Canto VIII
Io dico, seguitando, ch'assai prima
che noi fossimo al pie de l'alta torre,
li occhi nostri n'andar suso a la cima
per due
fiammette
che i vedemmo porre,
e un'altra da lungi render cenno,
tanto ch'a pena il potea l'occhio torre.
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O
155 _anilitas_ codex
Vicentinus
scriptus anno 1460: _an(n)ilis
etas_ ?
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No
other man's poems have caused as many readers to shed tears of sympathy
nor have
awakened
higher sentiments in the human heart.
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Of two famed surgeons, Podalirius stands
This hour
surrounded
by the Trojan bands;
And great Machaon, wounded in his tent,
Now wants that succour which so oft he lent.
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at it be
wrecchednesse
to wilne to don yuel[;]
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O lover, in this radiant world
Whence is the race of mortal men, 10
So frail, so mighty, and so fond,
That fleets into the vast
unknown?
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Sappho |
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There doth my father lie; and there this night
We'll pass the business
privately
and well.
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'"
DAMOETAS
"Fell as the wolf is to the folded flock,
Rain to ripe corn, Sirocco to the trees,
The wrath of
Amaryllis
is to me.
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n-lung[4] the family
returned
and
settled in Pa-hsi.
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Li Po |
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You lead me to the
withering
balustrade,
The gardens' sesame has become so strange.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And more than this, if Time,
That wastes with eld the works along the world,
Destroy entire,
consuming
matter all,
Whence then may Venus back to light of life
Restore the generations kind by kind?
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Lucretius |
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Say for my comfort, languishing in bed,
"Just so
immortal
_Maro_ held his head:" 120
And when I die, be sure you let me know
Great _Homer_ died three thousand years ago.
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Alexander Pope |
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She was a tall, majestic woman, and
so imperious in all her air that I cannot remember having seen the like
in the
collections
of the aristocratic beauties of the past.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Devouring Time swallows us whole,
Impartial
Death confounds body and soul.
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belle comme la neige,
Oui, tu mourus, enfant, par un fleuve
emporte!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Inward and outward to northward and
southward
the beach-lines linger and curl
As a silver-wrought garment that clings to and follows
the firm sweet limbs of a girl.
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Sidney Lanier |
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So shall I pass into the feast
Not touched by King,
Merchant
or Priest;
Know the red spirit of the beast,
Be the green grain;
Escape from prison.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_John Finley_
TO FELLOW TRAVELLERS IN GREECE
MARCH-SEPTEMBER, 1914
'T was in the piping tune of peace
We trod the sacred soil of Greece,
Nor thought, where the Ilissus runs,
Of Teuton craft or Teuton guns;
Nor dreamt that, ere the year was spent,
Their iron challenge insolent
Would round the world's
horizons
pour,
From Europe to the Australian shore.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He
certainly
made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land but perhaps before the Crusade.
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Troubador Verse |
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Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and
daylight
slumber
Were not meant for man alive.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
I
MY ardours for emprize nigh lost
Since Life has bared its bones to me,
I shrink to seek a modern coast
Whose riper times have yet to be;
Where the new regions claim them free
From that long drip of human tears
Which peoples old in tragedy
Have left upon the
centuried
years.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He was examining the apple-trees which the
breath of autumn had already deprived of their leaves, and, with the
help of an old gardener, he was
enveloping
them in straw.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Kline (C) Copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Her teeth are like a flock of sheep,
With fleeces newly washen clean,
That slowly mount the rising steep;
An' she has twa
sparkling
roguish een.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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--My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands,
wherever
I go.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"
CANTO XXIX
No longer than what time Latona's twins
Cover'd of Libra and the fleecy star,
Together both, girding the' horizon hang,
In even balance from the zenith pois'd,
Till from that verge, each,
changing
hemisphere,
Part the nice level; e'en so brief a space
Did Beatrice's silence hold.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Oft, too, the multitudinous crash of ice
And down-pour of swift hail gives forth a sound
Among the mighty clouds on high; for when
The wind hath packed them close, each mountain mass
Of rain-cloud, there
congealed
utterly
And mixed with hail-stones, breaks and booms.
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Lucretius |
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I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow;
And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee
To clust'ring filberts, and
sometimes
I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock.
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Shakespeare |
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The Caterpillar
Plants, Caterpillars and Insects
'Plants, Caterpillars and Insects'
Jacob l' Admiral (II),
Johannes
Sluyter, 1710 - 1770, The Rijksmuseun
Work leads us to riches.
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Appoloinaire |
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The epileptic on the bed
Curves backward,
clutching
at her sides.
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T.S. Eliot |
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He thereat was stung,
Perverse, with stronger fancy to reclaim
Her wild and timid nature to his aim:
Besides, for all his love, in self despite,
Against his better self, he took delight
Luxurious
in her sorrows, soft and new.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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That poor
retention
could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The friend
proposed
they should at once decide,
The charge and pleasure 'tween them to divide.
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La Fontaine |
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with a glory round his
furrowed
brow,
Which emanated then, and dazzles now
In face of all his foes, the Cruscan quire,
And Boileau, whose rash envy could allow
No strain which shamed his country's creaking lyre,
That whetstone of the teeth--monotony in wire!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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You and I must keep from shame
In London streets the
Shropshire
name;
On banks of Thames they must not say
Severn breeds worse men than they;
And friends abroad must bear in mind
Friends at home they leave behind.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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In a solitary place the
bridegrooms seized their brides,
stripped
them, scourged them,
and departed, leaving them for dead.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I began searching among the bookshelves,
and found one of the most exhaustive alchemical
libraries
I have ever
seen.
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Yeats |
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my beloved, my
Geraldine!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh yes, there is, rejoined the crafty knave,
From such mishap I can the baby save;
Yet solemnly I vow, for none but you
I'd undertake the
toilsome
job to do.
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La Fontaine |
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"Such still, such ages weave ye, as ye run,"
Sang to their
spindles
the consenting Fates
By Destiny's unalterable decree.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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s
abilities
and how crucial the post is?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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_Crank_, the noise of an
ungreased
wheel--metaphorically inharmonious
verse.
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Robert Burns |
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3 That is, Suzong will come directly and openly to the capital, perhaps in
contrast
to his father Xuanzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But I would
comprehend
Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
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Rilke - Poems |
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By no means casual, it is none the less as yet
uninfected
by
officialism.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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These words being English
affected
me as if I had
been absent now ten years from my country, and for so long had not
heard the sound of my native language, and every one of them was as
interesting to me as if I had been a snipe-shooter, and they had been
snipes.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or seedling there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With
unreproachful
stare.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Oh, swift as light they speed, The first light into
darkness
hurled, Each to his work, above, below,
The sons of God that make the world.
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uiuunt in Venerem frondes omnisque uicissim
felix arbor amat; nutant ad mutua palmae
foedera, populeo suspirat populus ictu
et platani platanis alnoque
adsibilat
alnus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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To laugh, were want of
goodness
and of grace, 35
And to be grave, exceeds all Pow'r of face.
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Alexander Pope |
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His
humorous
rhymes were, however, more often quips and cranks at the
expense of his contemporaries.
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Yeats |
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and
soothing
foil
For some few hours the coming solitude.
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Keats |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Ardent eyes
Of young men see the
prophecy
arise
Of what their lives shall be when all is told;
And, in the far-off glow of years called old,
Those other eyes look back to catch a trace
Of what was once their own unshadowed grace.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Where'er the
radiance
of thy coming fall,
Shall dawn for thee her saffron footcloths spread,
Sunset her purple canopies and red,
In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Add finders-out of sciences and arts;
Add comrades of the Heliconian dames,
Among whom Homer,
sceptered
o'er them all,
Now lies in slumber sunken with the rest.
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Lucretius |
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they for joy did grin
And all at once their breath drew in
As they were
drinking
all.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I sing but as vouchsafed me; yet even this
If, if but one with ravished eyes should read,
Of thee, O Varus, shall our tamarisks
And all the woodland ring; nor can there be
A page more dear to Phoebus, than the page
Where,
foremost
writ, the name of Varus stands.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Burns, who by the bye has a
glorious
"wood-note wild" at either
old song or psalmody, joins me with the pathos of Handel's Messiah.
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Robert Burns |
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It was
apparently
not in use in England when Coryat published his
_Crudities_, which contains the following description (1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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SHELLEY'S SKYLARK
(_The neighbourhood of Leghorn_: _March_, 1887)
SOMEWHERE afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies--
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust
The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
And made
immortal
through times to be;--
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Think we all these are for
himself?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But you invert the cov'nants of her trust,
And harshly deal like an ill borrower
With that which you receiv'd on other terms,
Scorning the
unexempt
condition
By which all mortal frailty must subsist,
Refreshment after toil, ease after pain,
That have been tir'd all day without repast,
And timely rest have wanted, but fair Virgin
This will restore all soon.
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Milton |
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No, though more suasive than the bard of Thrace
You swept the lyre that trees were fain to hear,
Ne'er should the blood revisit his pale face
Whom once with wand severe
Mercury has folded with the sons of night,
Untaught
to prayer Fate's prison to unseal.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But now the wise instructions of the sage,
And manly
thoughts
inspired by manly age,
Teach me to seek redress for all my woe,
Here, or in Pyle--in Pyle, or here, your foe.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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at may
enbracen
to-gidre al ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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that his dreams be bright
With visitings of angel forms of light,
And his soul burn as incense flaming wide,
Let thy pure breath all his dark sins efface,
So that his heart be like that holy place,
An altar
pavement
each eve purified!
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Hugo - Poems |
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He laughed--the
gauntlet
trembled at his stroke.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So engrossed was the Butcher, he heeded them not,
As he wrote with a pen in each hand,
And
explained
all the while in a popular style
Which the Beaver could well understand.
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Lewis Carroll |
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'113'
the lunar sphere: it was an old
superstition
that everything lost on
earth went to the moon.
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Alexander Pope |
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Tell me, who is the master
That works in such an admirable way,
And with such power and
feeling?
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Longfellow |
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LEILI
The serpents are asleep among the poppies,
The fireflies light the
soundless
panther's way
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying,
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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This, however, does not amount to
saying that Whitman is a vile man, or a corrupt or
corrupting
writer; he is
none of these.
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Whitman |
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But our poet must beware that his study be not only to learn
of himself; for he that shall affect to do that
confesseth
his ever
having a fool to his master.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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]
Were the idea untrue, it would still be a
glorious
dream, which a man of
genius might be content to live in and die for: but is it untrue?
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Whitman |
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Therefore, we usually do NOT keep any
of these books in compliance with any
particular
paper edition.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,
And flesh and soul, now both are strong,
Shall hale the sullen slaves along,
Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,
And leave with ancient night alone
The stedfast and
enduring
bone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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We're rovers of the
restless
main,
But we've some conscience, mark!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Yet, though it lacks
the
lightness
of its original, it remains a nobler version than any
other.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I care not how you are dressed,
In
coarsest
weeds or in the best;
Nor whether your name is base or brave:
Nor for the fashion of your behavior;
But whether you charm me,
Bid my bread feed and my fire warm me
And dress up Nature in your favor.
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Emerson - Poems |
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When Lil's husband got demobbed, I said--
I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, 140
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Now Albert's coming back, make
yourself
a bit smart.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Yet saith a saint: "Take
patience
for thy scathe";
Yet saith an angel: "Wait, for thou shalt prove
True best is last, true life is born of death,
O thou, heart-broken for a little love!
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Christina Rossetti |
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The
hourlies
and half-hourlies, the
dailies and weeklies, whirl on well-worn tracks, round and round his
house, as if it were the goal in the stadium, and still he sits within
in unruffled serenity, with no show of retreat.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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See what a bunch of grapes is
glowing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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To each will I give two glittering
Gnosian spearheads of
polished
steel, and an axe chased with silver to
bear away; one and all shall be honoured thus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely--they are thrust
Like foolish
Prophets
forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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SHE entered as the holy monk desired,
And they
together
to his cell retired.
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La Fontaine |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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T.S. Eliot |
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While he is still
refusing to admit the facts and
beseeching
her not to "desert" him, she in
a gentle but businesslike way makes him promise to take care of the
children and, above all things, not to marry again.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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In these the wisest minds, the greatest
poets, and the most inspired
teachers
of modern days have found
justification for the unanimous verdict of antiquity.
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Sappho |
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But he took no notice, and Oona took no notice, but they
looked at one another as if all the world
belonged
to themselves alone.
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Yeats |
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