'Tis yours the
drooping
heart to heal;
Your strength uplifts the poor man's horn;
Inspired by you, the soldier's steel,
The monarch's crown, he laughs to scorn.
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Let kings command and do the best they may,
The saucy
subjects
still will bear the sway.
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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I am as one who on the brink
Of a dark river stands and sees
The waters flow, the landscape dim
Around him waver, wheel, and swim,
And, ere he plunges, stops to think
Into what
whirlpools
he may sink;
One moment pauses, and no more,
Then madly plunges from the shore!
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At this Priam,
although even now fast in the toils of death, yet
withheld
not nor
spared a wrathful cry: "Ah, for thy crime, for this thy hardihood, may
the gods, if there is goodness in heaven to care for aught such, pay
thee in full thy worthy meed, and return thee the reward that is due!
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Defil'd with one wide sheet of reeking gore,
The verdure of the lawn appears no more:
In
bubbling
streams the lazy currents run,
And shoot red flames beneath the evening sun.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ta gorge qui s'avance et qui pousse la moire,
Ta gorge triomphante est une belle armoire
Dont les panneaux bombes et clairs
Comme les boucliers
accrochent
des eclairs;
Boucliers provoquants, armes de pointes roses!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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As under cover of
departing
Day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away,
Once more within the Potter's house alone
I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
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The error of
imputing
to Virtue what are only the calamities of
Nature or of Fortune, v.
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"
XXXV
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer
Drumming
like a noise in dreams.
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Nor are the
historians
agreed on the birth of Donna Teresa, the spouse
of Count Henry.
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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criticisms
of the editor do not
particularly please us.
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Struck for the immortal race with timely fear,
From frantic Mars she snatch'd the shield and spear;
Then the huge helmet lifting from his head,
Thus to the impetuous homicide she said:
"By what wild passion,
furious!
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Iliad - Pope |
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But blood hath captured Spirit; Spirit hath given
The
strength
of its desire of joy to make
What ecstasy it may of woman's beauty,
And of this only, doing no more than train
The joys of blood to be more keen and cunning;
As men have trained and tamed wild lives of the forests,
Breeding them to more excellent shape and size
And tireless speed, and to know the words of men.
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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In truth, all
that lay beyond the Forth was an undiscovered land to him; while the
lowland districts were not only familiar to his mind and eye, but all
their more
romantic
vales and hills and streams were already musical
in songs of such excellence as induced him to dread failure rather
than hope triumph.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O thou,
Parnassus!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Yeats |
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Draw pictures of the Plum-pudding flea, and the Moppsikon
Floppsikon Bear, and state by whom
waterproof
tubs
were first used.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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235
Who speketh for me right now in myn
absence?
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ita de quiete molli rapida sine rabie
simul ipse pectore Attis sua facta recoluit, 45
liquidaque
mente uidit sine queis ubique foret,
animo aestuante rusum reditum ad uada tetulit.
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III
Unlike are we, unlike, O
princely
Heart!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Satan
and Iniquity discuss strong waters and tobacco,
Whitechapel
and
Billingsgate, with the utmost familiarity; even hell's 'most exquisite
tortures' are adapted in part from the homely proverbs of the people.
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His want of merit was the cause he thought,
That she could never to his wish be brought,
While from him not a
syllable
was heard,
Against the lovely belle his soul preferred.
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The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in
the Rains, and the gap of the
sickness
of one season was filled to
overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
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Kipling - Poems |
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As one turns the pages of Rilke's first small book of poems, published
originally under the title _Larenopfer_, in the year 1895, and which
appeared in more recent
editions
under the less descriptive name _Erste
Gedichte_, one realizes at once, in spite of a lack of plasticity in the
presentation, that here speaks one who has lingered long and lovingly
over the dream of his boyhood.
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tam bene rara suo miscentur cinnama nardo,
Massica Theseis tam bene uina fauis;
nec melius teneris
iunguntur
uitibus ulmi,
nec plus lotos aquas, litora myrtus amat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oneguine his excuses says;
"But," cried
Zaretski
in amaze,
"Your second you have left behind!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Without doubt
I saw, and yet it seems to pass before me,
A
headless
trunk, that even as the rest
Of the sad flock pac'd onward.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Hath he borne himself
penitently
in prison?
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Shakespeare |
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XLII
O heart of insatiable longing,
What spell, what
enchantment
allures thee
Over the rim of the world
With the sails of the sea-going ships?
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But those which are the primal germs of things
Have power to work more combinations still,
Whence divers things can be
produced
in turn.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Ful foul in
peynting
was that vice; 210
Ful sad and caytif was she eek,
And al-so grene as any leek.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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- Welch
erbarmlich
Grauen
Fasst Ubermenschen dich!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We'll
consecrate
it to God's mother,
She'll give us some heavenly manna or other!
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Esperveris
was there, son of Borel,
And him there slew Engelers of Burdel.
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Chanson de Roland |
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" It is not
improbable
that Belinda was both flattered and
offended.
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Alexander Pope |
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For eighteen
centuries
ripple down the river,
And windy times the stalks of empires wave,
-- Let the winds come from the moor and sigh and shiver,
Fain, fain am I, O Christ, to pass the grave.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And hour by hour, when the air was still, _70
The vapours arose which have strength to kill;
At morn they were seen, at noon they were felt,
At night they were
darkness
no star could melt.
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Shelley |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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I adore her, and my soul, rebelling at your order, 1125
Can only breathe, and be
inspired
by her.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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So then--new counsels in the skies, it seems,
Propitious
to Ulysses, have prevail'd
Since AEthiopia hath been my abode.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
glittering
seat Telemachus ascends;
His faithful guide Pisistratus attends;
With hasty hand the ruling reins he drew;
He lash'd the coursers, and the coursers flew.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--
The hedger hastens from the storm begun,
To seek a shelter that may keep him dry;
And foresters low bent, the wind to shun,
Scarce hear amid the strife the poacher's
muttering
gun.
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John Clare |
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That is to say, he does not care so much
what happens, as what the
personages
of the poem think and feel.
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Keats |
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Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast,
Of Saturn's reign, and of Prometheus' theft,
And the
Caucasian
birds, and told withal
Nigh to what fountain by his comrades left
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore
"Then Re-echoed "Hylas, Hylas!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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All stood in joy and deep amaze--
--When in the silence of all spirits there
Laone's voice was felt, and through the air _2180
Her thrilling gestures spoke, most
eloquently
fair:--
51.
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Shelley |
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No footing sure affords the
faithless
sand,
To stem too rapid, and too deep to stand.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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'Tis now the time to wreathe the brow with branch of myrtle green,
Or flowers, just opening to the vernal breeze;
Now Faunus claims his
sacrifice
among the shady treen,
Lambkin or kidling, which soe'er he please.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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From very sorrow you drink away what is
left; a real
calamity!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Years
rolled on, and I went from
Khorassan
to Transoxiana, and wandered to
Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and
rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp
Arslan.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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besides the Sixth Ferrata he had
detachments
from
the other two legions in Syria, and from the three in Judaea.
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Tacitus |
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Adde nunc vires viribus,
Dulce balneum suavibus,
Unguentatum
odoribus!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Instead, he disembarked at the Isle of Bourbon, and after a short
stay suffered from
homesickness
and returned to France, after being
absent about ten months.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Wherfore
I rede, in thy going,
And also in thyn ageyn-coming,
Thou be wel war that men ne wit;
Feyne thee other cause than it 2520
To go that weye, or faste by;
To hele wel is no folye.
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O cities memories of cities
cities draped with our desires
cities early and late
cities strong cities intimate
stripped of all their makers
their
thinkers
their phantoms
Landscape ruled by emerald
live living ever-living
the wheat of the sky on our earth
nourishes my voice I dream and cry
I laugh and dream between the flames
between the clusters of sunlight
And over my body your body extends
the layer of its clear mirror.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_40 So 1862;
Appeared
a solitary maid--she went 1834.
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Shelley |
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p{re}scie{n}ce
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Thus for the second time I found myself at the table of
Pugatchef
and
his terrible companions.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Who gave you your
invulnerable
life,
Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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BEIDE CHORE:
Es
schweigt
der Wind, es flieht der Stern,
Der trube Mond verbirgt sich gern.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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At
Edinburgh
I was in a new world; I mingled
among many classes of men, but all of them new to me, and I was all
attention to "catch" the characters and "the manners living as they
rise.
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Robert Forst |
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6 The brocade robe was a mark of
Zhangsun?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Oft as I hear thee, wrapt in heavenly art,
The massive message of
Beethoven
tell
With thy ten fingers to the people's heart
As if ten tongues told news of heaven and hell, --
Gazing on thee, I mark that not alone,
Ah, not alone, thou sittest: there, by thee,
Beethoven's self, dear living lord of tone,
Doth stand and smile upon thy mastery.
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Sidney Lanier |
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non
uniuersis
Italis ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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at oon
necessite
is symple as
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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But here's the happiest light can lie on ground,
Grass sloping under trees
Alive with yellow shine of
daffodils!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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I doubt na, lass, that weel ken'd name
May cost a pair o' blushes;
I am nae
stranger
to your fame,
Nor his warm urged wishes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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It is not, I think, inferior to
any but the finest in the Job, if indeed to them, and shows in its
perfection Blake's mastery over
elemental
things, the swirl in which
the lost spirits are hurried, 'a watery flame' he would have called it,
the haunted waters and the huddling shapes.
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Yeats |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Out of tears,
Indeed, and blitheness, murder and lust and love,
Whatever has been
passionate
in clay,
Thy flesh was tempered.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A
scientific
fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.
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Wilde - Poems |
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5 Reed pipes were
associated
with the music of non-Han peoples.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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then will he be brave
Who once to
faithless
foes has knelt;
Yes, Carthage yet his spear will fly,
Who with bound arms the cord has felt,
The coward, and has fear'd to die.
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Yet [10] as the troubled seed and tortured bough
Is Man,
subjected
to despotic sway.
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Not unless God made sharp thine ear
With sorrow such as mine,
Out of that
delicate
lay could'st thou
Its heavy tale divine.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The customs and cruelties of many American tribes still disgrace human
nature, but in
Paraguay
and Canada the natives have been brought to
relish the blessings of society, and the arts of virtuous and civil
life.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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In
jealousy
of a Hebe's fate
Rising over this cup at your lips' kisses,
I spend my fires with the slender rank of prelate
And won't even figure naked on Sevres dishes.
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her
enduring
pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who commanded them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Doubt not, so long as earth has bread,
Thou first and
foremost
shalt be fed;
The Providence that is most large
Takes hearts like thine in special charge,
Helps who for their own need are strong,
And the sky doats on cheerful song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the
gentleman
an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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XLIII
But finally she heaves a sigh,
And rising from her bench proceeds;
But scarce had turned the corner nigh,
Which to the neighbouring alley leads,
When Eugene like a ghost did rise
Before her
straight
with roguish eyes.
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SAS}
Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the furnaces with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala incircle round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the mountains in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a
revision
was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Blake - Zoas |
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And
wherefore
say not I that I am old?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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th be
honoured
so,
bot libbe in woo & wrake; 792
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Nor could this stark and stunted stone display
Vibrance beneath the
shoulders
heavy bar,
Nor shine like fur upon a beast of prey,
Nor break forth from its lines like a great star--
There is no spot that does not bind you fast
And transport you back, back to a far past.
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Rilke - Poems |
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