Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a
fatalistic
drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Ille autem prope iam mediis versatur in undis,
Nec quisquam adparet vacua
mortalis
in alga.
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Grandmother
made some
excuse for not having brought any money, and began to punt.
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can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Following
their
captain's example and issue the men of Maeonia charge in.
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You'd only hear my voice and see my eyes And the remembrance of old
ecstasies
Awakening within you solemn-grand
Would flood my words; you would forget my hand Lay tremulous on yours, you would arise
And go from me as night when silence dies
And dawn and shouting harrow all the land.
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And I will kiss her in the waterfalls,
And at the rainbow's end, and in the incense
That curls about the feet of
sleeping
gods,
And sing with her in canebrakes and in rice fields,
In Romany, eternal Romany.
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The content is however
universal
enough, I think, for a reader of any spiritual persuasion to respond in their own manner, within their own belief system.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And perhaps
the poet whose verse is saturated with tropical hues--he, when young,
sailed in southern seas--might appreciate the monstrous debauch of form
and colour in the Tahitian
canvases
of Paul Gauguin.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Walpurgisnachtstraum
oder Oberons und Titanias goldne
Hochzeit
Intermezzo
THEATERMEISTER:
Heute ruhen wir einmal,
Miedings wackre Sohne.
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In such a case, it is placed in
this edition as if it belonged
chronologically
to 1803, and retains its
place in the series of Poems which memorialise the Tour in Scotland of
that year.
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And would that I, of your own fellowship,
Or dresser of the ripening grape had been,
Or
guardian
of the flock!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Those tapers which we set upon the grave
In fun'ral pomp, but this importance have:
That souls departed are not put out quite;
But as they walked here in their
vestures
white,
So live in heaven in everlasting light.
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Robert Herrick |
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Do not copy, display, perform,
distribute
or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
My father, moved at his speech heart-wrung,
Handed the orderly,
downward
leapt,
The flask of rum at the holster kept.
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Hugo - Poems |
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_Au
departir
la porte baise_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Singers, singing in lawless freedom,
Jokers, pleasant in word and deed,
Run free of false gold, alloy, come,
Men of wit -
somewhat
deaf indeed -
Hurry, be quick now, he's dying poor man.
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Villon |
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Nevertheless, this night
together
with me canst thou rest thee
Here on the verdant leaves; for us there are mellowing apples,
Chestnuts soft to the touch, and clouted cream in abundance;
And the high roofs now of the villages smoke in the distance,
And from the lofty mountains are falling larger the shadows.
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Longfellow |
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Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,
He summ'd the woods in song; or typic drew
The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay
Of languid doves when long their lovers stray,
And all birds' passion-plays that
sprinkle
dew
At morn in brake or bosky avenue.
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Sidney Lanier |
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THE lady had a maid, whose form and size,
Height, easy manners, action, lips, and eyes,
Were thought to be so very like her own,
That one from t'other scarcely could be known;
The mistress was the
prettiest
of the two;
But, in a mask where much escapes the view,
'Twas very difficult a choice to make,
And feel no doubts which better 'twere to take.
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La Fontaine |
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Both she
and her lord probably
distrust
Hrothulf; but she bids the king to be
of good cheer, and, turning to the suspect, heaps affectionate
assurances on his probity.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The carrion Holofernes, my defilement,
Dances a triumph round me, roars and rejoices,
Quickened to
hundreds
of exulting lives.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But when the doves had reached their wonted goal
Where the wide stair of orbed marble dips
Its snows into the sea, her fluttering soul
Just shook the trembling petals of her lips
And passed into the void, and Venus knew
That one fair maid the less would walk amid her retinue,
And bade her servants carve a cedar chest
With all the wonder of this history,
Within whose scented womb their limbs should rest
Where olive-trees make tender the blue sky
On the low hills of Paphos, and the Faun
Pipes in the noonday, and the
nightingale
sings on till dawn.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or seedling there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With
unreproachful
stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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20
Vel si vis, licet obseres palatum,
Dum vostri sim
particeps
amoris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Who would commend his
mistress
now ?
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Marvell - Poems |
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EARTH, FIRE AND WATER
SOME French writer that I read when I was a boy, said that the desert
went into the heart of the Jews in their
wanderings
and made them
what they are.
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Yeats |
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A woeful decadence for this
aristocrat
of life
and letters.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The first two stanzas
describe
the two main words, and each
subsequent stanza one of the cross "lights.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Think of
spiritual
results:
Sure as the earth swims through the heavens, does every one of its objects
pass into spiritual results.
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Whitman |
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A
peaceful
rumbling there,
The town's at our feet.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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by all a mother's joys caress'd,
Haply some wretch has ey'd, and call'd thee bless'd;
Who faint, and beat by summer's breathless ray,
Hath dragg'd her babes along this weary way;
While arrowy fire extorting feverish groans
Shot
stinging
through her stark o'er labour'd bones.
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William Wordsworth |
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Now, Amaryllis, ply in triple knots
The
threefold
colours; ply them fast, and say
This is the chain of Venus that I ply.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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e
rycheste
of that cette.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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for hit was routhe and sinne,
That she upon his sorowes wolde rewe,
But no-thing
thenketh
the fals as doth the trewe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Claudius, though he sang of flagons
And huge
tankards
filled with Rhenish,
From that fiery blood of dragons
Never would his own replenish.
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Longfellow |
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for night is darkling--soon, the festival it brings;
Already see the hydra show its tongues and sombre wings,
And mark upon a shrinking prey the rush of
kindling
breaths;
They tap and sap the threatened walls, and bear uncounted deaths;
And 'neath caresses scorching hot the palaces decay--
Oh, that I, too, could thus caress, and burn, and blight, and slay!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Land of the eastern
Chesapeake!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And when, at times, wrapped in her languor deep,
Earthward
she lets a furtive tear-drop flow,
Some pious poet, enemy of sleep,
Takes in his hollow hand the tear of snow
Whence gleams of iris and of opal start,
And hides it from the Sun, deep in his heart.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Then bit by bit
They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe out-pours,
Beaten by finger-tips of singing men,
When heard through unpathed groves and forest deeps
And woodsy meadows, through the untrod haunts
Of
shepherd
folk and spots divinely still.
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Lucretius |
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O
brightest!
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Keats |
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THOUGH SHE BE LESS SEVERE, HE IS STILL NOT CONTENTED AND
TRANQUIL
AT
HEART.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At _any_
season, such remains may be discovered by looking down into the
transparent lake, and at such
distances
as would argue the existence of
many settlements in the space now usurped by the 'Asphaltites.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A recluse by temperament and habit,
literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the
doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly
limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind,
like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with
great
difficulty
that she was persuaded to print, during her
lifetime, three or four poems.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But God grants your dear England
A strength that shall not cease
Till she have won for all the Earth
From
ruthless
men release,
And made supreme upon her
Mercy and Truth and Honour--
Is this the thing you died for?
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The black and yellow bumble first on wing
To buzz among the sallow's early flowers,
Hiding its nest in holes from fickle spring
Who stints his rambles with her frequent showers;
And one that may for wiser piper pass,
In livery dress half sables and half red,
Who laps a moss ball in the meadow grass
And hoards her stores when April showers have fled;
And russet commoner who knows the face
Of every blossom that the meadow brings,
Starting the
traveller
to a quicker pace
By threatening round his head in many rings:
These sweeten summer in their happy glee
By giving for her honey melody.
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John Clare |
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Roundhead
and Cavalier!
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James Russell Lowell |
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--what miserable agitation
Seizes this
demigod!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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5
LIBATION
By Marjorie Allen
Seiffert
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And I wonder how they should have been
together!
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T.S. Eliot |
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They have seen, by
countless
waters and windows,
The women of your race facing a stony sky;
They have heard, for thousands of years, the voices of women
Asking them: "Why .
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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His eye glanced at the white-nosed bee;
He knew those
children
of the Spring:
When he was well and on the lea
He held one in his hands to sing,
Which filled his heart with glee.
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John Clare |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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When they are come to the
mountain
heights and pathless
coverts, lo, wild goats driven from the cliff-tops run down the ridge;
in another quarter stags speed over the open plain and gather their
flying column in a cloud of dust as they leave the hills.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses reckon up their own:
I may be
straight
though they themselves be bevel;
By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;
Unless this general evil they maintain,
All men are bad and in their badness reign.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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_ There is a silentness
That answers thee enow,
That, like a brazen sound
Excluding others, doth
ensheathe
us round,--
Hear it.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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) 52
HOOD, Thomas (1798-1845) 224, 231, 235
JONSON, Ben (1574-1637) 73, 78, 90
KEATS, John (1795-1821) 166, 167, 191, 193, 198, 229, 244, 255, 270, 284
LAMB, Charles (1775-1835) 220, 233, 237
LINDSAY, Anne (1750-1825) 152
LODGE, Thomas (1556-1625) 16
LOGAN, John (1748-1788) 127
LOVELACE, Richard (1618-1658) 83, 99, 100
LYLYE, John (1554-1600) 51
MARLOWE,
Christopher
(1562-1593) 5
MARVELL, Andrew (1620-1678) 65, 111, 114
MICKLE, William Julius (1734-1788) 154
MILTON, John (1608-1674) 62, 64, 66, 70, 71, 76, 77, 85, 112, 113, 115
MOORE, Thomas (1780-1852) 185, 201, 217, 221, 225
NAIRN, Carolina (1766-1845) 157
NASH, Thomas (1567-1601?
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Golden Treasury |
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Right as the wilde bole
biginneth
springe
Now here, now there, y-darted to the herte, 240
And of his deeth roreth in compleyninge,
Right so gan he aboute the chaumbre sterte,
Smyting his brest ay with his festes smerte;
His heed to the wal, his body to the grounde
Ful ofte he swapte, him-selven to confounde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire,
In
lightnings
own'd his secret stings;
In one rude clash he struck the lyre
And swept with hurried hand the strings.
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Golden Treasury |
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Each year to ancient friendships adds a ring,
As to an oak, and precious more and more,
Without
deservingness
or help of ours,
They grow, and, silent, wider spread, each year,
Their unbought ring of shelter or of shade,
Sacred to me the lichens on the bark,
Which Nature's milliners would scrape away; 170
Most dear and sacred every withered limb!
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James Russell Lowell |
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That mockery
In Calcabrina fury stirr'd, who flew
After him, with desire of strife inflam'd;
And, for the
barterer
had 'scap'd, so turn'd
His talons on his comrade.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
unchariest
muse
To embracements warm as theirs makes coy excuse.
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Keats |
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opaca praebent arbores umbracula
prohibentque
densis feruidum solem comis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Stephen Crane |
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)
By Power, Wealth, and Show,
(The Gods by men adored,)
By
nameless
Poverty,
(Their hell abhorred,)
By all they hope, by all they fear,
Hear!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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'
Thereupon she took
A bird's-eye-view of all the ungracious past;
Glanced at the legendary Amazon
As
emblematic
of a nobler age;
Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of those
That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo;
Ran down the Persian, Grecian, Roman lines
Of empire, and the woman's state in each,
How far from just; till warming with her theme
She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique
And little-footed China, touched on Mahomet
With much contempt, and came to chivalry:
When some respect, however slight, was paid
To woman, superstition all awry:
However then commenced the dawn: a beam
Had slanted forward, falling in a land
Of promise; fruit would follow.
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Tennyson |
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This is a
delightful
country for married folk who are wrapped up in one
another.
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Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of
wrinkles
this thy golden time.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Deare Duff, I prythee
contradict
thy selfe,
And say, it is not so.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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Villon |
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How poor, how strange, how wrong,
To dream He wrote the little song
I made to Him with love's
unforced
design!
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Let my
thoughts
rest on your form!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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 - Poems |
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The Peacock
Juno and the Peacock
'Juno and the Peacock'
Magdalena van de Passe, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 - 1634, The Rijksmuseun
In
spreading
out his fan, this bird,
Whose plumage drags on earth, I fear,
Appears more lovely than before,
But makes his derriere appear.
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Appoloinaire |
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CCIX
"Rollant, my friend, fair youth that bar'st the bell,
When I arrive at Aix, in my Chapelle,
Men coming there will ask what news I tell;
I'll say to them:
`Marvellous
news and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Your hour has sounded, nothing now indeed
Can change for you the destiny decreed,
Irrevocable
quite.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ils auront vu la Suisse et
traverse
la France.
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Much-more
provides
and hoards up like an ant, 379.
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Robert Herrick |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Everywhere
the dark
blood flows; they deal death with the sword in battle, and seek a noble
death by wounds.
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Un orchestre guerrier, au milieu du jardin,
Balance ses schakos dans la Valse des fifres:
On voit, aux premiers rangs, parader le gandin,
Les notaires montrent leurs breloques a chiffres:
Des rentiers a lorgnons soulignent tous les couacs;
Les gros bureaux bouffis trainent leurs grosses dames,
Aupres
desquelles
vont, officieux cornacs,
Celles dont les volants ont des airs de reclames;
Sur les bancs verts, des clubs d'epiciers retraites
Qui tisonnent le sable avec leur canne a pomme,
Fort serieusement discutent des traites,
Puis prisent en argent, mieux que monsieur Prud'homme!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The Net
I made you many and many a song,
Yet never one told all you are--
It was as though a net of words
Were flung to catch a star;
It was as though I curved my hand
And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
Dark
splendor
of the sea.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Shivering
with woe, chaste Elvira the while,
Near him untrue to all but her till now,
Seemed to beseech him for one farewell smile
Lit with the sweetness of the first soft vow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I could not bear the bees should come,
I wished they 'd stay away
In those dim
countries
where they go:
What word had they for me?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Virtuous
and vicious every man must be,
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree,
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise;
And even the best, by fits, what they despise.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I showed the priests' families how
to make aprons of the degrees, but for Dravot's apron the blue border
and marks was made of
turquoise
lumps on white hide, not cloth.
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Kipling - Poems |
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