Nor long before the great Corvinus run
A yet more fearful peril, worse bested:
Both throned, when
overblown
was their mischance,
One king of Hungary, one king of France.
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Finally Wittipol, like Il Zima,
suspects
a trick when Mrs.
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But with walls blazoned, mourning, empty,
I've scorned the lucid horror of a tear,
When, deaf to the sacred verse he does not fear,
One of those passers-by, mute, blind, proud,
Transmutes himself, a guest in his vague shroud,
Into the virgin hero of
posthumous
waiting.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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In the sunny garden bed
Lilies look so pale,
Lilies droop the head
In the shady grassy vale;
If all alike they pine
In shade and in shine,
If
everywhere
they grieve,
Where will lilies live?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
I feel the hot
moisture
yet that he left me.
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Tennyson |
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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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Why do they travel
steerage?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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so deeply that
purity emerges from
the
corruption!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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THE NAME OF WASHINGTON
[Read before the Sons of the Revolution, New-York, February 22, 1887]
Sons of the youth and the truth of the nation,
Ye that are met to
remember
the man
Whose valor gave birth to a people's salvation,
Honor him now; set his name in the van.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Pero a la dimanda che mi faci
quinc' entro
satisfatto
sara tosto,
e al disio ancor che tu mi taci>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Dibdin's
excellent
songs, and the air to which it is sung
by the Boors is remarkably sweet and lively.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Snowballs
burst
About them.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sir William Rowan
Hamilton
wrote to Mr.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Les Odes: O
Fontaine
Bellerie
O Fount of Bellerie,
Fountain sweet to see,
Dear to our Nymphs when, lo,
Waves hide them at your source
Fleeing the Satyr so,
Who follows them, in his course,
To the borders of your flow.
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Ronsard |
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Then slept not He, 290
But, swinging with both hands the ax, his task
Soon finish'd; trees full twenty to the ground
He cast, which, dext'rous, with his adze he smooth'd,
The knotted surface
chipping
by a line.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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On a cru devoir, evidemment dans un but de rehabilitation qui n'a rien a
voir ni avec la vie honorable ni avec l'oeuvre tres interessante,
[illisible] ouvrir le volume par une piece
intitulee
_Etrennes des
Orphelins_, laquelle assez longue piece, dans le gout un peu Guiraud
avec deja des beautes tout autres.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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both are
necessary
to me
in order that I may see the two sides of the cloth that I weave.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Pan's holy priest for young
Endymion
calls;
And when he is restor'd, thou, fairest dame,
Shalt be our queen.
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Keats |
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'Money
extorted
from a new prisoner, either
as drink money for the other prisoners, or as a jailer's fee.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I'm
downright
dizzy wi' the thought,
In troth I'm like to greet!
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Golden Treasury |
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Man's love follows many faces,
My love only one face knoweth;
Towards thee only my love floweth,
And
outstrips
the swift stream's paces.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I would my lover
kneeling
at my feet
In humble manliness should cry, `O sweet!
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Sidney Lanier |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but oh my soul is white!
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blake-poems |
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Let us (since Life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate
free o'er all this scene of Man; 5
A mighty maze!
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Alexander Pope |
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Woe-full
Catullus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Charles his great host once more upon us draws,
Of
Frankish
men we plainly hear the horns,
"Monjoie" they cry, and great is their uproar.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I feel this place was made for her;
To give new
pleasure
like the past,
Continued long as life shall last.
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Golden Treasury |
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For not a hidden path, that to the shades
Of the beloved Parnassian forest leads,
Lurked
undiscovered
by him; not a rill
There issues from the fount of Hippocrene,
But he had traced it upward to its source,
Through open glade, dark glen, and secret dell,
Knew the gay wild flowers on its banks, and culled
Its med'cinable herbs.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Armour
prevailed
with him to mutilate that unlucky
paper yesterday.
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Robert Burns |
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Sundered in warfare, immortal they meet now with wonder and yearning,
Dwelling
together united, a rapt, invisible choir:
Hearken!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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In Holofernes
It seized me, fed on me; and then gibed on me,
With show of his death
scoffing
at my rage,--
His death!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
The horse for this
returned
not to his side,
Deaf to his prayer, but flew with better speed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Will it never cease to
torture, this
iteration!
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Imagists |
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Not with insolence or precept; but as the prince were already furnished
with the parts he should have,
especially
in affairs of state.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Dost thou not know, my Queen,
That, when I taught thee songs, thou
taughtest
me
The divine secret, Beauty?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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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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Amphitriten_
Postgate: _illa rudi cursu
proram i.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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If given my crime you await slow justice,
Honour and my
punishment
both languish.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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You may use this eBook
for nearly any purpose such as
creation
of derivative works, reports,
performances and research.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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poor youth,
What taste of purer air hast thou to soothe
My
essence?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Here, where the
view of the ocean
inspired
his hopes, he erected his arsenals, and built
and harboured his ships.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Listen not to that
seductive
murmur,
That only swells my pain.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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'Tis thy
message?
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Euripides - Electra |
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_Nam si regitur
providentiâ
mundus,
administranda certè bonis viris erit respublica.
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Tacitus |
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Not
sleeping
for pain
Is a small thing to bear,
Compared with the joy of being alive when all the rest are dead.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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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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Who the high, exalted,
virtuous
dames were,
to whom the Poem refers, we are not told.
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Robert Burns |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You count yourself as
nothing!
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Longfellow |
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If
glorious
deeds afford thy soul delight,
Behold me plunging in the thickest fight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And if we're light, we'll soon
surmount
the sphere;
I give thee hearty joy in this thy new career.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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olicitous, when it not
concernes
thee?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Thel is like a watry bow, and like a parting cloud,
Like a
reflection
in a glass: like shadows in the water
Like dreams of infants, like a smile upon an infants face.
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blake-poems |
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Were there women in the ways of Atlantis:
Foolish women, who loved, as I do,
Dreaming that mortal love was
deathless?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
And in
abundance
addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large will more.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But come here, that I may teach you; I will tell you
something very
necessary
to know to be a man; but you will not repeat it
to anybody.
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Aristophanes |
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It has been thought worth while to explain these
allusions, because they illustrate the
character
of the Grecian
Mythology, which arose in the Personification of natural phenomena, and
was totally free from those debasing and ludicrous ideas with which,
through Roman and later misunderstanding or perversion, it has been
associated.
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Golden Treasury |
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forgive that I
Thus violate thy bower's
sanctity!
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Keats |
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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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REMEMBER
THEE!
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Byron |
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"But the good monk, in
cloistered
cell,
Shall gain it by his book and bell,
His prayers and tears;
And the brave knight, whose arm endures
Fierce battle, and against the Moors
His standard rears.
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Longfellow |
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So I can see whole volumes
dispatched
by the
umbratical doctors on all sides: but draw these forth into the just
lists: let them appear _sub dio_, and they are changed with the place,
like bodies bred in the shade; they cannot suffer the sun or a shower,
nor bear the open air; they scarce can find themselves, that they were
wont to domineer so among their auditors: but indeed I would no more
choose a rhetorician for reigning in a school, than I would a pilot for
rowing in a pond.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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La gente che per li
sepolcri
giace
potrebbesi veder?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
Pity would be no more
If we did not make
somebody
poor,
And Mercy no more could be
If all were as happy as we.
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blake-poems |
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mallit_
GRVen a
2 _Catule_ R
4
_notorum_
O: _not.
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Latin - Catullus |
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_
Constable
& Co.
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Imagists |
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Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,
The Catos, the wise
patriots
of Rome,
Shall flock to you and tarry by your side,
And comfort you with their high company.
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Emerson - Poems |
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- All this transformation
once
barbarous
and
material
external -
now
moral
and within
21.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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in truth, we groan
Impatiently
to be alone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Your golden hair
strewed the sweet
whiteness
of the pillows
and the counterpane.
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Imagists |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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7 and any
additional terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Wilde - Poems |
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'
You wrung your hands; while I like lead
Crushed
downwards
through the sodden earth:
You smote your hands but not in mirth,
And reeled but were not drunk with wine.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And now the other maidens in the hall
Assembling, kindled on the hearth again
Th'
unwearied
blaze; then, godlike from his couch 150
Arose Telemachus, and, fresh-attired,
Athwart his shoulders his bright faulchion slung,
Bound his fair sandals to his feet, and took
His sturdy spear pointed with glitt'ring brass;
Advancing to the portal, there he stood,
And Euryclea thus, his nurse, bespake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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He'll want to know what you done with that money he gave you
To get
yourself
some teeth.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Lord, how they picked off our men, from the
treacherous
vantage-ground of the wood!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
laughing
is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
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blake-poems |
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The eggs of
pheasants
wry-nosed Tooly sells, 393.
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It
has its place, too, in the story of Pope's life, since the bitter
criticism which it received, all the more unpleasant to the poet since
it was in the main true, was one of the
principal
causes of his writing
the 'Dunciad'.
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th knowe,
ffor so naked was he;
And als a
straunge
man he went
To his fader wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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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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It was not chastity that made me wild but fear
that my weapon,
tempered
in different heat,
was over-matched by yours, and your hand
skilled to yield death-blows, might break.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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or
unornamented
pillar square
Of fire far shining.
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Blake - Zoas |
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'
(For your dear departed wife, his friend) 2
November
1877
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
You moan, O solitary captive of the threshold,
That this double tomb which our pride should hold's
Cluttered, alas, only with absent weight of flowers.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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glaube, was man so
verstandig
nennt,
Ist oft mehr Eitelkeit und Kurzsinn.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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When sober evening chases the bright day,
And this our
darkness
makes for others dawn,
Pensive I look upon the cruel stars
Which framed me of such pliant passionate earth,
And curse the day that e'er I saw the sun,
Which makes me native seem of wildest wood.
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Petrarch |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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