"
I answer'd: "Teacher, I
conclude
thy words
So certain, that all else shall be to me
As embers lacking life.
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What are the roots that clutch, what
branches
grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
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If I should n't be alive
When the robins come,
Give the one in red cravat
A
memorial
crumb.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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So shall the drudge in dusty frock
Spy behind the city clock
Retinues of airy kings,
Skirts of angels, starry wings,
His fathers shining in bright fables,
His
children
fed at heavenly tables.
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Emerson - Poems |
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To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle
He
prettily
and aptly taunts himself.
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Shakespeare |
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Skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
the rib bones shine, the rib bones curve,
shine with savage, elegant curves--
a jawbone runs with a long white slant,
a skull dome runs with a long white arch,
bone triangles click and rattle,
elbows, ankles, white line slants--
shining in the sun, past the White House,
past the Treasury Building, Army and Navy Buildings,
on to the mystic white Capitol Dome--
so they go down Pennsylvania Avenue to-day,
skeleton men and boys riding skeleton horses,
stems of roses in their teeth,
rose dark leaves at their white jaw slants--
and a horse laugh
question
nickers and whinnies,
moans with a whistle out of horse head teeth:
why?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty ordained for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was
abandoned
readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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3 This is a figure from the Yi: the dragon and serpent
hibernate
to protect themselves.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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5200
COMMENT RAISOUN
DIFFINIST
AMISTIE.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Follow me, my
beautiful
child.
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Aristophanes |
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255
What tender vows our last sad kiss
delayed!
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William Wordsworth |
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520
What savage manners, what hardened hatred
Would not, on seeing you, be wholly
softened?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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In the calm darkness of the
moonless
nights, _130
In the lone glare of day, the snows descend
Upon that Mountain; none beholds them there,
Nor when the flakes burn in the sinking sun,
Or the star-beams dart through them:--Winds contend
Silently there, and heap the snow with breath _135
Rapid and strong, but silently!
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Shelley |
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As birds that in the sinking summer sweep
Across the heaven to happier climes to go,
So they are gone; and
sometimes
we must weep,
And sometimes, smiling, murmur, "Be it so!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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There can be no farewell to scene like thine;
The mind is coloured by thy every hue;
And if reluctantly the eyes resign
Their
cherished
gaze upon thee, lovely Rhine!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Le bras sur un marteau gigantesque, effrayant
D'ivresse et de grandeur, le front vaste, riant
Comme un clairon d'airain, avec toute sa bouche,
Et prenant ce gros-la dans son regard farouche,
Le
Forgeron
parlait a Louis Seize, un jour
Que le Peuple etait la, se tordant tout autour,
Et sur les lambris d'or trainant sa veste sale.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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) Tomorrow evening at eleven, beside
The
fountain
in the avenue of lime-trees.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS
" "DEING no longer human, why should I -D Pretend
humanity
or don the frail attire?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Eve
responds
that if Eden is so
exposed that they are not secure apart, how can they be happy?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long
winters!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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donations.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Explicit
prohemium Tercii Libri.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Even When We Sleep
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
And this love heavier than a lake's ripe fruit
Without
laughter
or tears lasts forever
One day after another one night after us.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Sweeney
addressed
full length to shave
Broadbottomed, pink from nape to base,
Knows the female temperament
And wipes the suds around his face.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Before him Doon pours all his floods,
The doubling storm roars thro' the woods,
The lightnings flash from pole to pole,
Near and more near the
thunders
roll,
When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees,
Kirk-Alloway seem'd in a bleeze,
Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing,
And loud resounded mirth and dancing.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To him who longs unto his Christ to go,
Celerity
even itself is slow.
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Robert Herrick |
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From all these echoing arches
ringing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of
damages.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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`And eek, for she is straunge, he wol forbere 1660
His ese, which that him thar nought for yow;
Eek other thing that
toucheth
not to here,
He wol me telle, I woot it wel right now,
That secret is, and for the tounes prow.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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In notes which he made at some date after
1608, we find him
inquiring
for 'Satyres, Elegies, Epigrams etc.
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John Donne |
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This went by
As strangely as it came, and on my spirits
Settled a gentle cloud of melancholy;
Not long; I shook it off; for spite of doubts
And sudden ghostly shadowings I was one
To whom the touch of all
mischance
but came
As night to him that sitting on a hill
Sees the midsummer, midnight, Norway sun
Set into sunrise; then we moved away.
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Tennyson |
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What
attracts
one to drama is that it is, in the most obvious way, what
all the arts are upon a last analysis.
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Yeats |
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Every traveller I've ever known has
complained
of poor treatment:
He whom I recommend treatment delicious receives.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Egyptians worship various animals, and also symbolical
representations, which are the work of man: the Jews acknowledge one
God only, and him they adore in contemplation; condemning as impious
idolaters all who, with
perishable
materials wrought into the human
form, attempt to give a representation of the Deity.
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Tacitus |
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The
chevaliers
of France do much repine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre,
and the
continuation
is indented two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Note: There are
references
to a visit to the Temple of Isis at Pompeii with an English girl, Octavia (who tasted a lemon), and to the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Is there one Frank, that you to hang
committeth?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Je jugeai qu'un homme qui passe deux heures tous les
matins a brosser ses ongles peut bien passer
quelques
instants a
remplir de blanc les creux de sa peau.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Or the
glistening
Eye to the poison of a smile!
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blake-poems |
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Muffle the sound of bells,
Mournfully human, that cries from the
darkening
valley;
Close, with your leaves, about the sound of water:
Take me among your hearts as you take the mist
Among your boughs!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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the
treasure)
drew the king
thither was granted indeed, but it overwhelmed us.
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Beowulf |
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And later, in August it may be,
When the meadows
parching
lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life
Some burning noon go dry!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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In the
startled
ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Between two ebon rocks
Behold yon sombre den,
Where
brambles
bristle like the locks
Of wool between the horns of scapegoat banned by men!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'
"When the Malik Shah
determined
to reform the calendar, Omar was one
of the eight learned men employed to do it; the result was the Jalali
era (so called from Jalal-ud-din, one of the king's names)--'a
computation of time,' says Gibbon, 'which surpasses the Julian, and
approaches the accuracy of the Gregorian style.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And clos'd for ay the
sparkling
glance
That dwelt on me sae kindly!
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Robert Forst |
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--Even amidst my strain
I turned aside to pay my homage here;
Forgot the land, the sons, the maids of Spain;
Her fate, to every free-born bosom dear;
And hailed thee, not
perchance
without a tear.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ah, when I die, and planets hold their flight
Above my grave, still let my spirit keep
Sometimes
its vigil of divine remorse,
'Midst pity, praise, or blame heaped o'er my corse!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Theories about epic origins
were therefore
indifferent
to my purpose.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Kidurkazal,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 145.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The
villagers
imagine that
she follows him to avenge some wrong.
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Yeats |
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LI
Loitering
with a vacant eye
Along the Grecian gallery,
And brooding on my heavy ill,
I met a statue standing still.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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3
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1914 the University Museum secured by
purchase
a large
six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally, according to
the scribal note, 240 lines of text.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Havynge wythe mouche
attentyonn
redde
Whatt you dydd to mee sende,
Admyre the varses mouche I dydd,
And thus an answerr lende.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A mighty General I then did see,
Like one, who, for some
glorious
victory,
Should to the Capitol in triumph go:
I (who had not been used to such a show
In this soft age, where we no valour have,
But pride) admired his habit, strange and brave,
And having raised mine eyes, which wearied were,
To understand this sight was all my care.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up
By ignorance and parching poverty,
His energies roll back upon his heart,
And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison,
They break out on him, like a
loathsome
plague-spot;
Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks--
And this is their best cure!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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No longer
loitering
makest thou,
Now comest thou.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the
rarities
of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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O wont the flying Nymphs to woo,
Good Faunus, through my sunny farm
Pass gently, gently pass, nor do
My
younglings
harm.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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An old roof
crashing
on a Bishop's tomb,
Swarms of men with a thirst for room,
And the footsteps blur to a shower, shower, shower,
Of men passing--passing--every hour,
With arms of power, and legs of power,
And power in their strong, hard minds.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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) Didst mark how pale
Our
sovereign
turned, how from his face there poured
A mighty sweat?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Euryclea awakens
Penelope
with the news of Ulysses' return, and
the death of the suitors.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Is it
wonderful
that I should be immortal?
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Whitman |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And then came one of sweet and earnest looks,
Whose soft smiles to his dark and night-like eyes
Were as the clear and ever-living brooks _20
Are to the obscure fountains whence they rise,
Showing how pure they are: a Paradise
Of happy truth upon his
forehead
low
Lay, making wisdom lovely, in the guise
Of earth-awakening morn upon the brow _25
Of star-deserted heaven, while ocean gleams below.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Deep, where the bases of the hills extend,
And earth's huge ribs of rock enormous bend,
Where, roaring through the caverns, roll the waves
Responsive
as the aerial tempest raves,
The ocean's monarch, by the Nereid train,
And wat'ry gods encircled, holds his reign.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How
pleasant
to know Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Ulysses' heart
Commotion
felt, and his stretch'd nostrils throbb'd
With agony close-pent, while fixt he eyed
His father; with a sudden force he sprang
Toward him, clasp'd, and kiss'd him, and exclaim'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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These looks
sometime
upheld him; for I show'd
My youthful eyes, and led him by their light
In upright walking.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Our
knocking
ha's awak'd him: here he comes
Lenox.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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The rest fell into a disgraceful panic and fled, but the pursuit was
not
continued
beyond Fidenae.
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Tacitus |
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Straggling shapes:
Afterwards
none are seen.
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Imagists |
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_
Thie Brystowe
knyghtes
for thie forth-comynge lynge[64];
Echone athwarte hys backe hys longe warre-shield dothe slynge.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Rilke - Poems |
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To crown your
happiness
he asks your leave,
And offers, bliss to give and to receive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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FOURTH OPAL
We were alone: the
perfumed
night,
Moonlighted, like a flower
Grew round us and exhaled delight
To bless that one sweet hour.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN
[_When a Northern Indian, from sickness, is unable to continue his
journey with his companions; he is left behind, covered over with
Deer-skins, and is
supplied
with water, food, and fuel if the situation
of the place will afford it.
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UPON my word, replied another fair,
If he were mine, I openly declare,
To judge from what so
pleasantly
you say,
I'd make a present of him new-year's day.
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La Fontaine |
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WORLD BUILDERS By Abigail Fithian Halsev
These are the things that make the world, The sun and air, the earth and sky,
The golden
sunlight
everywhere,
The wings of angels drifting by.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Think of womanhood, and you to be a woman;
The creation is womanhood;
Have I not said that
womanhood
involves all?
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Whitman |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Her paps are centres of delight,
Her breasts are orbs of
heavenly
frame,
Where Nature moulds the dew of light
To feed perfection with the same:
Heigh ho, would she were mine!
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Golden Treasury |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books
discoverable
online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Cries burst from all the
millions
that attend:
_"Ascend, Leviathan, it is the end!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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We could not wish her whiter,--her
Who
perfumed
with pure blossom
The house--a lovely thing to wear
Upon a mother's bosom!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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What can be then less in me then desire
To see thee and
approach
thee, whom I know
Declar'd the Son of God, to hear attent
Thy wisdom, and behold thy God-like deeds?
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Milton |
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Always our own
feuillage!
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Whitman |
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The which now having taught, I will go on
To bind thereto a fact to this allied
And drawing from this its proof: those primal germs
Which have been fashioned all of one like shape
Are infinite in tale; for, since the forms
Themselves are finite in divergences,
Then those which are alike will have to be
Infinite, else the sum of stuff remains
A finite--what I've proved is not the fact,
Showing in verse how corpuscles of stuff,
From everlasting and to-day the same,
Uphold the sum of things, all sides around
By old succession of
unending
blows.
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Lucretius |
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And love gave me great knowledge of the trees,
And singing birds, and earth with all her flowers;
Wisdom I knew and righteousness in these,
I lived in their
atonement
all my hours;
Love taught me how to beauty's eye alone
The secret of the lying heart is known.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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When it
puckered
up with shame,
And I sought him, he never came.
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John Clare |
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