FRIAR PHILIP'S GEESE
IF these gay tales give
pleasure
to the FAIR,
The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;
Yet, why suppose the sex my pages shun?
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The 'Dunciad' is little read to-day except by professed
students of English letters, but it made, naturally enough, a great stir
at the time and vastly
provoked
the wrath of all the dunces whose names
it dragged to light.
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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XXIII
And plainly and more plainly
Now might the
burghers
know,
By port and vest, by horse and crest,
Each warlike Lucumo.
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We shall not spend a large expence of time,
Before we reckon with your
seuerall
loues,
And make vs euen with you.
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Nos peches sont tetus, nos repentirs sont laches,
Nous nous faisons payer
grassement
nos aveux,
Et nous rentrons gaiment dans le chemin bourbeux,
Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos taches.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Ein Titel muss sie erst
vertraulich
machen,
Dass Eure Kunst viel Kunste ubersteigt;
Zum Willkomm tappt Ihr dann nach allen Siebensachen,
Um die ein andrer viele Jahre streicht,
Versteht das Pulslein wohl zu drucken,
Und fasset sie, mit feurig schlauen Blicken,
Wohl um die schlanke Hufte frei,
Zu sehn, wie fest geschnurt sie sei.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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yet this one Hope should give
Such
strength
that he would bless his pains and live.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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LIV
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a
lightfoot
lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Could she have guessed that it would be;
Could but a crier of the glee
Have climbed the distant hill;
Had not the bliss so slow a pace, --
Who knows but this
surrendered
face
Were undefeated still?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Milton |
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And why on
horseback
have you set
Him whom you love, your idiot boy?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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There grasped me firm
and haled me to bottom the hated foe,
with
grimmest
gripe.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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A breeze, which with one breath appears to shake,
Aye, without fill or fall, the foliage light,
To the quick air such lively motion lends,
That Day's
oppressive
noon in nought offends;
LI
And this, mid fruit and flower and verdure there,
Evermore stealing divers odours, went;
And made of those mixt sweets a medley rare,
Which filled the spirit with a calm content.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary
stations
of a capitalised phrase introduced by and extended from the title.
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To the throne's lawful successor
Allegiance
thou hast sworn; but what if one
More lawful still be living?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Unclean Spirits that
possessed
them once
Live still, to enter into other bodies.
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Longfellow |
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"
MENALCAS
"Forbear, my sheep, to tread too near the brink;
Yon bank is ill to trust to; even now
The ram himself, see, dries his
dripping
fleece!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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When from these lofty
thoughts
I woke,
"What is it," said I, "that you bear,
Beneath the covert of your Cloak, 15
Protected from this cold damp air?
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William Wordsworth |
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thou hast soiled me: to know my beauty,
Wherewith I loved Manasses, and still love,
Has all these years dwelt in thy heart a dream
Of
favourite
lust,--O this is foul in my mind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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With shaded eyes your vision follows
The gentle swans'
receding
train.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A
pleasing
chillness thrills my heart, while I
Listen to her voice, who bids me paleness wear--
"Ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
'There was
something
I wanted: yes, I remember now,' said the lad.
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Yeats |
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I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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So, being hungry, they
immediately
flew at him, and were going to divide
him into seven pieces, when they began to quarrel as to which of his legs
should be taken off first.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It is true that my views on this important point
were ardently
controverted
by Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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But
reckoning
Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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1 This is the
emanation
of Suzong?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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O May, Thy Morn
O may, thy morn was ne'er so sweet
As the mirk night o'
December!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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GUGERNI, a people originally from Germany,
inhabiting
part of the
duchy of Cleves and Gueldre, between the Rhine and the Meuse.
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Tacitus |
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I have heard
A sound of wailing in
unnumbered
hovels,
And I must go down, down, I know not where.
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Yeats |
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Heathcote
himself, and such large-acred men,
Lords of fat E'sham, or of Lincoln fen,
Buy every stick of wood that lends them heat,
Buy every pullet they afford to eat.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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So richly colored and
voluptuous
are his descriptions that he
has been called the painters' poet, "the Rubens," and "the Raphael of the
poets.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XXXIV
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--
Lo, the vain
promise!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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_'"
[Illustration: "AND SWING
YOURSELF
FROM SIDE TO SIDE"]
I said "You'll visit _here_ no more,
If you attempt the Guy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Give not thy soul to dreams: the camp--the court,
Befit thee--Fame awaits thee--Glory calls--
And her the trumpet-tongued thou wilt not hear
In hearkening to
imaginary
sounds
And phantom voices.
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Poe - 5 |
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Hate not a thing too much, lest you be drawn
Wry from
yourselves
and close to the thing ye hate.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For if some Goddess, and from heaven arrived,
Diana, then,
daughter
of mighty Jove
I deem thee most, for such as hers appear
Thy form, thy stature, and thy air divine.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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One night, while silence
enfolded
the world, the woman and her
daughter, walking, yet asleep, met in their mist-veiled garden.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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What daemon
introduced
this nuisance here,
This troubler of our feast?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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"You are not mistaken, 'tis that
unfortunate
mortal who stands
before you.
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Aristophanes |
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And indeed
there is not in the world a greater error, than that which fools are so
apt to fall into, and knaves with good reason to encourage, the mistaking
a
satirist
for a libeller; whereas to a true satirist nothing is so
odious as a libeller, for the same reason as to a man truly virtuous
nothing is so hateful as a hypocrite.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Let them
offer a prize of sixty or a hundred thousand florins to
whosoever
can
solve their ambitious problems!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book II: XLII
In these long winter nights when the idle Moon
Steers her chariot so slowly on its way,
When the cockerel so tardily calls the day,
When night to the
troubled
soul seems years through:
I would have died of misery if not for you,
In shadowy form, coming to ease my fate,
Utterly naked in my arms, to lie and wait,
Sweetly deceiving me with a specious view.
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Ronsard |
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If you want to see
generations
in charge of lovely silken lines,2 8 to this day on the pool there is phoenix down.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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emperour
seyde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The work is a hasty
and unrevised production of its author's earlier days of literary labor;
and, beyond the scenes already known,
scarcely
calculated to enhance
his reputation.
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Poe - 5 |
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THE lover, now
convinced
that he was feared;
In dark designs upon her persevered.
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La Fontaine |
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LXVIII
But when by tokens
manifest
appear
The live man living and the dead man slain,
The favourers of those knights, with change of cheer,
Some weep and some rejoice, an altered train.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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_Dublin
University
Magazine.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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_Eighth and Cheaper
Edition_
(_1s.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Amongst the sleepers lies the Boy awake,
And wide-eyed plans brave glories that transcend
The deeds of heroes dead; then dreams o'ertake
His tired-out brain, and lofty fancies blend
To one grand theme, and through all
barriers
break
To guard from hurt his faithful sleeping friend.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
So till the break of day:
Then died away
That voice, in silence as of sorrow;
Then
footsteps
echoing like a sigh
Passed me by,
Lingering footsteps slow to pass.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Long years and many had pass'd o'er my head,
Since, in Love's first assault, was dealt my wound,
And from my brow its
youthful
air had fled,
While cold and cautious thoughts my heart around
Had made it almost adamantine ground,
To loosen which hard passion gave no rest:
No sorrow yet with tears had bathed my breast,
Nor broke my sleep: and what was not in mine
A miracle to me in others seem'd.
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Petrarch |
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One warm, flush'd moment, hovering, it might seem
Dash'd by the wood-nymph's beauty, so he burn'd;
Then,
lighting
on the printless verdure, turn'd
To the swoon'd serpent, and with languid arm,
Delicate, put to proof the lythe Caducean charm.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
The
spelling
_Major_ seems to be a Latin form.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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III
I, the restless one; the circler of circles;
Herdsman and roper of stars, who could not capture
The secret of self; I who was tyrant to weaklings,
Striker of children; destroyer of women; corrupter
Of innocent dreamers, and laugher at beauty; I,
Too easily brought to tears and weakness by music,
Baffled and broken by love, the
helpless
beholder
Of the war in my heart of desire with desire, the struggle
Of hatred with love, terror with hunger; I
Who laughed without knowing the cause of my laughter, who grew
Without wishing to grow, a servant to my own body;
Loved without reason the laughter and flesh of a woman,
Enduring such torments to find her!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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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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A pipe have I, of hemlock-stalks compact
In
lessening
lengths, Damoetas' dying-gift:
'Mine once,' quoth he, 'now yours, as heir to own.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The touch of Zephyr and of Spring has loosen'd Winter's thrall;
The well-dried keels are wheel'd again to sea:
The ploughman cares not for his fire, nor cattle for their stall,
And frost no more is
whitening
all the lea.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Would I advise it then, my
charmer?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride
Turns you from sound
philosophy
aside;
Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll,
And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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As the slow beast, with heavy strength endued,
In some wide field by troops of boys pursued,
Though round his sides a wooden tempest rain,
Crops the tall harvest, and lays waste the plain;
Thick on his hide the hollow blows resound,
The patient animal maintains his ground,
Scarce from the field with all their efforts chased,
And stirs but slowly when he stirs at last:
On Ajax thus a weight of Trojans hung,
The strokes
redoubled
on his buckler rung;
Confiding now in bulky strength he stands,
Now turns, and backward bears the yielding bands;
Now stiff recedes, yet hardly seems to fly,
And threats his followers with retorted eye.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Stephen Crane |
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Greyhounds
on leash and bears and lions also,
Thousand mewed hawks and seven hundred camels,
Four hundred mules with gold Arabian charged,
Fifty wagons, yea more than fifty drawing.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Orpheus
invented
all the sciences, all the arts.
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Appoloinaire |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Stephen Crane |
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There can be no doubt that the Censors who instituted this august
ceremony acted in concert with the Pontiffs to whom, by the
constitution of Rome, the
superintendence
of the public worship
belonged; and it is probable that those high religious
functionaries were, as usual, fortunate enough to find in their
books or traditions some warrant for the innovation.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Is it not
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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LXV
For well I wote thou springst from ancient race
Of Saxon kings, that have with mightie hand
And many bloody
battailes?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
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Lear - Nonsense |
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The kingly lion stood,
And the virgin viewed:
Then he gambolled round
O'er the
hallowed
ground.
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung
arranged
in chronological order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
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) At the Close of the Fasting Month, Ramazan (which makes the
Mussulman
unhealthy
and unamiable), the first Glimpse of the New Moon
(who rules their division of the Year) is looked for with the utmost
Anxiety, and hailed with Acclamation.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Brand's Popular
Antiquities
quoted, 297, 298.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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at it shal be cause of continuac{i}ou{n} {and} 4072
ex{er}cisinge
to good[e] folk.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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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.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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How will my wife for slaughter of my son
Shed seas of tears, and ne'er be
satisfied!
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Shakespeare |
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The
unsuspecting
trees
Brought out their burrs and mosses
His fantasy to please.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Pope begins by
complaining
of the misfortunes which his
reputation as a successful man of letters has brought upon him.
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Alexander Pope |
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The popular songs referred to the Wu
(Soochow)
district
and attributed to the fourth century may many of
them have been current at a much earlier date.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Too close a secret
overwhelms
me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world
Is lighten'd:--that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,
Until, the breath of this
corporeal
frame,
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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hoc quoque fatale est, sic ipsum
expendere
fatum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I speak with heart-felt sincerity,
and, I think, unblinded judgment, when I tell you that I feel myself a
little man by his side, and yet I do not think myself a less man than
I
formerly
thought myself.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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That's why Faustina as my
companion
in bed makes me happy:
Loving she always remains faithful, as I am to her.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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THE
princess
woke, and great surprise expressed;
Oh!
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La Fontaine |
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AUTUMNAL TINTS
Europeans coming to America are
surprised
by the brilliancy of our
autumnal foliage.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But the present story is the same pathetic one as Guy of Warwick's; it is prettily versified; and the comparing of the four ways in which the same
incidents
are told, has a certain interest: one likes to see how the religious-story writers of old spun out or shortend their material*.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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