XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of
Shrewsbury
gleam
Islanded in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I call him bankrupt in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not,
Defaulter
do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The law of debt, framed by creditors, and for
the
protection
of creditors, was the host horrible that has ever
been known among men.
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"
My mother went to find my commission, which she kept in a box with my
christening clothes, and gave it to my father with, a
trembling
hand.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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the burial of Haki on a funeral-pyre ship,
_Inglinga
Saga;_
the burial of Balder, Sinfiötli, Arthur, etc.
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Beowulf |
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And then, good upright Macae shall decide;
Thus things arrang'd, the ladies
homeward
plied.
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La Fontaine |
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Holy Satyr _151_
Lais _153_
Heliodora _156_
Toward the Piraeus _161_
_Slay with your eyes, Greek_
_You would have broken my wings_
_I loved you_
_What had you done_
_If I had been a boy_
_It was not chastity that made me cold_
CONRAD AIKEN
Seven Twilights _171_
_The ragged pilgrim on the road to nowhere_
_Now by the wall of the ancient town_
_When the tree bares, the music of it changes_
_"This is the hour," she says, "of transmutation"_
_Now the great wheel of
darkness
and low clouds_
_Heaven, you say, will be a field in April_
_In the long silence of the sea_
Tetelestai _184_
EDNA ST.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Mightier
than Egypt's tombs,
Fairer than Grecia's, Roma's temples,
Prouder than Milan's statued, spired cathedral,
More picturesque than Rhenish castle-keeps,
We plan even now to raise, beyond them all,
Thy great cathedral sacred industry, no tomb,
A keep for life for practical invention.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Lift him on the sacks, bring him away to the quarry; it is there
on the
hillside
the boys will give him a great burying, coming on
horses and bearing white rods in their hands.
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Yeats |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Page 60
the
besshope
And ?
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Among the fields she breathed again:
The master-current of her brain
Ran
permanent
and free;
And, coming to the banks of Tone,
There did she rest; and dwell alone
Under the greenwood tree.
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Golden Treasury |
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The Cat
The Large Cat
'The Large Cat'
Cornelis
Visscher
(II), 1657, The Rijksmuseun
I wish there to be in my house:
A woman possessing reason,
A cat among books passing by,
Friends for every season
Lacking whom I'm barely alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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_ Herrick is here
imitating
the well-known lines of
Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm.
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Robert Herrick |
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Meredith - Poems |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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John Donne |
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Out of the heavy night she came, Silently calling his name;
Deep in her mutineering eyes Love chanting lullabies,
Timidly questioning
One who was wont to sing,
Stilling the songs upon his lips,
Freezing
his finger tips,
Stabbing his heart, and nailing his feet Fast to the iron street,
Trustingly going then
Down the dark street again.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Richardson indeed might perhaps be excepted; but unhappily, _dramatis
personae_ are beings of another world; and however they may captivate
the unexperienced,
romantic
fancy of a boy or a girl, they will ever,
in proportion as we have made human nature our study, dissatisfy our
riper years.
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Robert Forst |
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Some do but scratch us:
Slow and
insidious
these poison our hearts over years.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then was my spirit vibrant with the spheres;
Its strings across the ringing vault lay hot
Where passed to God the
laughter
and the tears And all the million prayers He heeded not.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Baldazzar, it
oppresses
me like a spell!
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Poe - 5 |
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"'But I have no money at all,'
insisted
my grandmother.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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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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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Per morder quella, in pena e in disio
cinquemilia
anni e piu l'anima prima
bramo colui che 'l morso in se punio.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And he hath kissed the lips of Proserpine,
And sung the Galilaean's requiem,
That wounded
forehead
dashed with blood and wine
He hath discrowned, the Ancient Gods in him
Have found their last, most ardent worshipper,
And the new Sign grows grey and dim before its conqueror.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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a bug in it that
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Lord of Spirits
scorneth
me,
Nature, shut up, resents the wrong.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Whose sleep hath been taken
Beneath the cold moon,
As the spell which no slumber
Of
witchery
may test,
The rythmical number
Which lull'd him to rest?
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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[4] A white robin and a white quail have
occasionally
been seen.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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42), when he
had penetrated as far as Mount Atlas, and increased his
reputation by suppressing the rebellion of Boadicea when he
was
governor
of Britain (A.
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Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Is it real,
Or is this the thrice damned memory of a
better
happiness?
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Discreet
and prudent we that discord call, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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His name will come into our
thoughts
in a minute.
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Yeats |
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non illi quisquam bello se conferet heros,
cum Phrygii Teucro manabunt sanguine campi,
Troicaque obsidens longinquo moenia bello, 345
periuri Pelopis
uastabit
tertius heres.
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who dost oft return,
Ministering comfort to my nights of woe,
From eyes which Death,
relenting
in his blow,
Has lit with all the lustres of the morn:
How am I gladden'd, that thou dost not scorn
O'er my dark days thy radiant beam to throw!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Or why was the substance not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these
palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Place me in lowly state, in power and pride,
Where lour the skies, or where bland zephyrs play
Place me where blind night rules, or
lengthened
day,
In age mature, or in youth's boiling tide:
Place me in heaven, or in the abyss profound,
On lofty height, or in low vale obscure,
A spirit freed, or to the body bound;
Bank'd with the great, or all unknown to fame,
I still the same will be!
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Petrarch |
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Keats - Lamia |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Has not the god of the green world, 5
In his large
tolerant
wisdom,
Filled with the ardours of earth
Her twenty summers?
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Sappho |
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Oft as her angel face
compassion
wore,
With tears whose eloquence scarce fails to move,
With bland and courteous speech, I boldly strove
To soothe my foe, and in meek guise implore:
But soon her eyes inspire vain hopes no more;
For all my fortune, all my fate in love,
My life, my death, the good, the ills I prove,
To her are trusted by one sovereign power.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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tanto opere officerent quid aues Stymphala colentes,
et Diomedis equi
spirantes
naribus ignem
Thracis Bistoniasque plagas atque Ismara propter?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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of
Morgante
Maggiore (Advt.
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Byron |
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Speak but so loud as doth a wasted moon
To
Tyrrhene
waters.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I love all that thou lovest,
Spirit of
Delight!
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Golden Treasury |
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The meadows in the sun are twice as green
For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth,
The mischief of the moles:
No dullish red,
Glostershire
earth new-delved
In April!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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He
commanded
where he spoke, and had his
judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With silence-sandalled Sleep she comes to me,
(But softer-footed, sweeter-browed, than she,)
In motion
gracious
as a seagull's wing,
And all her bright limbs, moving, seem to sing.
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James Russell Lowell |
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How can you
understand
that this my heart
Is but a sparrow in an eagle's nest?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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What man is fool enough to let
himself be
depilated?
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Aristophanes |
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= Walking-sticks of various sorts are
mentioned during the
sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I find flame in the dust, a word once uttered that will stir again,
And a wine-cup
reflecting
Sirius in the water held in my hands.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Mochte selbst solch einen Herren kennen,
Wurd ihn Herrn
Mikrokosmus
nennen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Afraid,
however, of his father's resentment, the severity of whose temper he
knew, his
intercourse
with Donna Inez passed at the court as an intrigue
of gallantry.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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_ O) _secum ut
meditare
querunt_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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I have spoken of the
philosopher
in his capacity of _restaurateur_.
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Poe - 5 |
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FUZZY-WUZZY
(Soudan
Expeditionary
Force)
We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:
The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;
But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.
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Kipling - Poems |
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) as the only Ground he had got to stand
upon, however
momentarily
slipping from under his Feet.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Your orders are vain breath--
That
stranger
enters to be known as Death--
Or merely Exile--clothed in alien guise--
Death drags away--with _his_ prey Exile flies!
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Hugo - Poems |
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That bowe semede wel to shete
These arowes fyve, that been unmete, 990
Contrarie
to that other fyve.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But it was out of that dread August night
From which all Europe woke to war, that we,
This
beautiful
Dawn-Youth, and I, had come,
He from afar.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'T were odd I fear a thing
That
comprehendeth
me
In one or more existences
At Deity's decree.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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As many
farewells
as be stars in heaven,
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up into a loose adieu,
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,
Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
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Shakespeare |
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Stretch out and gather a handful of an herb
that will bring him back from
whatever
place he is in.
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Yeats |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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What
instinct
hadst thou for it?
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Shakespeare |
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XVII
Of high and
superhuman
genius, tied
By love and blood, lo!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The star hath ridden high
Thro' many a tempest, but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye;
And here, in thought, to thee--
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne--
* The Humanitarians held that God was to be
understood
as
having a really human form.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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Petrarch |
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Often, in doubt, I'd paused to question one,
With nervous hands, as they who read Moon-type;
And more than once I'd caught a moment's sleep
Beside the highway, in the dripping grass,
While one of these white
sentinels
stood guard,
Knowing me for a friend, who loves the road,
And best of all by night, when wheels do sleep
And stars alone do walk abroad.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Unheeded Night has
overcome
the vales,
On the dark earth the baffl'd vision fails,
If peep between the clouds a star on high,
There turns for glad repose the weary eye;
The latest lingerer of the forest train,
The lone-black fir, forsakes the faded plain;
Last evening sight, the cottage smoke no more,
Lost in the deepen'd darkness, glimmers hoar;
High towering from the sullen dark-brown mere,
Like a black wall, the mountain steeps appear,
Thence red from different heights with restless gleam
Small cottage lights across the water stream,
Nought else of man or life remains behind
To call from other worlds the wilder'd mind,
Till pours the wakeful bird her solemn strains
[viii] Heard by the night-calm of the watry plains.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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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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LXXXIX
The holy man next made the damsel see,
That save in God there was no true content,
And proved all other hope was transitory,
Fleeting, of little worth, and quickly spent;
And urged withal so earnestly his plea,
He changed her ill and
obstinate
intent;
And made her, for the rest of life, desire
To live devoted to her heavenly sire.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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He was a great killer not
only of
malefactors
but of "keres" or bogeys, such as "Old Age" and "Ague"
and the sort of "Death" that we find in this play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth 370
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal
A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings
And bats with baby faces in the violet light 380
Whistled, and beat their wings
And crawled head downward down a
blackened
wall
And upside down in air were towers
Tolling reminiscent bells, that kept the hours
And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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Her heart had still an answer for her lord
Murdered, but if the child's blood spoke, what word
Could meet the hate
thereof?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are in
a constant state of change.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Revivd her Soul with lives of beasts & birds
Slain on the Altar up ascending into her cloudy bosom
Of terrible
workmanship
the Altar labour of ten thousand Slaves
One thousand Men of wondrous power spent their lives in its formation
It stood on twelve steps namd after the names of her twelve sons
And was Erected at the chief entrance of Urizens hall
When Urizen descended returnd from his immense labours & travels
Descending She reposd beside him folding him around
In her bright skirts.
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Blake - Zoas |
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