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Lewis Carroll |
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Eyes of brown--a dusty plain
Split and parched with heat of June,
Flying hoof and
tightened
rein,
Hearts that beat the old, old tune.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"You must know--" said the Judge: but the Snark
exclaimed
"Fudge!
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Lewis Carroll |
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"These fields"--an unknown voice beyond the wall
Murmurs--"were once the
province
of the sea.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Verdi come
fogliette
pur mo nate
erano in veste, che da verdi penne
percosse traean dietro e ventilate.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Li Po |
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Now I know--
For all my
speculation
soareth up,
A bird taking eternity for air,--
Now being mixt with thee, in the burning midst
Of Beauty for my sense and mind and soul,--
That life hath highest gone which hath most joy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For
Hrothgar
soon a horse was saddled
wave-maned steed.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Thou, when the giants, threatening wrack,
Were
clambering
up Jove's citadel,
Didst hurl o'erweening Rhoetus back,
In tooth and claw a lion fell.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It
is, however, a verb in the
imperative
mood.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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CLXXIV
But Rollant felt that death had made a way
Down from his head till on his heart it lay;
Beneath a pine running in haste he came,
On the green grass he lay there on his face;
His olifant and sword beneath him placed,
Turning his head towards the pagan race,
Now this he did, in truth, that Charles might say
(As he
desired)
and all the Franks his race;--
'Ah, gentle count; conquering he was slain!
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Chanson de Roland |
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But sleep came not,
And pity, with sad eyes,
Crept to my side, and told me
That the life of all creatures is brave and pityful
Whether they be men, with dark
thoughts
to vex them,
Or birds, wheeling in the swift joys of flight,
Or brittle ephemerids, spinning to death in the haze
Of gold that quivers on dim evening waters;
Nor would she be denied.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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But that she goes to this old thorn,
The thorn which I've
described
to you,
And there sits in a scarlet cloak,
I will be sworn is true.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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What they've been doing all this time,
Oh could I put it into rhyme,
A most
delightful
tale pursuing!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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Appoloinaire |
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t the
coldyron
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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XVI
The gulf between them was so vast,
Debate commanded ample food--
The laws of generations past,
The fruits of science, evil, good,
The prejudices all men have,
The fatal secrets of the grave,
And life and fate in turn selected
Were to
analysis
subjected.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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I am weak--weak--
last night if the guard
had left the gate unlocked
I could not have
ventured
to escape,
but one thought serves me now
with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their
uniforms
were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Oh, thou, in Hellas deemed of
heavenly
birth,
Muse, formed or fabled at the minstrel's will!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way; _5
And who waits for thee in that
cheerless
home
Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return
Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
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Shelley |
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The Nightingale was not yet heard, for the Rose was not yet blown: but
an almost identical
Blackbird
and Woodpecker helped to make up
something of a North-country Spring.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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`How hastow thus
unkindely
and longe
Hid this fro me, thou fool?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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One of them, "The Press-gang," is
familiar
in Giles's
translation.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Joys of the free and
lonesome
heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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His doom was sealed--he knew it well,
Warned by the voice of stern Taheer,
Deep in whose darkly boding ear[117]
The
deathshot
pealed of murder near,
As filed the troop to where they fell!
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Byron |
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The paper intervenes each time as an image, of itself, ends or begins once more, accepting a succession of others, and, since, as ever, it does nothing, of regular sonorous lines or verse - rather
prismatic
subdivisions of the Idea, the instant they appear, and as long as they last, in some precise intellectual performance, that is in variable positions, nearer to or further from the implicit guiding thread, because of the verisimilitude the text imposes.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Infanta
Yesterday, duty brought you great esteem;
Noble that
struggle
which you waged did seem,
So worthy of great hearts: our courtiers
Admired your courage, pitying the lovers.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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As vapours blown by Auster's sultry breath,
Pregnant with plagues, and shedding seeds of death,
Beneath the rage of burning Sirius rise,
Choke the parch'd earth, and blacken all the skies;
In such a cloud the god from combat driven,
High o'er the dusky
whirlwind
scales the heaven.
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Iliad - Pope |
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It is not
difficult
to trace the process by which the old songs
were transmuted into the form which they now wear.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of
derivative
works, reports, performances and
research.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XI
Kindling autumnal fire in a rustic, convivial fireplace
(How the sticks crackle and spew flames and
glittering
sparks!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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A wild and
wrathful
clamor
From all the vanguard rose.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Both for his good and evil, he had never been able to endure emotion
without either diluting or
intensifying
it with thought, and with always
self-conscious thought.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Lanier reopens in this dream
of the Virginia bay where poet's
reveries
and war's awakenings
continually alternated.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
independent
commoner
Shall be the man for a' that.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
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Sara Teasdale |
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The divine Saviour is represented in vision towards the
close,
speaking
and transfigured; and it has been hinted to me that the
introduction may give offence in quarters where I should be most
reluctant to give any.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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The only serious
form of intellect I know is the British intellect, and on the British
intellect the
illiterate
always plays the drum.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He smiled at the
platitudes
of Horace Vernet, and only shook his head
over the Schnetzes and other artisans of the day.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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And for to have of hem
compassioun
50
As though I were hir owene brother dere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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CLX
But nought by
sovereign
or Sobrino done,
Who, toiling, them with prayer or menace stirred,
To march, where their ill-followed flags are gone.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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bless'd in thy
blooming
heir!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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In the nation that is not
Nothing stands that stood before;
There
revenges
are forgot,
And the hater hates no more;
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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* * * * *
And limpid brook that leaps along,
Gilt with the summer's
burnished
gleam,
Will stop thy little tale or song
To gaze upon its crimping stream.
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John Clare |
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NOTE:
_164 pang edition 1821; pain
editions
1819, 1839.
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Shelley |
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aut Nomas arcanas tollat uersuta saliuas:
dicet
damnatas
ignea testa manus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Dick is
probably
playing the
fool with a woman.
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Kipling - Poems |
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LIX
The count Rollanz hath heard himself decreed;
Speaks then to Guenes by rule of courtesy:
"Good-father, Sir, I ought to hold you dear,
Since the
rereward
you have for me decreed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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But Pope was by no means disposed to let the attacks go without an
answer of some kind, and the particular form which his answer took seems
to have been
suggested
by a letter from Arbuthnot.
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Alexander Pope |
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Men defended
themselves
in a short brilliant expression;
and if that did not protect them, they died with a lively apophthegm,
and their last words were wit.
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Tacitus |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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KING WITLAF'S DRINKING-HORN
Witlaf, a king of the Saxons,
Ere yet his last he breathed,
To the merry monks of Croyland
His drinking-horn bequeathed,--
That, whenever they sat at their revels,
And drank from the golden bowl,
They might
remember
the donor,
And breathe a prayer for his soul.
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Longfellow |
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Ma quella
reverenza
che s'indonna
di tutto me, pur per Be e per ice,
mi richinava come l'uom ch'assonna.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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Sappho |
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I said to my heart, my feeble heart;
Haven't we had enough of
sadness?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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--For there are
mightier
needs!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But that Empire, so grand, so
glorious
a prize, 575
Is not the dearest gift of all, to my eyes.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then Satan turned and waved his swarthy hand,
Which stirred with its electric qualities
Clouds farther off than we can understand,
Although
we find him sometimes in our skies;
Infernal thunder shook both sea and land
In all the planets--and Hell's batteries
Let off the artillery, which Milton mentions
As one of Satan's most sublime inventions.
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Byron |
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The one, close-hooded, had the attractive grace
Which sorrow sometimes lends a woman's face;
Her dark eyes moistened with the mists that roll
From the gulf-stream of passion in the soul;
The other with her hood thrown back, her hair
Making a golden glory in the air,
Her cheeks
suffused
with an auroral blush,
Her young heart singing louder than the thrush.
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Longfellow |
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For thee, O boy,
First shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth
Her
childish
gifts, the gadding ivy-spray
With foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed,
And laughing-eyed acanthus.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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the
attention
of the reader to the interpolation by means of a
foot-note.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Redistribution is
subject to the
trademark
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redistribution.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"Why do you sigh, fair
creature?
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Keats - Lamia |
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I and thee
Permitted
face to face to be;
After a life, a death we'll say, --
For death was that, and this is thee.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For which no
springtime
shall appear?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Keats |
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My crown shall stay a sweet and secret thing
Kept pure with prayer at
evensong
and morn,
And when you come to take it from my head,
I shall not weep, nor will a word be said,
But I shall kneel before you, oh my king,
And bind my brow forever with a thorn.
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Sara Teasdale |
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O
faithful
unto death,
Thou goest?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Hidden Love
I hid the love within my heart,
And lit the
laughter
in my eyes,
That when we meet he may not know
My love that never dies.
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Sara Teasdale |
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" Here, for a short time, I
lost sight of the wall, but I recovered it again on
emerging
from the
barrack yard.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Silently
we went round and round,
And through each hollow mind
The Memory of dreadful things
Rushed like a dreadful wind,
And Horror stalked before each man,
And Terror crept behind.
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Wilde - Poems |
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SEMPER EADEM
<< D'ou vous vient, disiez-vous, cette
tristesse
etrange,
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O lead me onward to the loneliest shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where kingcups grow most
beauteous
to behold
And shut up green and open into gold.
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John Clare |
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Beautiful
lily!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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, O what is it to be born of gods, if old
Aveugle's (the father of the three
Saracens)
sons are so ill treated.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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The Green Knight, laughing,
thus spoke: "Thou hast confessed so clean, and acknowledged thy faults,
that I hold thee as pure as thou hadst never
forfeited
since thou wast
first born.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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But when he gained the humid verge of the foam-flecked
shore, and spied the womanish Attis near the opal sea, he made a bound: the
witless wretch fled into the wild wold: there
throughout
the space of her
whole life a bondsmaid did she stay.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Masson_
KILMENY
(A SONG OF THE TRAWLERS)
Dark, dark lay the drifters, against the red west,
As they shot their long meshes of steel overside;
And the oily green waters were rocking to rest
When
_Kilmeny_
went out, at the turn of the tide.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Perhaps the kingdom of Heaven 's
changed!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In chief, the
faithful
dogs, in all the streets
Outstretched, would yield their breath distressfully
For so that Influence of bane would twist
Life from their members.
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Lucretius |
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Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and
Schelling
and Hegel,
Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having
studied long,
I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
Of city for city and land for land.
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They vanish in tobacco smoke,
Those
visionary
maids--
I feel a sharp and sudden poke
Between the shoulder-blades--
"Why, Brown, my boy!
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And what good in our lives,
strength
or delighted glee,
Hath God paid to purchase our purity?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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From either side, hearing then
Horses
neighing
in the gloom,
And cries of 'Help me!
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Troubador Verse |
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The astonish'd archer to great Ajax cries;
"Some god prevents our
destined
enterprise:
Some god, propitious to the Trojan foe,
Has, from my arm unfailing, struck the bow,
And broke the nerve my hands had twined with art,
Strong to impel the flight of many a dart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Or did that silence prove his memory fixed
Too deep for words, indelible, unmixed
In that
corroding
secrecy which gnaws
The heart to show the effect, but not the cause?
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Byron |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Your skulls are a
storehouse
o' lead.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The
Albatross
fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Where shall Ulysses shun, or how sustain
Nations
embattled
to revenge the slain?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thence with
abounding
praise returned he, guiding his footsteps,
Whiles did a fine drawn thread check steps in wander abounding,
Lest when issuing forth of the winding maze labyrinthine
Baffled become his track by inobservable error.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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