Heracles indeed, half-way on his road from
the roaring reveller of the Satyr-play to the
suffering
and erring
deliverer of tragedy, is a little foreign to our notions, but quite
intelligible and strangely attractive.
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Many and many a day he had been failing, And I knew the end must come at last—
The poor
fellow—I
had loved him dearly, It was hard for me to see him go.
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et te, germana Quietis,
Simplicitas!
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NOTES:
(_8 To those who have not duly
appreciated
the distinction between
Whale and Russia oil, this attribute might rather seem to belong to
the Dandy than the Evangelic.
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Lāstas wǣron
æfter wald-swaðum wīde gesȳne,
1405 gang ofer grundas; gegnum fōr þā
ofer myrcan mōr, mago-þegna bær
þone
sēlestan
sāwol-lēasne,
þāra þe mid Hrōðgāre hām eahtode.
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So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so
ashamed!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Are
they any other than mental studies and
performances?
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Yeats |
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And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare
Penitence
a-pieces tore.
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SONNET
TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT WHEN
THE NURSE FIRST
PRESENTED
MY INFANT TO
ME
Charles!
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if a few nights wrought
In her each change of
suffering
dust below!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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To you, Madam, I need not recount the fairy
pleasures
the muse
bestows to counterbalance this catalogue of evils.
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Robert Burns |
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'
Meantime
I seek no sympathies, nor need;
The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree
I planted,--they have torn me, and I bleed:
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my
companions
was a bent bow;
My messengers were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Du Fu explains why this is a mark of imperial
confidence
in the recipient?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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lieu of a refund.
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Wilde - Poems |
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For the student of English
literature
Pope's work has a threefold value.
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Alexander Pope |
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" These we know to
have been jewels of a
radiance
so imperishable that the broken gleams of
them still dazzle men's eyes, whether shining from the two small brilliants
and the handful of star-dust which alone remain to us, or reflected merely
from the adoration of those poets of old time who were so fortunate as to
witness their full glory.
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Nunc audax cave sis, precesque nostras,
Oramus, cave despuas, ocelle,
Ne poenas Nemesis
reposcat
a te.
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I leave to learned fingers, and wise hands,
The artist and his ape, to teach and tell
How well his connoisseurship understands
The graceful bend, and the voluptuous swell:
Let these describe the undescribable:
I would not their vile breath should crisp the stream
Wherein that image shall for ever dwell;
The
unruffled
mirror of the loveliest dream
That ever left the sky on the deep soul to beam.
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Very few perhaps are
familiar
with these lines--yet no less a poet
than Shelley is their author.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Nor our way
Far onward brought us, when to me at once
She turn'd, and cried: "My
brother!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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From sad
thoughts
that follow,
I cannot win free.
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Troubador Verse |
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And sees the
darkness
coming as a cloud--
***Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?
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Poe - 5 |
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non peditem
praecedit
eques; non commoda castris
eligitur regio; uicibus custodia nullis
aduigilat uallo; non explorantur eundae
uitandaeque uiae; nullo se cornua flectunt
ordine: confusi passim per opaca uagantur
lustra, per ignotas angusto tramite uallis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Does not Fortuna, your daughter, when strewing her
glorious
presents,
After the manner of girls, yield to each passing whim?
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His
hatchments
rare with him upon the grounde was prest.
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Good
hope was then
entertained
of a peaceful settlement, and Herrick's ode,
enthusiastic as it is, expresses little more than this.
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We encourage the use of public domain materials for these
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e comune iugement of alle
creatures
resonables
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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There is a place midmost of Italy, deep in the
hills, notable and famed of rumour in many a country, the Vale of
Amsanctus; on either hand a wooded ridge, dark with thick foliage, hems
it in, and midway a torrent in
swirling
eddies shivers and echoes over
the rocks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Not is that
maidenhood
all thine own, but partly thy parents!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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In such a wise
Course these
primordials
'mongst one another
With inter-motions that no one can be
From other sundered, nor its agency
Perform, if once divided by a space;
Like many powers in one body they work.
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Lucretius |
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Stora
Theatern
den 17 Nov.
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Byron |
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Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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See around us, drawing nearer,
Those faint
yearning
shapes of air--
Friends than whom earth holds none dearer!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Faithful
Medoro mourned his master dear,
Who well agnized the quartering white and red,
With visage bathed in many a bitter tear
(For he a rill from either eyelid shed),
And piteous act and moan, that might have whist
The winds, his melancholy plaint to list;
CLXXXVII
But with a voice supprest: not that he aught
Regards if any one the noise should hear,
Because he of his life takes any thought;
Of which loathed burden he would fain be clear;
But, lest his being heard should bring to nought
The pious purpose which has brought them here.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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" —Chicago Record-Herald
"Its poetry is admirably selected
to find any other American
magazine
verse more notable for originality and imagination.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Note: Ronsard's later tributes to 'Marie' were written for the Duke of Anjou (the future Henri III) whose
mistress
Marie de Cleves died in 1574.
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Ronsard |
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Sara Teasdale |
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For Youthe set bothe man and wyf
In al perel of soule and lyf; 4890
And perel is, but men have grace,
The [tyme] of youthe for to pace,
Withoute
any deth or distresse,
It is so ful of wildenesse;
So ofte it doth shame or damage 4895
To him or to his linage.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Her work was in the
world's possession for not far short of a thousand years--a thousand years
of changing tastes, searching criticism, and
familiar
use.
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Sappho |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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My heart replied: It's never enough,
It's never enough to love one's mistress;
And don't you see that changeableness
Makes past
delights
dearer and sweeter?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ich Ebenbild der
Gottheit!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Mitchell
Kennerley, New York,
1914.
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Imagists |
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The barrow he entered,
sought the cup, and discovered soon
that some one of mortals had
searched
his treasure,
his lordly gold.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Sed horum omnium
familiam
quis nobis enarrabit?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Robert Forst |
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blow
succeedeth
blow
On Persia's pride; thou tellest woe on woe!
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Aeschylus |
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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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Oh find me,
prosperous
or undone!
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William Wordsworth |
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Not only is there
amidst all its ludicrous levities, " a vehemence of
solemn reproof, and an
eloquence
of invective, that
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And while thy willing soul
transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Freedom and peace and
goodwill
among Nations,
Love that will bind us with love all our own.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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His lance loved not the plight
Of mouldering in the rack, of no avail,
His battle-axe slipped from
supporting
nail
Quite easily; 'twas ill for action base
To come so near that he the thing could trace.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It is a
strange and daring scene between the three of them; the humbled and
broken-hearted husband; the
triumphant
Heracles, kindly and wise, yet
still touched by the mocking and blustrous atmosphere from which he
sprang; and the silent woman who has seen the other side of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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"
Was the friend Sir James
Mackintosh?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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What is this sudden cradle song
That
gradually
lulls my poor being?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Supernal
pleasures, myriads of gay
Discussions, great debates with prophet-kings!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Keats - Lamia |
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"That this story of Grendel's mother was
originally
a separate lay
from the first seems to be suggested by the fact that the monsters are
described over again, and many new details added, such as would be inserted
by a new singer who wished to enhance and adorn the original tale.
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Beowulf |
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Oh thou, orr what
remaynes
of thee,
AElla, the darlynge of futurity,
Lett thys mie songe bolde as thie courage be,
As everlastynge to posteritye.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Virtue's clean
conclave
is sobriety.
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Robert Herrick |
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des coureurs sans repit,
Comme le Juif errant et comme les apotres,
A qui rien ne suffit, ni wagon ni vaisseau,
Pour fuir ce
retiaire
infame; il en est d'autres
Qui savent le tuer sans quitter leur berceau.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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How your
impudence
excites my passion!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Enthoghteynge forr to scape the brondeynge foe,
As nere unto the byllowd beche I came, 705
Farr offe I spied a fyghte of myckle woe,
Oure
spyrynge
battayles wrapte ynn sayles of flame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"Zmyrna" begun erstwhile nine harvests past by my Cinna
Publisht appears when now nine of his winters be gone;
Thousands fifty of lines meanwhile
Hortensius
in single
* * * *
"Zmyrna" shall travel afar as the hollow breakers of Satrax, 5
"Zmyrna" by ages grey lastingly shall be perused.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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1202)
Fortz chausa es que tot lo maior dan
A harsh thing it is that brings such harm,
Peire
Cardenal
(c.
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Troubador Verse |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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If thou
By any chance couldst break that vow
Of silence at thy last hour made;
If to this grim life unafraid
Thou couldst return, and melt the frost
Wherein thy bright limbs' power was lost;
Still would I whisper--since so fair
This silent
comradeship
we share--
Yes, whisper 'mid the unbidden rain
Of tears: "Come not, come not again!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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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Ronsard |
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--If
men may by no means write freely, or speak truth, but when it offends
not, why do
physicians
cure with sharp medicines, or corrosives?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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--speak;
So much the worse:--on thee our rage we'll wreak,
For him that's gone we'll make thee suffer now;
Once arms in hand, we never will allow
Such characters full punishment to miss;
The play that we desire is THIS and THIS;
Then whips and scourges round him 'gan to move,
And not a little troublesome to prove
The miller,
writhing
with the poignant smart,
Cried loudly:--I'll exert my utmost art,
Good ladies, to perform what is your due;
The more he bawled, the faster lashes flew.
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La Fontaine |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Press down through the leaves of the
jasmine,
Dig through the
interlaced
roots--nevermore will you find me;
I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Why do I want this,
when even last night
you
startled
me from sleep?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yeats |
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No poppy in the May-glad mead Would match her
quivering
lips' red If 'gainst her lips it should be laid.
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Newby
Chief
Executive
and Director
gbnewby@pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Hearke, who lyes i'th' second
Chamber?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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There we will scorne his houshold policies,
His seely plots, and pensionary spies,
As the
inhabitants
of Thames right side
Do Londons Major; or Germans, the Popes pride.
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John Donne |
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Long she pries
At boots and shoes of every size--
Brown football-boots with bar and stud
For boys that scuffle in the mud,
And dancing-pumps with pointed toes
Glossy as jet, and dull black bows;
Slim ladies' shoes with two-inch heel
And
sprinkled
beads of gold and steel--
'How anyone can wear such things!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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(Zu einigen, die um
verglimmende
Kohlen sitzen:)
Ihr alten Herrn, was macht ihr hier am Ende?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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IV
Unthrifty
loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What delight it is, a wonder rather,
When her hair, caught above her ear,
Imitates the style that Venus
employed!
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Ronsard |
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Many
appeared
on top of the walls, and these they stabbed with their
short swords.
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Tacitus |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Narcissus
fell in love with his own reflection.
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Ronsard |
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He speaketh calm, he speaketh low,--
"Ride fast, my master, ride,
Or ere within the
broadening
dark
The narrow shadows hide.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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It was
a tender and respectful
declaration
of affection, copied word for word
from a German novel.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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You stood by pasture-bars to give the cows good milking,
You persuaded the
housewife
that her dish-pan was of silver
And her husband an image of pure gold.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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