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ORESTES
Brief my command: I bid my sister pass
In silence to the house, and all I bid
This my design with
wariness
conceal,
That they who did by craft a chieftain slay
May by like craft and in like noose be ta'en
Dying the death which Loxias foretold--
Apollo, king and prophet undisproved.
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Aeschylus |
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It's
beautiful
eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue disorder of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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In
Chronicles
of Franks is written down,
What vassalage he had, our Emperour.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The pleasure grows, then comes a sudden jangling,
Then rapture, then
distress
an arrow plants,
And ere one dreams of it, lo!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Young Trade is dead,
And swart Work sullen sits in the
hillside
fern
And folds his arms that find no bread to earn,
And bows his head.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Tchekalinsky
frowned for a second only,
then his smile returned.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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similar
language
about the dragon at l.
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Beowulf |
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And now Telemachus, the first of all,
Observed Eumaeus
entering
in the hall;
Distant he saw, across the shady dome;
Then gave a sign, and beckon'd him to come:
There stood an empty seat, where late was placed,
In order due, the steward of the feast,
(Who now was busied carving round the board,)
Eumaeus took, and placed it near his lord.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But we were
strangers
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Black fate impends, and this the
avenging
hour!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Chvabrine is
obliging
her to become his wife.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just
pleasure
lost, which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He draws,
however, a frightful
contrast
to its rural picture in the horrors of war
which here prevailed.
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Petrarch |
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At last drunkenness
overcame
the guests; Pugatchef fell asleep in his
place, and his companions rose, making me a sign to leave him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The poem styled "Romance," constituted
the Preface of the 1829 volume, but with the addition of the following
lines:
Succeeding
years, too wild for song,
Then rolled like tropic storms along,
Where, through the garish lights that fly
Dying along the troubled sky,
Lay bare, through vistas thunder-riven,
The blackness of the general Heaven,
That very blackness yet doth Ring
Light on the lightning's silver wing.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A more
legitimate
curb arrests my boldness:
I cede to you, rather I return a title no less,
A sceptre your ancestors long ago received 495
From that famous mortal whom the earth conceived.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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5 The Cave of the Moon was
supposed
to be in the far west.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Rura colit nemo, mollescunt colla iuvencis,
Non humilis curvis purgatur vinea rastris,
Non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram, 41
Non glaebam prono convellit vomere taurus, 40
Squalida
desertis
rubigo infertur aratris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For a
thousand
reasons.
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Aristophanes |
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There, to silence the Foe,
Moving grimly and slow,
They loomed in that deadly wreath,
Where the darkest
batteries
frowned
Death in the air all round,
And the black torpedoes beneath!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Come back then,
children!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Not yet; but your old Traitors of the Tower--
Why, when you put
Northumberland
to death,
The sentence having past upon them all,
Spared you the Duke of Suffolk, Guildford Dudley,
Ev'n that young girl who dared to wear your crown?
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Tennyson |
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He says:
"`Under the hack' is a well-known phrase among the country-people,
and is applied,
generally
in a humorous sense, to those who have been cowed
by any accident.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Red is the fire's common tint;
But when the vivid ore
Has sated flame's conditions,
Its
quivering
substance plays
Without a color but the light
Of unanointed blaze.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And to be sure that is not false I swear,
A thousand groans, but
thinking
on thy face,
One on another's neck, do witness bear
Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By
prolonging
the feast let us keep our hearts gay,
And leave no room for sadness to creep in.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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AUTUMN
The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and
lingering
descent.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Ellison
and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading
Team.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The fell Harpy-raven took wing from the north,
The scourge of the seas, and the dread of the shore;
The wild
Scandinavian
boar issued forth
To wanton in carnage and wallow in gore:
O'er countries and kingdoms their fury prevail'd,
No arts could appease them, no arms could repel;
But brave Caledonia in vain they assail'd,
As Largs well can witness, and Loncartie tell.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd
Plotting
to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely beautiful the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So, when by hollow shores the fisher-train
Sweep with their arching nets the roaring main,
And scarce the meshy toils the copious draught contain,
All naked of their element, and bare,
The fishes pant, and gasp in thinner air;
Wide o'er the sands are spread the
stiffening
prey,
Till the warm sun exhales their soul away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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There is peace
In
homeward
waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long struggle cease.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The usual attempts at stricter definition of epic than anything this
chapter contains, are either, in spite of what they try for, so vague
that they would admit almost any long stretch of narrative poetry; or
else they are based on the
accidents
or devices of epic art; and in that
case they are apt to exclude work which is essentially epic because
something inessential is lacking.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The most remote
Most wild
untrodden
path, in all the tract
'Twixt Lerice and Turbia were to this
A ladder easy' and open of access.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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680
Thus long
succeeding
Critics justly reign'd,
Licence repress'd, and useful laws ordain'd.
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Alexander Pope |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and
compelled
to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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Album Leaf
All at once, as if in play,
Mademoiselle, she who moots
A wish to hear how it sounds today
The wood of my several flutes
It seems to me that this foray
Tried out here in a country place
Was better when I put them away
To look more closely at your face
Yes this vain
whistling
I suppress
In so far as I can create
Given my fingers pure distress
It lacks the means to imitate
Your very natural and clear
Childlike laughter that charms the air.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Though the fields around us wither,
There are ampler realms and spaces,
Where no foot has left its traces:
Let us turn and wander
thither!
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Longfellow |
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Then, as they both had been of burning wax,
Each melted into other,
mingling
hues,
That which was either now was seen no more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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If you are interested in contributing scanning
equipment
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software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.
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Whitman |
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O
kindness
so ill repaid!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Soft went the music the soft air along,
While fluent Greek a vowel'd undersong
Kept up among the guests discoursing low
At first, for scarcely was the wine at flow;
But when the happy vintage touch'd their brains,
Louder they talk, and louder come the strains
Of powerful instruments--the gorgeous dyes,
The space, the splendour of the draperies,
The roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer,
Beautiful slaves, and Lamia's self, appear,
Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human
trammels
freed,
No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine,
Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine.
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Keats - Lamia |
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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 - One - Complete |
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The Etudes
Critiques
of Edmond Scherer were collected in 1863.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Just so man's boasted strength and power
Shall fade before death's lightest stroke,
Laid lower than the meanest flower,
Whose pride oer-topt the oak;
And he who, like a blighting blast,
Dispeopled worlds with war's alarms
Shall be himself
destroyed
at last
By poor despised worms.
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John Clare |
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She does not know
She is a
Christian
born.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Villon |
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Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Morn is supposed to be,
By people of degree,
The
breaking
of the day.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Since the lecturer has raised the
question
whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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Li Po |
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In that fair city, round whose verdant meads
The
branching
river of Mondego[232] spreads,
Long worn with warlike toils, and bent with years,
The king reposed, when Sancho's fate he hears.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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MESSENGER
The captains of the ships that still survived
Fled in disorder, scudding down the wind,
The while our land-force on
Boeotian
soil
Fell into ruin, some beside the springs
Dropping before they drank, and some outworn,
Pursued, and panting all their life away.
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Aeschylus |
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Or if, by Jove's and thy
auxiliar
aid,
They're doom'd to bleed; O say, celestial maid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Making thy waves a blessing as they flow
Through banks whose beauty would endure for ever,
Could man but leave thy bright
creation
so,
Nor its fair promise from the surface mow
With the sharp scythe of conflict,--then to see
Thy valley of sweet waters, were to know
Earth paved like Heaven; and to seem such to me
Even now what wants thy stream?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So the
coachman
drove homeward as fast as he could,
Perceiving their anger with pain;
But they put on the kettle, and little by little
They all became happy again.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I am he myself, arrived
After long suff'rings in the
twentieth
year!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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{and}
hys nekke is
p{re}ssid
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat together and thus
conversed
in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Tennyson |
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The
momentary
shift of my eyes had broken the clear current.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What epic
quality,
detached
from epic proper, do these poems possess, then, apart
from the mere fact that they take up a great many pages?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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To know the world, for all its grasping hands,
For all its heat to utter its pent nature
Into the souls that must go faring through it,
Availing nothing against purity,
Made always like
rebellion
trodden under,--
By this was life a noble labour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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5900
For-why me
thenketh
that, in no wyse,
It may ben cleped but marchandise.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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e loste
chambres
of mariage of hys bro?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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" By the way, these
helpless
ones
have lately got an addition; Mrs.
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Robert Forst |
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But thou
forgotten
and far off shalt dwell,
By great Alpheus' waters, in a dell
Of Arcady, where that gray Wolf-God's wall
Stands holy.
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Euripides - Electra |
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_To Whom,
whichever
way the combat rolls,
We, fighting to the end, commend our souls.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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omnium
antiquissima
_face furor animum
||_ an scribendum erat _ferocem feriat furor animum_?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Syne, he has taen a mutton-bane--
The doggie ceased his noise,
And
followed
doon the kitchen stair
That prince of button-boys!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Fate is
ordained
of old, and shall fulfil your prayer.
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Aeschylus |
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--The Front, is a
lithograph
of "Chillon.
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Byron |
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Si rade volte, padre, se ne coglie
per
triunfare
o cesare o poeta,
colpa e vergogna de l'umane voglie,
che parturir letizia in su la lieta
delfica deita dovria la fronda
peneia, quando alcun di se asseta.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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To Heorot came she, where
helmeted
Danes
slept in the hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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worne of
forlorne
Paramours, 75
The Eugh?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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E non resto di ruinare a valle
fino a Minos che
ciascheduno
afferra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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they know or heed
How far these
beauties
hers exceed!
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Golden Treasury |
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And then, that I might strike him dumb with shame,
I spoke of my wife's dowry; but he coined
A brief yet
specious
tale, how I had wasted
The sum in secret riot; and he saw _320
My wife was touched, and he went smiling forth.
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Shelley |
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DISCUSSION ON THE FOREGOING PAPER
THE
CHAIRMAN
(MR.
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Li Po |
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Susa, or Damascus, the capital of the Saracens,
would have
received
with more respect an envoy from the Holy See.
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Petrarch |
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This
throbbing
shows what we abandoned 44
By the waters that make faint moan 45
Lustre and fame!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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We would prefer to send you
information
by email.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When from Pelides' tent you forced the maid,
I first opposed, and faithful, durst dissuade;
But bold of soul, when
headlong
fury fired,
You wronged the man, by men and gods admired:
Now seek some means his fatal wrath to end,
With prayers to move him, or with gifts to bend.
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Iliad - Pope |
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On the house-tops was no woman
But spat towards him and hissed,
No child but
screamed
out curses,
And shook its little fist.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"Do as you like," said he; "if I meddled in the matter, it would be to
go and tell Ivan Kouzmitch, according to the rules of the service, that
a criminal deed is being plotted in the fort, in opposition to the
interests of the crown, and remark to the Commandant how advisable it
would be that he should think of taking the
necessary
measures.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
Yet, in his triumph, the
chieftain
made wail:
"Slain is the craftsman, the one friend alone
Able to honor the man who creates.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Fix the
foundation
fast, and let the roof
Grow old with time but yet keep weather-proof.
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Robert Herrick |
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When his fetters at night have so press'd on his limbs,
That the weight can no longer be borne,
If, while a half-slumber his memory bedims,
The wretch on his pallet should turn,
While the jail-mastiff howls at the dull
clanking
chain,
From the roots of his hair there shall start
A thousand sharp punctures of cold-sweating pain,
And terror shall leap at his heart.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The hues of old
Revisit not the wool we steep;
And genuine worth, expell'd by fear,
Returns not to the
worthless
slave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But the valley grew narrow and narrower still,
And the evening got darker and colder,
Till (merely from nervousness, not from good will)
They marched along
shoulder
to shoulder.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Moreover, in the heat of
contest, the eye is
insensibly
drawn to the crown of victory, whose
tawdry tinsel glitters through that dust of the ring which obscures
Truth's wreath of simple leaves.
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James Russell Lowell |
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