Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Thou
paintest
that which struggled here below
Half understood, or understood for woe,
And with a sweet forewarning
Mak'st round the sacred front an aureole glow
Woven of that light that rose on Easter morning.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Updated
editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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1030
Theseus
And his passion then began again in
Troezen?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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'--
She clung about her sister,
Kissed and kissed and kissed her:
Tears once again
Refreshed her
shrunken
eyes,
Dropping like rain
After long sultry drouth; 490
Shaking with aguish fear, and pain,
She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth.
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Christina Rossetti |
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his little floating bed
Swims on the mighty river's fickle flow,
A white dove's nest; and there at hazard led
By the faint winds, and
wandering
to and fro,
The cot comes down; beneath his quiet head
The gulfs are moving, and each threatening wave
Appears to rock the child upon a grave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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[And fixed as yonder orb divine,
That saw thy
bannered
blaze unfurled,
Shall thy proud stars resplendent shine,
The guard and glory of the world.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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'Hush thee (he cried, soft whispering in my ear),
Speak not a word, lest any Greek may hear'--
And then (supporting on his arm his head),
'Hear me,
companions!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So lost ye both, being in
falseness
one,
What fortune else had granted; she thy curse,
Who marred thee as she loved thee, and thou hers.
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Euripides - Electra |
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:
_deorum_
post _aures_ D ||
_referre_ Phil.
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Latin - Catullus |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I have
reserved
for my old age, if life is
spared to me, the reigns of the sainted Nerva and of the Emperor
Trajan, which afford a richer and withal a safer theme:[6] for it is
the rare fortune of these days that a man may think what he likes and
say what he thinks.
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Tacitus |
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II
J'ai vu parfois, au fond d'un theatre banal
Qu'enflammait l'orchestre sonore,
Une fee allumer dans un ciel infernal
Une miraculeuse aurore;
J'ai vu parfois au fond d'un theatre banal
Un etre qui n'etait que lumiere, or et gaze,
Terrasser
l'enorme Satan
Mais mon coeur, que jamais ne visite l'extase
Est un theatre ou l'on attend
Toujours, toujours en vain, l'Etre aux ailes de gaze!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The
original
is far more musical, as you can gather from the text at the start of this selection of his verse.
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Troubador Verse |
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THE YOUTH:
'Tis but
The anti-masque, and serves as discords do _175
In
sweetest
music.
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Shelley |
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org/contact
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How that may be if thou would'st think; within
Pond'ring, imagine Sion with this mount
Plac'd on the earth, so that to both be one
Horizon, and two hemispheres apart,
Where lies the path that Phaeton ill knew
To guide his erring chariot: thou wilt see
How of
necessity
by this on one
He passes, while by that on the' other side,
If with clear view shine intellect attend.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Sirens
Odysseus
and the Sirens
'Odysseus and the Sirens'
Johannes Glauber, Gerard de Lairesse, 1656 - 1726, The Rijksmuseun
Do I know where your ennui's from, Sirens,
When you grieve so widely under the stars?
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Appoloinaire |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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ter of mine cuckold:
The
primitiue
worke of darkne?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Ye hills, ye plains, ye forests, and ye caves,
Ye howling winds, and wintry
swelling
waves!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Scylla, on
this, threw herself into the sea, and was
metamorphosed
into the rock
which bears her name.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_ Give me the strength then of the buffalo's foot,[cw]
When he spurns high the dust, beholding his
Near enemy; or let me have the long
And patient
swiftness
of the desert-ship,
The helmless dromedary!
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Byron |
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My
compliments
to sister Beckie;
And eke the same to honest Lucky,
I wat she is a dainty chuckie,
As e'er tread clay!
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Robert Forst |
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Sirrha, a word with you: Attend those men
Our
pleasure?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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welcome ye
careless
groves!
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John Donne |
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(Who has been watching the
moustache
with awed fascination.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Wilde - Poems |
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Chanson de Roland |
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From eyes profane, from ev'ry age conceal'd,
To us, behold, all
Paradise
reveal'd!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Lemozis, francha terra cortesa,
Ah,
Limousin!
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Troubador Verse |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live
everything
will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll remember each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He now Lord of the field, his pride to fill,
With foule reproches, and
disdainfull
spight
Her vildly entertaines, and will or nill, 385
Beares her away upon his courser light:
Her prayers nought prevaile, his rage is more of might.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Already my spirit, longing for better ways,
Paces through my flesh, rebelliously,
And already brings the victim fuel to feed
His
immolation
in your vision's rays.
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Ronsard |
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Minerva
restores
him to the
beauty of his youth; but the queen continues incredulous, till by
some circumstances she is convinced, and falls into all the
transports of passion and tenderness.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
For thee the multitude waged war and won--
The end thou art of wrestlings and of prayer,
Of
sleepless
watch, long marches, hunger, tears
And blood prolifically spilled, homes lordless,
And homeless lords!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The minister goes stiffly in
As if the house were his,
And he owned all the
mourners
now,
And little boys besides;
And then the milliner, and the man
Of the appalling trade,
To take the measure of the house.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Latin - Catullus |
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And well they strike and
slaughter
with their lances;
But Franks, to escape they think it no great matter;
On either side dead men to the earth fall crashing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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God sent his messenger of faith,
And whispered in the maiden's heart,
"Rise up and look from where thou art,
And scatter with unselfish hands
Thy freshness on the barren sands
And
solitudes
of Death.
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Longfellow |
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Benbow and Another, as
reported
in the _Examiner_, February
17, 1822; and cases of Wolcot _v_.
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Byron |
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Sweet is the shade of the
cocoanut
glade, and
the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the
moon with the sound of the voices we love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sam: Go baffl'd coward, lest I run upon thee,
Though in these chains, bulk without spirit vast,
And with one buffet lay thy
structure
low,
Or swing thee in the Air, then dash thee down 1240
To the hazard of thy brains and shatter'd sides.
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Milton |
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Henceforth new
prospects
open on your path;
Your faculties should grow with the demand;
I still will be your friend, will cleave to you
Through good and evil, obloquy and scorn,
Oft as they dare to follow on your steps.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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XX
"And though yet smarting with his wounds and pined,
He dons his arms, and from the tower departs;
And wanders thence with firm and
constant
mind,
Ne'er to return again into those parts.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including
any word processing or
hypertext
form.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He was, later, revealed--also reviled--to American readers by Henry
James, who
completely
missed his significance.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Over their pitiful dust thy blast
Passed in columns of
whirling
sand,
Leapt the desert and swept the strand
Of the cool and quiet sea,
Gathering mighty shapes, and proud
Phantoms of monstrous, wave-born cloud,
And northward drove this panoply
Till the sky seemed charging on the land.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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* * * *
May Almighty God forgive her
ingratitude
and perjury to me, as I from
my very soul forgive her: and may his grace be with her and bless her
in all her future life!
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Robert Forst |
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"Their friends are waiting,
wondering
how they thrive--
Waiting a word in silence patiently.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For this fierce Holofernes and his power,
This torture poured on the city, is no more
Than a wild gust of wicked heat
breathed
out
Against our God-wrought souls by the world's furnace.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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317_;
referred
to in _E.
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Byron |
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God's kindly earth
Is
kindlier
than men know,
And the red rose would but blow more red,
The white rose whiter blow.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Come, gone,--gone forever,--
Gone as an unreturning river,--
Gone as to death the
merriest
liver,--
Gone as the year at the dying fall,--
To-morrow, to-day, yesterday, never,--
Gone once for all.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story_
Stopt by the storm, that long in sullen black
From the south-west stained its encroaching track,
Haymakers, hustling from the rain to hide,
Sought the grey willows by the pasture-side;
And there, while big drops bow the grassy stems,
And bleb the
withering
hay with pearly gems,
Dimple the brook, and patter in the leaves,
The song or tale an hour's restraint relieves.
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John Clare |
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|| _officias_ Oh
15 _hec est hec_ GO
16 _hec_ G || _fac_(_t_ R)_ies_ RVenBCAap
18
_extrema_
(_extremo_ GO, prius R, _extreme/a_ Ven) _iam
ipsam_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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ART
Give to barrows, trays and pans
Grace and glimmer of romance;
Bring the moonlight into noon
Hid in
gleaming
piles of stone;
On the city's paved street
Plant gardens lined with lilacs sweet;
Let spouting fountains cool the air,
Singing in the sun-baked square;
Let statue, picture, park and hall,
Ballad, flag and festival,
The past restore, the day adorn,
And make to-morrow a new morn.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"My good fool," said a learned bystander,
"Your
operations
are mad.
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Stephen Crane |
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For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of
volunteer
support.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Thou
believest
all I say?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead;
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed,
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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As I could not go over to your
part of the country myself, my
intention
was to have taken it with me
to Kendal .
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William Wordsworth |
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"The furies of thy brother
With me and mine abide,
If one of your
accursed
house
Upon black Auster ride!
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In the edition for
1831, however, this poem, its author's longest, was
introduced
by the
following twenty-nine lines, which have been omitted in--all subsequent
collections:
AL AARAAF
Mysterious star!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Unlock the
furthest
line
Of guest-chambers; and bid the stewards there
Make ready a full feast; then close with care
The midway doors.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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When I awoke,
somewhat
late, on the morrow I saw that the storm was
over.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I am in no hurry for all, or any of
these, but if you
accidentally
meet with them very cheap, get them for
me.
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Robert Forst |
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Wood-pigeons cooed there, stock-doves nestled there;
My trees were full of songs and flowers and fruit,
Their
branches
spread a city to the air,
And mice lodged in their root.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O lank-eared
Phantoms
of black-weeded pools!
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Keats |
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Tyrwhitt
was
Chatterton's first editor and in his edition many of the poems
were printed for the first time.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
He cried, "who through the
infernal
shades art led,
Own, if again thou know'st me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD
BY
SAROJINI NAIDU
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONS
DEDICATED TO EDMUND GOSSE WHO FIRST SHOWED ME THE WAY TO THE
GOLDEN THRESHOLD
London, 1896 Hyderabad, 1905
CONTENTS
FOLK SONGS
Palanquin-Bearers
Wandering Singers
Indian Weavers
Coromandel
Fishers
The Snake-Charmer
Corn-Grinders
Village-Song
In Praise of Henna
Harvest Hymn
Indian Love-Song
Cradle-Song
Suttee
SONGS FOR MUSIC
Song of a Dream
Humayun to Zobeida
Autumn Song Alabaster
Ecstasy
To my Fairy Fancies
POEMS
Ode to H.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had
journeyed
long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
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Poe - 5 |
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Last, let us turn to Chamouny that shields [157]
With rocks and gloomy woods [158] her fertile fields: 570
Five streams of ice amid her cots descend,
And with wild flowers and blooming orchards blend;--[Ee]
A scene more fair than what the Grecian feigns
Of purple lights and ever-vernal plains;
Here all the seasons revel hand in hand: 575
'Mid lawns and shades by breezy
rivulets
fanned [159]
[160] They sport beneath that mountain's matchless height [161]
That holds no commerce with the summer night.
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William Wordsworth |
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SCHULER:
Ich bin dabei mit Seel und Leib;
Doch
freilich
wurde mir behagen
Ein wenig Freiheit und Zeitvertreib
An schonen Sommerfeiertagen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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It is an honorable thought,
And makes one lift one's hat,
As one encountered gentlefolk
Upon a daily street,
That we've immortal place,
Though pyramids decay,
And kingdoms, like the orchard,
Flit
russetly
away.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Hitherward
they came,
Meeting our faces from the middle point,
With us beyond but with a larger stride.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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you are all to me,
I wish for your sake I could be
More
lifesome
and more gay.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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O God, what great kindness
have we done in times past
and
forgotten
it,
That thou givest this wonder unto us,
O God of waters?
| Guess: |
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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You would sacrifice
yourself
in favour of me!
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in
Khorassan
in the latter half of
our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth
Century.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And opening to the dame the thought he brewed,
To her the flying horse
Astolpho
shewed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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sic et tu, rabidi nefas tyranni,
iussus
praecipitem
subire Lethen,
dum pugnas canis arduaque uoce
das solatia grandibus sepulcris,
(o dirum scelus!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The slow
arpeggios
of it, liquid, sibilant,
Thrill and thrill in the dark.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Quivi sospiri, pianti e alti guai
risonavan per l'aere sanza stelle,
per ch'io al
cominciar
ne lagrimai.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When the record was finally exhausted,
he arose,
staggered
backward from the table, and fell-dead.
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Poe - 5 |
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--Me voila libre et
solitaire!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Think how they sport with these beloved forms;
And how the clarion-blowing wind unties
Above their heads the tresses of the storms:
Perchance
even now the child, the husband, dies.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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She remembered him well, she said, and had a wish for him; and as to
Mary Gillis, she had some of his songs off by heart, so he need not be
afraid of not getting good treatment, and all the bacachs and poor men
that heard him would give him a share of their own
earnings
for his
stories and his songs while he was with them, and would carry his name
into all the parishes of Ireland.
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Yeats |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Stephen Crane |
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And this, at least, I dare affirm,
Since genius too has bound and term,
There is no bard in all the choir,
Not Homer's self, the poet sire,
Wise Milton's odes of pensive pleasure,
Or Shakspeare, whom no mind can measure,
Nor Collins' verse of tender pain,
Nor Byron's clarion of disdain,
Scott, the delight of generous boys,
Or Wordsworth, Pan's
recording
voice,--
Not one of all can put in verse,
Or to this presence could rehearse
The sights and voices ravishing
The boy knew on the hills in spring,
When pacing through the oaks he heard
Sharp queries of the sentry-bird,
The heavy grouse's sudden whir,
The rattle of the kingfisher;
Saw bonfires of the harlot flies
In the lowland, when day dies;
Or marked, benighted and forlorn,
The first far signal-fire of morn.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Se la gente ch'al mondo piu traligna
non fosse stata a Cesare noverca,
ma come madre a suo figlio benigna,
tal fatto e fiorentino e cambia e merca,
che si sarebbe volto a Simifonti,
la dove andava l'avolo a la cerca;
sariesi Montemurlo ancor de' Conti;
sarieno i Cerchi nel piovier d'Acone,
e forse in
Valdigrieve
i Buondelmonti.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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XVI
Now, from the rock Tarpeian,
Could the wan burghers spy
The line of blazing villages
Red in the
midnight
sky.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Already with the pangs of a new birth
Strain the hot spheres of his convulsed eyes,
And in his
writhings
awful hues begin
To wander down his sable sheeny sides,
Like light on troubled waters: from within
Anon he rusheth forth with merry din,
And in him light and joy and strength abides;
And from his brows a crown of living light
Looks through the thickstemmed woods by day and night.
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Tennyson |
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Ah, woeful one,
with sorrows unending distraught, Erycina sows thorny cares deep in thy
bosom, since that time when Theseus fierce in his vigour set out from the
curved bay of Piraeus, and gained the
Gortynian
roofs of the iniquitous
ruler.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Will men not say
That
insolently
we made of sacred things
A worldly instrument?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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'T is these that early taint the female soul,
Instruct the eyes of young
Coquettes
to roll,
Teach Infant-cheeks a bidden blush to know,
And little hearts to flutter at a Beau.
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Alexander Pope |
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How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
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Sappho |
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beorhte frætwe, 214, 897;
beorhte randas, 231;
bordwudu
beorhtan, 1244; n.
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Beowulf |
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