms green,
And hoary Ocean heaves his breast between.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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PHILIP AND PHOEBE WARE
Who is that woman, Philip,
standing
there
Before the mirror doing up her hair?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Yet, in the midst of this universal joy, I have
perceived
one afflicted
thing.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--From
these, and the other historical notes which I have collected, it may be
inferred, that Marino Faliero
possessed
many of the qualities, but not
the success of a hero; and that his passions were too violent.
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Byron |
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XXV
At last it chaunced this proud Sarazin
To meete me wandring, who perforce me led
With him away, but yet could never win
The Fort, that Ladies hold in soveraigne dread; 220
There lies he now with foule dishonour dead,
Who whiles he livde, was called proud Sansfoy,
The eldest of three brethren, all three bred
Of one bad sire, whose
youngest
is Sansjoy;
And twixt them both was born the bloudy bold Sansloy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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La Fontaine |
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It fell, as he ordered,
in rapid
achievement
that ready it stood there,
of halls the noblest: Heorot {1a} he named it
whose message had might in many a land.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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But what matters an
eternity
of damnation to him who
has found in one second an eternity of enjoyment?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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--They shall not see thee, when I display at large
The riches and the honour; I've enough
Possession, without thee, to stupify
The
assembly
of my men, my herd of kings.
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"And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height,
Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
While she and I
together
live
Here in this happy dell.
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Golden Treasury |
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The son of Philip, when he saw the tomb
Of fierce Achilles, with a sigh, thus said:
"O happy, whose
achievements
erst found room
From that illustrious trumpet to be spread
O'er earth for ever!
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Petrarch |
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So, when thou
Beneath
Sicanian
billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'The slavery
question
aint no ways bewilderin,'
North an' South hev one int'rest, it's plain to a glance;
No'thern men, like us patriarchs, don't sell their childrin,
But they _du_ sell themselves, ef they git a good chance,' 60
Sez John C.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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She has no
sympathy
with the myrtles.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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s own
position
at court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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