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Rilke - Poems |
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I threw a side glance upon these two
confederates
of the usurper.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"There Tityus large and long, in fetters bound,
O'erspreads nine acres of infernal ground;
Two ravenous vultures, furious for their food,
Scream o'er the fiend, and riot in his blood,
Incessant gore the liver in his breast,
The
immortal
liver grows, and gives the immortal feast.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Slombrestow as in a
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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0 life, what would you make of me That they, who love, must weave a veil
Of
troubled
wonder, thick and pale
Before the heaven that shines for me?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,
That all the
misbelieving
and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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aptauitque
suis incongrua tegmina membris
et miserum tanto pressit honore caput.
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What tithe or part
Can I return to thee,
O
stricken
heart,
That thou shouldst break for me?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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In these savage, liquid plains,
Only known to wand'ring swains,
Where the mossy riv'let strays,
Far from human haunts and ways;
All on Nature you depend,
And life's poor season
peaceful
spend.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So drink with Walters, or with
Chartres
eat,
They'll never poison you, they'll only cheat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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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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And I was dying there
Like some poor
stricken
beast, unmissed, alone
In God-forgotten vasts of yellow glare.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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This cherubim
One may
distinguish
among the angelic hierarchies, vowed to the service and glory of the divine, beings with unknown forms and the most amazing beauty.
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Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove,
The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love;
Or just as gay, at council, in a ring
Of mimic'd
statesmen
and their merry king.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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It was pleasant, Kitty thought, to have him at her feet, but
it was better to escape from him and ride with the graceless Cubbon--the
man in a Dragoon
Regiment
at Umballa--the boy with a handsome face, and
no prospects.
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Kipling - Poems |
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When they diverge, the
question
is a more
open one.
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John Donne |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As Appius
Claudius
was that day, so may his grandson be!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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What was it it
whispered?
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Robert Forst |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Go, let thy fancies range
And ramble where they may;
View power in every change,
And what is the
display?
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John Clare |
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ou
p{ro}euedest
in disputynge ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'Tis life to guide the fiery barb
Across the
moonlight
plain;
'Tis life to feel the night-wind
That lifts his tossing mane.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She kept with care her
beauties
rare
From lovers warm and true--
For heart was cold to all but gold,
And the rich came not to won,
But honor'd well her charms to sell.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Henry Ware, and soon after,
because of his senior's
delicate
health, was called on to assume the
full duty.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Waley on
his very learned paper and
beautiful
translations.
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Li Po |
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But the
abandonment of the Saturnian was the
abandonment
of a tradition five
centuries old.
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THROUGH GREAT
IMPATIENCE
OF HIS GRIEVED HED, etc.
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But if the only competition were my brother, 490
Madame, over him I have
essential
claims,
That I could salvage from the law's domains.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But wen it comes to _bein'_ killed,--I tell ye I felt streaked
The fust time 't ever I found out wy
baggonets
wuz peaked;
Here's how it wuz: I started out to go to a fandango,
The sentinul he ups an' sez, 'Thet's furder 'an you can go.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Woe upon spouse and spouse,
Whatso of evil sway
Held her in that
distress!
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Euripides - Electra |
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They look in every
thoughtless
nest
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm:
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O newborn Passion,
glorious
charioteer,
Goading, restraining, swerving these the steeds That draw my life, what founts of.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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6
_perspecta_
a || _?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Accursed
be ye both!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The wine only served to
stimulate
his
imagination.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The
flattered
great may clamours raise
Of power, and their own weakness hide,
But death shall find unlooked-for ways
To end the farce of pride,
An arrow hurtled eer so high,
From een a giant's sinewy strength,
In Time's untraced eternity
Goes but a pigmy length;
Nay, whirring from the tortured string,
With all its pomp of hurried flight,
Tis by the skylark's little wing
Outmeasured in its height.
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John Clare |
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In
the
principal
salon stood a long table, at which about twenty men sat
playing faro, the host of the establishment being the banker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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[_Sits down on the steps of the temple_]
Vijaya, I have brought my evening rice;
The sun has laid his chin on the gray wood,
Weary, with all his poppies
gathered
round him.
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Yeats |
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Queen and Huntress, chaste and fair,
Now the sun is laid to sleep,
Seated in thy silver chair
State in wonted manner keep:
Hesperus
entreats
thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.
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Golden Treasury |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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(Bearded or smooth, to her that gave him suck
The man is always child)--Stay, here's a brow
Split by the Zouaves'
bullets!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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No parts of early Roman
history are richer with poetical
coloring
than those which relate
to the long contest between the privileged houses and the
commonality.
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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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Apart from his depth
and beauty, he has created a new form, endowed
verse with new colour and sound, and greatly ex-
tended the possibilities of
expression
in the German
language.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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On a sloped sandy beach,
Which the spring-tide billows reach,
Stand a watchful throng
Who have hoped and waited long:
"Fie on this ship, that tarries
With the
priceless
freight it carries.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She is so strange,--so strange,--so
strange!
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Longfellow |
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THE MILKMAID
UNDER a daisied bank
There stands a rich red ruminating cow,
And hard against her flank
A cotton-hooded
milkmaid
bends her brow.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Of them
will they even haply claim vengeance for my flight, and wash away this
crime in their
wretched
death.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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_Didelot_,
sometime
Director of the ballet at the Opera at
St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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No more against my bosom press thee,
Seek no more that my hands caress thee,
Leave the sad lips thou hast known so well;
If to my heart thou lean thine ear,
There
grieving
thou shalt only hear
Vain murmuring of an empty shell.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Stephen Crane |
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Sweet smiles, mother's smile,
All the
livelong
night beguile.
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blake-poems |
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The children of the citadel
conquered
all
Their conquerors, smiting them with the pure light
That shone in that strong city fortified.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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e Rounde Table,
2520 [G] & he
honoured
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The dark departs;
The chains now rust that crushed men's flesh and bones,
Feet tread no more the
mildewed
prison stones,
And slavery is lifted from your hearts.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With my mood at its height I wield my brush
And the Five Hills quake;
When the poem is done, my
laughter
soars
To the Blue Isles[32] of the sky.
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Li Po |
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Big
perilous
theorem, hard for king and priest:
`Pursue the West but long enough, 'tis East!
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Sidney Lanier |
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This I forgot last night:
you must not be blamed,
it is not your fault;
as a child, a flower--any flower
tore my breast--
meadow-chicory, a common grass-tip,
a leaf shadow, a flower tint
unexpected
on a winter-branch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Underneath all is the
Expression
of love for men and women,
(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing
love for men and women,
After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and
women.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Suddenly
He woke as from a trance; his snow-white brows
Went arching up, and like two magic ploughs
Furrow'd deep wrinkles in his
forehead
large,
Which kept as fixedly as rocky marge,
Till round his wither'd lips had gone a smile.
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Keats |
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Ay,
wonderful
in Jewry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my
Emanations
are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half-way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer:
Then the world seemed none so bad,
And I myself a
sterling
lad;
And down in lovely muck I've lain,
Happy till I woke again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Foundation
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the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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ou
recordest
me ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
'Lo, what a fiend is here!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more:
Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the
innocent
Sleepe,
Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care,
The death of each dayes Life, sore Labors Bath,
Balme of hurt Mindes, great Natures second Course,
Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Yet when I described the monster (which
I
distinctly
saw, and calmly surveyed through the whole period of
its progress), my readers, I fear, will feel more difficulty in being
convinced of these points than even I did myself.
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Poe - 5 |
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But if the Christmas field has kept
Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Or if one haulm whose year is o'er
Shivers on the upland frore,
-Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain
Whatever
will not flower again,
To give him comfort: he and those
Shall bide eternal bedfellows
Where low upon the couch he lies
Whence he never shall arise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Difficult
is it, alas, to conceal the shame of a monarch;
Hide it can neither his crown, nor a tight Phrygian cap:
Midas has asses ears!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Elegies have
never before been published as here,
together
in the cyclical form of
their original conception.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Moult iert a duel fere ententive
La dolereuse, la chetive; 330
Il ne li tenoit d'envoisier,
Ne d'acoler, ne de baisier:
Car cil qui a le cuer dolent,
<<
Him liste not to pleye ne sterte,
Nor for to daunsen, ne to singe, 345
Ne may his herte in temper bringe
To make Ioye on even or morowe;
For Ioye is
contraire
unto sorowe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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But the
_Taylor_
co?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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blake-poems |
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"Nay, forsooth," quoth the knight, "but for your
kindness
may God
requite you.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And heard this voice of sorrow
breathed
from the hollow pit.
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blake-poems |
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He's hidden in the grass, Verlaine
Only to catch, naively, not drying with his breath
And without his lip
drinking
there, at peace again,
A shallow stream that's slandered, and named Death.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The book closes with the offer of riches, which are
rejected
as "the
toil of fools.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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My heart more love than your
forgetfulness!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ther-with he caste on Pandarus his ye
With chaunged face, and pitous to biholde; 555
And whan he mighte his tyme aright aspye,
Ay as he rood, to Pandarus he tolde
His newe sorwe, and eek his Ioyes olde,
So
pitously
and with so dede an hewe,
That every wight mighte on his sorwe rewe.
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19-22); and
multiplying
a poor woman's oil, 226-233 (2 Kings iv.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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So
constant
to its stolid trust,
The shaft that never knew,
It shames the constancy that fled
Before its emblem flew.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Death is the last debt we owe to nature, and
man ought not to fear it;
certainly
he ought not to fear it more than
sleep and sluggishness.
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Petrarch |
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Think of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives
proportions
to your Soul somehow to
live in other spheres;
I do not know how, but I know it is so.
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Whitman |
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O hero-words that
glittered
like the stars
And stood and shone above the gloomy wars
When the hero-life was done!
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Sidney Lanier |
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oo dedes: 117
A son
conceyued
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The intense energy of their expression is not surpassed by
anything
in
Byron.
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Poe - 5 |
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You
frequently
exclaim to yourself, What
_red_ maples!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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