STRENGTH
Lo, the earth's bound and limitary land,
The
Scythian
steppe, the waste untrod of men!
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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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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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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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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
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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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He was the 'first' troubadour, that is, the first recorded
vernacular
lyric poet, in the Occitan language.
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Yet am I changed; though still enough the same
In
strength
to bear what time cannot abate,
And feed on bitter fruits without accusing fate.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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[299] The Panathenaea were dedicated to Athene, the Mysteries to Demeter,
the Dipolia to Zeus, the Adonia to
Aphrodite
and Adonis.
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Aristophanes |
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I know it by my heart so
strangely
sick
With looking out for the first drowsy stir
In that huge flaming quiet of the camp.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O saeclum insapiens et
infacetum!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Strange that the termagant winds should scold
The
Christmas
Eve so bitterly!
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None of them thought that thence their steps
to the folk and fastness that
fostered
them,
to the land they loved, would lead them back!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The river nobly foams and flows--
The charm of this enchanted ground,
And all its thousand turns disclose
Some fresher beauty varying round:
The haughtiest breast its wish might bound
Through life to dwell delighted here;
Nor could on earth a spot be found
To Nature and to me so dear--
Could thy dear eyes in
following
mine
Still sweeten more these banks of Rhine!
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Byron |
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And what for waste de vittles, now, and th'ow away de bread,
Jes' for to
strength
dese idle hands to scratch dis ole bald head?
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Sidney Lanier |
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With it's own Virtues springs another earth:
Nature, as in her prime, her virgin reign
Begins, and Love and Truth compose her train; 785
With pulseless hand, and fix'd unwearied gaze,
Unbreathing
Justice her still beam surveys:
No more, along thy vales and viny groves,
Whole hamlets disappearing as he moves,
With cheeks o'erspread by smiles of baleful glow, 790
On his pale horse shall fell Consumption go.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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With leaping fish the blue pond is full;
With singing
thrushes
the green boughs droop.
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Li Po |
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the boy himself
Was worthy to be sung, and many a time
Hath
Stimichon
to me your singing praised.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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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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{14a} Unferth, Beowulf's
sometime
opponent in the flyting.
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Et, faisant la victime et la petite epouse,
Son etoile la vit, une
chandelle
aux doigts,
Descendre dans la cour ou sechait une blouse,
Spectre blanc, et lever les spectres noirs des toits.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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AEeolus, a seller of money, as is
supposed
by some.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Golden Treasury |
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LXXXIX
Not with intent, in his defence to bear
What he had taken, of the prize possest;
For he still held it an
ungenerous
care
To go with vantage on whatever quest:
But with design to cast the weapon where
It never more should living wight molest;
And, what was appertaining to it, all
Bore off as well, the powder and the ball.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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Sappho |
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And, as our happy circle sat,
The fire well capp'd the company:
In grave debate or
careless
chat,
A right good fellow, mingled he:
He seemed as one of us to sit,
And talked of things above, below,
With flames more winsome than our wit,
And coals that burned like love aglow.
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Sidney Lanier |
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If the only
thing that he ever said had been, 'Her sins are
forgiven
her because she
loved much,' it would have been worth while dying to have said it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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THE FAUN SEES SNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME
Zeus,
Brazen-thunder-hurler,
Cloud-whirler, son-of-Kronos,
Send
vengeance
on these Oreads
Who strew
White frozen flecks of mist and cloud
Over the brown trees and the tufted grass
Of the meadows, where the stream
Runs black through shining banks
Of bluish white.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Even the awful Goddess felt, herself,
Compassion, and,
approaching
me, began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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SONG
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two
butterflies
upon one flower:--
Oh happy they who look on them.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Nor Ocean's God
His threats forgot
denounced
against divine
Ulysses, but with Jove thus first advised.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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thou sleepest--
See the angelic band,
Who
foreknow
the trials
That for man are planned;
Seeing him unarmed,
Unfearing, unalarmed,
With their tears have warmed
This unconscious hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The inmates of the
Pyramids
assume
The hue of Rhamesis, black with the gloom.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Only three manuscripts have the, to
my mind, most
probably
correct reading in _Satyre I_, l.
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John Donne |
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Marie
Francois
Xavier Bichat, b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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In marble-paved pavilion, where a spring
Of living water from the centre rose,
Whose bubbling did a genial freshness fling,
And soft voluptuous couches breathed repose,
ALI reclined, a man of war and woes:[160]
Yet in his lineaments ye cannot trace,
While Gentleness her milder radiance throws[161]
Along that aged
venerable
face,
The deeds that lurk beneath, and stain him with disgrace.
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Byron |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Rebelling against our care, deaf to our discourse,
Will you let your last days take this
pitiless
course?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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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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Finally, it
may be taken up again by the courts, and become poetry of much greater
sophistication and nicety than it was in either of the
preceding
stages.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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And thus she sette hir woful herte a-fyre 720
Through
remembraunce
of that she gan desyre.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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But close around the body, where stood the little train
Of them that were the nearest and dearest to the slain,
No cries were there, but teeth set fast, low
whispers
and black
frowns,
And breaking up of benches, and girding up of gowns.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Out of my store I'll give you wealth untold,
Charging
ten mules with fine Arabian gold;
I'll do the same for you, new year and old.
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Chanson de Roland |
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{124a} The shame of speaking
unskilfully
were
small if the tongue only thereby were disgraced; but as the image of a
king in his seal ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the wax, or
the signet that sealed it, as to the prince it representeth, so
disordered speech is not so much injury to the lips that give it forth,
as to the disproportion and incoherence of things in themselves, so
negligently expressed.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Tennyson |
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At length along the flowery sward I saw
So sweet and fair a lady pensive move
That her mere thought inspires a tender awe;
Meek in herself, but haughty against Love,
Flow'd from her waist a robe so fair and fine
Seem'd gold and snow
together
there to join:
But, ah!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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" he cried,
"Is the old lady of the
_Dammthor_
still alive?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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My days of life approach their end,
Yet I in idleness expend
The remnant destiny concedes,
And thus each
stubbornly
proceeds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Though winter frosts are done,
And birds pair every one,
And leaves peep out, for
springtide
is begun.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears
As salt as mine, and hear the sighing years
Re-sighing on my lips renunciative
Through those infrequent smiles which fail to live
For all thy
adjurations?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Calico jam,
The little Fish swam
Over the
Syllabub
Sea.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely
comprehend
the plot.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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CONTEMPORARY VERSE VOtUMK III FEBRUARY, 1917 Number 3
THE MAN TO HIS DEAD POET By John Hall Wheelock
In the small, bare room brimmed up with
twilight
Hours long in silence I had sat
By the bed on which my youth lay dying And the poet that I once had been.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Resignedly beneath the sky
The
melancholy
waters lie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The
violinist
had played it,
or something like it, but had not written it down; but the man with
the wind instrument said it could not be played because it contained
quarter-tones and would be out of tune.
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Yeats |
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Still take her, and make her
Thy most
peculiar
care!
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Robert Forst |
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Two
Cossacks
held his
arms and helped him into the saddle.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
And there right suddenly Lord Raoul gave rein
And galloped
straightway
to the crowded square,
-- What time a strange light flickered in the eyes
Of the calm fool, that was not folly's gleam,
But more like wisdom's smile at plan well laid
And end well compassed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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ROME
THE VATICAN--SALA DELLE MUSE
(1887)
I SAT in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the
chiselled
shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Our neighboring gentry reared
The good old-fashioned crops,
And made old-fashioned boasts
Of what John Bull would do
If
Frenchman
Frog appeared,
And drank old-fashioned toasts,
And made old-fashioned bows
To my Lady at the Hall.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The
shepherd
threw his hook and tottered past;
The ploughman ran but none could go so fast;
The woodman threw his faggot from the way
And ceased to chop and wondered at the fray.
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John Clare |
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And
strength
is in the tranquil mind.
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Sappho |
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Robinson from this year's
_Miscellany_ is a source of regret not only to all the
contributors
but
to the poet himself.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Despite the anguish of this sad affair,
When Chimene
Rodrigue
has secured
All my hopes are dead, my spirit cured.
| Guess: |
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To pass thy plains with cities scant between,
Thy stately arches flung o'er deep ravine,
Thy palaces, of Moor's or Roman's time;
Or the swift makings of thy Guadalquiver,
Save in those gilded cars, where bells forever
Ring their
melodious
chime.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Arthur, in mood
as joyful as a child, his blood young and his brain wild, declares that
he will not eat nor sit long at the table until some adventurous thing,
some uncouth tale, some great marvel, or some encounter of arms has
occurred
to mark the return of the New Year (ll.
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Himself too among the foremost,
splendid
in beauty of body, Turnus moves
armed and towers a whole head over all.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Free scope he yields unto his glance,
Reviews both dress and countenance,
With all
dissatisfaction
shows.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The channel, that I know no more, Whence, to
unfathomed
oceans, rolls The current of my being, now 1
Into the dark is turning me.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The solemn contract of a life
Was
ratified
this way.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"I list no more the tuck of drum,
No more the trumpet hear;
But when the beetle sounds his hum
My
comrades
take the spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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Whom do you fly,
infatuate?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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One moment, one more word,
While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my
fainting
will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Strangely
the soldier paused: "Well, they were
punished.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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ON saying this, her garment off he took;
Put on his spectacles to overlook;
And parson John, without delay, began;
Said he (as o'er her person now he ran),
This part umbilical will make the mare
A noble breast, and strength at once declare:
Then further on the pastor placed his hand,
While, with the other, (as a magick wand,)
He set about transforming mounts of snow;
That in our climes a genial warmth bestow,
And semi-globes are called, while those that rise
In t'other hemisphere, of larger size,
Are seldom mentioned, through respect no doubt,
But these howe'er the parson, quite devout,
Would not neglect, and whatsoe'er he felt,
He always named, and on its beauties dwelt;
The ceremony this, it seems, required,
And fully ev'ry
movement
John admired.
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La Fontaine |
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The
throbbing
of the hearts of half the world.
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Sidney Lanier |
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It is I,
The wronged
Orestes!
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Euripides - Electra |
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This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream
and its
guarding
depends the final realization of his life's work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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This monarch had the happiness of giving
additional
publicity to
Petrarch's reputation.
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Petrarch |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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