Fancy the embryo coats of down,
The gradual
feathers
soft and sleek;
Till clothed and strong from tail to crown,
With virgin warblings in their beak,
They too go forth to soar and seek.
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" And
wasn't it mesilf, sure, that jist giv'd it the laste little bit of a
squaze in the world, all in the way of a commincement, and not to be too
rough wid her
leddyship?
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A Greek was
murdered
at a Polish dance,
Another bank defaulter has confessed.
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Independent editing, however, is
not
altogether
lacking.
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[Sidenote C: The lady inquire whether he has a
mistress
that he loves
better than her.
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les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
Et du fleuve prochain a grand'voix triomphales
Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
Attys Attys Attys charmant et debraille
C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raille
Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
La foret fuit au loin comme une armee antique
Dont les lances o pins s'agitent au tournant
Les
villages
eteints meditent maintenant
Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poetes
Et ne s'eveilleront au pas de nul venant
Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaetes
LUL DE FALTENIN
A Louis de Gonzague Frick
Sirenes j'ai rampe vers vos
Grottes tiriez aux mers la langue
En dansant devant leurs chevaux
Puis battiez de vos ailes d'anges
Et j'ecoutais ces choeurs rivaux
Une arme o ma tete inquiete
J'agite un feuillage defleuri
Pour ecarter l'haleine tiede
Qu'exhalent contre mes grands cris
Vos terribles bouches muettes
Il y a la-bas la merveille
Au prix d'elle que valez-vous
Le sang jaillit de mes otelles
A mon aspect et je l'avoue
Le meurtre de mon double orgueil
Si les bateliers ont rame
Loin des levres a fleur de l'onde
Mille et mille animaux charmes
Flairent la route a la rencontre
De mes blessures bien-aimees
Leurs yeux etoiles bestiales
Eclairent ma compassion
Qu'importe sagesse egale
Celle des constellations
Car c'est moi seul nuit qui t'etoile
Sirenes enfin je descends
Dans une grotte avide J'aime
Vos yeux Les degres sont glissants
Au loin que vous devenez naines
N'attirez plus aucun passant
Dans l'attentive et bien-apprise
J'ai vu feuilloler nos forets
Mer le soleil se gargarise
Ou les matelots desiraient
Que vergues et mats reverdissent
Je descends et le firmament
S'est change tres vite en meduse
Puisque je flambe atrocement
Que mes bras seuls sont les excuses
Et les torches de mon tourment
Oiseaux tiriez aux mers la langue
Le soleil d'hier m'a rejoint
Les otelles nous ensanglantent
Dans le nid des Sirenes loin
Du troupeau d'etoiles oblongues
LA TZIGANE
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrees par les nuits
Nous lui dimes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'Esperance
L'amour lourd comme un ours prive
Dansa debout quand nous voulumes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs Ave
On sait tres bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a predit la tzigane
L'ERMITE
A Felix Feneon
Un ermite dechaux pres d'un crane blanchi
Cria Je vous maudis martyres et detresses
Trop de tentations malgre moi me caressent
Tentations de lune et de logomachies
Trop d'etoiles s'enfuient quand je dis mes prieres
O chef de morte O vieil ivoire Orbites Trous
Des narines rongees J'ai faim Mes cris s'enrouent
Voici donc pour mon jeune un morceau de gruyere
O Seigneur flagellez les nuees du coucher
Qui vous tendent au ciel de si jolis culs roses
Et c'est le soir les fleurs de jour deja se closent
Et les souris dans l'ombre incantent le plancher
Les humains savent tant de jeux l'amour la mourre
L'amour jeu des nombrils ou jeu de la grande oie
La mourre jeu du nombre illusoire des doigts
Saigneur faites Seigneur qu'un jour je m'enamoure
J'attends celle qui me tendra ses doigts menus
Combien de signes blancs aux ongles les paresses
Les mensonges pourtant j'attends qu'elle les dresse
Ses mains enamourees devant moi l'Inconnue
Seigneur que t'ai-je fait Vois Je suis unicorne
Pourtant malgre son bel effroi concupiscent
Comme un poupon cheri mon sexe est innocent
D'etre anxieux seul et debout comme une borne
Seigneur le Christ est nu jetez jetez sur lui
La robe sans couture eteignez les ardeurs
Au puits vont se noyer tant de tintements d'heures
Quand isochrones choient des gouttes d'eau de pluie
J'ai veille trente nuits sous les lauriers-roses
As-tu sue du sang Christ dans Gethsemani
Crucifie reponds Dis non Moi je le nie
Car j'ai trop espere en vain l'hematidrose
J'ecoutais a genoux toquer les battements
Du coeur le sang roulait toujours en ses arteres
Qui sont de vieux coraux ou qui sont des clavaines
Et mon aorte etait avare eperdument
Une goutte tomba Sueur Et sa couleur
Lueur Le sang si rouge et j'ai ri des damnes
Puis enfin j'ai compris que je saignais du nez
A cause des parfums violents de mes fleurs
Et j'ai ri du vieil ange qui n'est point venu
De vol tres indolent me tendre un beau calice
J'ai ri de l'aile grise et j'ote mon cilice
Tisse de crins soyeux par de cruels canuts
Vertuchou Riotant des vulves des papesses
De saintes sans tetons j'irai vers les cites
Et peut-etre y mourir pour ma virginite
Parmi les mains les peaux les mots et les promesses
Malgre les autans bleus je me dresse divin
Comme un rayon de lune adore par la mer
En vain j'ai supplie tous les saints aemeres
Aucun n'a consacre mes doux pains sans levain
Et je marche Je fuis o nuit Lilith ulule
Et clame vainement et je vois de grands yeux
S'ouvrir tragiquement O nuit je vois tes cieux
S'etoiler calmement de splendides pilules
Un squelette de reine innocente est pendu
A un long fil d'etoile en desespoir severe
La nuit les bois sont noirs et se meurt l'espoir vert
Quand meurt les jour avec un rale inattendu
Et je marche je fuis o jour l'emoi de l'aube
Ferma le regard fixe et doux de vieux rubis
Des hiboux et voici le regard des brebis
Et des truies aux tetins roses comme des lobes
Des corbeaux eployes comme des tildes font
Une ombre vaine aux pauvres champs de seigle mur
Non loin des bourgs ou des chaumieres sont impures
D'avoir des hiboux morts cloues a leur plafond
Mes kilometres longs Mes tristesses plenieres
Les squelettes de doigts terminant les sapins
Ont egare ma route et mes reves poupins
Souvent et j'ai dormi au sol des sapinieres
Enfin O soir pame Au bout de mes chemins
La ville m'apparut tres grave au son des cloches
Et ma luxure meurt a present que j'approche
En entrant j'ai beni les foules des deux mains
Cite j'ai ri de tes palais tels que des truffes
Blanches au sol fouille de clairieres bleues
Or mes desirs s'en vont tous a la queue leu leu
Ma migraine pieuse a coiffe sa cucuphe
Car toutes sont venues m'avouer leurs peches
Et Seigneur je suis saint par le voeu des amantes
Zelotide et Lorie Louise et Diamante
Ont dit Tu peux savoir o toi l'effarouche
Ermite absous nos fautes jamais venielles
O toi le pur et le contrit que nous aimons
Sache nos coeurs sache les jeux que nous aimons
Et nos baisers quintessencies comme du miel
Et j'absous les aveux pourpres comme leur sang
Des poetesses nues des fees des formarines
Aucun pauvre desir ne gonfle ma poitrine
Lorsque je vois le soir les couples s'enlacant
Car je ne veux plus rien sinon laisser se clore
Mes yeux couple lasse au verger pantelant
Plein du rale pompeux des groseillers sanglants
Et de la sainte cruaute des passiflores
AUTOMNE
Dans le brouillard s'en vont un paysan cagneux
Et son boeuf lentement dans le brouillard d'automne
Qui cache les hameaux pauvres et vergogneux
Et s'en allant la-bas le paysan chantonne
Une chanson d'amour et d'infidelite
Qui parle d'une bague et d'un coeur que l'on brise
Oh!
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), 2371; gehwylc hiora his ferhðe
trēowde
þæt hē .
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Beowulf |
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But when thy glance rests on me then my whole
Being
quickens
and blooms like trees in May.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Note: Hercules, Alcmene's son,
tormented
by the shirt of Nessus immolated himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta, and was deified.
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perhaps 't was pluck
That
hardened
him--a man among the men--
Perhaps.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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So kind in
cruelty!
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Petrarch |
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Spare us the
inexpiable
wrong, the unutterable shame,
That turns the coward's heart to steel, the sluggard's blood to
flame,
Lest, when our latest hope is fled, ye taste of our despair,
And learn by proof, in some wild hour, how much the wretched
dare.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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LONDON
I wander through each
chartered
street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
A mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ware mill-sites filled the country up ez thick ez you could cram 'em,
An' desput rivers run about a beggin' folks to dam 'em;
Then there were meetinhouses, tu, chockful o' gold an' silver 50
Thet you could take, an' no one couldn't hand ye in no bill fer;--
Thet's wut I thought afore I went, thet's wut them fellers told us
Thet stayed to hum an' speechified an' to the buzzards sold us;
I thought thet gold-mines could be gut cheaper than Chiny asters,
An' see myself acomin' back like sixty Jacob Astors;
But sech idees soon melted down an' didn't leave a grease-spot;
I vow my holl sheer o' the spiles wouldn't come nigh a V spot;
Although, most
anywares
we've ben, you needn't break no locks,
Nor run no kin' o' risks, to fill your pocket full o' rocks.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then is your mind well trained and cased
In Spanish boots,[18] all snugly laced,
So that henceforth it can creep ahead
On the road of thought with a
cautious
tread.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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--
why not
hitherto?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Imagists |
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Those corpses of young men,
Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets, those hearts pierc'd by
the gray lead,
Cold and
motionless
as they seem live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure
A second-hand dagger-proof coat--
So the Baker advised it--and next, to insure
Its life in some Office of note:
This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire
(On moderate terms), or for sale,
Two
excellent
Policies, one Against Fire,
And one Against Damage From Hail.
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Lewis Carroll |
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One of the ones that Midas touched,
Who failed to touch us all,
Was that
confiding
prodigal,
The blissful oriole.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Swifter than lightning went these wonders rare;
And then the water, into stubborn streams
Collecting, mimick'd the wrought oaken beams,
Pillars, and frieze, and high
fantastic
roof,
Of those dusk places in times far aloof
Cathedrals call'd.
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Keats |
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In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with
painting
in words,
full of sonorous beauty, the surrounding world.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my
birthday
guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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A year passed, during which the
scarecrow
turned philosopher.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus, to myself a prey, from hill to hill,
Pensive by day I roam, and weep at night,
No one state mine, but
changeful
as the moon;
And when I see approaching the brown eve,
Sighs from my bosom, from my eyes fall waves,
The herbs to moisten and to move the woods.
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Petrarch |
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64 and as late
as Heywood's _Wise Woman of Hogsdon_ (c 1638), where a gallant is
apostrophised as Lusty
Juventus
(Act 4).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The roses weren assured alle,
Defenced
with the stronge walle.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The myrrh-hyacinth
spread across low slopes,
violets
streaked
black ridges
through the grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The
helmsman*
used to stand by with tears in
his eyes: _he_ knew it was all wrong, but alas!
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Milk-white, wine-flushed among the vines,
Up and down leaping, to and fro,
Most glad, most full, made strong with wines,
Blooming
as peaches pearled with dew,
Their golden windy hair afloat,
Love-music warbling in their throat,
Young men and women come and go.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Stephen Crane |
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At Gryphon's sight the harlot's spirits fall,
Who fears that he will work her scathe and shame;
And knows her lover has not force and breath
To save her from Sir Gryphon,
threatening
death;
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But like most cunning and audacious quean,
Although she quakes from head to foot with fear,
Her voice so strengthens, and so shapes her mien,
That in her face no signs of dread appear,
Having already made her leman ween
The trick devised, she feigns a joyous cheer,
Towards Sir Gryphon goes, and for long space
Hangs on his neck, fast-locked in her embrace.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'Twas dark
Thyestes
spoke.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Secretly coiled beneath bushes, where he befouls the sweet wellsprings,
Turning to
poisonous
drool Cupid's lifegiving dew.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And there, as
darkness
gathers 5
In the rose-scented garden,
The god who prospers music
Shall give me skill to play.
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Sappho |
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Up, lad, up, 'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty
highways
crying
"Who'll beyond the hills away?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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281,
Gifford changes
_carroch_
to _coach_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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'
So spake he, clouded with his own conceit,
And hid
Excalibur
the second time,
And so strode back slow to the wounded King.
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Tennyson |
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How
drowsily
it weigh'd them into night!
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vs her
In pouere
beggeres
state.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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Then the
legions took up the fight and
equalized
matters by staying the enemy's
wild charge.
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Tacitus |
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His musket falls slack--his face, dark and grim,
Grows gentle with memories tender,
As he mutters a prayer for the
children
asleep--
For their mother--may Heaven defend her!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Their number has even
increased
within a few
years in this vicinity.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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When from the dark synod, or blood-reeking field,
To his chamber the monarch is led,
All soothers of sense their soft virtue shall yield,
And
quietness
pillow his head.
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Ronsard |
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And whan he sawe how that I
Had chosen so ententifly 1720
The botoun, more unto my pay
Than any other that I say,
He took an arowe ful sharply whet,
And in his bowe whan it was set,
He
streight
up to his ere drough 1725
The stronge bowe, that was so tough,
And shet at me so wonder smerte,
That through myn eye unto myn herte
The takel smoot, and depe it wente.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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My horses--my ground-eagles, for swift
fleeing!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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l'abolition de toutes
souffrances
sonores et mouvantes dans la
musique plus intense.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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I moved my fingers off
As
cautiously
as glass,
And held my ears, and like a thief
Fled gasping from the house.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,--
The lives
travelling
dark fears,
And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool
Thrown down abysmal places?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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How will posterity the deed
proclaim!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I am a poor young blood;
The
gentleman
is quite too good;
The jewels and trinkets are none of my own.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Of this we will sup free, but moderately,
And we will have no Pooly' or Parrot by;
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men;
But at our parting we will be as when
We
innocently
met.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Please do not assume that a book's appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner
anywhere
in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Many vassals bow before her as her
carriage
sweeps their doorways;
She has blest their little children, as a priest or queen were she:
Far too tender, or too cruel far, her smile upon the poor was,
For I thought it was the same smile which she used to smile on _me_.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The maid, devoid of guile and sin,
I know not how, in fearful wise,
So deeply had she drunken in
That look, those shrunken serpent eyes,
That all her features were resigned
To this sole image in her mind:
And
passively
did imitate
That look of dull and treacherous hate!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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"
"Nay," said the smith; "for there's one here who waits
Humbly to serve you with unmeasured skill,
Sure that no utmost
devotion
can fail,
Offered to _you_, nor unfriended assail
The heart of the hero and poet Antar, whose
fame is undying!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ei
preceden
euere ner & nerre,
fforto comen to ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He stood a soldier to the last right end,
A perfect patriot, and a noble friend;
But most, a
virtuous
son.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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at brout hys mete,
Prev[i]ly he
shoullde
hym gete
A lytyll ynke and perchemyne, 265
And all hys lyffe he wrote there In.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I was athirst 680
To search the book, and in the warming air
Parted its
dripping
leaves with eager care.
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Keats |
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PRINCESS
OF FRANCE.
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Shakespeare |
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Que les soleils sont beaux dans les chaudes
soirees!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LXXIX
Upon the thought the posting angel brooded,
Where he, for whom he sought was used to dwell,
Who after thinking much, at last concluded
Him he should find in church or convent cell;
Where social speech is in such mode excluded,
That SILENCE, where the cloistered
brethren
swell
Their anthems, where they sleep, and where they sit
At meat; and everywhere in fine is writ.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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' Bacon, _New
Atlantis_
(1658), 22 (O.
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John Donne |
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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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19th Century French Poetry |
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Hast nothing for our
edification?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Eliab this
occasion
seized,
(Distinctly here the spirit sneezed,)
To say that he should ne'er be eased 810
Till Jenny married whom she pleased,
Free from all checks and urgin's,
(This spirit dropt his final g's)
And that, unless Knott quickly sees
This done, the spirits to appease,
They would come back his life to tease,
As thick as mites in ancient cheese,
And let his house on an endless lease
To the ghosts (terrific rappers these
And veritable Eumenides) 820
Of the Eleven Thousand Virgins!
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James Russell Lowell |
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O then, for mercy's sake, behold
These my
eruptions
manifold,
And heal me with Thy look or touch;
But if Thou wilt not deign so much,
Because I'm odious in Thy sight,
Speak but the word, and cure me quite.
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Robert Herrick |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have
supposed
dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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380
Shall I receive by gift what of my own,
When and where likes me best, I can
command?
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Milton |
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50
Or hath that antique mien and robed form
Mov'd in these vales
invisible
till now?
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Keats |
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Straight
into the snare!
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Euripides - Electra |
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What need, O Earth, to have plucked this flower from
blossoming?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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blake-poems |
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They envied even the faithless fame
He earned beneath a Moslem name;
Since he, their
mightiest
chief, had been
In youth a bitter Nazarene.
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Byron |
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[Illustration]
There was an Old Man of the Nile,
Who
sharpened
his nails with a file,
Till he cut off his thumbs, and said calmly, "This comes
Of sharpening one's nails with a file!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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ODE TO BEAUTY
Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,--
Too
credulous
lover
Of blest and unblest?
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Emerson - Poems |
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underneath
the dens of Earth
The Cities send to one another saying My sons are Mad
With wine of cruelty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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fāg,
1264; māne fāh,
_outlawed
through crime_, 979; fyren-dǣdum fāg,
1002.
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Beowulf |
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[Sidenote G: Gawayne and his beautiful
companion
derive much comfort from
each other's conversation.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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