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And the piney hill-wind through it
Should be
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Of small prayers in gentle language
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Aye louder screamed that ladye fair
To drown her doggie's bark:
Ever the lover shouted mair
To make that ladye hark:
Shrill and more shrill the popinjay
Upraised
his angry squall:
I trow the doggie's voice that day
Was louder than them all!
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Listened, to keep, to sing--now
translating
the notes,
Following you, my brother.
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In selfish
forethought
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Goe Michael of Celestial Armies Prince,
And thou in Military prowess next
Gabriel, lead forth to Battel these my Sons
Invincible, lead forth my armed Saints
By Thousands and by Millions rang'd for fight;
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Doubtful if he shall think it
the Genius of the ground or his father's ministrant, he slays, as is
fit, two sheep of two years old, as many swine and dark-backed steers,
pouring the while cups of wine, and calling on the soul of great
Anchises and the ghost
rearisen
from Acheron.
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Sinuous
southward
and sinuous northward the shimmering band
Of the sand-beach fastens the fringe of the marsh to the folds of the land.
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' He quotes:
My woeful Monument shall be a cell,
The murmur of the purling brook my knell;
My lasting Epitaph the Rock shall groan;
Thus when sad lovers ask the weeping stone,
What
wretched
thing does in that centre lie,
The hollow echo will reply, 'twas I.
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ou
kyssedes
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While yet he spake they had arrived before
A pillar'd porch, with lofty portal door,
Where hung a silver lamp, whose
phosphor
glow
Reflected in the slabbed steps below,
Mild as a star in water; for so new,
And so unsullied was the marble hue,
So through the crystal polish, liquid fine,
Ran the dark veins, that none but feet divine
Could e'er have touch'd there.
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O Son, why sit we here each other viewing
Idlely, while Satan our great Author thrives
In other Worlds, and happier Seat provides
For us his
ofspring
deare?
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bound in thy rosy band,
Let sage or cynic prattle as he will,
These hours, and only these,
redeemed
Life's years of ill!
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Some vision of the world Cashmere
I
confidently
see!
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Thus am I Dante for a space and am One Francois Villon, ballad-lord and thief Or am such holy ones I may not write, Lest
blasphemy
be writ against my name; This for an instant and the flame is gone.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On thrones around with downy
coverings
graced,
With semblance fair, the unhappy men she placed.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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PALAEMON
Say on then, since on the
greensward
we sit,
And now is burgeoning both field and tree;
Now is the forest green, and now the year
At fairest.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast
brilliant
light
Beneath hideous centuries that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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'
She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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After his return from Venice,
Petrarch
only languished.
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Petrarch |
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Come, let me change my sour for sweet,
And smile complacent as before:
Hear me my
palinode
repeat,
And give me back your heart once more.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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By those, that deepest feel, is ill exprest
The
indistinctness
of the suffering breast;
Where thousand thoughts begin to end in one, 1810
Which seeks from all the refuge found in none;
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For Truth denies all eloquence to Woe.
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Byron |
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carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course
untainted
do allow
For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.
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That haunt my
troubled
brain?
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Longfellow |
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Heaven is witness I did love,
And Heaven does know I love thee still,
Does know the
fruitless
sick'ning thrill,
When reason's judgement vainly strove _15
To blot thee from my memory;
But which might never, never be.
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"
At the sight of the weapon the
Countess
gave a second sign of life.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Next is your lot, fair, to be
numbered
one, I.
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Robert Herrick |
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On white carpets those knights have sate them down,
At the game-boards to pass an idle hour;--
Chequers
the old, for wisdom most renowned,
While fence the young and lusty bachelours.
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THOUGHT
I am not poor, but I am proud,
Of one
inalienable
right,
Above the envy of the crowd,--
Thought's holy light.
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Emerson - Poems |
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A pretty girl who would long
since have been forgotten sat as an unconscious model to a great poet;
he made her the central figure in a brilliant picture and
rendered
her
name immortal.
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My father's
murderer
dead!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Walpole, for example, who cared nothing for poetry, spent large
sums in
retaining
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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I rush there: when, at my feet, entwine (bruised
By the languor tasted in their being-two's evil)
Girls sleeping in each other's arms' sole peril:
I seize them without
untangling
them and run
To this bank of roses wasting in the sun
All perfume, hated by the frivolous shade
Where our frolic should be like a vanished day.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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DRI Fr
an
cois and and thee and
Margot Drink we the
comrades
merrily
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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And there we stood in silence,
And waited with a frown,
To greet with bloody welcome
The
bulldogs
of the Crown.
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I have no more to give, all that was mine
Is laid, a wrested tribute, at thy shrine;
Let me depart, for my whole soul is wrung,
And all my
cheerless
orisons are sung;
Let me depart, with faint limbs let me creep
To some dim shade and sink me down to sleep.
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Griboyedoff
(Woe from Wit)
Canto The Seventh
[Written 1827-1828 at Moscow, Mikhailovskoe, St.
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On their own axis as the planets run,
Yet make at once their circle round the sun;
So two
consistent
motions act the soul;
And one regards itself, and one the whole.
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As they
hastened
onward, Hrothgar's gift
they lauded at length.
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Phattfacia
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With
reverent
awe and homage due obey,
And every age and climate owns its sway.
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Petrarch |
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NOTE:
_762 thy edition 1822; my
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If thought is life
And
strength
and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly.
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On man heavens
influence
workes not so,
But that it first imprints the ayre,
Soe soule into the soule may flow,
Though it to body first repaire.
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[Till they had drawn the Spectre quite away from Enion]
And drawing in the Spectrous life in pride and haughty joy
Thus Enion gave them all her
spectrous
life in dark despair.
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Who was sorry for Li, the Swift of Wing,[16]
When his white head
vanished
from the Three Fronts?
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Li Po |
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In vain; for deafer than Icarian seas
He hears,
untainted
yet.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I saw the _alembic_ swaying from side to side in the distant
corner it had rolled to, and Michael
Robartes
watching me and waiting.
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With both beauty of detail and
problematic interest, the short stories show an incoherence of treatment
and a lack of dramatic co-ordination easily conceivable in a poet who is
essentially lyrical and who at that time had not mastered the means of
technique to give to his
characters
the clear chiselling of the epic
form.
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Rilke - Poems |
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In one is a lion, which
my father's slaves brought from the desert of Ninavah; in the other
is a
songless
sparrow.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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the
Inquisition
resumed its activity; and the Jesuits returned to
Spain.
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Byron |
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' Since the greatest
upon earth were so beguiled,
methinks
I should be excused.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thys merkness doe affraie mie
wommanns
breaste.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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agreement
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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"And the tsar has
commanded
to arrest him--"
OFFICER.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"
So sayst thou; well, huge many a river seems
To him that
erstwhile
ne'er a larger saw;
Thus, huge seems tree or man; and everything
Which mortal sees the biggest of each class,
That he imagines to be "huge"; though yet
All these, with sky and land and sea to boot,
Are all as nothing to the sum entire
Of the all-Sum.
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Darkness
is now where eyes with flame were fraught,
And thrice-bored visor serves for mask of naught.
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īren ǣrgōd þæt þæs āhlǣcan blōdge
beadufolme onberan wolde,
_excellent
sword which would sweep off the bloody
hand of the demon_, 991; pret.
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Beowulf |
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From this weird meal he passed to the degree
Of Prince and Margrave; nor could ever he
Be thought brave knight, or she--if woman claim
The rank--be reckoned of unblemished fame
Till they had
breathed
the air of ages gone,
The funeral odors, in the nest alone
Of its dead masters.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
The
handwriting
was at first somewhat like the delicate, running
Italian hand of our elder gentlewomen; but as she advanced in
breadth of thought, it grew bolder and more abrupt, until in her
latest years each letter stood distinct and separate from its
fellows.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Like sheeted wanderers from the grave
They moved, and yet seemed not to stir,
As icy gorge and sere-leaf'd grove
Of withered oak and
shrouded
fir
Were passed, and onward still they strove;
While the loud wind's artillery clave
The air, and furious sleety rain
Swung like a sword above the plain!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Nor far the warrior had pursued his beat,
Ere eddying from a roof he saw the smoke;
Heard noise of dog and kine, a farm espied,
And
thitherward
in quest of lodging hied.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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So Pickett charged, a man indued
With
knightly
power to lead a multitude
And bring to fame the scarred surviving few.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The
onlookers
exclaimed,
and the host was visibly disturbed.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I will not be a reed to hold the sound
Of
whatsoever
breath the gods may blow,
Turning my torment into music for them.
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Sara Teasdale |
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This
haue I thought good to deliuer thee (my dearest Partner of
Greatnesse) that thou might'st not loose the dues of reioycing
by being
ignorant
of what Greatnesse is promis'd thee.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Full many a one stands living here,
Whom, at death's door already laid,
Your father
snatched
from fever's rage,
When, by his skill, the plague he stayed.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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First time, this,
for the
gleaming
blade that its glory fell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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To the world's end
Thou comest at the last, the dark-faced tribe
That dwell beside the sources of the sun,
Where springs the river,
Aethiopian
named.
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Aeschylus |
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And then the bray of brazen horns 5
Arose above their
clanking
march,
As the long waving column filed
Into the odorous purple dusk.
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Sappho |
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If only
centuries
delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen's land.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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He is a fool in sikernesse, 1935
That with daunger or stoutnesse
Rebellith
ther that he shulde plese;
In such folye is litel ese.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Stephen Crane |
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have ye been
Victors of
countless
kings, or puppets of a scene?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Let him learn we are waiting before
The grave's mouth, the heaven's gate, God's face
With
implacable
love evermore.
| Guess: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Distracted
Luvah
Bursting forth from the loins of Enitharmon, Thou fierce Terror
Go howl in vain, Smite Smite his fetters Smite O wintry hammers
Smite Spectre of Urthona, mock the fiend who drew us down
From heaven of joy into this Deep.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The person
lamented
is Milton's college friend Edward King,
drowned in 1637 whilst crossing from Chester to Ireland.
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Golden Treasury |
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There she saw no surly warder
With an eye like bolt and bar;
Through her soul a sense of music
Throbbed, and, like a guardian Lar,
On the
threshold
stood an angel,
Bright and silent as a star.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A great banquet serv'd in;
FLAVIUS and others attending; and then enter LORD TIMON, the states,
the
ATHENIAN
LORDS, VENTIDIUS, which TIMON redeem'd from prison.
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Shakespeare |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this
electronic
work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Lewis Carroll |
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NIGHT IN JUNE
I left my dreary page and sallied forth,
Received the fair
inscriptions
of the night;
The moon was making amber of the world,
Glittered with silver every cottage pane,
The trees were rich, yet ominous with gloom.
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Emerson - Poems |
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For that ye weet right well what care Amathusia two-faced
Gave me, and how she dasht every hope to the ground,
Whenas I burnt so hot as burn Trinacria's rocks or
Mallia stream that feeds Oetean Thermopylae;
Nor did these saddened eyes to be dimmed by
assiduous
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Cease, and my cheeks with showers ever in sadness be wet.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Where fierce the surge with awful bellow
Doth ever lash the rocky wall;
And where the moon most
brightly
mellow
Dost beam when mists of evening fall;
Where midst his harem's countless blisses
The Moslem spends his vital span,
A Sorceress there with gentle kisses
Presented me a Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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[701] [Greek: Ha alphitop_olis stoa]; why [Greek: kappa], it is hard to
say; from some popular
nickname
probably, which is unknown to us.
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Aristophanes |
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"
He opened the letter, and began reading it half aloud, with a running
fire of remarks--
"'Sir, I hope your excellency'--What's all this
ceremony?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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The Tea-kettle hissed, and grew black in the face;
And they all rushed
downstairs
in the wildest confusion
To see the great Nutcracker-Sugar-tong race.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Your rights alone inspire this
boldness
in me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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From an early period they had been
admitted
to some share
of political power.
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He had your picture in his room,
A scurvy traitor picture,
And he smiled
--Merely a fat
complacence
of men who
know fine women--
And thus I divided with him
A part of my love.
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Stephen Crane |
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--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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