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Scudder Middleton's poem, 'The Clerk," published in the June number of Contemporary Verse, is ranked in "An
Anthology
of Magazine Verse" as one of the thirty most distinguished poems published in the United States in 1916.
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We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand,
As erst we plucked the apple: we must wait
Until he gives death as he gave us life,
Nor murmur faintly o'er the primal gift
Because we spoilt its
sweetness
with our sin.
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O
STELLIFERI
CONDITOR ORBIS.
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Have I told how you attributed to
yourself
the male child
your slave had just borne and gave her your little daughter?
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There is no mancas yn mie
loverdes
ente[163];
The hus dyspense[164] unpaied doe appere; 150
The laste receivure[165] ys eftesoones[166] dispente[167].
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Though now secure yet bear I on my face
Of the amorous
encounter
signal trace.
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And so Tattiana was her name,
Nor by her sister's brilliancy
Nor by her beauty she became
The
cynosure
of every eye.
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Full of passages which rivet the
attention
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they were living things,
Most
terrible
to see.
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Tennyson |
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Prescott
tells us that
Charles V found 10,000 Christians in Tunis at its capture in 1535.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais,
beautiful
Athenian courtesan and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Of the Earl
Politian?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The king of this country was then at war with
a neighbouring prince, and Magalhaens, on condition of his
conversion
to
Christianity, became his auxiliary.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'
'Master,' they answered, 'once we
believed
that men had souls; but,
thanks to your teaching, we believe so no longer.
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But whanne he hadde a space fro his care, 505
Thus to him-self ful ofte he gan to pleyne;
He sayde, `O fool, now art thou in the snare,
That whilom Iapedest at loves peyne;
Now artow hent, now gnaw thyn owene cheyne;
Thou were ay wont eche lovere
reprehende
510
Of thing fro which thou canst thee nat defende.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
The Great Longing
Here I sit between my brother the
mountain
and my sister the sea.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This light and
darkness
in our chaos joined,
What shall divide?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Yet still her heart, which
torments
tear,
Guards fondly hope's uncertain dream.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But now he fared like Mars himself, so brandishing his lance
As through the deep shades of a wood a raging fire should glance,
Held up to all eyes by a hill; about his lips a foam
Stood, as when th' ocean is enraged; his eyes were overcome
With fervour, and
resembled
flames, set off by his dark brows,
And from his temples his bright helm abhorred lightnings throws.
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold
complexion
dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By
Sybarites
beguiled,
He shall no task decline;
Merlin's mighty line
Extremes of nature reconciled,--
Bereaved a tyrant of his will,
And made the lion mild.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_: "The
Doctors in the Talmud say, that one day spent here in true
Repentance
is
more worth than eternity itself, or all the days of heaven in the other
world".
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The blood burst
from the body, yet the knight never faltered nor fell; but boldly he
started forth on stiff shanks and
fiercely
rushed forward, seized his
head, and lifted it up quickly.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Would you tear from my lintels these sacred
green
garlands
of leaves?
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In 1080 Sung Min-ch'iu
published
the works in thirty _chuan_, the form
in which they still exist.
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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"
"I saw her in a tomb of tomes,
Where dreams are wont to be;
That she as spectre
haunteth
there
Is only known to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Touched by the magic spell, the sacred
fountains
of feeling
Glowed with the light of love, as the skies and waters around her.
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Title: The Queen Of Spades
1901
Author: Alexander
Sergeievitch
Poushkin
Translator: H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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What, my Lord,
You have not gone to see the
burning?
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Tennyson |
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But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer,
And
frequent
sights of what is to be borne!
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Golden Treasury |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Now comes our constantly
increased
reward.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast;
Waken, O
slumbering
Mother and be crowned,
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So may the lustre of your days
Outshine
the deeds Firdusi sung,
Your name within a nation's prayer,
Your music on a nation's tongue.
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Zum Teufel erst das
Instrument!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"Kubla Khan," which was literally composed in sleep, comes nearer than any
other existing poem to that ideal of lyric poetry which has only lately
been
systematized
by theorists like Mallarme.
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Think not, when Woman's
transient
breath is fled
That all her vanities at once are dead;
Succeeding vanities she still regards,
And tho' she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards.
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Alexander Pope |
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She had
wandered
long,
Hearing wild birds' song.
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blake-poems |
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We might ha' ben now jest ez prosp'rous ez France,
Where p'litikle enterprise hez a fair chance,
An' the People is heppy an' proud et this hour,
Long ez they hev the votes, to let Nap hey the power;
But _our_ folks they went an'
believed
wut we'd told 'em
An', the flag once insulted, no mortle could hold 'em.
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Give your
gladness
to earth's keeping,
So be glad, when you are sleeping.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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To bed, to bed: there's
knocking
at the gate:
Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What's
done, cannot be vndone.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Who could keep a smiling wit,
Roasted so in heart and hide,
Turning on the sun's red spit,
Scorched
by love inside?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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She brought
him a rich dower, and her death greatly
confused
his affairs.
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Robert Herrick |
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Every poem, it is said,
should
inculcate
a morals and by this moral is the poetical merit of the
work to be adjudged.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Why, who but the very same girl who
Hated with all of her heart
stockings
both violet and red.
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But,
bitterly
repenting of his sin,
Deeper at last he learned to look within
Sweet Jessamine's true heart--when the past, dead,
Mocked him with wasted years forever fled.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The GADSBYS'
bungalow
in the Plains.
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Kipling - Poems |
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During the great Licinian contest the
Plebeian
poets were,
doubtless, not silent.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You see it, mistress, and start to hide once more:
Do you hate the
daylight
you were searching for?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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See Collier,
_Annals_
3.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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CV
Courteously
I, in outward show, would say;
For soon the contrary was made appear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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'heus', inquit
speculatus
Amor, 'non uestra sub imis
furta tegi potuere uadis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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As now your own, our beings were of old,
And once inclos'd in Woman's beauteous mould;
Thence, by a soft transition, we repair
From earthly
Vehicles
to these of air.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tennyson |
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Pilots say there
are no
soundings
till one hundred and fifty miles up the St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Thy patient ear hath heard me long relate
A story, fruitful of
disastrous
fate.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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LAUGHING SONG
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the
dimpling
stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing 'Ha ha he!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Newspaper, the,
wonderful,
a strolling theatre,
thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of,
a vacant sheet,
a sheet in which a vision was let down,
wrapper to a bar of soap,
a cheap
impromptu
platter.
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[22]
Although
called _Heliasts_ ([Greek: H_elios], the sun), the judges
sat under cover.
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Aristophanes |
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I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
Nor that years will ever stop the
existence
of me, or any one else.
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Whitman |
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Chimene
Rodrigue, who'd have
thought?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Of
Sigemund
grew,
when he passed from life, no little praise;
for the doughty-in-combat a dragon killed
that herded the hoard: {13a} under hoary rock
the atheling dared the deed alone
fearful quest, nor was Fitela there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Basmanov
in the council of the tsar
Now sits.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Also, to avoid any
appearance
of precedence,
they have been put in alphabetical order.
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Imagists |
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Most
personalities
have
been obliged to be rebels.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And on a beach we saw a man picking up dead
fish and
tenderly
putting them back into the water.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Though storms around my vessel rave,
I will not fall to craven prayers,
Nor bargain by my vows to save
My Cyprian and
Sidonian
wares,
Else added to the insatiate main.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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[Sidenote C: All come
together
by the side of a cliff.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Quid tum, si carpunt, tacita quem mente
requirunt?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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AH SUNFLOWER
Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done;
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my
Sunflower
wishes to go!
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blake-poems |
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LA MORT
LA MORT DES AMANTS
Nous aurons des lits pleins d'odeurs legeres,
Des divans
profonds
comme des tombeaux,
Et d'etranges fleurs sur des etageres,
Ecloses pour nous sous des cieux plus beaux.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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"There is nothing in the house, it is true; but I shall look
about everywhere, and I will get
something
ready for you.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"I will go where I am wanted, where there's room for one or two,
And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;
Where the
standing
line wears thinner and the dropping dead lie thick;
And the enemies of England they shall see me and be sick.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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With this
response
the chamber rang,
'I guess it was Old Hundred.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Flower, tree, and bush, like all the shadows grey,
In leaden hues of
desolation
fade away.
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John Clare |
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Such late was Walsh--the Muse's judge and friend,
Who justly knew to blame or to commend; 730
To
failings
mild, but zealous for desert;
The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
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Alexander Pope |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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"
WIVES IN THE SERE
I
NEVER a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her,
Something beautiful to those
Patient to peruse her,
Some one charm the world unknows
Precious
to a muser,
Haply what, ere years were foes,
Moved her mate to choose her.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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One black night I stood
in a garden with
fireflies
in my hair like darting restless stars
caught in a mesh of darkness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And he has left it
somewhere
buried?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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M'Gill, one of the clergymen of
Ayr, and his
heretical
book.
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Robert Forst |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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[Sidenote: I opposed
successfully
Coemption in Campania.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Eternity groand & was troubled at the Image of Eternal Death
The Wandering Man bow'd his faint head and Urizen descended
And the one must have murderd the other if he had not descended *
Indignant
muttering
low thunders; Urizen descended
Gloomy sounding, Now I am God from Eternity to Eternity
Sullen sat Los plotting Revenge.
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Blake - Zoas |
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There
is indeed little doubt that
oblivion
covers many English songs
equal to any that were published by Bishop Percy, and many
Spanish songs as good as the best of those which have been so
happily translated by Mr.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Everything
was changed; dark
shadows seemed to come and go, and elfin chatter to pass upon the
breeze.
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Yeats |
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