Where is the brow whose gentlest
beckonings
led
My raptured heart at will, now here, now there?
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Gamen eft āstāh,
beorhtode
benc-swēg, byrelas sealdon
wīn of wunder-fatum.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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developed, opens the decay,
When the
colossal
fabric's form is neared:
It will not bear the brightness of the day,
Which streams too much on all, years, man, have reft away.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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When they before me had beheld the light
From my right side fall broken on the ground,
So that the shadow reach'd the cave, they stopp'd
And
somewhat
back retir'd: the same did all,
Who follow'd, though unweeting of the cause.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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LXIV
One, with a human shape and feet, his crest,
Fashioned
like hound, in neck and ears and head,
Bayed at the gallant Child with angry quest,
To turn him to the city whence he fled.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
It is not bird, it has no nest;
Nor band, in brass and scarlet dressed,
Nor tambourine, nor man;
It is not hymn from pulpit read, --
The morning stars the treble led
On time's first
afternoon!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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]
[Sidenote C: On the morrow many of the guests took their
departure
from the
castle.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of
elevated
thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But
childhood
passes in an hour,
As perfume from a faded flower;
The joyous voice of early glee
Flies, like the Halcyon, o'er the sea.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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'166 the small pillow':
a richly decorated pillow which
fashionable
ladies used to prop them up
in bed when they received morning visits from gentlemen.
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Alexander Pope |
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I slood beside his bed, as he lay dying,
Better than dung it was somewhat,--
Half-rotten straw; but then, he died as
Christian
ought,
And found an unpaid score, on Heaven's account-book lying.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The reason is:
Jove
prospers
my meat more than his.
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Robert Herrick |
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{and} is
couenable
to ben godde[s].
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Hier ist so ein Mittelgipfel
Wo man mit
Erstaunen
sieht,
Wie im Berg der Mammon gluht.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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430
Erie Ethelbert then hove, with clinie just,
A launce, that stroke Partaie upon the thighe,
And pinn'd him downe unto the gorie duste;
Cruel, quod he, thou
cruellie
shalt die.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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For O, the strong farmers
That would let the spade lie,
Their hearts would be like a cup
That
somebody
had drunk dry.
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Yeats |
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"
Before she was fifteen the great
struggle
of her life began.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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lest they say a lesser light
distraught
thee.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Till we
returning
shall our guest demand,
Accept this charge with honour, at our hand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
A t dawn of day, when falcon shakes his wing,
M ainly from pleasure, and from noble usage,
B lackbirds too shake theirs then as they sing,
R
eceiving
their mates, mingling their plumage,
O, as the desires it lights in me now rage,
I 'd offer you, joyously, what befits the lover.
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Villon |
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Refuse of Time ripe for
Eternity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Noon descends, and after noon
Autumn's evening meets me soon,
Leading the
infantine
moon
And that one star, which to her
Almost seems to minister
Half the crimson light she brings
From the sunset's radiant springs:
And the soft dreams of the morn
(Which like winged winds had borne
To that silent isle, which lies
'Mid remember'd agonies,
The frail bark of this lone being),
Pass, to other sufferers fleeing,
And its ancient pilot, Pain,
Sits beside the helm again.
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Golden Treasury |
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Are you afraid,
Who were so
dauntless
till the walls gave way?
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Sara Teasdale |
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The scholar gipsy having
given them an account of the
necessity
which drove
him to that kind of life, told them that the people
he went with were not such impostors as they were
taken for, but that they had a traditional kind of
learning among them and could do wonders by the power
of imagination, and that himself had learned much of
their art and improved it further than themselves
could.
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Yeats |
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Charm then the chambers; make the beds for ease,
More than for peevish pining sicknesses;
Fix the
foundation
fast, and let the roof
Grow old with time, but yet keep weather-proof.
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Robert Herrick |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where
harpsichords
and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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First let me note that the maid to us committed (assert they)
Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had, 20
* * * *
* * * *
But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his firstborn,
Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray;
Or that his impious mind was blunt with fiery passion 25
Or that his
impotent
son sprang from incapable seed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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May God never grant me power
Not
inspired
by true love's art!
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Troubador Verse |
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"Very Young"
Gayerson
was miserable, and took no trouble to conceal his
wretchedness.
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Kipling - Poems |
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To her children, the words of the
eloquent
dumb great Mother never fail;
The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does
not fail;
Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
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Whitman |
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"Oh, what is that in heaven where grey cloud-flakes are seven,
Where
blackest
clouds hang riven just at the rainy skirt?
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Christina Rossetti |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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" This
statement
will do at least to set against Buffon's
account of this part of the world and its productions.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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I have forgotten her
We are here in a wood of little beeches
We
challenged
Death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He married Eleanor,
daughter
of Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester,
and sister and coheiress of the next Earl Gilbert.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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One could
almost imagine that
Euripides
had not yet conceived that bad opinion of
the sex which so many of the subsequent dramas exhibit.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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During the long interval between Herrick's
entrance on his Cambridge and his clerical careers (an interval all but
wholly obscure to us), it is natural to suppose that he read, at
any rate, his
Elizabethan
predecessors: yet (beyond those general
similarities already noticed) the Editor can find no positive proof of
familiarity.
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Robert Herrick |
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Iam mens
praetrepidans
avet vagari,
Iam laeti studio pedes vigescunt.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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While thro' the press enrag'd
Thalestris
flies,
And scatters death around from both her eyes,
A Beau and Witling perish'd in the throng,
One died in metaphor, and one in song.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thundering, a euphemism common in New England for the profane English
expression
_devilish_.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Best
guardian
of Rome's people, dearest boon
Of a kind Heaven, thou lingerest all too long:
Thou bad'st thy senate look to meet thee soon:
Do not thy promise wrong.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
She sought him up, she sought him down,
She sought him braid and narrow;
Syne, in the
cleaving
of a craig,
She found him drown'd in Yarrow!
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Golden Treasury |
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Quels
delirants
cul-nus!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What bridal pomps, and what
funereal
shows!
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Longfellow |
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O father and mother if buds are nipped,
And
blossoms
blown away;
And if the tender plants are stripped
Of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and care's dismay,--
How shall the summer arise in joy,
Or the summer fruits appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Index of First Lines
Under the Mirabeau flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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New
scintillating
rays extend
Through endless singing space and rise
Into an ecstasy that cries:
"Ascend, Leviathan, ascend!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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]
[Sidenote H: It was the
merriest
meet that ever was heard.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of
compliance
for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Lewis Carroll |
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When the memories of the old
martyrs are faded utterly away--when the large names of patriots are
laughed at in the public halls from the lips of the orators--when the boys
are no more christened after the same, but christened after tyrants and
traitors instead--when the laws of the free are grudgingly permitted, and
laws for informers and blood-money are sweet to the taste of the people--
when I and you walk abroad upon the earth, stung with compassion at the
sight of numberless brothers answering our equal friendship, and calling no
man master--and when we are elated with noble joy at the sight of slaves--
when the soul retires in the cool communion of the night, and surveys its
experience, and has much ecstasy over the word and deed that put back a
helpless
innocent
person into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel
inferiority--when those in all parts of these states who could easier
realise the true American character, but do not yet[1]--when the swarms of
cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly
involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures
or the judiciary or Congress or the Presidency, obtain a response of love
and natural deference from the people, whether they get the offices or no--
when it is better to be a bound booby and rogue in office at a high salary
than the poorest free mechanic or farmer, with his hat unmoved from his
head, and firm eyes, and a candid and generous heart--and when servility by
town or state or the federal government, or any oppression on a large scale
or small scale, can be tried on without its own punishment following duly
after in exact proportion, against the smallest chance of escape--or rather
when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any
part of the earth--then only shall the instinct of liberty be discharged
from that part of the earth.
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Whitman |
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With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner
streaming
o'er us!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But in general the
effect of reading many criticisms on the _Alcestis_ is to make a
scholar realize that, for all the seeming simplicity of the play,
competent
Grecians
have been strangely bewildered by it, and that after
all there is no great reason to suppose that he himself is more sensible
than his neighbours.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Adoun I fel, when that I saugh the herse, 15
Deed as a stoon, whyl that the swogh me laste;
But up I roos, with colour ful diverse,
And
pitously
on hir myn yen caste,
And ner the corps I gan to presen faste,
And for the soule I shoop me for to preye; 20
I nas but lorn; ther nas no more to seye.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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You may esteem him
A child for his might;
Or you may deem him
A coward from his flight;
But if she whom love doth honour
Be conceal'd from the day,
Set a
thousand
guards upon her,
Love will find out the way.
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Golden Treasury |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long disgrace and scorn,
You shot dead the
household
traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves
the travail of a worthier pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What irksome hand, weaving these knots around,
Has
gathered
my hair with such care on my brow?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
"Intelligence, yes; but as to consideration, who at the present moment
most bitterly resents the tender solicitude of Lancashire for the
welfare and protection of the Indian factory
operative?
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Kipling - Poems |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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Rilke - Poems |
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ise
mutac{i}ou{n}s
of fortune fleten wi?
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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I will
send a
subscription
bill or two, next post; when I intend writing my
first kind patron, Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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But thou, exulting and
abounding
river!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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From Marcle way,
From Dymock, Kempley, Newent, Bromesberrow,
Redmarley, all the meadowland daffodils seem
Running in golden tides to Ryton Firs,
To make the knot of steep little wooded hills
Their
brightest
show: O bella età de l'oro!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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_27
philanthropic
Bos.
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Shelley |
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Send not to good Laertes, nor engage
In toils of state the
miseries
of age:
Tis impious to surmise the powers divine
To ruin doom the Jove-descended line;
Long shall the race of just Arcesius reign,
And isles remote enlarge his old domain.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 320 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The broken
fingernails
of dirty hands.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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how shall summer's honey breath hold out,
Against the
wrackful
siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To
this baseness Caepio added one still greater; he corrupted the
ambassadors whom Viriatus had sent to
negotiate
with him, who, at the
instigation of the Roman, treacherously murdered their protector and
general while he slept.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But to-night I don't care enough to lie--
I don't
remember
why I ever cared.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I
can't be
separated
from you------
SOLNESS: Marry him as much as you please.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thro' a long life his hopes and wishes crown,
And bright in
cloudless
skies his sun go down!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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Then
Menelaus
challenged
Paris to single combat; for the twain were the cause of the war,
seeing that Paris had stolen away Helen, the wife of Menelaus.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Even as to Bacchus and to Ceres, so
To thee the swain his yearly vows shall make;
And thou thereof, like them, shalt
quittance
claim.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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My old
parents' minds were relieved, and they
impatiently
awaited better news.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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As the sex have served many a good fellow, the Nine
have given me a great deal of pleasure, but,
bewitching
jades!
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Robert Burns |
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e corages of good[e] folk hire
p{ro}pre
honoure.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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XXV
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the
stringed
pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Oh visit me but once, but pitying shed
One drop of balm upon my
withered
soul.
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Shelley |
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Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,
Though the
earthwork
hid them from us, and the stubborn
walls were dumb:
Here were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,
And their lips were white with terror as they said, THE HOUR
HAS COME!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider Phlebas, who was once
handsome
and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Parthenius
208
_ingenerati_
OD
209 _Torcu_(_quu_ h2)_tus_ Oh2
210 _e_] _et_ O: fortasse _ex_
213 _semihiante_ Scaliger: _sed mihi ante_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Our pace took sudden awe,
Our feet
reluctant
led.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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out in loosnesse on the grassy grownd,
Both carelesse of his health, and of his fame:
Till at the last he heard a
dreadfull
sownd,
Which through the wood loud bellowing did rebownd,
That all the earth for terrour seemd to shake, 60
And trees did tremble.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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Their breath
Swept the foeman like a blade,
Though ten thousand men were paid
To the hungry purse of Death,
Though the field was wet with blood,
Still the bold
defences
stood,
Stood!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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I shall only add one circumstance: that the dominion of the sea is nowhere more extensive; that it carries many currents in this direction and in that; and its ebbings and flowings are not
confined
to the shore, but it penetrates into the heart of the country, and works its way among hills and mountains, as though it were in its own domain.
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Tacitus |
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He had a mouth to quaff
Pint after pint: a sounding laugh,
But wheezy at the end, and oft
His eyes bulged
outwards
and he coughed.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Overcome by their feelings, the four little
travellers
instantly jumped
into the tea-kettle, and fell fast asleep.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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