Such only may outreach the envious years
Where feebler crowns and fainter stars remove,
Nurtured
in one remembrance and one love
Too high for passion and too stern for tears.
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In the rich South there flows
A
fountain
from the sun its name that wins,
This marvel still that shows,
Boiling at night, but chill when day begins;
Cold, yet more cold it grows
As the sun's mounting car we nearer see:
So happens it with me
(Who am, alas!
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What if we find
Some easier
enterprize?
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162; his
portrait
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Ariosto, _iv.
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on board a fond debate arose;
What rare device those vessels might
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Firmly thou
shalt all maintain,
mighty
strength
with mood of wisdom.
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Apropos, is
not the Scotch phrase, "Auld lang syne," exceedingly
expressive?
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--Men that talk of their own
benefits
are not
believed to talk of them because they have done them; but to have done
them because they might talk of them.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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To such degree from all things is each thing
Borne streamingly along, and sent about
To every region round; and nature grants
Nor rest nor respite of the onward flow,
Since 'tis
incessantly
we feeling have,
And all the time are suffered to descry
And smell all things at hand, and hear them sound.
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The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun And slay the
memories
that me cheer (Such as I drink to mine fashion) Wincing the ghosts of yester-year.
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She stirr'd not--breath'd not--for a voice was there
How solemnly
pervading
the calm air!
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The mightiest wine my sutlers have;
Wine with the sun's own
grandeur
in it, and all
The wildness of the earth conceiving Spring
From the sun's golden lust: wine for us twain!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Conquest of Summer
THE blue-toned campions and the blood-red poppies
Escape the
murmuring
and fleeting grain!
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Race d'Abel, tu crois et broutes
Comme les
punaises
des bois!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The sabbath bells, and their
delightful
chime;
The gambols and wild freaks at shearing time;
My hen's rich nest through long grass scarce espied;
The cowslip-gathering at May's dewy prime;
The swans, that, when I sought the water-side,
From far to meet me came, spreading their snowy pride.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And now she's at the doctor's door,
She lifts the knocker, rap, rap, rap,
The doctor at the casement shews,
His
glimmering
eyes that peep and doze;
And one hand rubs his old night-cap.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"
The night passed away in song; morning
returned
in joy.
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Though remembrance
brings me shame indeed, I would forget nothing; and even before I
recognised thee, thou ancient monster, thy mysterious cutlery, thy
equivocal phials, and the chain that
imprisons
thy feet, were symbols
showing clearly enough the inconvenience of thy friendship.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Florenz makes some rather haphazard and
inaccurate
selections
from this chronology.
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Li Po |
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Horrid was
His rough
appearance
to them; the hard pass
He had at sea stuck by him.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a
woman as a
nonconformist
conscience.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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A
rustling
and a flitter
Torments and charms, makes sad and free.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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`For thus ferforth I have thy work bigonne, 960
Fro day to day, til this day, by the morwe,
Hir love of
freendship
have I to thee wonne,
And also hath she leyd hir feyth to borwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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er he stod, he stroked his berde,
& wyth a
countenaunce
dry3e he dro3 doun his cote,
336 No more mate ne dismayd for hys mayn dinte3,
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Milne, "where oaks
were planted actually among the pines and
surrounded
by them [though
the soil might be inferior], the oaks were found to be much the best.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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How should he guess that the
children
of Tz?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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He next held various posts at the capital, but again fell ill, and in
829 settled at Lo-yang as
Governor
of the Province of Honan.
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--Spectre with flashing eyes,
And art thou Satan come to us
surprise?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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That the maker of cities grew faint
with the
splendour
of palaces,
paused while the incense-flowers
from the incense-trees
dropped on the marble-walk,
thought anew, fashioned this--
street after street alike.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She might have wept if that hand
Coldly placed against her heart,
Had ever felt dew's
heavenly
wand
Touch human clay with subtle art.
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e;
Adiourne your
beatings
euery terme; and make
New parties for your proiects.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
He spoke, and bow'd his
prostrate
body low,
As one who waits the lifted sabre's blow;
When o'er the block his languid arms are spread,
And death, foretasted, whelms the heart with dread:
So great a leader thus in humbled state,
So firm his loyalty, his zeal so great,
The brave Alonzo's kindled ire subdu'd,
And, lost in silent joy, the monarch stood;
Then gave the hand, and sheath'd the hostile sword,
And, to such honour honour'd peace[205] restor'd.
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Robert Forst |
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'Tis a concealment needful in extreme;
And if I guess'd not so, the sunny beam
Thou
shouldst
mount up to with me.
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Keats |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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But who is he,
My
terrible
antagonist?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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But sith I see my lord mot nedes dye,
And I with him, here I me shryve, and seye 440
That
wikkedly
ye doon us bothe deye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the
unoffending
feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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do nete nowe to AElla syke love bere,
Botte geven some onne
Celmondes
hedde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"An
engineer?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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* You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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De ses yeux amortis les
paresseuses
larmes,
L'air brise, la stupeur, la morne volupte,
Ses bras vaincus, jetes comme de vaines armes,
Tout servait, tout parait sa fragile beaute.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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260
And now he thither came for like intent;
Where he unwares the fairest Una found,
Straunge Lady, in so straunge habiliment,
Teaching
the Satyres, which her sat around,
Trew sacred lore, which from her sweet lips did redound.
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We're bearing
fivescore
Christian dogs
To serve the cruel drivers:
Some are fair beauties gently born,
And some rough coral-divers.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Comme then, and see you
swotelie
tune the strynge,
And stret[42], and engyne all the human wytte,
Toe please mie dame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Death -
ridiculous
enemy
- who cannot impose on the child
the notion that you exist!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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In love, he cannot therefore cease his trade;
Scarce the first blush has overspread his cheek,
He feels it,
introverts
his learned eye
To catch the unconscious heart in the very act.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
Oh friend, oh comrade of the radiant days
Of love, of hope, of passionate surmise
When beauty
throbbed
like heat before the eyes And even sorrow wore a golden haze!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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He does not stare upon the air
Through a little roof of glass:
He does not pray with lips of clay
For his agony to pass;
Nor feel upon his
shuddering
cheek
The kiss of Caiaphas.
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Wilde - Poems |
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XXII
My glass shall not
persuade
me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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XXX
God grant I meet not at a ball
Or at a promenade mayhap,
A
schoolmaster
in yellow shawl
Or a professor in tulle cap.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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115
Cleer was the water, and as cold
As any welle is, sooth to seyne;
And somdel lasse it was than Seine,
But it was
straighter
wel away.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"Yes, you are quite right, my little father,"
rejoined
she; "it is of
no use your trying to play the sly fox.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And then I go the
furthest
off
To counteract a knock;
Then draw my little letter forth
And softly pick its lock.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"And is she not unhappy then, to find
How
wretched
you must be?
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His
imagination
had no will of its own.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But Pallas knew (thy friends and navy lost)
Once more 'twas given thee to behold thy coast;
Yet how could I with adverse Fate engage,
And mighty Neptune's
unrelenting
rage?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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since the noble Chief
Ulysses is no more, press not as yet
My nuptials, wait till I shall finish, first,
A fun'ral robe (lest all my threads decay) 130
Which for the antient Hero I prepare,
Laertes, looking for the
mournful
hour
When fate shall snatch him to eternal rest;
Else I the censure dread of all my sex,
Should he, so wealthy, want at last a shroud.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then, as though with a swift
impatient
gesture,
Flashing from distant stars on sweeping wing,
You come, and over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the rain falls in the spring.
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Rilke - Poems |
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till to-morrow eve,
And you, my
friends!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But should the gate
confront
another bed,
And on my couch a jealous step-dame sit,
Laud, boys, and praise the bride your sire has wed;
She will be won charmed with your ready wit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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'391'
An allusion to Addison's unhappy marriage with the
Countess
of Warwick.
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Notes: The Calends, Latin Kalendae,
corresponded
to the first days of each month of the Roman calendar, signifying the start of the new moon cycle.
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Troubador Verse |
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A sorry lover, how can I be
resigned?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Bellowing
there groan'd
A noise as of a sea in tempest torn
By warring winds.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--Truth is man's proper good, and the only
immortal thing was given to our
mortality
to use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Adams
gives way, with the explanation that it is not mistrust but tender
love that enjoins him to watch over her, and, as she leaves him,
Her long with ardent look his eye pursued
Delighted, but
desiring
more her stay.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A Moment's Halt--a
momentary
taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste--
And Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Much country had been traversed by the knight,
Urged by the furious rage which him misguides:
At last he reached the hill whose boundary height
Arragonese and
neighbouring
Frank divides.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The Lord descended from above,
And bowed the heavens high;
And
underneath
his feet He cast
The darkness of the sky.
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Longfellow |
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Her public is the noon,
Her providence the sun,
Her progress by the bee proclaimed
In sovereign,
swerveless
tune.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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We were five hundred, but with swift support
Grew to three thousand as we reached the port,
So that seeing us marching to that stage,
Those most terrified found new
courage!
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The Queen who
conquers
all must yield to thee--
The Pleasures fled, but sought as warm a clime;
And Venus, constant to her native sea,
To nought else constant, hither deigned to flee,
And fixed her shrine within these walls of white;
Though not to one dome circumscribeth she
Her worship, but, devoted to her rite,
A thousand altars rise, for ever blazing bright.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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" Answering not, mine eyes I rais'd,
And saw her, where aloof she sat, her brow
A wreath
reflecting
of eternal beams.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Metuere Leones
Sic olim,
sacrosque
artus violare Prophetae
Bellua non ausa est quamquam jejuna, sitimque 75
Optaret nimis humano satiare cruore.
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John Donne |
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O'er plains the rivers wind,
And reach the sea; the bee, by
instinct
driven,
Finds out the honeyed flowers; the eagle flies
To seek the sun; the vulture where death lies;
The swallow to the spring; the prayer to Heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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It was by
Harvey that the poet was
introduced
to Sir Philip Sidney, the most
accomplished gentleman in England, and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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My pleugh is now thy
bairntime
a';
Four gallant brutes as e'er did draw;
Forbye sax mae, I've sell't awa,
That thou hast nurst:
They drew me thretteen pund an' twa,
The vera worst.
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Robert Forst |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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We learn no other but the confident tyrant
Keeps still in
Dunsinane
and will endure
Our setting down before't.
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Shakespeare |
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Wherefore arise, ye pair, conjoin loves ardently longed-for,
Now doth the groom receive with happiest omen his goddess,
Now let the bride at length to her
yearning
spouse be delivered.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Now Earl of
Leicester!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
Do we want laurels for
ourselves
most,
Or most that no one else shall have any?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Both parties were
actuated
by feelings of pride and ambition.
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Tacitus |
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e
wyldrenesse
of Wyrale; wonde ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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An
elderly waiter with trembling hands was hurriedly
spreading
a pink and white checked cloth over the rusty
green iron table, saying: "If the lady and gentleman
wish to take their tea in the garden, if the lady and
gentleman wish to take their tea in the garden.
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T.S. Eliot |
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