A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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All
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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I have
forgotten
you long, long ago.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The
immutable
calm of this white burning,
O my fearful kisses, makes you say, sadly,
'Will we ever be one mummified winding,
Under the ancient sands and palms so happy?
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the
beginning
of his four and a half year residence in Italy.
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Let the hoarse torrent
In the blue canyon,
Murmuring
mightily
10
Out of the grey mist
Of primal chaos,
Cease not proclaiming
How I adore thee.
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Sappho |
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_ Ay, as a
pettifogger
by his buckram bag.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We thinke the heavens enjoy their Sphericall,
Their round proportion
embracing
all.
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John Donne |
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One science only will one genius fit; 60
So vast is art, so narrow human wit:
Not only bounded to
peculiar
arts,
But oft in those confin'd to single parts.
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Alexander Pope |
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When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with
pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper
one after the other went to sleep
enfolded
with a new and happy
submission.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Yes, you are right, we need not hunt for motives:
There is no crime from which this man would shrink;
He recks not human law; and I have noticed
That often when the name of God is uttered,
A sudden
blankness
overspreads his face.
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William Wordsworth |
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1225
For what new torment have I
reserved
myself?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And we stood on a sea's edge we saw not; for whiter than new-washed
fleece
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a
wandering
and milky smoke.
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Yeats |
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Aricia
And you think Hippolytus, kinder than his father,
Being more humane, will make my chains
lighter?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thou canst not
understand
my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have
thee understand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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's notice and approbation, I
assure you I
"Turn out the burnt o' my shin,"
as the famous Ramsay, of
jingling
memory, says, at such a patroness.
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Robert Forst |
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Dispel my doubts,
Make sure the bliss I have
implored
so long.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole
Transmit
the Preludes, through his hair and finger tips.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They pass before me, these Eyes full of light,
Eyes made
magnetic
by some angel wise;
The holy brothers pass before my sight,
And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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A GAME OF CHESS
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting
light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
"It appears that he is in strength, indeed,"
observed
Chvabrine.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I have too long walked hand in hand with death
To shudder at that pale
familiar
face.
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Longfellow |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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'Twas a peaceful summer's morning, when the first thing gave
us warning
Was the booming of the cannon from the river and the shore:
"Child," says grandma, "what's the matter, what is all this
noise and
clatter?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yeats |
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"
They go to
strikewith
th'swords, are on their belts.
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
I answer'd: "Teacher, I
conclude
thy words
So certain, that all else shall be to me
As embers lacking life.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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We choose a place, and fling
ourselves on the lap of earth at the water's edge, and,
allotting
the
oars, spread ourselves on the dry beach for refreshment: the dew of
slumber falls on our weary limbs.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_Rapido fiume che d'
alpestra
vena.
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Petrarch |
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In his
perplexity
a happy thought, little less in fact than an
inspiration of genius, came to Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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"Believ'st thou,
Malacoda!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Therefore
the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
Contagious fogs; which, falling in the land,
Hath every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents.
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Shakespeare |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the
thistles
and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.
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blake-poems |
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The
indirect
is always as great and real as the direct.
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Whitman |
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'
'Damsel,' he said, 'you be not all to blame,
Saving that you
mistrusted
our good King
Would handle scorn, or yield you, asking, one
Not fit to cope your quest.
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Tennyson |
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With watchers doth he go
Begirt, and mailed
pikemen?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with
melancholy
eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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Users are free to copy, use, and
redistribute
the work in part or in whole.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ay, truly;
For look how from their
wondrous
bodies comes
Increase: who knoweth where such power ends?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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In a large
sense, the general drift of Whitman's writings, even down to the passages
which read as most bluntly physical, bear a
striking
correspondence or
analogy to this dogma.
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Whitman |
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If the
dramatist had put any man and woman of his acquaintance that seemed
to him nearest
perfection
into his play, he would have had to make it
a study, among other things, of the little petty faults and perverted
desires that come out of the nature or its surroundings.
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Yeats |
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The most renown'd poems would be ashes,
orations
and plays would
be vacuums.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Thou bastard zero, that hast come to power,
Nothing's right issue
failing!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Were ye such,
Ye would have
honoured
her.
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Byron |
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To charm the surly house-dog's
faithful
bark,
Or hang on tip-toe at the lifted latch.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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'"
This walk and
conversation
took place in October 1836.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Count the ocean's finny droves;
Count the
twinkling
host of stars.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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how much more doth beauty
beauteous
seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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'My eye, piercing the reeds, speared each immortal
Neck that drowns its burning in the water
With a cry of rage towards the forest sky;
And the splendid bath of hair slipped by
In
brightness
and shuddering, O jewels!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Sans lune et sans rayons trouver ou l'on heberge
Les martyrs d'un chemin
mauvais!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Then
stirring
and demurring ceased, and lo!
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Sidney Lanier |
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He rist him up, and long
streight
he hir leyde;
For signe of lyf, for ought he can or may,
Can he noon finde in no-thing on Criseyde, 1165
For which his song ful ofte is `weylaway!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Meredith - Poems |
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ADMETUS (_almost
breaking
down_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,
Have the
strength
to force the moment to its crisis?
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ich fuhle ganz mein Herz dir
hingegeben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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As a boxer, as a runner, past
compare!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Solde de diamants sans
controle!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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[30] _it_ is
uncertain
and _ta_ more likely than _us_.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At length, our hero weary, coldness showed,
And dropt attendance, since no kindness flowed;
Pretended to be cured:--another sought,
And feigned her charms his tender heart had caught:
Catella laughed, but
jealousy
was nigh;
'Twas for her friend that now He heaved the sigh.
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La Fontaine |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
From the jingling and the
tinkling
of the bells.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Cunningly
weave sunlight,
Breezes, and flowers.
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Stephen Crane |
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" said
Eviradnus
in his wrath,
"I rather should have hewn your limbs away,
And left you crawling on your stumps, I say,--
But now die fast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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'Tis quite enough to save the young gallant,
And more
particulars
we do not want.
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La Fontaine |
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Meredith - Poems |
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One of a
thousand
were not known to me,
Yet might those few make a large history.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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If, in truth,
Thou have received from heav'n thy father's force
Instill'd into thee, and
resemblest
him
In promptness both of action and of speech,
Thy voyage shall not useless be, or vain.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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' Also according to Erdman, it was later that Blake added the numbers 1 [at insertion point], 2 [at the head of these new lines], and 3 [at the head of the section
beginning
'travelling in silent majesty.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She was as
heedless
and as gay--
Well!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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MARTHE:
Komm du nur oft zu mir heruber,
Und leg den Schmuck hier heimlich an;
Spazier ein Stundchen lang dem
Spiegelglas
voruber,
Wir haben unsre Freude dran;
Und dann gibt's einen Anlass, gibt's ein Fest,
Wo man's so nach und nach den Leuten sehen lasst.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'
To The Sole Concern
All
Summarised
The Soul.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It was very
difficult
to find a spot.
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Shelley |
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When I came hither to
transport
the Tydings
Which I haue heauily borne, there ran a Rumour
Of many worthy Fellowes, that were out,
Which was to my beleefe witnest the rather,
For that I saw the Tyrants Power a-foot.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Armistead, Kemper, and Pettigrew
Rush on the Union men, rank against rank,
Planting
their battle-flags high on the crest.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The inhabitants ended by becoming
accustomed
to the shells falling on
their houses.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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,
_malicious
grasp, grasp of a cunning foe_: nom.
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Beowulf |
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And I, who am
not an old dog, but your
faithful
servant, I do obey my master's orders,
and I have ever served you zealously, even unto white hairs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Nay, I rather thrilled,
Distrusting
every light that seemed to gild
The onward path, and feared to overlean
A finger even.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Suitors, (their
children
who in this our isle
Hold highest rank) importunate besiege
My mother, though desirous not to wed,
And rather than resort to her own Sire
Icarius, who might give his daughter dow'r,
And portion her to whom he most approves,
(A course which, only named, moves their disgust) 70
They chuse, assembling all within my gates
Daily to make my beeves, my sheep, my goats
Their banquet, and to drink without restraint
My wine; whence ruin threatens us and ours;
For I have no Ulysses to relieve
Me and my family from this abuse.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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nē þæt
āglǣca
yldan þōhte (_the monster did not mean to
delay that_), 740; pret.
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Beowulf |
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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{40d}
Wiglaf spake, the son of Weohstan: --
"At the mandate of one, oft
warriors
many
sorrow must suffer; and so must we.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--
The crocus stirs her lids,
Rhodora's cheek is crimson, --
She's
dreaming
of the woods.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"
"Now tell us what 'twas all about,"
Young
Peterkin
he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looks up
With wonder-waiting eyes;
"Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for.
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Golden Treasury |
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There is a
patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose
managers are as much interested in the
dispersion
of seeds as anybody
at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more
extensive and regular.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Some would plunge those limbs
On fire with bane into the icy streams,
Hurling the body naked into the waves;
Many would
headlong
fling them deeply down
The water-pits, tumbling with eager mouth
Already agape.
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Lucretius |
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She (such as I bequeath her to the bruit
Of louder trump than mine, which hasteneth on,
Urging its arduous matter to the close),
Her words resum'd, in gesture and in voice
Resembling one accustom'd to command:
"Forth from the last corporeal are we come
Into the heav'n, that is unbodied light,
Light
intellectual
replete with love,
Love of true happiness replete with joy,
Joy, that transcends all sweetness of delight.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Old Widow Prouse, to do her
neighbours
evil,
Would give, some say, her soul unto the devil.
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Robert Herrick |
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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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Sara Teasdale |
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XXIV
"The Greek shall come against thee,
The
conqueror
of the East.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"In general, the more
strongly
peppered passages pleased him the
best.
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Byron |
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Do you think the great city
endures?
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Whitman |
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Roll as it listeth thee--I measure not
By months or moments thy
ambiguous
course.
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Shelley |
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