Thus did alone, with every wand'ring wended
As goal, the shimmer of two eyelets glow,
Thus your faint song as song of the year ascended,
And all befell, since you
ordained
it so.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How
joyfully
didst thou
Live out thy youth!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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With joy the maid the unwary
strangers
heard
And show'd them where the royal dome appear'd.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And they're singing, every one,
As they run
This the burden of their lay:
"Fie upon such
idleness!
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Hugo - Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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XXI
BREDON HILL (1)
In summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In
steeples
far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Stretched
on the floor, here beside you and me.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Oppressive to a mighty state,
Contentions, feuds, the people's hate--
But who dare
question
that which fate
Has ordered to have been?
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Hugo - Poems |
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He came down, bravely to meet the refusal of the church to
change the rite, and in a sermon preached in September, 1832, explained
his objections to it, and, because he could not
honestly
administer it,
resigned.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Blessed, blessed were the breasts
Which the Saviour infant kiss'd;
And blessed, blessed was the mother
Who wrapp'd his limbs in
swaddling
clothes,
Singing placed him on her lap,
Hung o'er him with her looks of love,
And soothed him with a lulling motion.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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But,
realising
he was before her eyes, at last,
She accused the heavens with one sad glance,
And cold, grieving, almost inanimate, 1585
Fell, at her lover's feet there, in a faint.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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But for us
A Tityus is he whom vultures rend
Prostrate in love, whom anxious anguish eats,
Whom troubles of any
unappeased
desires
Asunder rip.
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Lucretius |
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To tell the truth among friends, I feel a
miserable
blank in my heart,
with the want of her, and I don't think I shall ever meet with so
delicious an armful again.
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Robert Burns |
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If he seldom stooped to an outright lie, he never hesitated
to equivocate; and
students
of his life have found that it is seldom
possible to take his word on any point where his own works or interests
were concerned.
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Alexander Pope |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
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blake-poems |
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hold
My right hand
strongly!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O Women, let your voices from this fray
Flash me a fiery signal, where I sit,
The sword across my knees,
expecting
it.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Yet shall the muses plume his humble bier,
And ever o'er him pour th'
immortal
tear;
Though by the king, alone to thee unjust,
Thy head, great chief, was humbled in the dust,
Loud shall the muse indignant sound thy praise--
'Thou gav'st thy monarch's throne its proudest blaze.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
To whom
Gerenian
Nestor thus replied:(194)
"Gods!
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Iliad - Pope |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Polished
and smooth and half divine;
And let your elfish fingers chase
With riotous grace
The purest pearls that softly glow.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For forty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The other shape,
If shape it might be call'd that shape had none
Distinguishable in member, joynt, or limb,
Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,
For each seem'd either; black it stood as Night, 670
Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,
And shook a dreadful Dart; what seem'd his head
The
likeness
of a Kingly Crown had on.
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Milton |
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My
sovereign
lord, I do beseech your Highness
To take our brother Clarence to your grace.
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Shakespeare |
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If I should die,
And you should live,
And time should gurgle on,
And morn should beam,
And noon should burn,
As it has usual done;
If birds should build as early,
And bees as
bustling
go, --
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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It
contains
an
_Elegie_ by Henry Skipwith on the death of King Charles I, but most
of the poems are early Jacobean, and either the bulk of the collection
was made before this and some other poems were inserted, or it is
derived from older collections.
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John Donne |
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Alas the day,
What good could they
pretend?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Lettor, tu vedi ben com' io innalzo
la mia matera, e pero con piu arte
non ti
maravigliar
s'io la rincalzo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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Maintenant
il dit: Je sais les choses,
Et va, les yeux fermes et les oreilles closes;
--Et pourtant, plus de dieux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then
suddenly
the tune went false,
The dancers wearied of the waltz,
The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Past utterance, and past belief,
And past the blasphemy of grief,
The
mysteries
of Nature's heart;
And though no Muse can these impart,
Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,
And all is clear from east to west.
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Emerson - Poems |
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My God bless you, my dear friend, and bless me, the
humblest and sincerest of your friends, by
granting
you yet many
returns of the season!
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Robert Burns |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To wander o'er leagues of land,
To search over wastes of sea,
Where the Prophets of Lycia stand,
Or where Ammon's daughters three
Make runes in the
rainless
sand,
For magic to make her free--
Ah, vain!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Je n'ai pas oublie, voisine de la ville,
Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille,
Sa Pomone de platre et sa vieille Venus
Dans un bosquet chetif cachant leurs membres nus;
Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe,
Qui, derriere la vitre ou se brisait sa gerbe,
Semblait, grand oeil ouvert dans le ciel curieux,
Contempler nos diners longs et silencieux,
Repandant
largement ses beaux reflets de cierge
Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But man would mar them with an impious hand:
And when the Almighty lifts his
fiercest
scourge
'Gainst those who most transgress his high command,
With treble vengeance will his hot shafts urge
Gaul's locust host, and earth from fellest foemen purge[ar]
XVI.
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Byron |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Go,
tenderness
of years, take this key, give
enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I must
employ him in a letter to my love.
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Shakespeare |
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Stephen Crane |
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People, in that case, are less conscious of the horrible
pressure that is being put on them, and so go through their lives in a
sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that
they are
probably
thinking other people's thoughts, living by other
people's standards, wearing practically what one may call other people's
second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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This man his planted walks extends
Beyond his peers; an older name
One to the people's choice commends;
One boasts a more
unsullied
fame;
One plumes him on a larger crowd
Of clients.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Each verse
falls into two halves
corresponding
to the forward swing and the recoil
of the dance.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To break their long sleeping
No voice may avail:
They hear not our weeping--
Our
famished
love's wail.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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In the snowy winter of 1646, Jonathan Rudd, who dwelt
in the
settlement
of Saybrook Fort, at the mouth of the Connecticut,
sent for Winthrop to celebrate a marriage between himself and a certain
"Mary" of Saybrook, whose last name has been lost.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yet fear her, O thou minion of her
pleasure!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to
unseeing
eyes thy shade shines so!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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LIV
So up he rose, and thence
amounted
streight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But that Poe had overwhelming influence in the
formation
of his
poetic genius is not the truth.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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him at least thy love hath taught to sing,
And he hath been with thee at Thessaly,
And seen white Atalanta fleet of foot
In
passionless
and fierce virginity
Hunting the tusked boar, his honied lute
Hath pierced the cavern of the hollow hill,
And Venus laughs to know one knee will bow before her still.
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Wilde - Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Is there
anything
of this destiny left, or no?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It's the voice that the light made us understand here
That Hermes
Trismegistus
writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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It surely is far sweeter and more wise
To water love, than toil to leave anon
A name whose glory-gleam will but advise
Invidious
minds to quench it with their own,
And over which the kindliest will but stay
A moment, musing, "He, too, had his day!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ours are the
foremost
blows.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Adown the pale-green, glacier-river floats
A dark boat through the gloom--and
whither?
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Imagists |
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Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my
delicate
youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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He sees the men, whom holiest
sanctions
bind
To poverty, and love of human kind;
While, soft as drop the dews of balmy May,
Their words preach virtue, and her charms display,
He sees with lust of gold their eyes on fire,
And ev'ry wish to lordly state aspire;
He sees them trim the lamp at night's mid hour,
To plan new laws to arm the regal power;
Sleepless, at night's mid hour, to raze the laws,
The sacred bulwarks of the people's cause,
Fram'd ere the blood of hard-earn'd victory
On their brave fathers' helm-hack'd swords was dry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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at al
glytered
& glent as glem of ?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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CXI
The pale-faced dames and damsels troop, in guise
Of pigeons round the lists, a timid show;
When, homeward bound, from
fruitful
field they rise,
Scared by wide-sweeping winds, which loudly blow,
Mid flash and clap; and when the sable skies
Threat hail and rain, the harvest's waste and woe:
A timid troop, they for Rogero fear,
Ill matched they deem with that fierce cavalier.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
F alse beauty that costs me so dear,
R ough indeed, a
hypocrite
sweetness,
A mor, like iron on the teeth and harder,
N amed only to achieve my sure distress,
C harm that's murderous, poor heart's death,
O covert pride that sends men to ruin,
I mplacable eyes, won't true redress
S uccour a poor man, without crushing?
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Villon |
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[435] They had, as a matter of fact, changed their allegiance
no less than six times since the
outbreak
of the civil war.
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Tacitus |
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Flash on his sight the
spectres
of the past,
Until his mind's eye paint thereon--
Let scorn like .
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Shelley |
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Of this,
although extremely indecent in his Majesty, the philosopher took no
notice:--simply kicking the dog, and
requesting
him to be quiet.
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Poe - 5 |
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It is not that yon hoary
lengthening
beard
Ill suits the passions which belong to youth:
Love conquers age--so Hafiz hath averred,
So sings the Teian, and he sings in sooth--
But crimes that scorn the tender voice of ruth,
Beseeming all men ill, but most the man
In years, have marked him with a tiger's tooth:
Blood follows blood, and through their mortal span,
In bloodier acts conclude those who with blood began.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The chill air comes around me oceanly,
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread;
Strange birds like snowspots oer the
whizzing
sea
Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled.
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John Clare |
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If, which our valley bars, this wall of stone,
From which its present name we closely trace,
Were by
disdainful
nature rased, and thrown
Its back to Babel and to Rome its face;
Then had my sighs a better pathway known
To where their hope is yet in life and grace:
They now go singly, yet my voice all own;
And, where I send, not one but finds its place.
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Petrarch |
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Siris,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Behind his head a palm-tree grew;
An orient beam which pierced it through
Transversely on his
forehead
drew
The figure of a palm-branch brown
Traced on its brightness up and down
In fine fair lines,--a shadow-crown:
Guido might paint his angels so--
A little angel, taught to go
With holy words to saints below--
Such innocence of action yet
Significance of object met
In his whole bearing strong and sweet.
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But if the test of great poetry is the length and breadth
of its
influence
in the world, then Roman poetry has nothing to fear
from the vagaries of modern fashion.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Her shape arises,
She less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever;
The gross and soiled she moves among do not make her gross and soiled;
She knows the thoughts as she passes--nothing is concealed from her;
She is none the less
considerate
or friendly therefor;
She is the best beloved--it is without exception--she has no reason to
fear, and she does not fear;
Oaths, quarrels, hiccupped songs, smutty expressions, are idle to her as
she passes;
She is silent--she is possessed of herself--they do not offend her;
She receives them as the laws of nature receive them--she is strong,
She too is a law of nature--there is no law stronger than she is.
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Whitman |
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Dream yields to dream, strife follows strife,
And Death
unweaves
the webs of Life.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Therefore a bad
poet would, I grant, make a false critique, and his self-love would
infallibly bias his little judgment in his favor; but a poet, who is
indeed a poet, could not, I think, fail of making-a just critique;
whatever should be deducted on the score of self-love might be replaced
on account of his intimate acquaintance with the subject; in short,
we have more
instances
of false criticism than of just where one's own
writings are the test, simply because we have more bad poets than good.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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So two nights passed: the night's dismay
Saddened
and stunned the coming day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The lustres of the
chandelier
are bright, and clusters of rubies leap in
the bohemian glasses on the _étagère_.
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Imagists |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Like Love and the Sirens, these birds sing so
melodiously
that even the life of those who hear them is not too great a price to pay for such music.
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Appoloinaire |
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Think now
She gives when our
attention
is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving.
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T.S. Eliot |
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So till the dusk that followed evensong
Rode on the two, reviler and reviled;
Then after one long slope was mounted, saw,
Bowl-shaped, through tops of many
thousand
pines
A gloomy-gladed hollow slowly sink
To westward--in the deeps whereof a mere,
Round as the red eye of an Eagle-owl,
Under the half-dead sunset glared; and shouts
Ascended, and there brake a servingman
Flying from out of the black wood, and crying,
'They have bound my lord to cast him in the mere.
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Tennyson |
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Their loss to pay,
Grant to our sons unblemish'd ways;
Grant to our sires an age of peace;
Grant to our nation power and praise,
And large
increase!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Since she
disdains
me, I must suffer,
Whom I long for more than another.
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Troubador Verse |
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I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words,
And like
unlettered
clerk still cry 'Amen'
To every hymn that able spirit affords,
In polish'd form of well-refined pen.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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<>, diss' io, <
questa fortuna di che tu mi tocche,
che e, che i ben del mondo ha si tra
branche?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Or if you wake your ears for the river's voice,
You hear the chime of fawning lipping water,
Trodden to chattering
falsehood
by the keels
Of kings' happiness.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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