Had but the light which dazzled them afar
Drawn but a little nearer to mine eyes,
Methinks I would have wholly changed my form,
Even as in Thessaly her form she changed:
But if I cannot lose myself in her
More than I have--small mercy though it won--
I would to-day in aspect
thoughtful
be,
Of harder stone than chisel ever wrought,
Of adamant, or marble cold and white,
Perchance through terror, or of jasper rare
And therefore prized by the blind greedy crowd.
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All your coaxing will only make
a bitter fruit--
let them cling, ripen of themselves,
test their own worth,
nipped,
shrivelled
by the frost,
to fall at last but fair
with a russet coat.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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--Hebetes comme des yeux de vache,
Nos yeux ne
pleuraient
plus; nous allions, nous allions
Et quand nous avions mis le pays en sillons,
Quand nous avions laissee dans cette terre noire
Un peu de notre chair.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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But a Voice--from Heaven, I
think--tells him the clay from which the Bowl is made was once Man;
and, into
whatever
shape renew'd, can never lose the bitter flavour of
Mortality.
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"
I
straightway
rose.
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What
blessedness
within this prison pent!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Every household is selling hairpins and
bracelets
40 waiting only to present the spring ale.
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Vigorous but controlled
imagination,
formative
power, insight into the significance of
things--these are qualities which a poet must eminently possess; but
these are qualities which may also be eminently possessed by men who
cannot claim the title of poet.
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(he cries,)
The day that shows me, ere I close my eyes,
A son and grandson of the
Arcesian
name
Strive for fair virtue, and contest for fame!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Und mich wiegst du indes in
abgeschmackten
Zerstreuungen, verbirgst mir
ihren wachsenden Jammer und lassest sie hilflos verderben!
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd--Man's
forgiveness
give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on friendly pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From
mournful
climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The sun right up above the mast
Had fix'd her to the ocean:
But in a minute she 'gan stir
With a short uneasy motion--
Backwards and
forwards
half her length
With a short uneasy motion.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And
perspective
it is best painter's art.
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Cherry-stones,
transported
by birds, 188.
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We must remember here
the Virgil of the Fourth Eclogue--that extraordinary, impassioned poem
in which he dreams of man
attaining
to some perfection of living.
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Leave tenantless thy crystal home, and fly,
With all thy train, athwart the moony sky--
*Apart--like fire-flies in
Sicilian
night,
And wing to other worlds another light!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey,
Who made a remarkable curtsey;
She twirled round and round, till she sank underground,
Which
distressed
all the people of Chertsey.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Erewhile 'twas corn resplendent and unstained,
Or crystal, that through morning radiance shone,
Now flowing agate, deep and sombre-veined,
Then like a crimson
sparkling
precious stone.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Thou, rash, command'st us, leaving it afar,
To roam all night the Ocean's dreary waste;
But winds to ships
injurious
spring by night,
And how shall we escape a dreadful death
If, chance, a sudden gust from South arise
Or stormy West, that dash in pieces oft
The vessel, even in the Gods' despight?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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There
the
language
is plain and pleasing; even without stopping, round without
swelling: all well-turned, composed, elegant, and accurate.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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whose life one av'rice joins,
And one fate buries in th'
Asturian
mines.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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)-it-tam [44]
a-na mi-[ni] [45]
iluGilgamis
ma-si-il
la-nam sa- pi- il
e-si[ pu]-uk-ku-ul
i ?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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I have marked
The like on heath, in lonely wood;
And, verily, have seldom met
A
spectacle
more hideous--yet
It suited Peter's present mood.
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And yet I could look beyond all this,
To a place of infinite beauty;
And I could see the
loveliness
of her
Who walked in the shade of the trees.
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Let it be
Still some atonement that I save the man, 110
Whose
sacrifice
had saved perhaps my own--
They come!
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Byron |
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The
Lombards
had opened a lucrative traffic with the ports of
Egypt, from whence they imported into Europe the riches of India; and
Bruges, the mart between them and the Hanse Towns, was, in consequence,
surrounded with the best agriculture of these ages,[43] a certain proof
of the dependence of agriculture upon the extent of commerce.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Show me some bastard mushrooms
Sprung from a
pollution
of blood.
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Stephen Crane |
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The fowler covers himself with a shield as he draws
his nets; the
fisherman
carries a sword whilst he hooks his fish; and
the native draws water from the well in an old rusty casque, instead of
a pail.
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Petrarch |
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Hard by the Lake Regillus
Our camp was pitched at night:
Eastward
a mile the Latines lay,
Under the Porcian height.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash--
you have broken off a
weighted
leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with
Predestination
round
Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, --
The
sweeping
up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And she hath watched
Many a nightingale perch giddily
On
blossomy
twig still swinging from the breeze,
And to that motion tune his wanton song
Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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He was undersized, but, in spite of
irregular features, his bronzed face had a
remarkably
gay and lively
expression.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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yet--for there my steps have been; 510
These feet have pressed the sacred shore,
These limbs that buoyant wave hath borne--
Minstrel!
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Byron |
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It is true your
daughter
is no more;--
That is, the peasant she was before.
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Longfellow |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Our
intellectual powers proceed in the same manner; they gain
strength
by
degrees, they arrive at maturity, and, when they can no longer
improve, they languish, droop, and fade away.
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Tacitus |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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E'en the rude seaman, in some cave confined,
Pillows his head, as daylight quits the scene,
On the hard deck, with vilest mat o'erspread;
And when the Sun in orient wave serene
Bathes his resplendent front, and leaves behind
Those antique pillars of his boundless bed;
Forgetfulness has shed
O'er man, and beast, and flower,
Her mild restoring power:
But my
determined
grief finds no repose;
And every day but aggravates the woes
Of that remorseless flood, that, ten long years,
Flowing, yet ever flows,
Nor know I what can check its ceaseless tears.
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Petrarch |
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Hear how they counsel in manly measure
Action and
pleasure!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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That time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change;
Then let it come: I have no dread of what 230
Is called for by the instinct of mankind;
Nor think I that God's world will fall apart
Because we tear a
parchment
more or less.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Sounds of the Winter
Sounds of the winter too,
Sunshine
upon the mountains--many a distant strain
From cheery railroad train--from nearer field, barn, house,
The whispering air--even the mute crops, garner'd apples, corn,
Children's and women's tones--rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,
An old man's garrulous lips among the rest, Think not we give out yet,
Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,
Uttering
bare truth, even so as foes commend.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The highest as the lowest form of
criticism
is a mode of autobiography.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Much madness is
divinest
sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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as it were that Rome,
Collecting the chief
trophies
of her line,
Would build up all her triumphs in one dome,
Her Coliseum stands; the moonbeams shine
As 'twere its natural torches, for divine
Should be the light which streams here, to illume
This long explored but still exhaustless mine
Of contemplation; and the azure gloom
Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume
CXXIX.
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For well our men remembered
How little when they came,
Had they but native courage,
And trust in Jackson's name;
How through the day he labored,
How kept the vigils still,
Till discipline controlled us,
A
stronger
power than will;
And how he hurled us at them
Within the evening hour,
That red night in December,
And made us feel our power.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Donations
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ways including checks, online payments and credit card donations.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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_Them_ was used as a
nominative
by the majesty of Edward VI.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Polypheme's white tooth
Slips on the nut if, after
frequent
showers,
The shell is over-smooth,--and not so much
Will turn the thing called love, aside to hate
Or else to oblivion.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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He, without a care
For all the
affliction
of Admetus' halls,
Sang on; and, listening, one could hear the thralls
In the long gallery weeping for the dead.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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' All that a
dramatic
writer need do is to persuade
us, during the two hours' traffic of the stage, that the events of
his play did really happen.
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GD} His head beamd light & in his vigorous voice was
prophesyNor
kissd nor em.
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XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious
distance
should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
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Sure, sure, if
stedfast
meaning,
If single thought could save,
The world might end to-morrow,
You should not see the grave.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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O ye spirits of earth,
I almost, from my
miserable
heart,
Could here upbraid you for your cruel heart,
Which will not let me, down the slope of death,
Draw any of your pity after me,
Or lie still in the quiet of your looks,
As my flower, there, in mine.
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utterance to my heart beyond the
rest--and this is of them,)
So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within--thy soothing fingers
my face and hands,
Thou, messenger--magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
(Distances balk'd--occult medicines penetrating me from head to foot,)
I feel the sky, the prairies vast--I feel the mighty northern lakes,
I feel the ocean and the forest--somehow I feel the globe itself
swift-swimming in space;
Thou blown from lips so loved, now gone--haply from endless store,
God-sent,
(For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my sense,)
Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and
cannot tell,
Art thou not
universal
concrete's distillation?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Then, methought, the air grew denser,
perfumed
from an unseen censer
Swung by Angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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--
Lord of our mortal state, by him are willed
All things, by him
fulfilled!
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at he was
honoured
soo,
And made grete doloure; 513
For swiche honoure & swiche glorie,
As it is writen in his storye,
He ne loued in toun ne toure.
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Sara Teasdale |
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"William
composing
in the evening.
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William Wordsworth |
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And in their lust he can
entangle
them,
Deceiving them far into Judith's beauty,
Which is his power, and lop them from their gods.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How to entangle, trammel up and snare
Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there
Like the hid scent in an
unbudded
rose?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Still hangs the hedge without a gust,
Still, still the shadows stay:
My feet upon the moonlit dust
Pursue the
ceaseless
way.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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ere
Ne
woldestou
noman tellen here
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He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the lovelorn piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that
loveliness
absorbs;
There was no recognition in those orbs.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Beware, O Man--for
knowledge
must to thee,
Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.
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8•
Of
stinking
stories; a tale, a dream.
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Coloured
like the peach-tree blossom,
Speaking with the speech of men.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The passage in Mungo Park's _Journal of a Mission to the
Interior
of
Africa_, 1815, p.
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Byron |
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To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer--to feel his
sympathy!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if
bereaved
of light.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She left two little ones,
So small, so frail--William and Madeline;
The one just lisps, the other
scarcely
runs.
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Hugo - Poems |
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conjectures
gecēas ēcne rǣd to mean _he became a pious man and
at death went to heaven_.
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Beowulf |
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"
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There's not a port he doesn't know from
Melbourne
to New York;
He's as hard as a lump of harness beef, and as salt as pickled pork.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When the heat of
passion, says he, is gratified, they lose all
affection
and attachment
for their women, whom they degrade to the most servile offices.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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From that district I
proceeded
to Bath, Bristol, and so on to the
banks of the Wye; where I took again to travelling on foot.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the
livelong
day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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180
The veriest atomy he looked,
With grimy fingers clutching and crooked,
Tight skin, a nose all bony and hooked,
And a shaking, sharp,
suspicious
way;
His blinking eyes had scarcely brooked
The light of day.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I say I see, my friends, if you do not, the illustrious emigre, (having it
is true in her day, although the same, changed, journey'd considerable,)
Making directly for this rendezvous, vigorously clearing a path for
herself, striding through the confusion,
By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
Bluff'd not a bit by drain-pipe, gasometers,
artificial
fertilizers,
Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
She's here, install'd amid the kitchen ware!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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"My own Hrothulf" will surely not forget
these favors and
benefits
of the past, but will repay them to the
orphaned boy.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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His knights he
straightway
gathers
And in the midst sate he,
In the banquet hall of the fathers
In the castle over the sea.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Thus oft before fair temples of the gods,
Beside the incense-burning altars slain,
Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast
Breathing warm streams of blood; the orphaned mother,
Ranging
meanwhile
green woodland pastures round,
Knows well the footprints, pressed by cloven hoofs,
With eyes regarding every spot about,
For sight somewhere of youngling gone from her;
And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes
With her complaints; and oft she seeks again
Within the stall, pierced by her yearning still.
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Lucretius |
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Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
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Meredith - Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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It must have been very different in Wordsworth's time,
and is constantly referred to in his sister's Journal as a favourite
retreat, resorted to
'when
cloudless
suns
Shone hot, or wind blew troublesome and strong.
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William Wordsworth |
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In these verses,
graceful fancy is so subtly interwoven with
nonsense
as almost to beguile
us into feeling a real interest in Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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I can't
conceive
a little dear
With the "Well-Wisher" in her hand!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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