it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every
wandering
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They compare him to Horace who was short like
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Alexander, one of whose shoulders was higher than the other, and to
Ovid, whose other name, Naso, might
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consociisfaunts
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He has invented lying words and modes,
Empty and vain as his own
coreless
heart;
Evasive meanings, nothings of much sound,
To lure the heedless victim to the toils _235
Spread round the valley of its paradise.
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I fill'd this cup to one made up
Of
loveliness
alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon--
Her health!
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Rude spirits of the
seething
outer strife,
Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright,
Deem, if you list, such hours a waste of life,
Empty of all delight!
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the ruptured guts of
wretched
Virro cry it aloud, and thy lips marked
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He begged
persistently
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Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
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exclaimed
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Screen'd by
protecting
gods from hostile eyes,
They led me to a good man and a wise,
To live beneath thy hospitable care,
And wait the woes Heaven dooms me yet to bear.
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There in a thicket of
dedicated
roses,
Oft did a priestess, as lovely as a vision,
Pouring her soul to the son of Cytherea,
Pray him to hover around the slight canoe-boat,
And with invisible pilotage to guide it
Over the dusk wave, until the nightly sailor
Shivering with ecstasy sank upon her bosom.
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images,
marvellous
ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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"
Herman trembled like a leaf as the
appointed
hour drew near.
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Imagination, loudening with the surf
Of the midsummer wind among the boughs,
Gathers my spirit from the haunts remote
Of
faintest
silence and the shades of sleep,
To bear me on the summit of her wave
Beyond known shores, beyond the mortal edge
Of thought terrestrial, to hold me poised
Above the frontiers of infinity,
To which in the full reflux of the wave
Come soon I must, bubble of solving foam,
Borne to those other shores--now never mine
Save for a hovering instant, short as this
Which now sustains me ere I be drawn back--
To learn again, and wholly learn, I trust,
How beautiful it is to wake at night.
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Da lachte die
Vergifterin
noch:
Ha!
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain tournant leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En
glissant
pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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"This cave under the sea seems to be another of those natural
phenomena of which the writer had
personal
knowledge (ll.
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Faithless
shepherd strayed afar,
Playful dog the gadflies catching;
Wolves bound boldly o'er the bar,
Not a friend the fold is watching--
Poor little lambkins!
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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THE BAY-FIGHT
HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL
[Sidenote: August 5, 1864]
_The poet was acting ensign on the staff of Admiral Farragut,
when he led his squadron past Forts Morgan and Gaines, and into a
victorious fight with the
Confederate
fleet in the Bay of Mobile.
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Choose
whichever
of the
two reasonings you like.
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I cannot
remember
now what Neptune taught me.
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Chanson de Roland |
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On a
doorstep
Johnny sat,
Up and down the street looked he;
Johnny did not own a hat,
Hot or cold tho' days might be;
Johnny did not own a boot
To cover up his muddy foot.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and
Meridian
Lines?
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Gerontes
dreaded was by all around.
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La Fontaine |
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Sager than in thy fortunes; for in them
Ambition
steeled thee on to far too show
That just habitual scorn, which could contemn
Men and their thoughts; 'twas wise to feel, not so
To wear it ever on thy lip and brow,
And spurn the instruments thou wert to use
Till they were turned unto thine overthrow:
'Tis but a worthless world to win or lose;
So hath it proved to thee, and all such lot who choose.
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Pleased to look forward, pleased to look behind,
And count each birthday with a
grateful
mind?
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Daylight
shone _370
At length upon that gloomy river's flow;
Now, where the fiercest war among the waves
Is calm, on the unfathomable stream
The boat moved slowly.
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But his mother was wroth: in a
sternness
quoth she,
"As thou play'st at the ball art thou playing with me?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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WHEN day arrived the monarch was surprised,
To see each
muleteer
alike disguised;
No hair in front of either now was seen;
Why, how is this?
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La Fontaine |
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Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The stars, each one, do seem to pause, affixed
To the ethereal caverns, though they all
Forever are in motion, rising out
And thence revisiting their far descents
When they have
measured
with their bodies bright
The span of heaven.
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Lucretius |
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* * * * *
In _The Book of Pictures_, Rilke's art reaches its culmination on what
might be termed its
monumental
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Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this
shameful
yoke?
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Shakespeare |
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Though I canna ride in weel-booted pride,
And flee o'er the hills like a craw, man,
I can haud up my head wi' the best o' the breed,
Though
fluttering
ever so braw, man.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For there the sovereign good for ever reigns,
Nor evil yet to come, nor present pains;
No baleful birth of time its inmates fear,
That comes, the burthen of the passing year;
No solar chariot circles through the signs,
And now too near, and now too distant, shines;
To
wretched
man and earth's devoted soil
Dispensing sad variety of toil.
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Petrarch |
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The
conceits
of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor
library;
But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of
an Illinois prairie,
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas
uplands, or Florida's glades,
Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Any fairly practised writer,
with the
slightest
ear for rhythm, could compose, for hours together, in
the easy running metre of 'The Song of Hiawatha.
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Lewis Carroll |
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The wanton
troopers
riding by,
Have shot my fawn, and it will die.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I am the absence that taunts you,
The fancy that haunts you;
The ever
unsatisfied
guess
That, questioning emptiness,
Wins a sigh for reply.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Who 'll let me out some gala day,
With
implements
to fly away,
Passing pomposity?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Perform no
miracles
for me,
But justify Thy laws to me
Which, as the years pass by me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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We [743-777]suffer,
each a several ghost;
thereafter
we are sent to the broad spaces of
Elysium, some few of us to possess the happy fields; till length of days
completing time's circle takes out the ingrained soilure and leaves
untainted the ethereal sense and pure spiritual flame.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Do any look as if they died
afeared?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"No
generous
action can delay," verse, 418.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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On this first fleeting day of Spring,
For Winter is gone by,
And every bird on every quivering wing
Floats in a sunny sky;
On this first Summer-like soft day,
While
sunshine
steeps the air,
And every cloud has gat itself away,
And birds sing everywhere.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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Villon |
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I have dwelt on questions of
intellectual
interest and perhaps
thereby diverted attention from that quality in the play which is the most
important as well as by far the hardest to convey; I mean the sheer beauty
and delightfulness of the writing.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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How it woke one April morn,
Fame shall tell;
As from Moultrie, close at hand,
And the
batteries
on the land,
Round its faint but fearless band
Shot and shell
Raining hid the doubtful light;
But they fought the hopeless fight
Long and well,
(Theirs the glory, ours the shame!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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, but its volunteers and employees are scattered
throughout
numerous
locations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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6 _eterne_ O:
_aternum_
D m pr.
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Latin - Catullus |
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This counsel pleases good Orlando so,
That for the holy place he bids him steer;
Who never
swerving
from his course, espies
The lonely rock, upon Aurora's rise.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Thou art so farre before,
That swiftest Wing of Recompence is slow,
To
ouertake
thee.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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at thy tomb, two
fledglings
of thy brood--
A man-child and a maid; hold them in ruth,
Nor wipe them out, the last of Pelops' line.
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Aeschylus |
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Then next I'Il cause my hopeful lad,
If a wild apple can be had,
To crown the hearth;
Lar thus
conspiring
with our mirth;
Then to infuse
Our browner ale into the cruse;
Which, sweetly spiced, we'll first carouse
Unto the Genius of the house.
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Robert Herrick |
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Himself he traces the city walls with a shallow trench, and
builds on it; and in fashion of a camp girdles this first
settlement
on
the shore with mound and battlements.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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You would see that, for all my age, it is very well
attended
to,
and all fresh singed smooth.
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Aristophanes |
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The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthron'd i' th' market-place, did sit alone,
Whistling
to th' air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.
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Shakespeare |
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Here by the
labouring
highway
With empty hands I stroll:
Sea-deep, till doomsday morning,
Lie lost my heart and soul.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Orpheus
Orpheus and Eurydice
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Etienne Baudet, Nicolas Poussin, 1648 - 1711, The Rijksmuseun
Look at this pestilential tribe
Its
thousand
feet, its hundred eyes:
Beetles, insects, lice
And microbes more amazing
Than the world's seventh wonder
And the palace of Rosamunde!
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Appoloinaire |
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something it must mean, for sure,
And Hylax on the
threshold
'gins to bark!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I wish to stand as on a boat and dare
The sweeping storm, mighty, like flag unrolled
In
darkness
but with helmet made of gold
That shimmers restlessly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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I was thy
neighbour
once, thou rugged Pile!
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Golden Treasury |
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I am one, my Liege,
Whom the vile Blowes and Buffets of the World
Hath so incens'd, that I am
recklesse
what I doe,
To spight the World
1.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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, _inherited ground,
hereditary
estate_: dat.
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Beowulf |
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When all their blooms the meadows flaunt
To deck the morning of the year,
Why tinge thy lustres jubilant
With
forecast
or with fear?
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In trembling zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the
priestly
care.
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blake-poems |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O, shun the sea, where shine
The thick-sown
Cyclades!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And worse and
hatefuller
our woes on land;
For where we couched, close by the foeman's wall,
The river-plain was ever dank with dews,
Dropped from the sky, exuded from the earth,
A curse that clung unto our sodden garb,
And hair as horrent as a wild beast's fell.
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Aeschylus |
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O, either 'twas some
stranger
passed, and shore
His locks for very ruth before that tomb:
Or, if he found perchance, to seek his home,
Some spy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Gaze once more on the fast closed eyes;
Mark once the mouth that never speaks;
Think of the man and his quiet manner:
Weep if you will; then go your way;
But remember his face as it looks to the skies,
And the dumb appeal
wherewith
it seeks
To lead us on, as one should say, "Arise--
Go forth to meet your country's noblest day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Straightway
I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,--
"Guess now who holds thee!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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