Each in the left side smitten, see them laid--
The
children
of one womb,
Slain by a mutual doom!
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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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And the men of France, bareheaded, bowing lowly,
Led out each a proud signora to the space
Which the
startled
crowd had rounded for them--slowly,
Just a touch of still emotion in his face,
Not presuming, through the symbol, on the grace.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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"Ma di' tu, Musa, come i primi danni
Mandassero
a Cristiani, e di quai parti:
Tu 'l sai; ma di tant' opra a noi si lunge
Debil aura di fama appena giunge.
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Iliad - Pope |
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{28a}
"Nor haply will like it the Heathobard lord,
and as little each of his
liegemen
all,
when a thane of the Danes, in that doughty throng,
goes with the lady along their hall,
and on him the old-time heirlooms glisten
hard and ring-decked, Heathobard's treasure,
weapons that once they wielded fair
until they lost at the linden-play {28b}
liegeman leal and their lives as well.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"Upon hearing of your duel and wound your mother fell ill with sorrow,
and she is still
confined
to her bed.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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`But Troilus, I pray thee tel me now, 330
If that thou trowe, er this, that any wight
Hath loved
paramours
as wel as thou?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Verginius
(L.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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liebe Frau,
verzweifelt
nicht!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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[folio 146a]
In holy chyrche vppon a daye 59
They were spousyde in goddys laue;
Atte here
spousyng
I wott there stode
Beshoppys felle and prestes goode;
Sythen theye made a mangery
With all the beste of here aleye;
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All that comyn thyder ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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be capable of peace, its trials,
For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
peace, not war;)
In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with
immortal
blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
body and the mind,
The soul, its destinies.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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' This account was in the best
Rowleian manner, with strange spelling and uncouth words, but for
the most part quite intelligible to the
ordinary
reader.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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To think thus, to feel thus much, and then to cease
thinking
and
feeling when a certain star rises above yonder horizon.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The Rock, like something starting from a sleep,
Took up the Lady's voice, and laughed again; 55
That ancient Woman seated on Helm-crag
Was ready with her cavern; Hammar-scar,
And the tall Steep of Silver-how, sent forth
A noise of laughter; southern Loughrigg heard,
And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone; 60
Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky
Carried the Lady's voice,--old Skiddaw blew
His speaking-trumpet;--back out of the clouds
Of Glaramara
southward
came the voice;
And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head.
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William Wordsworth |
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STOUT SCIPIO, Cornelius Scipio
Africanus
(B.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXIX
Agramant
recognized this truth; but thought
That ill his royal word could be repealed;
Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought
That they the right, conferred by him, would yield:
More; that the question was a thing of nought,
Nor worthy to be tried in martial field;
And prayed them -- would they not obey his hest
At least somewhile, to let their quarrel rest.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meantime some rude Arion's restless hand
Wakes the brisk harmony that sailors love:
A circle there of merry
listeners
stand,
Or to some well-known measure featly move,
Thoughtless, as if on shore they still were free to rove.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Her port is all divine; her radiant smile,
And e'en her scorn, the captive heart beguile;
Her accents breathe of heaven; her auburn hair
(Whether it wanton with the sportive air,
Or bound in shining wreaths adorns her face,)
Secures her conquests with resistless grace;
Her eyes, that sparkle with
celestial
fire,
Have render'd me the slave of fond desire.
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Petrarch |
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or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Laughs at the holy
writings
and the text divine,
O'er which the humble dervish prays and venerates.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Indeed the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my credit in this World much wrong:
Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup,
And sold my
reputation
for a Song.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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This object swives
girls enow, and fancies himself a
handsome
fellow, and is not condemned to
the mill as an ass?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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It's The Sweet Law Of Men
It's the sweet law of men
They make wine from grapes
They make fire from coal
They make men from kisses
It's the true law of men
Kept intact despite
the misery and war
despite danger of death
It's the warm law of men
To change water to light
Dream to reality
Enemies to friends
A law old and new
That
perfects
itself
From the child's heart's depths
To reason's heights.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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And then,
foreseeing
all thy life, I added:
But these thou wilt forget; and at the end
Of life the Lord will punish thee.
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Longfellow |
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She was busy winding thread,
which a little, old, one-eyed man in an officer's uniform was holding on
his
outstretched
hands.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Mark by what
wretched
steps their glory grows,
From dirt and seaweed as proud Venice rose;
In each how guilt and greatness equal ran,
And all that raised the hero, sunk the man:
Now Europe's laurels on their brows behold,
But stained with blood, or ill exchanged for gold;
Then see them broke with toils or sunk with ease,
Or infamous for plundered provinces.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But
microscopes
are prudent
In an emergency!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Like one, that on a lonely road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on
And turns no more his head:
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its
original
"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For twenty men that you shall now send in
To France the Douce he will repair, that King;
In the rereward will follow after him
Both his nephew, count Rollant, as I think,
And Oliver, that
courteous
paladin;
Dead are the counts, believe me if you will.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Muffling his face, of
greeting
friends in fear,
Her fingers he press'd hard, as one came near
With curl'd gray beard, sharp eyes, and smooth bald crown,
Slow-stepp'd, and robed in philosophic gown:
Lycius shrank closer, as they met and past,
Into his mantle, adding wings to haste,
While hurried Lamia trembled: "Ah," said he,
"Why do you shudder, love, so ruefully?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Turn to my arms, to my
embraces
turn!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Must I go starved because some
stranger
dies?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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A
princely
lodging.
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Longfellow |
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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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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Upon this night no
sentinels
keep watch.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Balefire
devoured,
greediest spirit, those spared not by war
out of either folk: their flower was gone.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The picture is not barren of
instruction
to actual men.
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Shelley |
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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Troubador Verse |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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She
returned
Baudelaire's love.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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= It was once the hall of the
King's palace at Westminster,
originally
built by William Rufus.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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And, so knowing,
For mere insane delight in violent things,
Wilt thou awake in the fickle mood of men
Again that ancient
ignominy
which once,
Till beauty freed them, loaded the souls of women?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Dante
Alighieri
put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O DEAREST DRED, O beloved object of reverence; a common
salutation
of
royalty.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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It was not long I lived there,
But I became a woman
Under those vehement stars,
For it was there I heard
For the first time my spirit
Forging an iron rule for me,
As though with slow cold hammers
Beating out word by word:
"Take love when love is given,
But never think to find it
A sure escape from sorrow
Or a complete repose;
Only
yourself
can heal you,
Only yourself can lead you
Up the hard road to heaven
That ends where no one knows.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may
vouchsafe
to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, 5
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
| Guess: |
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Alexander Pope |
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The Foundation's
principal
office is located at 4557 Melan Dr.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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Golden Treasury |
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'
Falls a small cry in the dark and calls--
'I see you
standing
there!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Could
Laureate
Dryden pimp and friar engage,
Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The music has been thus harmonized for four voices by
Professor
C.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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Chatterton first exhibited the _Songe to AElla_ in his own
handwriting, then gave Barrett the parchment, which
contained
strange
textual variations.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now virgins came bearing
Caskets
securely
locked, richly wreathed with grain.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Chanson de Roland |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Thrice she assay'd with flattering prayers and sighs,
And amorous reproaches to win from me
My capital secret, in what part my strength
Lay stor'd in what part summ'd, that she might know:
Thrice I deluded her, and turn'd to sport
Her importunity, each time perceiving
How openly, and with what impudence
She purpos'd to betray me, and (which was worse
Then undissembl'd hate) with what contempt 400
She sought to make me Traytor to my self;
Yet the fourth time, when mustring all her wiles,
With blandisht parlies,
feminine
assaults,
Tongue-batteries, she surceas'd not day nor night
To storm me over-watch't, and wearied out.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Donations are accepted in a number of other
ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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He bought no ploughs and harrows, spades and shovels, and
such trifles;
But quietly to his rancho there came, by every train,
Boxes full of pikes and pistols, and his well-beloved Sharp's
rifles;
And
eighteen
other madmen joined their leader there again.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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CHANGE
I am that
creature
and creator who
Loosens and reins the waters of the sea,
Forming the rocky marge anon anew.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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My doubt, mass of ancient night, ends extreme
In many a subtle branch, that
remaining
the true
Woods themselves, proves, alas, that I too
Offered myself, alone, as triumph, the false ideal of roses.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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By it there stood the stoups and jars;
dishes lay there, and dear-decked swords
eaten with rust, as, on earth's lap resting,
a
thousand
winters they waited there.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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I told you that her hand had many suitors;
But she smiles them down imperially as Venus did the waves,
And with such a
gracious
coldness that they cannot press their futures
On the present of her courtesy, which yieldingly enslaves.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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With the great gale we journey
That breathes from gardens thinned,
Borne in the drift of blossoms
Whose petals throng the wind;
Buoyed on the heaven-heard whisper
Of dancing
leaflets
whirled
From all the woods that autumn
Bereaves in all the world.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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enne such a
glauerande
glam of gedered rachche3
Ros, ?
| Guess: |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE ECHOING GREEN
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bells'
cheerful
sound;
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing Green.
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Some great ones lift
their red backs high above the woods, in the next town, like huge
roses with a myriad of fine petals; and some more slender ones, in a
small grove of white pines on Pine Hill in the east, on the very verge
of the horizon, alternating with the pines on the edge of the grove,
and
shouldering
them with their red coats, look like soldiers in red
amid hunters in green.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Hauksbee's
experience knows
accurately
how a boy will behave under certain
circumstances--notably when he is infatuated with one of Mrs.
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Kipling - Poems |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Il nous semble, d'ailleurs, qu'il est des cas ou la publicite
n'est pas seulement un encouragement, ou elle peut avoir l'influence
d'un conseil utile et appeler le vrai talent a se degager, a se
fortifier, en elargissant ses voies, en
etendant
son horizon.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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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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He
selected
his card--an ace.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Il nous
est difficile de savoir pourquoi
Verlaine
a corrige <> en <
voile>>, ou s'agit-il d'un moment d'inattention?
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable
donations
in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yes, here within thy
sanctified
walls there's a soul in each object,
ROMA eternal.
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71
Byron, Lord, _Diary_ or _Journals_
referred
to, _i.
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Byron |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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"
--Yet when we came back, late, from the
Hyacinth
garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, 40
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Don't talk such
sentimental
nonsense--
_Katrina_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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WHOis she coming, that the roses bend
Their
shameless
heads to do her honour ?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Lucretius |
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And
petticoats
and coat-tails flew
As up and down they went, and through,
Across and down the middle.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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VII Spatium unius uersus in O titulo carens: _AD
LESBIAM_
cett.
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