The _New Poems_
bear the dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the
twofold influence which the French
sculptor
wielded over the poet, that
of a friend and that of an artist.
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Too clearly now I find
That felon Love, to
aggravate
my pain,
Mine easy heart hath thus to hope inclined;
And now the maxim sage I call to mind,
That mortal bliss must doubtful still remain
Till death from earthly bonds the soul unbind.
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Petrarch |
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As a natural result, various lively-minded
readers
proceeded
to overemphasize these particular features, and were
carried into eccentricity or paradox.
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& the hHuman form is no more
The
listning
Stars heard, & the first beam of the morning started back
He cried out to his father, depart!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Since Gander did his pretty
youngling
wed, 396.
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Robert Herrick |
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MOLLY MAGUIRE AT MONMOUTH
WILLIAM COLLINS
[Sidenote: June 28, 1778]
_The battle of Monmouth was indecisive, but the
Americans
held
the field, and the British retreated and remained inactive for the
rest of the summer.
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wherefore hast thou need
Of such a
multitude?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_Nero commanded, but
withdrew
his eyes.
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Robert Herrick |
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At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into
peaceful
calm, 25
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.
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_ Gentle Myrrha, 'tis
The end I would have chosen, had I saved
The monarch or the monarchy by this;
As 'tis, I have not
outlived
them.
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Byron |
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Indessen konnt Ihr ganz allein
An aller Hoffnung kunft'ger Freuden
In ihrem
Dunstkreis
satt Euch weiden.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Howe'er great is pharaoh, the magi, king,
Encompassed
by an idolizing ring,
None is so high as Tiglath Pileser.
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Hugo - Poems |
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1 That is, an old
embroidery
with a coherent sequence of scenes has been cut up into pieces for the girls?
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the thick black cloud is cleft,
And the Moon is at its side:
Like waters shot from some high crag,
The
lightning
falls with never a jag
A river steep and wide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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My morning coat, my collar
mounting
firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin--
(They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!
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T.S. Eliot |
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On reaching the northern
nook of the kirk-yard, where the grave was made, the mourners halted;
the coffin was divested of the mort-cloth, and silently lowered to its
resting-place, and as the first shovel-full of earth fell on the lid,
the volunteers, too
agitated
to be steady, justified the fears of the
poet, by three ragged volleys.
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Robert Burns |
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Could we stand with that old Moses
Canaan denied, --
Scan, like him, the stately landscape
On the other side, --
Doubtless we should deem superfluous
Many sciences
Not pursued by learned angels
In
scholastic
skies!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In Italy in Arms he is the true acolyte of Beauty,
worshipping
and tending at her immemorial shrine.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Too delicate is flesh to be
The shield that nations interpose
'Twixt red
Ambition
and his foes--
The bastion of Liberty.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thoughts suggested by a College
Examination
p.
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Byron |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Above the antique mantel was displayed
As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
The change of Philomel, by the
barbarous
king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale 100
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
"Jug Jug" to dirty ears.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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And many a mother wept, pierced with
unnatural
pity.
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Shelley |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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atque ita naue leui nitens ac lenibus auris
magnanimum ad Minoa uenit
sedesque
superbas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Stealthily
I slipped away.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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2 His
excellent
nephew is an extraordinary talent?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much
impressed
me as the
one which he entitles "June.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
marginal
analysis which Coleridge
added in reprinting the poem (from the _Lyrical Ballads_) in
_Sibylline Leaves_, has been transferred to this place, where it can
be read without interrupting the narrative in verse.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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'
You wrung your hands; while I like lead
Crushed
downwards
through the sodden earth:
You smote your hands but not in mirth,
And reeled but were not drunk with wine.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And I, could I stand by
And see you freeze,
Without my right of frost,
Death's
privilege?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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These
ministers
in that same cedar sweet
Where thou art laid will lay me, feet to feet,
And head to head, oh, not in death from thee
Divided, who alone art true to me!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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How many shadows more
Darken my heart, their substance from these eyes
Hidden
forever!
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James Russell Lowell |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Nor did Luna delay about kissing that
beautiful
dreamer--
Jealous Aurora had else hastily wakened the lad.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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This
projected
audience
is one hundred million readers.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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So with our
Tuscans!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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In the
southern
clime,
Where the summer's prime
Never fades away,
Lovely Lyca lay.
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blake-poems |
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The country girls in Ayrshire, instead of the line--
"She me forsook for a great duke,"
say
"For Athole's duke she me forsook;"
which I take to be the
original
reading.
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Robert Burns |
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"I fear thee, ancient
Mariner!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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_l_) O sed Madano _Ge(l)lius_ potius
uisum est:
_Lelius_
GCDB Laurentiani || _solere_ Parthenius:
_flere_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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About the same time they
perceived
a large frog, spotted with green, and
with a sky-blue stripe under each ear.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It look'd around, as eager to explore
If there were other with me; but perceiving
That fond
imagination
quench'd, with tears
Thus spake: "If thou through this blind prison go'st.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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What help was it for the
Trojans to escape war's doom and thread their flight through Argive
fires, to have exhausted all those perils of sea and
desolate
lands,
while they seek Latium and the towers of a Troy rebuilt?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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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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" I asked him,
restraining
with
difficulty my indignation.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The bad will basely, good will bravely, do ;
And few, indeed, can parallel our climes,
For worth heroic, or heroic crimes^
The trial would, however, be too nice,
Which
stronger
were, a Scotch or English vice ;
Or whether the same virtue would reflect.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Have you no comfort for me
Cold-colored
flowers?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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To prove the truth of what I state
Let me an
anecdote
relate:
A Gascon with his comrade sat
At tavern drinking.
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La Fontaine |
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E come 'l volger del ciel de la luna
cuopre e
discuopre
i liti sanza posa,
cosi fa di Fiorenza la Fortuna:
per che non dee parer mirabil cosa
cio ch'io diro de li alti Fiorentini
onde e la fama nel tempo nascosa.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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'Tis plain that for prowess, not plunged into exile,
for high-hearted valor,
Hrothgar
ye seek!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Varus, are your trees in
planting?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He grips the tankard of brown ale
That spills a
generous
foam:
Oft-times he drinks, they say, and winks
At drunk men lurching home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Even yet, however, he was not completely satisfied and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally
produced
the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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Alexander Pope |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Wir legen nur ein gultig Zeugnis nieder,
Dass ihres Ehherrn
ausgereckte
Glieder
In Padua an heil'ger Statte ruhn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Now bless'd in heaven as then alone on earth;
Wretched and lonely thou hast left me here,
Fond lingering by the scenes, with sorrows drown'd,
To thee which
consecrate
I still revere.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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pour tout et mieux dire, dans
les tiroirs fermes d'un absent, voici _le livre des poesies completes
d'Arthur Rimbaud_, avec ses additions
inutiles
a mon avis et ses
deplorables mutilations irreparables a jamais, il faut le craindre.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Fate and Venus are satisfied, in that the Trojans have touched
our
fruitful
Ausonian fields.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is
resigned
utterly.
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Christina Rossetti |
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FOR Alibech great
feasting
was prepared,
When, through simplicity, the girl declared,
To those around, without the least restraint,
How she had acted to be made a saint.
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La Fontaine |
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I stood in the porch and heard how the deacon
cried out:--Grishka
Otrepiev
is anathema!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O that some minstrel's harp were near
To utter notes of gladness
And chase this silence from the air,
That fills my heart with
sadness!
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Golden Treasury |
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Unauthenticated
Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Traveling Late: Extempore 321 On mountain roads a bugle blows now and then?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The author of the Decamerone regarded Petrarch as his
literary
master.
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Petrarch |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in
shuttered
rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Such an one as women draw away from For the tobacco ashes scattered on his coat And sith his throat
Show razor's
unfamiliarity
And three days' beard:
Such an one picking a ragged Backless copy from the stall,
Too cheap for cataloguing, Loquitur,
"Ah-eh!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I envy e'en the body of the Lord,
Oft as those
precious
lips of hers draw near it.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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An enlarged edition of his poems was
published
there in
1787, and the money derived from this enabled him to aid his brother in
Mossgiel, and to take and stock for himself the farm of Ellisland in
Dumfriesshire.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Domestic
cares afflict the husband's bed,
Or pains his head:
Those that live single, take it for a curse,
Or do things worse:
Some would have children: those that have them, moan
Or wish them gone:
What is it, then, to have, or have no wife,
But single thraldom, or a double strife?
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Golden Treasury |
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That this might happen at Rome can scarcely be doubted; for
something very like this has
happened
in several countries, and,
among others, in our own.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Imagists |
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WHEN pleasing tales and fables I endite,
I, who in humble verse presume to write,
May surely use this
privilege
of old,
And, to my fancy, appellations mould.
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La Fontaine |
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Around, around, they waltzed and wound;
Some wheeled in
smirking
pairs;
With the mincing step of a demirep
Some sidled up the stairs:
And with subtle sneer, and fawning leer,
Each helped us at our prayers.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
contents
supply the South
Babylonian version of the second book of the epic _sa nagba imuru_,
"He who has seen all things," commonly referred to as the Epic of
Gilgamish.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The repetition makes us feel the
monotony
of her days and
nights of grief.
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Keats |
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Hence 'tis an easy matter to persuade
Mine host his buxom daughter to forego,
And let them, where they will the damsel bear;
In that to treat her well the
travellers
swear.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The battle in which the Venetians under Nicolo
Pisani were defeated by the Genoese under
Paganino
Doria was fought
November 4, 1354.
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Byron |
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e disposic{i}ou{n} {and} ordenaunce
cleuynge
to moeuable ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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--Puis, tu peux y compter, tu te feras des frais
Avec tes hommes noirs, qui prennent nos requetes
Pour se les
renvoyer
comme sur des raquettes
Et, tout bas, les malins se disent; <
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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