Thus ruled
unrighteous
and raged his fill
one against all; until empty stood
that lordly building, and long it bode so.
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We were as men who through a fen
Of filthy darkness grope:
We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or to give our anguish scope:
Something
was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
Messalinus
had added, "that to
Tiberius, Livia, Antonia, Agrippina and Drusus, public thanks were to be
rendered for having revenged the death of Germanicus;" but had omitted
to mention Claudius.
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Tacitus |
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You
foreshorten
as though you
never used the model, and you've caught Kami's pasty way of dealing with
flesh in shadow.
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Kipling - Poems |
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My feet kept drowsing,
drowsing
still,
My fingers were awake;
Yet why so little sound myself
Unto my seeming make?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Guan Zhong
eventually
became Duke Huan?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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grāpode
gearofolm, _he took hold with ready hand_, 2086.
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Beowulf |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal yourself to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not
tolerate
oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Now rounded, now
stretched
out, now narrowing,
Now tapering, now triangular, now forming
Ranks like flights of Cranes in frost-escaping line.
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Ronsard |
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Thinke thy selfe
labouring
now with broken breath, 90
And thinke those broken and soft Notes to bee
Division, and thy happyest Harmonie.
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John Donne |
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410
So he; whose words soon as the sacred might
Heard of Telemachus,
approaching
quick
His father, thus, humane, he interposed.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then with a laugh both long and wild
The youth upon the
pavement
fell: _305
They found him dead!
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[19] howled in the mist and ghosts
whistled
in the rain.
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Li Po |
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Judith, we are two upright minds in this
Herd of
grovelling
cowardice.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXV
Therewith she gan her passion to renew,
And cry, and curse, and raile, and rend her heare,
Saying, that harlot she too lately knew,
That caused her shed so many a bitter teare, 220
And so forth told the story of her feare:
Much seemed he to mone her haplesse chaunce,
And after for that Ladie did inquere;
Which being taught, he forward gan advaunce
His fair
enchaunted
steed, and eke his charmed launce.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Of the frivolous Judge--of the corrupt Congressman, Governor,
Mayor--of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of
officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
Of the rising forever taller and
stronger
and broader of the
intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
Of the true New World--of the Democracies resplendent en-masse,
Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them,
Of the shining sun by them--of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'Neath great slabs of marble they hid them in vain,
'Gainst this
everliving
fire, God's own flaming rain!
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Hugo - Poems |
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255
Alexius of hem took leue,
And
worschiplich
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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So long as
I have any control over the National Theatre Society it will be carried
on in this spirit, call it art for art's sake if you will; and no plays
will be produced at it which were written, not for the sake of a good
story or fine verses or some
revelation
of character, but to please
those friends of ours who are ever urging us to attack the priests or
the English, or wanting us to put our imagination into handcuffs that
we may be sure of never seeming to do one or the other.
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Yeats |
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CLXVI
The count Rollanz wakes from his swoon once more,
Climbs to his feet; his pains are very sore;
Looks down the vale, looks to the hills above;
On the green grass, beyond his companions,
He sees him lie, that noble old baron;
'Tis the Archbishop, whom in His name wrought God;
There he proclaims his sins, and looks above;
Joins his two hands, to Heaven holds them forth,
And
Paradise
prays God to him to accord.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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It is quite true that
the later epics take over, to a very great extent, the methods and
manners of the earlier poems; just as architecture hands on the style of
wooden structure to an age that builds in stone, and again imposes the
manners of stone construction on an age that builds in
concrete
and
steel.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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CANTO XI
"O thou Almighty Father, who dost make
The heavens thy dwelling, not in bounds confin'd,
But that with love
intenser
there thou view'st
Thy primal effluence, hallow'd be thy name:
Join each created being to extol
Thy might, for worthy humblest thanks and praise
Is thy blest Spirit.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--
The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,
My saucy bark, inferior far to his,
On your broad main doth
wilfully
appear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He had nothing of a more detailed or
accurate
nature to
relate, having been afraid of going too far.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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t fiend
Shall I be, on
returne?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Since I have seen falling to my life's flood
The leaf of a rose
snatched
from out your days,
Now at last I can say to the fleeting years:
- Pass by!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Allume ta
prunelle
a la flamme des lustres!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I am thy root in the earth
and thou art my flower in the sky, and
together
we grow before the
face of the sun.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past,
representing
a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
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Meredith - Poems |
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(On their knees,
groaning
and wailing.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Here is Murray's
fragments
o' the ten commands;
Gifted by black Jock to get them aff his hands.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And then,
voluptuousness
divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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KAU}
And weigh the massy Globes Cubes, then fix them in their awful stations
And all the time in Caverns shut, the golden Looms erected
First spun, then wove the Atmospheres, there the Spider & Worm
Plied the wingd shuttle piping shrill thro' all the list'ning threads
Beneath the Caverns roll the weights of lead & spindles of iron
The enormous warp & woof rage direful in the affrighted deep
While far into the vast unknown, the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Their venturous flight, in Human forms distinct; thro darkness deep
They bear the woven draperies; on golden hooks they hang abroad
The universal curtains & spread out from Sun to Sun
The
vehicles
of light, they separate the furious particles
Into mild currents as the water mingles with the wine.
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Blake - Zoas |
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let me suffer, being at your beck,
The imprison'd absence of your liberty;
And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
Without
accusing
you of injury.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His
undiscovered
limbs to ocean roll; 1240
And charity upon the hope would dwell
It was not Lara's hand by which he fell.
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Byron |
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The steel-clad champion death drops all around
As
glaciers
water.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky
What time to
nibbling
sheep the dewy grass
Tastes sweetest, when, on his smooth shepherd-staff
Of olive leaning, Damon thus began.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'tis a dull and endless strife,
Come, hear the
woodland
linnet,
How sweet his music; on my life
There's more of wisdom in it.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"'Mong
swelling
floods of reeking gore,
They, ardent, kindling spirits, pour;
Or 'mid the venal senate's roar,
They, sightless, stand,
To mend the honest patriot-lore,
And grace the hand.
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Robert Forst |
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To them that have it shall be given; For him that hath
not—all
is well.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The ancient Rhodian will praise the glory
Of that renowned Colossus, great in story:
And
whatever
noble work he can raise
To a like renown, some boaster thunders,
From on high; while I, above all, I praise
Rome's seven hills, the world's seven wonders.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Spring up--sway forward--
follow the
quickest
one,
aye, though you leave the trail
and drop exhausted at our feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Keats |
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But how will you make the
journey?
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Aristophanes |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's
goodness
fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Have I not offered toast on frothing toast
Looking toward the melancholy host;
Praised the old wall-eyed mare to please the groom;
Laughed to the
laughing
maid and fetched her broom;
Stood in the background not to interfere
When the cool ancients frolicked at their beer;
Talked only in my turn, and made no claim
For recognition or by voice or name,
Content to listen, and to watch the blue
Or grey of eyes, or what good hands can do?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The Palace
itself is placed in the midst of
extensive
grounds just outside
the city, on the road to Tver, i.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And I drew the covers 'round him closer,
Smoothed
his pillow for him.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The cross with hideous
laughter
Demons mock, 70
By [D] angels planted on the aereal rock.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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at sete on hym[4] semly, wyth
saylande
skyrte3,
[K] ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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When all my mind I turn to the one part
Where sheds my lady's face its
beauteous
light,
And lingers in my loving thought the light
That burns and racks within me ev'ry part,
I from my heart who fear that it may part,
And see the near end of my single light,
Go, as a blind man, groping without light,
Who knows not where yet presses to depart.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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In Chapman's play
Lasso says that the
disposition
of his house for the reception of
guests was placed in the hands of this servant (cf.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Can such things be,
And ouercome vs like a Summers Clowd,
Without our
speciall
wonder?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Life has
revealed
to them her latest wonder.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Not only quiet and sweet rest I fly,
But from myself and thought, whose vain pursuit
On pinion'd fancy doth my soul transport:
The
multitude
I did so long defy,
Now as my hope and refuge I salute,
So much I tremble solitude to court.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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The first edition of the poems was in ten _chuan_, and was
published
by
Li Yang-ping in the year of the poet's death.
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Li Po |
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As he lay silently
growing weaker and weaker, he observed Jessie Lewars, a modest and
beautiful young creature, and sister to one of his brethren of the
Excise, watching over him with moist eyes, and tending him with the
care of a daughter; he
rewarded
her with one of those songs which are
an insurance against forgetfulness.
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Robert Burns |
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To laugh, were want of
goodness
and of grace, 35
And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face.
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Alexander Pope |
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Rilke - Poems |
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To refuse the
recipient of court funds was not
possible
to a public functionary.
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Hugo - Poems |
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The very name of Peter Pindar is an
acquisition
to your work.
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Robert Forst |
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Veiled from the sun in a hollow of the forest,
He sinks down; stretched out on a level stone,
Cleans his paw with a broad lick of his tongue
Blinks golden eyes dull with sleepiness;
And, as his inert forces, in imagination
Make his tail flicker and his flanks quiver,
Dreams himself deep in some green plantation,
Leaping, and plunging
dripping
claws forever
Into bullocks' flesh as they bellow and shiver.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Others more milde,
Retreated
in a silent valley, sing
With notes Angelical to many a Harp
Thir own Heroic deeds and hapless fall
By doom of Battel; and complain that Fate 550
Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance.
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Milton |
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'
Think, I adjure you, what it is to slay
The
reverence
living in the minds of men _145
Towards our ancient house, and stainless fame!
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Shelley |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He
trembles
for Orestes' wrath?
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Euripides - Electra |
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No, it cannot be a servant's step
It must be Cenci,
unexpectedly
_270
Returned.
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Shelley |
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But his own self, he's not forgotten him,
He owns his faults, and God's forgiveness bids:
"Very Father, in Whom no
falsehood
is,
Saint Lazaron from death Thou didst remit,
And Daniel save from the lions' pit;
My soul in me preserve from all perils
And from the sins I did in life commit!
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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Ond' ella, che vedea me si com' io,
a quietarmi l'animo commosso,
pria ch'io a dimandar, la bocca aprio
e comincio: <
col falso imaginar, si che non vedi
cio che
vedresti
se l'avessi scosso.
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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copyright
law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works,
so the
Foundation
(and you!
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Thus far no harm I've wrought to him your son;
But now I give you notice--when night's done,
I will make entry at your city-gate,
Bringing
the prince alive; and those who wait
To see him in my jaws--your lackey-crew--
Shall see me eat him in your palace, too!
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Come, all pull
together!
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Aristophanes |
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The Sonnes of Duncane
(From whom this Tyrant holds the due of Birth)
Liues in the English Court, and is receyu'd
Of the most Pious Edward, with such grace,
That the
maleuolence
of Fortune, nothing
Takes from his high respect.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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In the
ploughing
season, no
one has a deeper share in the well-being of the country than he.
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The times has bene,
That when the Braines were out, the man would dye,
And there an end: But now they rise againe
With twenty mortall
murthers
on their crownes,
And push vs from our stooles.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
Or who in sweet
vicissitude
appears
Of mirth and opium, ratafie and tears,
The daily anodyne, and nightly draught,
To kill those foes to fair ones, time and thought.
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ou mist haue be a gret lordyng,
and ben
honoured
as a king,
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The imperial tomb winds along a
deserted
bend, troops like bears protect the mountain greenery.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pars obscura cavis
celebrabant
orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani.
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Robert Herrick |
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The freedom of the Lyceum
platform
pleased Emerson.
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Emerson - Poems |
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go forth in my might
For I am weary, & must sleep in the dark sleep of Death {According to Erdman's notes this line was crossed out in pencil for deletion and a
replacement
was written in the right margin, then the deleting lines and the replacement were thoroughly erased.
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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"
The whole is
redolent
with poetry of a very lofty order.
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Poe - 5 |
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Because thou hast heark'nd to the voice of thy Wife,
And eaten of the Tree
concerning
which
I charg'd thee, saying: Thou shalt not eate thereof, 200
Curs'd is the ground for thy sake, thou in sorrow
Shalt eate thereof all the days of thy Life;
Thornes also and Thistles it shall bring thee forth
Unbid, and thou shalt eate th' Herb of th' Field,
In the sweat of thy Face shalt thou eate Bread,
Till thou return unto the ground, for thou
Out of the ground wast taken, know thy Birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust returne.
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7 or obtain
permission
for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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To all ready and accessible sources of knowledge he
appears to have had recourse; he sought matter for his muse in the
meetings, religious as well as social, of the district--consorted with
staid matrons, grave plodding farmers--with those who preached as well
as those who listened--with sharp-tongued attorneys, who laid down the
law over a
Mauchline
gill--with country squires, whose wisdom was
great in the game-laws, and in contested elections--and with roving
smugglers, who at that time hung, as a cloud, on all the western coast
of Scotland.
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