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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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Compliance
requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Imagists |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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ways including including checks, online
payments
and credit card
donations.
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La Fontaine |
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Thou
For whose path the Atlantic's level powers
Cleave
themselves
into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear
And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!
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Golden Treasury |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He did not
understand
display.
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Yeats |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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774 only] fīftena =
fīftȳna
feor(-e/-es/-um) = fēor- [except ll.
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Beowulf |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of
mountain
and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"Now meet thy fate," th'
incensed
virago cried, 140
And drew a deadly bodkin from her side.
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Alexander Pope |
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Strange unto her each
childish
game,
But when the winter season came
And dark and drear the evenings were,
Terrible tales she loved to hear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Christina Rossetti |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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THE FLY
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My
thoughtless
hand
Has brushed away.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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In these lines as they stand in the
editions
and most of the
MSS.
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John Donne |
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Acursed may wel be that day,
That povre man
conceyved
is;
For god wot, al to selde, y-wis, 470
Is any povre man wel fed,
Or wel arayed or y-cled,
Or wel biloved, in swich wyse
In honour that he may aryse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Daring and counsel belong
Of right to her
confident
eyes:
Human and motherly they, 81
Careless of station or race:
Hearken!
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James Russell Lowell |
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He was
banished
to Kiukiang (then called Hsun-yang) with the rank of
Sub-Prefect.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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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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Unto
Gilgamish
king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech
as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If our Prince still grudges the things that are easy to give,[38]
Can he hope that his
soldiers
will give what is hardest to give?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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_
THOUGH FAR FROM LAURA,
SOLITARY
AND UNHAPPY, ENVY STILL PURSUES HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He is wiser
than to
contradict
his guest in any case; he lets him go on; he lets
him travel.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee,
whatever
thou art.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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One night in his cell at the foot of yon dell
The priest heard a
frequent
cry:
"Go, father, in haste to the cot on the waste,
And shrive a man waiting to die.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Copyright
laws in most countries are
in a constant state of change.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Since Cid in their language is lord in ours,
I'll not
begrudge
you all such honours.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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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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XXXVI
Ye miracles of courtly grace,
He left _you_ first, and I must own
The manners of the highest class
Have latterly
vexatious
grown;
And though perchance a lady may
Discourse of Bentham or of Say,
Yet as a rule their talk I call
Harmless, but quite nonsensical.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thine is the
stillest
night,
Thine the securest fold;
Too near thou art for seeking thee,
Too tender to be told.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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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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(Price of his ruin: for who dares deny
This mule my right; the
undoubted
victor I)
Others, 'tis own'd, in fields of battle shine,
But the first honours of this fight are mine;
For who excels in all?
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Iliad - Pope |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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From the cool shade I hear the silver plash
Of the blown
fountain
at the garden's end.
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Sappho |
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For thee old legends
breathed
historic breath;
Thou sawest Poseidon in the purple sea,
And in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold!
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Longfellow |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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'
So cried I,
bitterly
thrusting pity aside,
Closing my lids to sleep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The priests were singing, and the organ sounded,
And then anon the great
cathedral
bell.
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Longfellow |
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Golightly
drew himself up
and tried to carry off matters jauntily.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_
_Josephine Preston Peabody_
MY SON
Here is his little cambric frock
That I laid by in
lavender
so sweet,
And here his tiny shoe and sock
I made with loving care for his dear feet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Long
conversations
she could rarely get,
And various obstacles the lovers met;
No interviews where they might be at ease,
But ev'ry thing conspired to fret and teaze.
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La Fontaine |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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" It bears
different
names in
different parts of its course, as it flows through what were formerly
the territories of different nations.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Chorus--O why should Fate sic pleasure have,
Life's dearest bands
untwining?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Remember how God made the fierce fire seem
To those three
children
like a pleasant dew.
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Tennyson |
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* * * * *
The
background
against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the elements through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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how unlike those late
terrific
sleeps!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Forgael was playing,
And they were
listening
there beyond the sail.
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Yeats |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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editions
means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Li Po |
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"
It would be difficult
Application for entry at Second Clan matter at the Post Office i
By JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Love and
Liberation
$1.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_"
CORPORAL
ALEXANDER
ROBERTSON: To an Old Lady
Seen at a Guest-House for Soldiers
LIEUTENANT GILBERT WATERHOUSE: The Casualty
Clearing Station
LANCE-CORPORAL MALCOLM HEMPHREY: Hills of Home
XVI.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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O
laughter
if only to royally invest
My absent tomb purple, down there, is spread.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The leaves that wave against my cheek caress
Like women's hands; the embracing boughs express
A
subtlety
of mighty tenderness;
The copse-depths into little noises start,
That sound anon like beatings of a heart,
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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No one who reads
much of Li's poetry in the original can fail to notice the two defects
which are
emphasized
by the Sung critics.
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Li Po |
|
II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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A run-on line
should be read closely with the
following
line with only a slight pause to
indicate the line-unit.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Rapture
proclaim
to the grove, to the echoing cliffs perorate it?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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Reiver's hands, he
appreciated
the change.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some
infinitely
gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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My
Bridegroom
Death is come o'er the meres
To wed a bride with bloody tears.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If they have, how could the Earl have
foreknown them without
inspiration?
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I know my need, I know thy giving hand,
I crave thy
friendship
at thy kind command;
But there are such who court the tuneful Nine--
Heavens!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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CASSANDRA
Ah for thy fate, O shrill-voiced
nightingale!
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Aeschylus |
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HOW strange your conduct, cried the sprightly youth:
Extremes you seek, and overleap the truth;
Just now the fond desire to have a boy
Chased ev'ry care and filled your heart with joy;
At present quite the contrary appears
A moment changed your fondest hopes to fears;
Come, hear the rest; no longer waste your breath:
Kind Nature all can cure,
excepting
death.
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La Fontaine |
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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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6
THE TIDE
By
Jeannette
Marks
I shall find you when the tide comes in— A shell, a sound, a flash of light,
To live with me by day,
To dream with me by night.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ripe apples drop about my head;
The
luscious
clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
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Golden Treasury |
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They are in league with the great Motherhood
Who brings the seasons forth in the open world;
And if to them She hands, unseen by us,
Their
marvellous
bringing forth of children, what
Spirit of Her great dreadful mountain-spell,
Wherein the rocks have purpose against us,
Sealed up in watchful quiet stone, may not
Pass on to their dark minds, that seem so mild,
Yet are so strange; or what charm'd word from out
Her forests whispering endless dangerous things,
Wherefrom our hunters often have run crazed
To hear the trees devising for their souls;
What secret share of Her earth's monstrous power
May She not also grant to women's lives?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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than a spectre from the dead
More swift the room
Tattiana
fled,
From hall to yard and garden flies,
Not daring to cast back her eyes.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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'Tis excellent, cried they: things well you frame;
And at the
promised
hour, the heroes came.
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La Fontaine |
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