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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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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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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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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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Ah, why does she treat me
harshly?
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Troubador Verse |
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Rise, or behold the
conquering
flames ascend,
And all the Phrygian glories at an end.
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Iliad - Pope |
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UPON THE HILL
A hundred miles of
landscape
spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many thousand ages have these summits spied on man?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Like the doves voice, like
transient
day, like music in the air:
Ah!
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Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
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The sable presbyters approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching
piaculative pence.
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(This by command; for it was found,
However cherries might abound,
They
disappeared
by stealth and guile,
So mouths they stopt with song, not fruit--
Device of rural minds acute!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
character
of Titus gave still more colour to it.
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Tacitus |
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We
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Meredith - Poems |
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One of them, who
appeared
to be the
leader, told me they were going to take me before the Tzar.
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The curse is come on me, which makes no haste
And doth not tarry,
crushing
both the proud
Hard man and him the sinner double-faced.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O
Brothers
mine, to-day we stand
Where half a century sweeps our ken,
Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand,
Struck off our bonds and made us men.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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If I mistook not, didn't we hear
Some well-trained voices chorus
singing?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Doth he give
Thy tomb good
tendance?
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Euripides - Electra |
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She whets her steel, and into it would fain
Enter, that stripling to the quick to gore:
Yea, would such fury to her strokes impart,
That each should go
directly
to his heart.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sin of desiring woman is to be
The
knowledgeable
light within man's soul,
Whereby he kills the darken'd ache of being.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Night and great horror of the rising wave
Came o'er us, and the blasts that blow from Thrace
Clashed ship with ship, and some with plunging prow
Thro'
scudding
drifts of spray and raving storm
Vanished, as strays by some ill shepherd driven.
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Aeschylus |
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What for the sage, old
Apollonius?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thou fav'rest Frenchmen, though from England seen,
Oft tearful to that mistress "North Countree";
Returned the third time safely here to be,
I bless my bold
Gibraltar
of the Free.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE
HTOWARDS
the Noel that morte saison
-L (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Mammon also advised
them to keep the peace, and make the best they could of Hell, a policy
received with applause; but then Beelzebub, "than whom, Satan except,
none higher sat," rose, and with a look which "drew audience and
attention still as night," developed the suggestion previously made by
Satan, that they should attack Heaven's High
Arbitrator
through His
new-created Man, waste his creation, and "drive as we are driven.
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Avez-vous donc pu croire, hypocrites surpris,
Qu'on se moque du maitre, et qu'avec lui l'on triche,
Et qu'il soit naturel de
recevoir
deux prix.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--And yes, thank God, it still is possible
The healing days shall close the darkness up
Wherein I
breathed
you like a smoke or dew.
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Imagists |
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Amilau, or Millau in Aveyron, on the banks of the Tarn, was the major source of
earthenware
in the Roman Empire, and site of one of the major bridges over the Tarn.
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Troubador Verse |
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His
servants
are drunk
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Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad
shallows
shine,
Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine
In the bag below thy beak -- yet thine, not less?
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farewell, a short
farewell!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The court in
flattering
yet itself doth please,
(And female Stewart there rules the four seas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
The tear-drop
trickled
to his chin:
There was a meaning in her grin
That made him feel on fire within.
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Lewis Carroll |
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I soar up into the
coldness
as the air-hounds wheel on high,
And slip away in the dimness as they hunt where I circled by.
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Tonson wrote Pope a
respectful
letter asking for the honor of
being allowed to publish them.
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Alexander Pope |
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A defeat was our
conquest
red!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I esteem myself happy to have quitted Venice, on account of
that war which has been
declared
between that Republic and the Lord of
Padua.
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Petrarch |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
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Meredith - Poems |
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While on my varying brow, that speaks the soul,
The wild emotions roll,
Now dark, now bright, as
shifting
skies appear;
That whosoe'er has proved the lover's state
Would say, He feels the flame, nor knows his future fate.
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Petrarch |
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Apples on the small trees
are hard,
too small,
too late ripened
by a
desperate
sun
that struggles through sea-mist.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Say from whence
You owe this strange Intelligence, or why
Vpon this blasted Heath you stop our way
With such
Prophetique
greeting?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O had I known as then joy had left the paths of men,
I had watched her night and day, be sure, and never slept agen,
And when she turned to go, O I'd caught her mantle then,
And wooed her like a lover by my lonely side to stay;
Ay, knelt and worshipped on, as love in beauty's bower,
And clung upon her smiles as a bee upon a flower,
And gave her heart my posies, all cropt in a sunny hour,
As keepsakes and pledges all to never fade away;
But love never heeded to
treasure
up the may,
So it went the common road to decay.
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Ver e ch'altra fiata qua giu fui,
congiurato da quella Eriton cruda
che
richiamava
l'ombre a' corpi sui.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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When I turn up into the mouth of the Assabet, which is
wooded, large fleets of leaves are floating on its surface, as it
were getting out to sea, with room to tack; but next the shore, a
little farther up, they are thicker than foam, quite concealing the
water for a rod in width, under and amid the alders, button-bushes,
and maples, still perfectly light and dry, with fibre unrelaxed; and
at a rocky bend where they are met and stopped by the morning wind,
they sometimes form a broad and dense
crescent
quite across the river.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
But
especially
"Thing-um-a jig!
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Lewis Carroll |
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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How doth my heart that is so wrung not burst
When I
remember
that my way was plain,
And that God's candle lit me at the first,
Whilst now I grope in darkness, grope in vain,
Desiring but to find Him Who is lost,
To find him once again, but once again!
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Christina Rossetti |
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Or friends or
kinsfolk
on the citied earth,
To share our marriage feast and nuptial mirth?
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Keats - Lamia |
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The wagons quickened on the streets,
The thunder hurried slow;
The
lightning
showed a yellow beak,
And then a livid claw.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Why, is not this better now than
groaning
for love?
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Shakespeare |
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Champaigne's the wine for me,
But then right
sparkling
it must be!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It was the
loveliest
castle he
had ever beheld.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The
melancholy
waters lie.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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By thee the seeds of
conscious
worth are fir'd,
Hero by hero, fame by fame inspir'd:
Without thine aid how soon the hero dies!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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480
Earth, spangled sky, and lake serene,
Involved and restless all--a scene
Pregnant with mutual exaltation,
Rich change, and multiplied
creation!
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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remember
that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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If I were young as thou, if these grey hairs
Had not already
streaked
my beard--Dost take me?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Tell her, if she
struggle
still,
I have myrtle rods (at will)
For to tame, though not to kill.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"
CORYDON
"The junipers and prickly
chestnuts
stand,
And 'neath each tree lie strewn their several fruits,
Now the whole world is smiling, but if fair
Alexis from these hill-slopes should away,
Even the rivers you would ; see run dry.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Sappho |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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In the
Medicean
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Tacitus |
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But at the last, as I bithought
Whether I sholde passe or nought, 2980
I saw come with a gladde chere
To me, a lusty bachelere,
Of good stature, and of good hight,
And Bialacoil
forsothe
he hight.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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To this end they don
men's clothes, and taking seats in the Assembly on the Pnyx, command a
majority of votes and carry a series of
revolutionary
proposals--that the
government be vested in a committee of women, and further, that property
and women be henceforth held in common.
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Aristophanes |
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hys
p{ro}pre
causes of whiche causes ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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FAUST:
Wie seltsam glimmert durch die Grunde
Ein
morgenrotlich
truber Schein!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Our works of fiction and
poetry have been
overshadowed
by the same infectious gloom.
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Shelley |
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Yet glared he
fiercely
round him, and growled in harsh, fell
tone,
"She's mine, and I will have her, I seek but for mine own:
She is my slave, born in my house, and stolen away and sold,
The year of the sore sickness, ere she was twelve hours old.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The gods are most dreaded at the
seasons most
important
to a primitive people, seed-time, for example,
and harvest.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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O to the gentle spouse right dear, right dear to his parent,
Hail, and with increase fair Jupiter lend thee his aid,
Door, 'tis said wast fain kind service render to Balbus
Erst while, long as the house by her old owner was held;
Yet wast
rumoured
again to serve a purpose malignant, 5
After the elder was stretched, thou being oped for a bride.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For myself, though conquered I'm content;
And despite my own amorous intent,
And
infinite
loss, I welcome my defeat,
Rendering a perfect love thus complete.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE
HIGHLAND
LADDIE.
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Robert Burns |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, patient and passionate; for in my breast
a
thousand
dead lovers are buried in shrouds of withered kisses.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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s heart prefers to wait, doing nothing, 108 all spirit is
virtually
lost in current policy debates.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Why not this for our night
quarters?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For
familiar
hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your thoughts for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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He does not wake at dawn to see
Dread figures throng his room,
The shivering Chaplain robed in white,
The Sheriff stern with gloom,
And the
Governor
all in shiny black,
With the yellow face of Doom.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Note: Ixion tried to seduce Juno, but Jupiter
substituted
a cloud for her person.
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Ronsard |
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"Through tears the rising sun I oft have viewed,
Through tears have seen him towards that world descend [67]
Where my poor heart lost all its fortitude:
Three years a
wanderer
now my course I bend--[68] 445
Oh!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And then to dwell in
sovereign
barns,
And dream the days away, --
The grass so little has to do,
I wish I were the hay!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And
standing
on the altar high,
"Lo, what a fiend is here!
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blake-poems |
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Wait till, like me, your hopes are blighted[178] till
Sorrow and Shame are
handmaids
of your cabin--
Famine and Poverty your guests at table;
Despair your bed-fellow--then rise, but not
From sleep, and judge!
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Byron |
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s father Li Yuan
abdicating
to Taizong.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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"This music crept by me upon the waters"
And along the Strand, up Queen
Victoria
Street.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
In spite of new poems revealing a
Napoleonic
bias, Victor was invited to
see Charles X.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Meanwhile Civilis had been playing upon the feelings of the besieged
by
pretending
that the Romans had been defeated and success had
favoured his arms.
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Tacitus |
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For when the conquering wolves
Into that village won, we in our huts
Lay
hearkening
to their rejoicing hunger;
But Gwat stayed out in the stars all night long.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The clock is on the stroke of one;
But neither Doctor nor his guide
Appear along the
moonlight
road,
There's neither horse nor man abroad,
And Betty's still at Susan's side.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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All his
government
is groping.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Quiet, quiet, above,
beneath!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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E poi il mosser le parole biece
a dimandar ragione a questo giusto,
che li assegno sette e cinque per diece,
indi
partissi
povero e vetusto;
e se 'l mondo sapesse il cor ch'elli ebbe
mendicando sua vita a frusto a frusto,
assai lo loda, e piu lo loderebbe>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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