Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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I wot not where
thou dwellest, but teach me thereto, tell me how thou art called, and I
shall
endeavour
to find thee,--and that I swear thee for truth and by
my sure troth.
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Remember
Tchaplitzky, who, thanks to
you, was able to pay his debts.
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Thee, Furius, and Fabricius, thee,
Rough Curius too, with untrimm'd beard,
Your sires' transmitted poverty
To
conquest
rear'd.
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In the course of the evening, you find chance for certain
Soft
speeches
to Anne, in the shade of the curtain:
You tell her your heart can be likened to _one_ flower,
'And that, O most charming of women, 's the sunflower,
Which turns'--here a clear nasal voice, to your terror, 270
From outside the curtain, says, 'That's all an error.
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THE lover had success; the parents thought
His merit such as
prudence
would have sought;
What more to wish?
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La Fontaine |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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--
That so your
happiness
in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Who is the
landlord?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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s dust, how soon will we stop the
training
of troops?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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org
[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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Music-hall posters squall out:
The
passengers
shrink together,
I enter indelicately into all their souls.
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Imagists |
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_
[91] The historical
foundation
of the fable of Phaeton is this.
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She'll speak to no one now, and every day,
Morning and evening, she's at the gate
Gazing like a fey
creature
on that head
She was so stricken to behold--you mind it?
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" Finding that he could not
influence
the
conduct of his prince, he drowned himself in the river Mi-lo.
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Was it humility, to feel
honoured?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
ODE
SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857
O
tenderly
the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire.
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Emerson - Poems |
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He
regards the _Alcestis_ simply as a triumph of pathos,
especially
of
"that peculiar sort of pathos which comes most home to us, with our views
and partialities for domestic life.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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A strange numbing terror
unnerves
his limbs,
his hair thrills up, and the accents falter on his tongue.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
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Shakespeare |
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Through the garden it stole
Like
wandering
steps, like a whisper--then mute;
What play you, O Boy?
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Rilke - Poems |
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He quaff'd the gore; and straight his soldier knew,
And from his eyes pour'd down the tender dew:
His arms he stretch'd; his arms the touch deceive,
Nor in the fond embrace, embraces give:
His substance vanish'd, and his
strength
decay'd,
Now all Atrides is an empty shade.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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Yesterday, later by five hours than now,
Twelve hundred
threescore
years and six had fill'd
The circuit of their course, since here the way
Was broken.
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" we cry, and lo, apace
Pleasure
appears!
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Marvellous
things
Had vanity (quick Spirit that appears
Almost as deeply seated and as strong
In a Child's heart as fear itself) conceived 105
For my enjoyment.
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His last dread
pleasure!
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Fierce to the charge great Hector led the throng;
Whole Troy
embodied
rush'd with shouts along.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Aboute hir eyen two a purpre ring
Bi-trent, in sothfast
tokninge
of hir peyne, 870
That to biholde it was a dedly thing,
For which Pandare mighte not restreyne
The teres from his eyen for to reyne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And see how dark the
backward
stream!
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"
"Well hast thou spoke (rejoin'd the
attentive
swain):
Thy lips let fall no idle word or vain!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The son's
destruction
waits the mother's fame:
For, till she leaves thy court, it is decreed,
Thy bowl to empty and thy flock to bleed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The
Bread of Life is
wholesome
and sufficing in itself, but gulped down with
these kickshaws cooked up by theologians, it is apt to produce an
indigestion, nay, eyen at last an incurable dyspepsia of scepticism.
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It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at
blushing
shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown 110
Had not a friend.
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Keats |
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What do you need,
Camerado?
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Whitman |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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He, on the earth who lay,
meanwhile
extends
His sharpen'd visage, and draws down the ears
Into the head, as doth the slug his horns.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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And within the grave there is no pleasure,
for the blindworm battens on the root,
And Desire
shudders
into ashes, and the tree
of Passion bears no fruit.
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Wilde - Poems |
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There was a strangeness in the room,
And
Something
white and wavy
Was standing near me in the gloom--
_I_ took it for the carpet-broom
Left by that careless slavey.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I see they lay
helpless
& naked: weeping
And none to answer, none to cherish thee with mothers smiles.
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"
LXXII
The Soldier's Widow lingered in the cot; 640
And, when he rose, he thanked her pious care
Through which his Wife, to that kind shelter brought,
Died in his arms; and with those thanks a prayer
He breathed for her, and for that
merciful
pair.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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It is not that I _will not_ write to you;
Miss Burnet is not more dear to her
guardian
angel, nor his grace the
Duke of Queensbury to the powers of darkness, than my friend
Cunningham to me.
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that woe, the blood of many beasts,
And victims
manifold
to many gods,
Alone can cure.
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Aeschylus |
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But Troilus, thou mayst now, est or west,
Pype in an ivy leef, if that thee lest;
Thus gooth the world; god shilde us fro mischaunce,
And every wight that meneth trouthe
avaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Erect stood He,
scanning
his work proudly.
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Stephen Crane |
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Under the
overhanging
yews,
The dark owls sit in solemn state.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Chanson de Roland |
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they love thee least who owe thee most--
Their birth, their blood, and that sublime record
Of hero sires, who shame thy now
degenerate
horde!
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foster child of the
wondrous
nurse!
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Latin - Catullus |
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Nancy,
presumably
Mrs.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then the
Governor
of Han-tung came out to meet us, on a silver saddle
with tassels of gold that reached to the ground.
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Li Po |
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It is all in keeping that he should arrive tired,
should feast and drink and sing; should be
suddenly
sobered and should go
forth to battle with Death.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Nun
uberlass
es meinem Witze!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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As if confusing
darkness
came 1819.
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William Wordsworth |
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I dress the
perforated
shoulder, the foot with the bullet wound,
Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening, so
offensive,
While the attendant stands behind aside me, holding the tray and pail.
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Whitman |
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ou hast
seuentene
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Beneath the armour of the Knight
Behind the chain's black links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will the sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the scabbard spring
And cut the network of the cloak
Enmeshing
me ring on ring--
When will the foe's delivering stroke
Set me free
To dance
And sing?
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Rilke - Poems |
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Those who
practice
poetry search for and love only the perfection that is God Himself.
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Appoloinaire |
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LXXXII
The images below them in their hand
Long scrolls and of an ample size contain,
Which of the
worthiest
figures of that band
The several names with mickle praise explain
As well their own at little distance stand,
Inscribed upon that scroll, in letters plain,
Rinaldo, by the help of blazing lights,
Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Instant, the racer vanish'd off the ground;
That instant in his cloak I wrapp'd me round:
And safe I slept, till brightly-dawning shone
The morn
conspicuous
on her golden throne.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The sentries sheltered their
guilt under the general's disgrace, pretending that they had orders to
keep quiet and not disturb him: so they had dispensed with the
bugle-call and the
challenge
on rounds, and dropped off to sleep
themselves.
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Tacitus |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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The seruice, and the
loyaltie
I owe,
In doing it, payes it selfe.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Chimene
To
preserve
my honour and end my woe,
Pursue him, see him slain, and die also.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Then,
hurrying
to the voice of
the terrible trumpet-note, on all sides the wild rustics snatch their
arms and stream in: therewithal the men of Troy pour out from their
camp's open gates to succour Ascanius.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
And I noted with joy
Those
sensational
simpers:
And I said "This is scrumptious!
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Lewis Carroll |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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as 'twere fain
That your
paternal
river's banks,
And Vatican, in sportive strain,
Should echo thanks.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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With clank of
scabbards
and thunder of steeds,
And blades that shine like sunlit reeds,
And strong brown faces bravely pale
For fear their proud attempt shall fail,
Three hundred Pennsylvanians close
On twice ten thousand gallant foes.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a Snare
Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,
As not a True
Believer
passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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" Previous European statements about
Chinese prosody should be
accepted
with great caution.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The _Chanson d'Antioche_ contains
perhaps the most illuminating
admission
of this difficulty.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Alas for me, whom love forgets,
Who stray from the proper track;
A share of joy would be mine yet,
But sorrow it is that
troubles
me;
And I can find no place to rest,
For it turns all joy to bitterness.
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Troubador Verse |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Though the bloom of his early youth was effaced by several
years residence under the scorching sky of Africa, and though altered by
the loss of an eye, his presence gave uneasiness to the gentlemen of
some
families
of the first rank where he had formerly visited.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Shall a
beardless
boy,
A cock'red silken wanton, brave our fields
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?
| Guess: |
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Shakespeare |
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--
I think it's
fiendish
to have killed so many.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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" He
fired, and slightly wounded his opponent,
shouting
"Bravo!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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my
nostrils
drink the lives of mMen
[[line]]
The Villages Lament.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in
resistless
yearning
Are broken forevermore.
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At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while [1] he treads
His lonesome path, with
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Bent earthwards; he looks up--the clouds are split
Asunder,--and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
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CHORUS
To my
blessing
now give ear.
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II
The
Babylonian
praises his high wall,
And gardens high in air; Ephesian
Forms the Greek will praise again;
The people of the Nile their Pyramids tall;
And that same Greek still boasting will recall
Their statue of Jove the Olympian;
The Tomb of Mausolus, some Carian;
Cretans their long-lost labyrinthine hall.
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So Hercules,
His labours o'er, sits at the board of Jove:
So Tyndareus' offspring shine as stars above,
Saving lorn vessels from the yawning seas:
So Bacchus, with the vine-wreath round his hair,
Gives
prosperous
issue to his votary's prayer.
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet Instructor Zheng 283 At the end of my rope, I see how a real friend behaves, the age is blocked, I grieve at the hard ways.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And Troy mourned for him,
Andromache
lamenting
and Hecuba, his mother.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_The
Beautiful
Stranger_
I cannot know what country owns thee now,
With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
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A wreck, as it looked, we lay--
(Rib and
plankshear
gave way
To the stroke of that giant wedge!
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