As he passed the kirk, in
the
adjoining
field, he fell in with a crew of men and women, who were
busy pulling stems of the plant Ragwort.
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Dion, Caligula, and Domitian were
particularly
fond of it,
and, in an extended form, we find the maxim propounded by Creon in
the Antigone of Sophocles.
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Iliad - Pope |
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'
_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
to his library, brought me a Dr.
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Porter
And on her
daughter
200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
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That soul will hate the ev'ning mist,
So often lovely, and will list
To the sound of the coming
darkness
(known
To those whose spirits hearken) as one
Who, in a dream of night, _would_ fly
But _cannot_ from a danger nigh.
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Many a man hath done so; sought to fence
In
straitened
bonds the soul that should be free,
Trodden the dusty road of common sense,
While all the forest sang of liberty,
Not marking how the spotted hawk in flight
Passed on wide pinion through the lofty air,
To where some steep untrodden mountain height
Caught the last tresses of the Sun God's hair.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This and the fellow poem _Upon
Absence_
may be compared with Donne's
poems on the same theme.
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[101] A reference to the peculations Laches was
supposed
to have
practised in keeping back part of the pay of the Athenian sailors engaged
in the Sicilian Expedition.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Woman and love of her
Is as a
dragging
ivy on the growth
Of that strong tree, man's nature!
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
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moral
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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410
Brave Alured from binethe his noble horse
Was gotten on his leggs, with bloude all smore;
And now eletten on another horse,
Eftsoons
he withe his launce did manie gore.
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Music once more and
forever!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thy wyle
Serveth of nought, so
weylaway
the whyle!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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CLEOPOLIS
IS RED, is called Cleopolis, i.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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After what
Rodrigue
has said today,
Who is brave enough to make a play?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' says he 'since it is fated (moira) that
Sarpedon, dearest to me of men, should be slain by Patroclus, the
son of
Menoetius!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sarah Anna Lewis ("Stella"), was sent
to that lady in a letter, in November, 1847, and the
following
March
appeared in Sartain's "Union Magazine.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sara Teasdale |
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m platz lo gais temps de pascor
The joyful
springtime
pleases me
Ai!
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Troubador Verse |
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Robert Burns |
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Silent and
motionless
we lie;
And no one knoweth more than this.
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Longfellow |
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TO ANTHEA
Now is the time when all the lights wax dim;
And thou, Anthea, must
withdraw
from him
Who was thy servant: Dearest, bury me
Under that holy-oak, or gospel-tree;
Where, though thou see'st not, thou may'st think upon
Me, when thou yearly go'st procession;
Or, for mine honour, lay me in that tomb
In which thy sacred reliques shall have room;
For my embalming, Sweetest, there will be
No spices wanting, when I'm laid by thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Lo, Clausus of the ancient Sabine blood, leading a great host, a great
host himself; from whom now the
Claudian
tribe and family is spread
abroad since Rome was shared with the Sabines.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So I turned to
scornful
cries,
Hot iron songs to save the rest of me;
Plunging the brand in my own misery.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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While mists, suspended on the expiring gale,
Moveless
o'er-hang the deep secluded vale, 1815.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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[79] One of the "Record Offices" of the T'ang dynasty, where meritorious
deeds were
illustrated
on the walls.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Ay, canst thou buy a single sigh
Of true love's least, least
ecstasy?
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Sidney Lanier |
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I love him, not one whom hell has seen descend, 635
Fickle worshipper of a
thousand
diverse ends,
Who'd dishonour the bed of the god of the dead:
But the loyal, proud, even shy man, instead,
Charming, young: drawing after him all hearts.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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C'est que la voix des mers, comme un immense rale,
Brisait ton sein d'enfant, trop humain et trop doux;
C'est qu'un matin d'avril, un beau
cavalier
pale,
Un pauvre fou s'assit, muet, a tes genoux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Yes, all "await the inevitable hour;"
The
downward
journey all one day must tread.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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345
Wo worth that beautee that is
routhelees!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But Dido,
fluttered and fierce in her awful purpose, with bloodshot restless gaze,
and spots on her
quivering
cheeks burning through the pallor of imminent
death, bursts into the inner courts of the house, and mounts in madness
the high funeral pyre, and unsheathes the sword of Dardania, a gift
asked for no use like this.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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228, 627, 1780, 2798);
_according
as_ (l.
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Beowulf |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Glockenklang
und Chorgesang.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Do you
remember
Pater's phrase about
Leonardo da Vinci, 'curiosity and the desire of beauty'?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Faun,
illusion
escapes from the blue eye,
Cold, like a fount of tears, of the most chaste:
But the other, she, all sighs, contrasts you say
Like a breeze of day warm on your fleece?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When it comes, the
landscape
listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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O pang all pangs above
Is
Kindness
counterfeiting absent Love!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It was all like a
terrible
dream.
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Yeats |
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For I
remember
how Priam son of Laomedon, when he sought
Salamis on his way to the realm of his sister Hesione, went on to visit
the cold borders of Arcadia.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The cross which on my arm I wear,
The flag which o'er my breast I bear,
Is but the sign
Of what you'd
sacrifice
for him
Who suffers on the hellish rim
Of war's red line.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then, since even this
Was full of peril, and the secret kiss
Of some bold prince might find her yet, and rend
Her prison walls,
Aegisthus
at the end
Would slay her.
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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Blake - Zoas |
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Mais je sais,
maintenant!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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620
This mene I now, for she gan
hoomward
hye,
But execut was al bisyde hir leve,
At the goddes wil, for which she moste bleve.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sometimes
most earnestly he said;
"O Ruth!
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William Wordsworth |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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While still his
thoughts
to his ill consort stray,
Jocundo languishes; nor pastimes please
That melancholy man; nor music's strain
One jot diminishes his ceaseless pain.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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[522] [John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713-1792), was Secretary of State
March 25, 1761, and Prime
Minister
May 29, 1762-April, 1763.
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Li Po |
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A story born out of the dreaming eyes
And crazy brain and
credulous
ears of famine.
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Yeats |
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This poem deals with the overthrow of the
primaeval
order of Gods by
Jupiter, son of Saturn the old king.
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Keats |
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And the Spirit,
stooping
earthward,
With his finger on the meadow
Traced a winding pathway for it,
Saying to it, "Run in this way!
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Longfellow |
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It might have been the waning lamp
That lit the drummer from the camp
To purer
reveille!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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We through the broken rock ascended, close
Pent on each side, while
underneath
the ground
Ask'd help of hands and feet.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'Twas then in valleys lone, remote,
In spring-time, heard the cygnet's note
By waters shining tranquilly,
That first the Muse
appeared
to me.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ivory images with
amethyst
eyes.
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Yeats |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Keep your lips or finger-tips
For flute or spinet's dancing chips;
I await a
tenderer
touch,
I ask more or not so much:
Give me to the atmosphere,--
Where is the wind, my brother,--where?
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Emerson - Poems |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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"Already in bad weather we must sleep
Sometimes
without our supper.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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if only a twelve-houred day,
I must gaze on the beard of Finn, and move where the old men and young
In the Fenians' dwellings of wattle lean on the chessboards and play,
Ah, sweet to me now were even bald Conan's
slanderous
tongue!
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Yeats |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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