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XCVII
When the early soft spring wind comes blowing
Over Rhodes and Samos and Miletus,
From the seven mouths of Nile to Lesbos,
Freighted with sea-odours and gold sunshine,
What news spreads among the island people 5
In the market-place of Mitylene,
Lending that
unwonted
stir of gladness
To the busy streets and thronging doorways?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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[Picture: As I heavily slip into every pool]
Ye Carpette Knyghte
I have a horse--a ryghte good horse--
Ne doe Y envye those
Who scoure ye playne yn headye course
Tyll soddayne on theyre nose
They lyghte wyth
unexpected
force
Yt ys--a horse of clothes.
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Lewis Carroll |
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You have beheld how they
With wicker arks did come
To kiss and bear away
The richer
cowslips
home.
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Robert Herrick |
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Man is too prone, at best, to seek the way that's easy,
He soon grows fond of
unconditioned
rest;
And therefore such a comrade suits him best,
Who spurs and works, true devil, always busy.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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At a touch sweet
Pleasure
melteth
Like to bubbles when rain pelteth.
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Golden Treasury |
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The grim-eyed lioness pursues the wolf,
The wolf the she-goat, the she-goat herself
In wanton sport the
flowering
cytisus,
And Corydon Alexis, each led on
By their own longing.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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If you get angry with him,
he refers to some Sahib dead and buried these thirty years, and says
that when he was in that Sahib's service not a
khansamah
in the Province
could touch him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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altars four,
Twain to thee, Daphnis, and to Phoebus twain
For sacrifice, we build; and I for thee
Two beakers yearly of fresh milk afoam,
And of rich olive-oil two bowls, will set;
And of the wine-god's bounty above all,
If cold, before the hearth, or in the shade
At harvest-time, to glad the festal hour,
From flasks of
Ariusian
grape will pour
Sweet nectar.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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I dreaded that first robin so,
But he is
mastered
now,
And I 'm accustomed to him grown, --
He hurts a little, though.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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During all this formality, what kind of an
audience
has the orator to
invigorate his faculties?
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Tacitus |
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Thus she lamented day & night, compelld to labour & sorrow
Luvah in vain her
lamentations
heard; in vain his love
Brought him in various forms before her still she knew him not
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Still she despisd him, calling on his name & knowing him not
Still hating still professing love, still labouring in the smoke
And Los & Enitharmon joyd, they drank in tenfold joy To come in
From all the sorrow of Luvah & the labour of Urizen {These two lines struck through, but then marked (to the right of the main body of text) with the following: "To come in.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Edardus felle upon the bloudie grounde,
His noble soule came
roushyng
from the wounde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Nor will this earth serve him; he sinkes the deepe
Where
harmelesse
fish monastique silence keepe,
Who (were Death dead) by Roes of living sand, 15
Might spunge that element, and make it land.
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John Donne |
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ARKAS: Priestess, with speed conclude the
sacrifice!
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"The proper thing, as you were late,
Was
certainly
to go:
But, with the roads in such a state,
I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait
For half an hour or so.
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Lewis Carroll |
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uidi ego et immiti cupidum decurrere campo
Hippomenen, nec sic meta pallebat in ipsa;
uidi et Abydeni iuuenis certantia remis
bracchia
laudauique manus et saepe natanti
praeluxi: minor ille calor quo saeua tepebant
aequora: tu ueteres, iuuenis, transgressus amores.
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To captivate her how
devoted!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sir Simon de Bourton, the hero of this poem, is
supposed
to have been
the first founder of a church dedicated to _oure Ladie_, in the place
where the church of St.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Soon ye read in solemn stories
Of the men of long ago,
Of the pale bewildering glories
Shining farther than we know;
Of the heroes with the laurel,
Of the poets with the bay,
Of the two worlds' earnest quarrel
For that
beauteous
Helena;
How Achilles at the portal
Of the tent heard footsteps nigh,
And his strong heart, half-immortal,
Met the _keitai_ with a cry;
How Ulysses left the sunlight
For the pale eidola race
Blank and passive through the dun light,
Staring blindly in his face;
How that true wife said to Poetus,
With calm smile and wounded heart,
"Sweet, it hurts not!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty
flitches
decorate the walls,
Moore's Almanack where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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for of thy too
perilous
bliss.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"Could you beat
Frederick?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The amorous anxious thought,
Which reigns within you, flashes so on me,
That from my heart it draws all other joy;
Whence works and words so wrought
Find scope and issue, that I hope to be
Immortal
made, although all flesh must die.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
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one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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God grant him now His
Benediction!
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Chanson de Roland |
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Do not forget these asters that remain,
The scarlet leafage round the tendrils twining,
And all the rests of verdant life combining,
Resolve them in the soft
autumnal
vein.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Summer's cheek too soon turns thin,
Days grow briefer,
sunshine
rare;
Autumn from his cannekin
Blows the froth to chase Despair:
Love is met with frosty stare,
Cannot house 'neath branches bare.
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, has
preferred
the latter.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Tell of ancient architects finishing their works on the
tops of columns as
perfectly
as on the lower and more visible parts!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As
lingeringly
through the rooms they passed
I saw that she followed alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Or ache with
tremendous
decisions?
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They hint, in a sort of
delicately evasive way, at a rare temperament, the
temperament
of
a woman of the East, finding expression through a Western
language and under partly Western influences.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Last came, and last did go,
The Pilot of the
Galilean
lake,
Two massy Keyes he bore of metals twain, 110
(The Golden opes, the Iron shuts amain)
He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake,
How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain,
Anow of such as for their bellies sake,
Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold?
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Do but try
The
question
with a steady moral eye!
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THE KING: It gives me
pleasure
when you speak like that.
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Propter simplicitatem autem
suae substantiae a natura eius aliquid
subtrahi
non potest.
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John Donne |
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"
The young
gamesters
were all attention.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--No end, no end,
Wilt thou lay to
lamentations?
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ur3 her dere
dalyaunce
of her derne worde3,
Wyth clene cortays carp, closed fro fyl?
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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_' This stirred Keats's imagination, and
he
produced
the wonderful, mystic ballad of this title (see p.
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For men say
She
dwelleth
in these hills, no more a maid
But wedded.
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Euripides - Electra |
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[450] The Rhodian
perfumes
and unguents were less esteemed than the
Syrian.
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Aristophanes |
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Whatever
it touches it fills
With the life of its lambent gleam.
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I' fui de la citta che nel Batista
muto 'l primo padrone; ond' ei per questo
sempre con l'arte sua la fara trista;
e se non fosse che 'n sul passo d'Arno
rimane ancor di lui alcuna vista,
que' cittadin che poi la rifondarno
sovra 'l cener che d'Attila rimase,
avrebber fatto
lavorare
indarno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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(10)
READING THE BOOK OF HILLS AND SEAS
In the month of June the grass grows high
And round my cottage thick-leaved
branches
sway.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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They
listened
at his heart.
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Robert Forst |
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Hung up in honour mine are flowery firstlings of spring-tide, 10
Wreaths with their ears still soft the tender stalklets a-crowning;
Violets pale are mine by side of the poppy-head pallid;
With the dull yellow gourd and apples
sweetest
of savour;
Lastly the blushing grape disposed in shade of the vine-tree.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The other
characters
speak for themselves.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Of instruments of strenges in acord
Herde I so pleye a
ravisshing
swetnesse,
That god, that maker is of al and lord,
Ne herde never better, as I gesse; 200
Therwith a wind, unnethe hit might be lesse,
Made in the leves grene a noise softe
Acordant to the foules songe on-lofte.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Our Life
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
We know in pairs we will know all about us
We'll love everything our children will smile
At the dark history or mourn alone
Uninterrupted Poetry
From the sea to the source
From mountain to plain
Runs the phantom of life
The foul shadow of death
But between us
A dawn of ardent flesh is born
And exact good
that sets the earth in order
We advance with calm step
And nature salutes us
The day embodies our colours
Fire our eyes the sea our union
And all living
resemble
us
All the living we love
Imaginary the others
Wrong and defined by their birth
But we must struggle against them
They live by dagger blows
They speak like a broken chair
Their lips tremble with joy
At the echo of leaden bells
At the muteness of dark gold
A lone heart not a heart
A lone heart all the hearts
And the bodies every star
In a sky filled with stars
In a career in movement
Of light and of glances
Our weight shines on the earth
Glaze of desire
To sing of human shores
For you the living I love
And for all those that we love
That have no desire but to love
I'll end truly by barring the road
Afloat with enforced dreams
I'll end truly by finding myself
We'll take possession of earth
Index of First Lines
I speak to you over cities
Easy and beautiful under
Between all my torments between death and self
She is standing on my eyelids
In one corner agile incest
For the splendour of the day of happinesses in the air
After years of wisdom
Run and run towards deliverance
Life is truly kind
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
A face at the end of the day
By the road of ways
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
Adieu Tristesse
Woman I've lived with
Fertile Eyes
I said it to you for the clouds
It's the sweet law of men
The curve of your eyes embraces my heart
On my notebooks from school
I have passed the doors of coldness
I am in front of this feminine land
We'll not reach the goal one by one but in pairs
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I
remember
so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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LUNCH
Frail beauty,
green, gold and
incandescent
whiteness,
narcissi, daffodils,
you have brought me Spring and longing,
wistfulness,
in your irradiance.
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Imagists |
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Fletcher
in _The
Elder Brother_, _Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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'Tis not wise until the latest hour
To enjoy delight's ephemeral dower:
Birds to
southern
seas have taken flight,
Fading flow'rs wait till the snows alight.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Was halt mich ab, so schlag ich zu,
Zerschmettre
dich und deine Katzengeister!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Far and faint, yet each moment clearer, Straight as an arrow down the sound,
An old-time freighter is drawing nearer, "City of Taunton"
westward
bound.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Moreover thou
disdainest
us and ours; _760
Thou art as God, whom thou contemplatest.
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Shelley |
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& his
deciples
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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This heated
interchange
of arguments found supporters for both views.
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Tacitus |
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Thou scene of all my happiness and
pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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O
countless
the brave acts, courageousness
Concealed itself from knowledge in the darkness,
Where each, the sole true witness of his blows,
Could not discern whose side fortune chose!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nares thinks that
the real Bermudas are
referred
to here.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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An old gown
Worn in an age of other
fashions?
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Stephen Crane |
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For my part I shall ever with
pleasure--with pride,
acknowledge
my connexion with those who were
allied by the ties of blood and friendship to a man whose memory I
shall ever honour and revere.
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Robert Forst |
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Very well then, since you devote
yourself
to my safety, take
off your cloak first.
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Aristophanes |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And then, too, nor goods nor gold have I,
Nor fame nor worldly dignity,--
A
condition
no dog could longer live in!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Whispering in midnight silence, said the youth,
"Sure some sweet name thou hast, though, by my truth,
I have not ask'd it, ever thinking thee
Not mortal, but of
heavenly
progeny,
As still I do.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Oh the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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blake-poems |
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Such late was Walsh--the Muse's judge and friend,
Who justly knew to blame or to commend; 730
To
failings
mild, but zealous for desert;
The clearest head, and the sincerest heart.
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Alexander Pope |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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and
wretched
ye, mine eyes
(Of her pure light bereft) which aye with tears are drown'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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the eaglets slain,
Thou wouldst not have a
messenger
to bear
Thine omens, once so clear, to mortal men;
So, if this kingly stock be withered all,
None on high festivals will fend thy shrine
Stoop thou to raise us!
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How
plenteous!
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'Above me was the sky, beneath the sea:
I stood upon a point of
shattered
stone,
And heard loose rocks rushing tumultuously
With splash and shock into the deep--anon _3175
All ceased, and there was silence wide and lone.
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OSWALD See, they come,
Two
Travellers!
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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But gray
Phillippevna
the door
Opened with care, and entering bore
A cup of tea upon a tray.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But it is,
As you must needs have deeply felt, it is
In
darkness
and in tempest that we seek
The majesty of Him who rules the world.
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William Wordsworth |
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Ajax no more the
sounding
storm sustain'd,
So thick the darts an iron tempest rain'd:
On his tired arm the weighty buckler hung;
His hollow helm with falling javelins rung;
His breath, in quick short pantings, comes and goes;
And painful sweat from all his members flows.
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Iliad - Pope |
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' quod she, `out of this regioun
I, woful wrecche and infortuned wight,
And born in corsed constellacioun, 745
Mot goon, and thus
departen
fro my knight;
Wo worth, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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' quod she, `out of this regioun
I, woful wrecche and infortuned wight,
And born in corsed constellacioun, 745
Mot goon, and thus
departen
fro my knight;
Wo worth, allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Where in a mighty
crucible
expire
The mountains, glowing hot, like coals of fire.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I did heare
The
gallopping
of Horse.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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6
The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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It dances with purple and yellow
crocuses
in its hair,
And its feet shine as they flutter over drenched grasses.
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Imagists |
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Mothers
redouble
their
prayers in terror, as fear treads closer on peril and the likeness of
the War God looms larger in sight.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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He went into the
trenches in March, 1915, was wounded in June, and was
invalided
home.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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]
III
Passion's wild sway I then allowed,
Her promptings unto law did make,
Pursuits I followed of the crowd,
My
sportive
Muse I used to take
To many a noisy feast and fight,
Terror of guardians of the night;
And wild festivities among
She brought with her the gift of song.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But it is interesting to note, first, that the poem
is
deliberately
written with epic style and epic intention; and, second,
that, though singularly beautiful, it makes no attempt to add anything
to epic development.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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International
donations
are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
outside the United States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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