There between Mars and Venus if she stay,
Her sight the brightness of the sun will quell,
Because, her
infinite
beauty to survey,
The spirits of the blest will round her swell.
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'To shelter
Rosamunde
from hate
borne her by the queen,
the king had a palace made
such as had ne'er been seen'.
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Appoloinaire |
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The poet who writes best in the
Shakespearian
manner is a poet with
a circumstantial and instinctive mind, who delights to speak with
strange voices and to see his mind in the mirror of Nature; while Mr.
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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how good to see
Grass-girdled spring in all her joy of laughing greenery
Dance through the hedges till the early rose,
(That sweet
repentance
of the thorny briar!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And the same may
possibly
be true of variants
in other poems.
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The _Alcestis_ is a very clear
instance
of this Pro-satyric class of
play.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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The new Lords
Are quieted with their sop of Abbeylands,
And ev'n before the Queen's face
Gardiner
buys them
With Philip's gold.
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Tennyson |
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LEATHAM'S _The Comrade in White_)
Under our curtain of fire,
Over the clotted clods,
We charged, to be withered, to reel
And
despairingly
wheel
When the bugles bade us retire
From the terrible odds.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Boccalini, in his "Advertisements from Parnassus," tells us that Zoilus
once presented Apollo a very caustic criticism upon a very admirable
book:--whereupon the god asked him for the
beauties
of the work.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
V
Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton
trees bow down in a stream of air.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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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 - A Miscellany |
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I found the phrase to every thought
I ever had, but one;
And that defies me, -- as a hand
Did try to chalk the sun
To races
nurtured
in the dark; --
How would your own begin?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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What the father was I look for in the son;
My daughter may love him,
pleasing
me for one.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Since that day we have never fired
that
confounded
cannon any more.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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And the shy stars grew bold and scattered gold,
And chanting voices ancient secrets told,
And an acclaim of angels
earthward
rolled.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Feeling a little curious, I
resolved
to go to the door myself, and,
taking one of the silver candlesticks from the mantlepiece, began to
descend the stairs.
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Yeats |
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We
returned
by the river road under the bank, which is very
high, abrupt, and rocky.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Life made an end of,
Life but just begun;
Life
finished
yesterday,
Its last sand run;
Life new-born with the morrow
Fresh as the sun:
While done is done for ever;
Undone, undone.
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Christina Rossetti |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou
Diminutive
husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And unpolluted & will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Li Po |
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But by my heart of love laid bare to you,
My love that you can make not void nor vain,
Love that
foregoes
you but to claim anew
Beyond this passage of the gate of death,
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain
My love of you was life and not a breath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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And I thought of my
beautiful
Paris, and gave a last look at the land,
At France, my _belle France_, in her glory of blue sky and green field
and wood.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Then was the German raven seen, disguised,
Echoing the Roman eagle in the skies,
And once again towards Heaven spread
These brave hills once reduced to dust,
No longer fearing
lightning
overhead,
Borne by that eagle on the stormy gust.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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I
have some
thoughts
of sending it to your care, to get it mounted anew.
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Robert Forst |
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In 1831
he married a beautiful lady of the
Gontchareff
family and settled
in the neighbourhood of St.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ne'er from the
narrative
the object swerved;
And scarcely can I fancy, better light
The DOCTOR will afford to what I write.
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La Fontaine |
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A silence of full
noontide
heat
Grew on them at their toil:
The farmer's dog woke up from sleep,
The green snake hid her coil.
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Christina Rossetti |
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You know the
councils
of the ever-living,
And all the tossing of your wings is joy,
And all that murmuring's but a marriage song;
But if it be reproach, I answer this:
There is not one among you that made love
By any other means.
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Yeats |
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While its
influence drew the other orbs from east to west, they
supposed
it had a
motion of its own from west to east.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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'
HOLY THURSDAY
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and
fruitful
land,--
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She takes
irresolute
steps, at random: 1475
Her wandering eyes recognising no one.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Guillaume de Poitiers (1071-1127)
William or Guillem IX, called The Troubador, was Duke of
Aquitaine
and Gascony and Count of Poitou, as William VII, between 1086, when he was aged only fifteen, and his death.
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Troubador Verse |
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" I am naturally anxious
that what I have written should
circulate
as I wrote it, if it circulate
at all.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then, ready, slipped downstairs and rolled
The
hearthrug
back; then searched about,
Found her basket, ventured out,
Snecked the door and paused to lock it
And plunge the key in some deep pocket.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Was
schlurfst
aus dumpfem Moos und triefendem Gestein
Wie eine Krote Nahrung ein?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The side of
this chasm, of soft and crumbling slate too steep to climb, was among
the
memorable
features of the scene.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I cannot be
discharged
from you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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What has
happened
since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most despairing of men!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And after seven moons, one day a soothsayer looked at me, and he
said to my mother, "Your son will be a
statesman
and a great leader
of men.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Then it may be, O flattering tale,
Some future ignoramus shall
My famous
portrait
indicate
And cry: he was a poet great!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now that's worth
hearing!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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For I don't know when I may
See her, the
distance
is so far.
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Troubador Verse |
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_All insert_ ther
_before_
no.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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ilke pure
clerenesse
of ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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They will bring rulers and compasses to measure the words, and
those forms which are used for
moulding
bricks, also diameter measures
and wedges, for Euripides says he wishes to torture every verse of his
rival's tragedies.
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Aristophanes |
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Wherefore
Religion
now is under foot,
And us his victory now exalts to heaven.
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Lucretius |
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'No,' he replied; 'for if it were the thoughts of a
person who is alive I should feel the living
influence
in my living
body, and my heart would beat and my breath would fail.
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Yeats |
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Lais and Lucrece in the night-time are
Pleasing
alike, alike both singular:
Joan and my lady have at that time one,
One and the self-same priz'd complexion:
Then please alike the pewter and the plate,
The chosen ruby, and the reprobate.
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Robert Herrick |
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A none he yaffe Frome hym awaye
to powre men all hys monaye; 120
And bought hym pore man ys wede,
Page 35
That none of theyme
shoullde
thak hede,
And axed his met eorly and late,
With poremen att the mynster yate.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Quindi
sentimmo
gente che si nicchia
ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa,
e se medesma con le palme picchia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I will whisper it to the Mayor, he shall send a committee to England,
They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the
royal vault,
Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the
graveclothes, box up his bones for a journey,
Find a swift Yankee clipper--here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
Up with your anchor--shake out your sails--steer
straight
toward
Boston bay.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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in the light
Of common day, so
heavenly
bright,
I bless Thee, Vision as thou art,
I bless thee with a human heart;
God shield thee to thy latest years!
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Golden Treasury |
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Azzo's
daughter
Beatriz was the addressee of one of his poems.
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Troubador Verse |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the blackened beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled
into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi
throbbing
waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The inhabitants and the government are gradually waking up to
a sense of this truth; for I heard something said about their
abandoning the wall around the Upper Town, and
confining
the
fortifications to the citadel of forty acres.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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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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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of this
agreement
shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Li Po |
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distribute
it in the United States without
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We let them pass; all
appearing
tranquil;
No soldiers at the port, the city still.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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SAPPHO
ONE HUNDRED LYRICS
BY
BLISS CARMAN
1907
"SAPPHO WHO BROKE OFF A
FRAGMENT
OF HER SOUL
FOR US TO GUESS AT.
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Sappho |
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Rigaut de
Berbezilh
(fl.
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Troubador Verse |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them
imprisoned
in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they themselves are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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His
companion
goes after, following,
The men of France their warrant find in him.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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I will have no man addict himself to me; but if
I have
anything
right, defend it as Truth's, not mine, save as it
conduceth to a common good.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The ship that carried him is in
her return
transformed
by Neptune to a rock.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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I have had many foes, but none like thee;
For 'gainst the rest myself I could defend,
And be avenged, or turn them into friend;
But thou in safe implacability
Hadst nought to dread--in thy own weakness shielded,
And in my love, which hath but too much yielded,
And spared, for thy sake, some I should not spare;
And thus upon the world--trust in thy truth,
And the wild fame of my
ungoverned
youth--
On things that were not, and on things that are--
Even upon such a basis hast thou built
A monument, whose cement hath been guilt!
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Byron |
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The Franks dismount, and dress themselves for war,
Put
hauberks
on, helmets and golden swords;
Fine shields they have, and spears of length and force
Scarlat and blue and white their ensigns float.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Thus loaded with a feast the tables stood,
Each
shrining
in the midst the image of a God.
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Keats - Lamia |
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or the righteous ban
Of all the Gods, whose dreadful images
Here represent their shadowy presences,
May pierce them on the sudden with the thorn
Of painful blindness; leaving thee forlorn,
In trembling dotage to the feeblest fright
Of conscience, for their long offended might,
For all thine impious proud-heart sophistries,
Unlawful
magic, and enticing lies.
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Keats - Lamia |
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It levelled strong Euphrates in its course;
Supreme yet weightless as an idle mote
It seemed to tame the waters without force
Till not a murmur swelled or billow beat:
Lo, as the purple shadow swept the sands,
The prudent crocodile rose on his feet
And shed
appropriate
tears and wrung his hands.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I would build for thee
An altar deep in the sad soul of me;
And in the darkest corner of my heart,
From mortal hopes and mocking eyes apart,
Carve of
enamelled
blue and gold a shrine
For thee to stand erect in, Image divine!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What reward did I ever get
travelling
with you?
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Yeats |
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STRENGTH
Lo, the earth's bound and limitary land,
The
Scythian
steppe, the waste untrod of men!
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Aeschylus |
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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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That gaily blooms, but ev'n in
blooming
dies.
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Alexander Pope |
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Well know I that the hope to paint in verse
Her praises would but tire
The
worthiest
hand that e'er put forth its pen:
Who, in all Memory's richest cells, e'er saw
Such angel virtue so rare beauty shrined,
As in those eyes, twin symbols of all worth,
Sweet keys of my gone heart?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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When sense from spirit files away,
And
subterfuge
is done;
When that which is and that which was
Apart, intrinsic, stand,
And this brief tragedy of flesh
Is shifted like a sand;
When figures show their royal front
And mists are carved away, --
Behold the atom I preferred
To all the lists of clay!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Rien n'egale en longueur les boiteuses journees,
Quand sous les lourds flocons des
neigeuses
annees
L'ennui, fruit de la morne incuriosite,
Prend les proportions de l'immortalite.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Sara Teasdale |
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But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of
mountain
and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The
smallest
scale upon his tail
Could hide six dolphins and a whale.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM An Account of My Concerns 297 You will discuss military matters in the serenity of a distant ravine, you can also seek
mysteries
to your heart?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"So, as I said, next morn I heard the bell,
And passing
neighbours
crossed the street, to tell
That my poor partner Jenny had been found
In the old flag-pool, on the pasture, drowned.
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John Clare |
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The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not
substantial
things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and Crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
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Golden Treasury |
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'Neath my moon what doest thou,
With a
somewhat
paler brow
Than she giveth to the ocean?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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