Thou His image ever see,
Heavenly
face that smiles on thee!
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" Henoch cried:
"Then must we make a circle vast of towers,
So
terrible
that nothing dare draw near;
Build we a city with a citadel;
Build we a city high and close it fast.
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Hugo - Poems |
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is this the land
Which bare a triple empire in her hand
When Cromwell spake the word
Democracy!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But now
afflictions
bow me down to earth:
Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth
But oh!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The sea
returning
day by day
Restores the world-wide mart;
So let each dweller on the Bay
Fold Boston in his heart,
Till these echoes be choked with snows,
Or over the town blue ocean flows.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In return for your glad words
Be sure all
greeting
that mine house affords
Is yours.
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Euripides - Electra |
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We have to
do here with a confusion of myth and history in which the real facts
are
disengaged
only by conjecture.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Where yet some traces of her
footsteps
lie.
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Petrarch |
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uncensurable
by the lips
Of mortal man!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Das ist von
ungefahr
gelungen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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35
Ipolita his wyf, the hardy quene
Of Cithia, that he conquered hadde,
With Emelye, hir yonge suster shene,
Faire in a char of golde he with him ladde,
That al the ground aboute hir char she spradde 40
With
brightnesse
of the beautee in hir face,
Fulfild of largesse and of alle grace.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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' --
`Steersman,' I said, `hold
straight
into the West.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Throbbing
THIS
throbbing
shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander, straying!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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_purgatorial
rails_, rails which enclose them in a place of
torture.
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Keats |
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When travellers--there were not many in those years--came to Kotgarh,
Lispeth used to lock herself into her own room for fear they might take
her away to Simla, or
somewhere
out into the unknown world.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Stephen Crane |
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CVII
Then Oliver has drawn his mighty sword
As his comrade had bidden and implored,
In
knightly
wise the blade to him has shewed;
Justin he strikes, that Iron Valley's lord,
All of his head has down the middle shorn,
The carcass sliced, the broidered sark has torn,
The good saddle that was with old adorned,
And through the spine has sliced that pagan's horse;
Dead in the field before his feet they fall.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The grass does not refuse
To
flourish
in the spring wind;
The leaves are not angry
At falling through the autumn sky.
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Li Po |
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This, and the three stanzas of
the
following
poem, 'Remembrance of Collins', formed one piece; but,
upon the recommendation of Coleridge, the three last stanzas were
separated from the other.
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William Wordsworth |
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You understand me--I was comforted;
I saw that every possible shape of action
Might lead to good--I saw it and burst forth
Thirsting for some of those
exploits
that fill
The earth for sure redemption of lost peace.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now, when I read, I read not,
For
interrupting
tears
Obliterate the etchings
Too costly for repairs.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Four already have been slain;
And others
banished
upon pain of death.
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Longfellow |
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Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And
blushing
birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Dizzy my brain, with
interruption
short 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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gins to swell
With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale,
His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell,
And overflow each plaine and lowly dale:
But when his later spring gins to avale, 185
Huge heapes of mudd he leaves, wherein there breed
Ten
thousand
kindes of creatures, partly male
And partly female of his fruitful seed;
Such ugly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man reed.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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pilegryme
yserued ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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1550
And the plain echoed to our
sorrowful
cries.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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* So all the biographers; but a writer in "Notes and
Queries/' says that he was bom at Winstead in Holdemess,
where his baptismal
register
is still extant.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Headlong
I darted; at one eager swirl
Gain'd its bright portal, enter'd, and behold!
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Keats |
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If not from that country always, they were known
generally
by
that name.
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Aristophanes |
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The poets in this volume do not
represent
a clique.
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Imagists |
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: _lateque et
cominus_ p, uulgo: _late qua est
impetus_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_ Venture, O vain one, venture, at length,
In view of present
sufferings
to be wise.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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TO HELEN
HELEN, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn
wanderer
bore
To his own native shore.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And
henceforth
there shall be no chain,
Save underneath the sea
The wires shall murmur through the main
Sweet songs of liberty.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The acolyte
Amid the chanted joy and thankful rite
May so fall flat, with pale
insensate
brow,
On the altar-stair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Golden Treasury |
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Imagists |
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voici la nuit de joie aux
profonds
spasmes
Qui descend dans la rue, o buveurs desoles,
Buvez.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Loose the flood, you shall find it patent,
Gush after gush,
reserved
for you;
Scarlet experiment!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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At length the men have started, with a cheer (it seemed
faint-hearted),
In their scarlet regimentals, with their knapsacks on their
backs,
And the reddening,
rippling
water, as after a sea-fight's
slaughter,
Round the barges gliding onward blushed like blood along
their tracks.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"
Answer the Franks, "Question you make in vain;
All felon he that dares not
exploits
brave!
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Chanson de Roland |
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V
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply;
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain,
For
unremembered
lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Also her sons
With lives of Victims
sacrificed
upon an altar of brass
On the East side.
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Blake - Zoas |
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PERPLEX'D and troubl'd at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discover'd in his fraud, thrown from his hope,
So oft, and the perswasive Rhetoric
That sleek't his tongue, and won so much on Eve,
So little here, nay lost; but Eve was Eve,
This far his over-match, who self deceiv'd
And rash, before-hand had no better weigh'd
The strength he was to cope with, or his own:
But as a man who had been matchless held 10
In cunning, over-reach't where least he thought,
To salve his credit, and for very spight
Still will be tempting him who foyls him still,
And never cease, though to his shame the more;
Or as a swarm of flies in vintage time,
About the wine-press where sweet moust is powr'd,
Beat off; returns as oft with humming sound;
Or surging waves against a solid rock,
Though all to shivers dash't, the assault renew,
Vain battry, and in froth or bubbles end: 20
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever; and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o're though desperate of success,
And his vain
importunity
pursues.
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Milton |
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I remember,
Once when I stood with Hegel at a window,
I, being full of
bubbling
youth and coffee,
Spoke in symbolic tropes about the stars.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Only Hermes, master of word music,
Ever yet in glory of gold language
Could
ensphere
the magical remembrance
Of her melting, half sad, wayward beauty, 20
Or devise the silver phrase to frame her,
The inevitable name to call her,
Half a sigh and half a kiss when whispered,
Like pure air that feeds a forge's hunger.
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Sappho |
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Where shall we keep the holiday,
And duly greet the
entering
May?
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Emerson - Poems |
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XLIV
She pricks her horse behind the two, and gains,
Well nigh as soon as they, that valley; how
Her coming thither either lover pains,
Who lives and loves, untaught by me, may know:
But sorest vext sad
Bradamant
remains;
Beholding her whence all her sorrows flow.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" I
answering
thus:
"Declare, as thou dost wish that I above
May carry tidings of thee, who is he,
In whom that sight doth wake such sad remembrance?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Except for the limited right of
replacement
or refund set forth
in paragraph 1.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We need
No
purifying
here.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Why, God would be content
With but a
fraction
of the love
Poured thee without a stint.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Wilt thou not wake to their summons,
O
Lityerses?
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Sappho |
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--
That
thousands
of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.
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blake-poems |
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'
"These lines recurred to William's memory, and we talked of Burns, and
of the
prospect
he must have had, perhaps from his own door, of
Skiddaw and his companions, including ourselves in the fancy, that we
_might_ have been personally known to each other, and he have looked
upon those objects with more pleasure for our sakes.
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William Wordsworth |
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And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow--
'Shadow,' said he,
'Where can it be--
This land of
Eldorado?
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Poe - 5 |
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Night Song at Amalfi
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love--
It
answered
me with silence,
Silence above.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Charming
this beauteous baby-maid; and so
The beast caught sight of her and stopped--
And then
Entered--the floor creaked as he stalked straight in.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_Noble
Venetians!
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Byron |
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Read then of faith
That shone above the fagot;
Clear strains of hymn
The river could not drown;
Brave names of men
And
celestial
women,
Passed out of record
Into renown!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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40
With hairy springes we the birds betray,
Slight lines of hair
surprise
the finny prey,
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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Alexander Pope |
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Come 'l falcon ch'e stato assai su l'ali,
che sanza veder logoro o uccello
fa dire al
falconiere
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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