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And one whose spear had pierced me, leaned beside
With
quivering
lips and humid eyes;--and all
Seemed like some brothers on a journey wide _1830
Gone forth, whom now strange meeting did befall
In a strange land, round one whom they might call
Their friend, their chief, their father, for assay
Of peril, which had saved them from the thrall
Of death, now suffering.
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But now to purpos as of this matere--
To rede forth hit gan me so delyte,
That al the day me
thoughte
but a lyte.
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We cut young trees to make our poles and thwarts,
Barked the white spruce to
weatherfend
the roof,
Then struck a light and kindled the camp-fire.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It was always
supposed
that Christ talked in Aramaic.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Undue
significance
a starving man attaches
To food
Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,
And therefore good.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly--and Lo!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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Unbid, ix, 54,
unprayed
for.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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An
instance
of the kind I'll now detail:
The feeling bosom will such lots bewail!
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La Fontaine |
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Theseus
Traitor, do you dare to show
yourself
before me?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The night was wide, and
furnished
scant
With but a single star,
That often as a cloud it met
Blew out itself for fear.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Tattiana lone
Beneath the silver of the moon
Long time in
meditation
deep
Her path across the plain doth keep--
Proceeds, until she from a hill
Sees where a noble mansion stood,
A village and beneath, a wood,
A garden by a shining rill.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The mountain, the scenery, the layout of the landscape,
And the peace of the morning sun as it happened,
The miles of houses
pocketed
in the valley beyond--
It was all worth looking at, worth wondering about,
How long it might last, how young it might be.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But, when he had refused the proffered gold,
To cruel injuries he became a prey,
Sore traversed in whate'er he bought and sold:
His troubles grew upon him day by day,
Till all his
substance
fell into decay.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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He was emotionally and
artistically
unable to forge a finished work from them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_Charis_
5 seems then to have been
written later than _U.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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His
dialectic
forms are taken from the vernacular of
the North Lancashire folk with which he was familiar.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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And said: until thy latest minute
Preserve,
preserve
my Talisman;
A secret power it holds within it--
'Twas love, true love the gift did plan.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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They eat, they drink, and with refection sweet
Are fill'd, before th' all bounteous King, who showrd
With copious hand,
rejoycing
in thir joy.
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Milton |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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Easier I count it to explain
The jargon of the howling main,
"Or, stretched beside some babbling brook,
To con, with
inexpressive
look,
An unintelligible book.
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Lewis Carroll |
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)
Note
Not
meaningless
flurries like
Those that frequent the street
Subject to black hats in flight;
But a dancer shown complete
A whirlwind of muslin or
A furious scattering of spray
Raised by her knee, she for
Whom we live, to blow away
All, beyond her, mundane
Witty, drunken, motionless,
With her tutu, and refrain
From other mark of distress,
Unless a light-hearted draught of air
From her dress fans Whistler there.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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PETER'S FIELD
[Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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_Sophocles was first,
Euripides second with the Cretan Women, Alcmaeon in Psophis,
Telephus
and
Alcestis.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Then took
Telemachus
a loaf entire 410
Forth from the elegant basket, and of flesh
A portion large as his two hands contained,
And, beck'ning close the swine-herd, charged him thus.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For when
the ideal is
realised
it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and
becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than
itself.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The
helmsman
steerd, the ship mov'd on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The Marineres all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do:
They rais'd their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The
treasures
of the world flow there, as in the house
of a laborious man who has well merited the entire world.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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You take pleasure then in the
message?
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Shakespeare |
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Still would her touch the strain prolong;
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale
She call'd on Echo still through all the song;
And, where her sweetest theme she chose,
A soft responsive voice was heard at every close:
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair;--
And longer had she sung:--but with a frown Revenge
impatient
rose:
He threw his blood-stain'd sword in thunder down;
And with a withering look
The war-denouncing trumpet took
And blew a blast so loud and dread,
Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
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Golden Treasury |
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Hauksbee
raised her head.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We
therefore
for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to Destruction from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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Sidney Lanier |
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In gentle parley, and communion sweet--
With looks of love, they seem'd mine eyes to meet;
Yet strange was their attire--their tongue unknown
Spoke them the natives of a distant zone;
But every doubt my kind
assistant
clear'd,
Instant I knew them, when their names were heard.
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Petrarch |
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And how many women have been
victims of your
cruelty!
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Appoloinaire |
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_mainly, noting all
variations
of importance.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Soll ich den Augen trauen,
Oberon, den schonen Gott,
Auch heute hier zu
schauen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States
copyright
in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Some seed the birds devour,
And some the season mars,
But here and there will flower
The solitary stars,
And fields will yearly bear them
As light-leaved spring comes on,
And
luckless
lads will wear them
When I am dead and gone.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Si comincio lo mio duca a parlarmi;
e accennolle che venisse a proda,
vicino al fin d'i
passeggiati
marmi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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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He did not wring his hands nor weep,
Nor did he peek or pine,
But he drank the air as though it held
Some
healthful
anodyne;
With open mouth he drank the sun
As though it had been wine!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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This Tyrant, whose sole name
blisters
our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you haue lou'd him well,
He hath not touch'd you yet.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Pagans are come great martyrdom seeking;
Noble and fair reward this day shall bring,
Was never won by any
Frankish
King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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In
metamorphoses
they've many a hero deceived.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Still, the
alacrity
with
which a Russian hostess will turn her house topsy-turvy for
the accommodation of forty or fifty guests would somewhat
astonish the mistress of a modern Belgravian mansion.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Any
alternate
format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in paragraph 1.
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Aeschylus |
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We
worshipped
inland--
we stepped past wood-flowers,
we forgot your tang,
we brushed wood-grass.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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'T was not the Lord that sent you;
As an
incarnate
devil did you come!
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Longfellow |
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You may convert to and
distribute
this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I might not be so anguisshous,
That I mote glad and Ioly be,
Whan that I
remembre
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I am
eternally
young, and as teacher I still love the young ones.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And when the sun withdrew his
slanting
ray,
And winter cool'd the fervours of the day,
Then came the genial hours, the frequent feast
And circling times of joy and balmy rest.
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Petrarch |
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Death
only consolation
exists, thoughts - balm
but what is done
is done - we cannot
return to the absolute
contained in death -
- and yet
to show that if,
life once abstracted,
the happiness of being
together, all that - such
consolation in its turn
has its root - its base -
absolute - in what
(if we wish
for example a
dead being to live in
us, thought -
is his being, his
thought in effect)
ever he has of the best
that transpires, through our
love and the care
we take
of being -
(being, being
simply moral and
about thought)
there is in that a
magnificent beyond
that rediscovers its
truth - so much
purer and lovelier than
the absolute rupture
of death - become
little by little as illusory
as absolute ( so we're
allowed to seem
to forget the pain)
- as this illusion
of
survival
in
us, becomes absolutely
illusory - (there is
unreality in both
cases) has been terrible
and true
39.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If we
insist on asking whether Euripides himself, in real life or in a play of
his own free invention, would have considered Admetus's conduct to
Heracles
entirely
praiseworthy, the answer will certainly be No, but it
will have little bearing on the play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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Quel traditor che vede pur con l'uno,
e tien la terra che tale qui meco
vorrebbe di vedere esser digiuno,
fara venirli a
parlamento
seco;
poi fara si, ch'al vento di Focara
non sara lor mestier voto ne preco>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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is coldly
nerveless
now
To drive the vulture from his gorge, or scare the carrion crow.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Only a
conscript
kissing the cook," said Maisie.
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Kipling - Poems |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a radiance so
imperishable
that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Sappho |
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Even so, gentle, strong and wise and happy, 5
Through the soul and
substance
of my being,
Comes the breath of thy great love to me-ward,
O thou dear mortal.
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Sappho |
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He joined the British Army in September, 1914, declined
a
commission
and served in Egypt, Malta, Gallipoli (where he was
wounded), and Prance.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then to the Heav'n of Heav'ns he shall ascend 450
With victory, triumphing through the aire
Over his foes and thine; there shall surprise
The Serpent, Prince of aire, and drag in Chaines
Through all his realme, & there confounded leave;
Then enter into glory, and resume
His Seat at Gods right hand, exalted high
Above all names in Heav'n; and thence shall come,
When this worlds
dissolution
shall be ripe,
With glory and power to judge both quick & dead,
To judge th' unfaithful dead, but to reward 460
His faithful, and receave them into bliss,
Whether in Heav'n or Earth, for then the Earth
Shall all be Paradise, far happier place
Then this of Eden, and far happier daies.
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Milton |
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Da poppa stava il
celestial
nocchiero,
tal che faria beato pur descripto;
e piu di cento spirti entro sediero.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Those grand,
majestic
pines!
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Longfellow |
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He a new Jason shall be call'd, of whom
In Maccabees we read; and favour such
As to that priest his king
indulgent
show'd,
Shall be of France's monarch shown to him.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Black day he chose for
planting
thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of children yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Like
vaulters
in a circus round
Who leap from horse to horse, but never touch the ground.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The wealth might disappoint,
Myself a poorer prove
Than this great purchaser suspect,
The daily own of Love
Depreciate the vision;
But, till the
merchant
buy,
Still fable, in the isles of spice,
The subtle cargoes lie.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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{and} sorwe {and} Ire {and} wepyng
todrawen
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Ah, that the pure and simple never know
Aught of
themselves
and all their holy worth!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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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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L'une,
insidieuse
et ferme,
Disait: << La Terre est un gateau plein de douceur;
Je puis (et ton plaisir serait alors sans terme!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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So passed another day, and so the third:
Then did I try, in vain, the crowd's resort,
In deep despair by frightful wishes stirr'd,
Near the sea-side I reached a ruined fort:
There, pains which nature could no more support,
With blindness linked, did on my vitals fall;
Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short
Of hideous sense; I sunk, nor step could crawl,
And thence was borne away to neighbouring hospital.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while
If one, settling a pillow or
throwing
off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all.
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T.S. Eliot |
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the tyrant whom I sing, descried
Ere long his error, that, till then, his dart
Not yet beneath the gown had pierced my heart,
And brought a
puissant
lady as his guide,
'Gainst whom of small or no avail has been
Genius, or force, to strive or supplicate.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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His head again fell upon
his breast; he
appeared
as I had seen him at first.
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Poe - 5 |
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You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project
Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There in the self-same marble were engrav'd
The cart and kine, drawing the sacred ark,
That from
unbidden
office awes mankind.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One short month, no more,
I gave to joys domestic, in my wife
Happy, and in my babes, and in my wealth,
When the desire seiz'd me with sev'ral ships
Well-rigg'd, and furnish'd all with gallant crews, 300
To sail for AEgypt; nine I fitted forth,
To which stout
mariners
assembled fast.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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While the
sportsmen
are hunting this "wild swine" our lovely knight
lies in his bed.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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It is discordaunce that can accorde, 4715
And
accordaunce
to discorde.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Mr Small says that 'no copy of the
original
is to be found in the Benedictine edition of Jerome's Works'; and Mr Wright states that 'others say they are first found in the Prognosticon futuri seculi of Julianus Pomerius, a theologian, who died in the year 690'.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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