A Fan
(Of Mademoiselle Mallarme's)
With nothing of
language
but
A beating in the sky
From so precious a place yet
Future verse will rise.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Those gods you
endlessly
weep will return!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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245 (return)
[ The Romans, who had but an imperfect knowledge of this part of the world, imagined here those "vast insular tracts"
mentioned
in the beginning of this treatise.
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Tacitus |
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It is a land of
poverty!
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blake-poems |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that
drenches
itself in the sea,
O nights, or the abandoned light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You have hands to square and hew
Vast marble-blocks, hard on your day of doom,
Ever building mansions new,
Nor
thinking
of the mansion of the tomb.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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There is the despot who
tyrannises
over the soul.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The
transparency
of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All the people
pour from house and field, and mothers crowd to wonder and gaze at her
as she goes, in
rapturous
astonishment at the royal lustre of purple
that drapes her smooth shoulders, at the clasp of gold that intertwines
her tresses, at the Lycian quiver she carries, and the pastoral myrtle
shaft topped with steel.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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"
And the Good God said, "But I too have been
mistaken
for you and
called by your name.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But my mind was weary Almost as the
twilight
of the day,
And my soul was sullen, and a little Tired of his everlasting talk.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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"You will be
laughing
now, remembering
We called you once Dead World, and barren thing.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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What
business
have I in the woods, if I am thinking of
something out of the woods?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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On every wooden dish, a humble claim,
Two rude cut letters mark the owner's name;
From every nook the smile of plenty calls,
And rusty flitches decorate the walls,
Moore's
Almanack
where wonders never cease--
All smeared with candle snuff and bacon grease.
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John Clare |
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King
Yet Love, far from registering this protest,
If
Rodrigue
wins, true justice will attest.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nought that he saw his sadness could abate:
Yet once he struggled 'gainst the demon's sway,
And as in Beauty's bower he pensive sate,
Poured forth this
unpremeditated
lay,
To charms as fair as those that soothed his happier day.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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fyrndagum
(_in old
times_), 1452.
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Beowulf |
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So
graceful
these, and so the shock they stand
Of raging Asius, and his furious band.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"_
[A long and wearisome ditty, called "The Highland Lad and Lowland
Lassie," which Burns
compressed
into these stanzas, for Johnson's
Museum.
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Robert Burns |
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is still the cause
unfound?
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John Clare |
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Would it not be
wonderful?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Miss Thompson bowed and blushed, and then
Undoubting
bought of Mr.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Mean while, declining from the noon of day,
The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; 20
The hungry Judges soon the
sentence
sign,
And wretches hang that jury-men may dine;
The merchant from th' Exchange returns in peace,
And the long labours of the Toilet cease.
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Alexander Pope |
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You
answered
questions as smoothly as a rolling ball, 12 you explained, giving the gist of the texts.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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This must be
masquerade!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But
wherefore
says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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e snawe
snitered
ful snart, ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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All of his crimes are not yet known to you:
His madness adds to his insults against you yet: 1185
He said that your mouth is full of wickedness:
He
maintains
that Aricia has his heart, in faith,
That he loves.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The
coursers
at their master's threat
With quicker steps the sounding champaign beat.
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Iliad - Pope |
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if we dream great deeds, strong men, Revolt Hearts hot,
thoughts
mighty.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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org
For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Je l'ai dit tout a
l'heure et je sais que je ne suis pas le seul a le penser: Rimbaud en
prose est peut-etre
superieur
a celui en vers.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O
miserable
of happie!
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Milton |
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37 BC
THE ECLOGUES
by Virgil
ECLOGUE I
MELIBOEUS TITYRUS
MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
And home's
familiar
bounds, even now depart.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the
slumbrous
mass.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Tennyson |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Tendre ot la char comme rousee,
Simple fu cum une espousee,
Et blanche comme flor de lis;
Si ot le vis cler et alis,
Et fu
greslete
et alignie;
Ne fu fardee ne guignie:
Car el n'avoit mie mestier
De soi tifer ne d'afetier.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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This
reverend
brow,
This was my sire's--the greatest, though the last:
The Moors his friend had taken and made fast--
Alvar Giron.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Whether there was perfect consistency between this hatred to
the Pope and his thinking, as he
certainly
did for a time, of becoming
his secretary, may admit of a doubt.
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Petrarch |
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for while I sang,
And with poor skill let pass into the breeze
The dull shell's echo, from a bowery strand
Just opposite, an island of the sea,
There came
enchantment
with the shifting wind,
That did both drown and keep alive my ears.
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Keats |
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Yet without sin he
suffered
more
Than ever sinners did before.
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John Clare |
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So all my spirit fills
With pleasure infinite,
And all the
feathered
wings of rest
Seem flocking from the radiant West
To bear me thro' the night.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Do
hundreds
play thee, or does but one play?
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Rilke - Poems |
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So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush'd into roses 'mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his
shoulders
bare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Harmless and silent as the
pestilence!
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Longfellow |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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E se piu fu lo suo parlar diffuso,
non so, pero che gia ne li occhi m'era
quella ch'ad altro
intender
m'avea chiuso.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Damned Fact,
How it did greeue
Macbeth?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And I know thy foot was covered 5
With fair Lydian
broidered
straps;
And the petals from a rose-tree
Fell within the marble basin.
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Sappho |
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Double, double, toyle and trouble,
Fire burne, and
Cauldron
bubble
2 Coole it with a Baboones blood,
Then the Charme is firme and good.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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--
That so your
happiness
in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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org/fundraising/donate
While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting
unsolicited
donations from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Stephen Crane |
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Has the cock's-feather, too, escaped
attention?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Fourth Self: I, amongst you all, am the most miserable, for naught
was given me but odious hatred and
destructive
loathing.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a
desperate
sun
that struggles through sea-mist.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou that wert wrapt in peace, the haze
Of
loveliness
spread over thee!
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Purgatorio
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Climb up, and seize him by the toes,--all
studious
as he sits,--
And pull him down, and chop him into endless little bits!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Births have brought us
richness
and variety,
And other births will bring us richness and variety.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you--you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect--I only find no
imperfection
in you;
None but would subordinate you--I only am he who will never consent to
subordinate you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what
waits intrinsically in yourself.
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Whitman |
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Mantua Vergilio, gaudet Verona Catullo;
Paelignae dicar gloria gentis ego,
quam sua libertas ad honesta
coegerat
arma,
cum timuit socias anxia Roma manus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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[_The
procession
moves forward, past him_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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THE SCHOOLBOY
I love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me:
O what sweet
company!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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imus in astra Iouis monitu, Iouis omine caelum
et Iouis imperio
mortalibus
aethera pando.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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no vulgar births are owed
To the
prolific
raptures of a god:
Lo!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Seeing Off Zheng Qian (18) Who Has Been Banished 361 5.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The works of the poet were much admired in society, but
he was not happy in his
domestic
life.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If an
individual
Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
must comply with both paragraphs 1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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was thy globe
ordained
for such to win and lose?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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ai wery weren; & leten be al stille,
And he[r] gredyng forberen; &
turneden
to goddes wille; 156
ffor ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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And strange it was to see him pass
With a step so light and gay,
And strange it was to see him look
So
wistfully
at the day,
And strange it was to think that he
Had such a debt to pay.
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Wilde - Poems |
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You who consoled me in
funereal
night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in
resistless
yearning
Are broken forevermore.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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What private feuds the
troubled
village stain!
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Bernardo m'accennava, e sorridea,
perch' io
guardassi
suso; ma io era
gia per me stesso tal qual ei volea:
che la mia vista, venendo sincera,
e piu e piu intrava per lo raggio
de l'alta luce che da se e vera.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Please note neither this listing nor its
contents
are final til
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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I swear the earth shall surely be
complete
to him or her who shall be
complete!
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Miggy dies of cholera once a week in the Rains, and gets drunk
on
chlorodyne
in between.
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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[15]
XIII "Sad case for such a brain to hold
Communion with a
stirring
child!
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William Wordsworth |
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But hereby hangs a grave condition,
Of this we'll talk when next we meet;
But for the present I entreat
Most
urgently
your kind dismission.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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You remember,--or
If not, your son does,--that the locks were changed
Beneath _his_ chief inspection on the morn
Which led to this same night: how he had entered
He best knows--but within an antechamber, 330
The door of which was half ajar, I saw
A man who washed his bloody hands, and oft
With stern and anxious glance gazed back upon--
The
bleeding
body--but it moved no more.
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Byron |
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KHELSTAKOV _(alone):_ There are many officials here; it seems to me,
however, that they take me for a
government
functionary.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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_ O) _secum ut
meditare
querunt_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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You must require such a user to return or
destroy all copies of the works
possessed
in a physical medium
and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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VI
Two minutes they in silence spent,
Oneguine then
approached
and said:
"You have a letter to me sent.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"The
blackbird
amid leafy trees--
The lark above the hill,
Let loose their carols when they please,
Are quiet when they will.
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Golden Treasury |
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It's true, though your enemy,
I cannot blame you for fleeing infamy;
And, however strong my
outburst
of pain
I do not accuse you, I only weep again.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Et c'est depuis ce temps que Lesbos se
lamente!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
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14 THE POEMS
Now, Fairfax, seek her
promised
faith ;
Keligion that dispensed hath
Which she henceforward does begin ;
The Nun's smooth tongue has sucked her in.
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Marvell - Poems |
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