Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
She sought him up, she sought him down,
She sought him braid and narrow;
Syne, in the
cleaving
of a craig,
She found him drown'd in Yarrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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Quels
delirants
cul-nus!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What bridal pomps, and what
funereal
shows!
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Longfellow |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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[Sidenote H: It was the
merriest
meet that ever was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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When the memories of the old
martyrs are faded utterly away--when the large names of patriots are
laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators--when the boys
are no more christened after the same, but christened after tyrants and
traitors instead--when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted, and
laws for informers and blood-money are sweet to the taste of the people--
when I and you walk abroad upon the earth, stung with compassion at the
sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship, and calling no
man master--and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves--
when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night, and surveys its
experience, and has much ecstasy over the word and deed that put back a
helpless
innocent
person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel
inferiority--when those in all parts of these states who could easier
realise the true American character, but do not yet[1]--when the swarms of
cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly
involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures
or the judiciary or Congress or the Presidency, obtain a response of love
and natural deference from the people, whether they get the offices or no--
when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary
than the poorest free mechanic or farmer, with his hat unmoved from his
head, and firm eyes, and a candid and generous heart--and when servility by
town or state or the federal government, or any oppression on a large scale
or small scale, can be tried on without its own punishment following duly
after in exact proportion, against the smallest chance of escape--or rather
when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any
part of the earth--then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged
from that part of the earth.
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Whitman |
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With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner
streaming
o'er us!
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming simplicity of the play,
competent
Grecians
have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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Adoun I fel, when that I saugh the herse, 15
Deed as a stoon, whyl that the swogh me laste;
But up I roos, with colour ful diverse,
And
pitously
on hir myn yen caste,
And ner the corps I gan to presen faste,
And for the soule I shoop me for to preye; 20
I nas but lorn; ther nas no more to seye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You may esteem him
A child for his might;
Or you may deem him
A coward from his flight;
But if she whom love doth honour
Be conceal'd from the day,
Set a
thousand
guards upon her,
Love will find out the way.
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Golden Treasury |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves
the travail of a worthier pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What irksome hand, weaving these knots around,
Has
gathered
my hair with such care on my brow?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"Intelligence, yes; but as to consideration, who at the present moment
most bitterly resents the tender solicitude of Lancashire for the
welfare and protection of the Indian factory
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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ise
mutac{i}ou{n}s
of fortune fleten wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I will
send a
subscription
bill or two, next post; when I intend writing my
first kind patron, Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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But thou, exulting and
abounding
river!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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From Marcle way,
From Dymock, Kempley, Newent, Bromesberrow,
Redmarley, all the meadowland daffodils seem
Running in golden tides to Ryton Firs,
To make the knot of steep little wooded hills
Their
brightest
show: O bella età de l'oro!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_27
philanthropic
Bos.
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Shelley |
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Send not to good Laertes, nor engage
In toils of state the
miseries
of age:
Tis impious to surmise the powers divine
To ruin doom the Jove-descended line;
Long shall the race of just Arcesius reign,
And isles remote enlarge his old domain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 320 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the
wrackful
siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To
this baseness Caepio added one still greater; he corrupted the
ambassadors whom Viriatus had sent to
negotiate
with him, who, at the
instigation of the Roman, treacherously murdered their protector and
general while he slept.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But to-night I don't care enough to lie--
I don't
remember
why I ever cared.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I
can't be
separated
from you------
SOLNESS: Marry him as much as you please.
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Thro' a long life his hopes and wishes crown,
And bright in
cloudless
skies his sun go down!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Then
Menelaus
challenged
Paris to single combat; for the twain were the cause of the war,
seeing that Paris had stolen away Helen, the wife of Menelaus.
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My old
parents' minds were relieved, and they
impatiently
awaited better news.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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As the sex have served many a good fellow, the Nine
have given me a great deal of pleasure, but,
bewitching
jades!
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Robert Burns |
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e corages of good[e] folk hire
p{ro}pre
honoure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Oh visit me but once, but pitying shed
One drop of balm upon my
withered
soul.
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Shelley |
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Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,
Though the
earthwork
hid them from us, and the stubborn
walls were dumb:
Here were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,
And their lips were white with terror as they said, THE HOUR
HAS COME!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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Parthenius
208
_ingenerati_
OD
209 _Torcu_(_quu_ h2)_tus_ Oh2
210 _e_] _et_ O: fortasse _ex_
213 _semihiante_ Scaliger: _sed mihi ante_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd,
Both carelesse of his health, and of his fame:
Till at the last he heard a
dreadfull
sownd,
Which through the wood loud bellowing did rebownd,
That all the earth for terrour seemd to shake, 60
And trees did tremble.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten thousand men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold
defences
stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I shall only add one circumstance: that the dominion of the sea is nowhere more extensive; that it carries many currents in this direction and in that; and its ebbings and flowings are not
confined
to the shore, but it penetrates into the heart of the country, and works its way among hills and mountains, as though it were in its own domain.
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Tacitus |
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He had a mouth to quaff
Pint after pint: a sounding laugh,
But wheezy at the end, and oft
His eyes bulged
outwards
and he coughed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Overcome by their feelings, the four little
travellers
instantly jumped
into the tea-kettle, and fell fast asleep.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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what manner of life
remaineth
to thee?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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THE MULETEER
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;
The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;
Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;
Teudelingua he married, beauteous dame,
The last king's widow, who had left no heir,
And whose
dominions
proved our prince's share.
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La Fontaine |
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But the comfort is, you
shall be called to no more payments, fear no more tavern bills,
which are often the sadness of parting, as the
procuring
of mirth.
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Shakespeare |
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I have loved much and been loved deeply--
Oh when my spirit's fire burns low,
Leave me the
darkness
and the stillness,
I shall be tired and glad to go.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Yet it is
quite clear that already in the
Augustan
age this practice had attained
system and elaboration.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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You stirred it with agile foot, but yesterday,
And
suddenly
ash drowned the horizon's circle.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Now, Memmius,
How nature of iron
discovered
was, thou mayst
Of thine own self divine.
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Lucretius |
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Down upon us heavily runs,
Silent and sullen, the floating fort;
Then comes a puff of smoke from her guns,
And leaps the
terrible
death,
With fiery breath,
From each open port.
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/
Oversatte
af
Edv.
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Byron |
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Freely pluck,
whosoever
would eat.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For certainly her way might pass
Beside your
twinkling
door.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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As wise as when I entered school;
Am called Magister, Doctor, indeed,--
Ten livelong years cease not to lead
Backward and forward, to and fro,
My
scholars
by the nose--and lo!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ Then let him do it; all is
expected
by me.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To Baligant his
vanguard
comes again
A Sulian hath told him his message:
"We have seen Charles, that haughty sovereign;
Fierce are his men, they have no mind to fail.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I
wondered
if he really thought it fair
For him to have the say when we were done.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Noi discendemmo il ponte da la testa
dove s'aggiugne con l'ottava ripa,
e poi mi fu la bolgia manifesta:
e vidivi entro
terribile
stipa
di serpenti, e di si diversa mena
che la memoria il sangue ancor mi scipa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In both of these it is headed _Sr Walter Ashton_ (or _Aston_)
_to the Countesse of Huntingtone_, and no reference
whatsoever
is made
to Donne.
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John Donne |
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Dickens found
something very
ludicrous
in what he considered our neologism _right
away_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sur La Mort de Marie: IV
As in May month, on its stem we see the rose
In its sweet youthfulness, in its freshest flower,
Making the heavens jealous with living colour,
Dawn sprinkles it with tears in the morning glow:
Grace lies in all its petals, and love, I know,
Scenting the trees and scenting the garden's bower,
But, assaulted by
scorching
heat or a shower,
Languishing, it dies, and petals on petals flow.
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Ronsard |
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Indeed, he obstinately denied all
knowledge
of the matter.
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Poe - 5 |
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God is their parent, and they need no tear;
He takes them to His bosom from earth's woes,
A bud their
lifetime
and a flower their close.
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John Clare |
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neas and Antenor stand distinguished from
the other Trojans by a dissatisfaction with Priam, and a sympathy
with the Greeks, which is by Sophocles and others construed as
treacherous collusion,--a suspicion indirectly glanced at, though
emphatically
repelled, in the ?
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Iliad - Pope |
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DIDIER (_taking his sword_): Now,
marquis!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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Who rear'st aloft thy regal form,
To hear the tempest-tramping loud,
And see the lightning-lances driven,
When stride the
warriors
of the storm,
And rolls the thunder-drum of heaven!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH
DAMAGE.
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Of late such eyes looked at me--while I mused
At sunset, underneath a shadowy plane
In old Bayona, nigh the
Southern
Sea--
From an half-open lattice looked at _me_.
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Our little hour,--how short a tune
To wage our wars, to fan our hates,
To take our fill of
armoured
crime,
To troop our banners, storm the gates.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In compliance with these instructions, the freedman
returned
at once to Domitian, when he found Agricola on his passage to Rome According to Dion (liii.
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Tacitus |
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4 The pheasant tail fans were part of the
imperial
regalia.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But yet it was not long before
There opened in the sky a narrow door,
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sill;
And the earth's night seem'd
pressing
there,--
All as a beggar on some festival would peer,--
To gaze into a room of light beyond,
The hidden silver splendour of the moon.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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It is then most gracious
in a prince to pardon when many about him would make him cruel; to think
then how much he can save when others tell him how much he can destroy;
not to consider what the impotence of others hath demolished, but what
his own
greatness
can sustain.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The death of this good man forms one of those
little domestic
tragedies
— not infrequent in real
life — to which imagination itself can scarcely add
one touching incident,, and which are as affecting
as any that fiction can furnish.
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Marvell - Poems |
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I am no longer
surprised
he never came to me.
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Aristophanes |
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It has already appeared that the
duties of all "authentic" epic are broadly the same, and the poems of
this kind, though two
thousand
years may separate their occurrence, may
be properly brought together as varieties of one sub-species.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But tell me now,
Was not the mother sister to a Templar,
Conrade of
Stauffen?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Open the envelope quickly;
O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is signed;
O a strange hand writes for our dear son--O
stricken
mother's soul!
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Whitman |
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For each wife shall take her husband's life,
Staining
a two-edged dagger in his throat.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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(The doors are opened; a crowd of
Russians
and Poles enters.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Shame on such wooers' dapper
mercery!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Great are the hosts, their horns come
sounding
through.
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Chanson de Roland |
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All have not appeared in the form of snowflakes but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp
sorcerers
and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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Then I am shaken as a
sweeping
storm
Shakes a ripe tree that grows above a grave
'Round whose cold clay the roots twine fast and warm--
And Youth's fair visions that glowed bright and brave,
Dreams that were closely cherished and for long,
Are lost once more in sadness and in song.
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Rilke - Poems |
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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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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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