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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Understand then that it goes as far onward from this as this is from the
times when it lay in
covering
waters and gases, before man had
appeared.
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Whitman |
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Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain
That frowned on the river below,
As we stood by our guns in the morning,
And eagerly watched for the foe;
When a rider came out of the darkness
That hung over
mountain
and tree,
And shouted, "Boys, up and be ready!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The Gnomes or Daemons of Earth
delight in mischief; but the Sylphs whose
habitation
is in the Air, are
the best-condition'd creatures imaginable.
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Alexander Pope |
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An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in a
poem with which Pope was
familiar
('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), and
from which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen.
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Alexander Pope |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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Let us fare on, dead friend, O deathless friend,
Where under his old hat as green as moss
The hedger chops and finds new gaps to mend,
And on his
bonfires
burns the thorns and dross,
And hums a hymn, the best, thinks he, that ever was.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
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Sappho |
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Whether wandering in your course,
or tempest-driven (such perils
manifold
on the high seas do sailors
suffer), you have entered the river banks and lie in harbour; shun not
our welcome, and be not ignorant that the Latins are Saturn's people,
whom no laws fetter to justice, upright of their own free will and the
custom of the god of old.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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For pryde is founde, in every part, 2245
Contrarie
unto Loves art.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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impair the memory of that hour
Of thy
communion
with my nobler mind
By pity or grief, already felt too long!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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It would have been obviously
improper
to mimic the manner of any
particular age or country.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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received
the work electronically, the person or entity
providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Rilke - Poems |
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If you
received the work on a
physical
medium, you must return the medium
with your written explanation.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Do not think me unaware,
I who have
snatched
at you
as the street-child clutched
at the seed-pearls you spilt
that hot day
when your necklace snapped.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A number of personal references are best pursued by reading a
biography
of Nerval, of his early meeting with 'Adrienne' and later relationship with the actress Jenny Colon.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
word
processing
or hypertext form.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his
threshold
drew--
I saw the solitary Ringdove there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The Curve Of Your Eyes
The curve of your eyes
embraces
my heart
A ring of sweetness and dance
halo of time, sure nocturnal cradle,
And if I no longer know all I have lived through
It's that your eyes have not always been mine.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But I will surely love thee for ever
Ever what songs I sing saddened shall be by thy death;
Such as the Daulian bird 'neath gloom of shadowy frondage
Warbles, of Itys lost ever
bemoaning
the lot.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A narrow wind
complains
all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all true jewels
of majesty; others furnish them with feathers, bells, and ribands, and
are
therefore
esteemed the fitter servants.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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_Nam præcipue quidem apud Ciceronem,
frequenter tamen apud Asinium etiam, et cæteros, qui sunt proximi,
vidimus ENNII, ACCII, PACUVII, TERENTII et aliorum inseri versus,
summâ non eruditionis modò gratiâ, sed etiam jucunditatis; cum
poeticis
voluptatibus
aures a forensi asperitate respirent, quibus
accedit non mediocris utilitas, cum sententiis eorum, velut quibusdam
testimoniis, quæ proposuere confirmant.
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Tacitus |
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Botte hann mie actyonns straughte[27] the rolle of fate,
Pyghte thee fromm Hell, or
broughte
Heaven down to thee, 60
Layde the whol worlde a falldstole atte thie feete,
On smyle woulde be suffycyll mede for mee.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The poems of The Ruins of Rome belong to the beginning of his four and a half year
residence
in Italy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Or darest thou
Contend that never hath it come to pass
That divers strokes have
happened
at one time?
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Lucretius |
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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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But have we any right to reproduce, from an antiquarian motive, what--in
a literary sense--is either trivial, or feeble, or
sterile?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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3hj
Lemniaciim
temerant
vestigia nulla cubile,
Nee Veneris Mavors meminit, si Fraxinus absit.
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Marvell - Poems |
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De nos jours une pareille note ressemblerait
fort a une reclame deguisee:
<< Ce qui nous parait ici meriter l'interet, disait-elle, c'est
l'expression vive, curieuse, meme dans sa violence, de quelques
defaillances, de quelques douleurs morales, que, sans les partager ni
les discuter, on doit tenir a
connaitre
comme un des signes de notre
temps.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Personne ne
comprend
personne.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_ The 'am I' of
the _W_ is
probably
what Donne first wrote, and I am strongly tempted
to restore it.
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John Donne |
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--a similar tale
Told of a
beauteous
dame beyond the sea!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Or shall we every decency confound,
Through taverns, stews, and bagnios take our round,
Go dine with Chartres, in each vice out-do
K---l's lewd cargo, or Ty---y's crew,
From Latian Syrens, French Circean feasts,
Return well travelled, and
transformed
to beasts.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Wide was the dragon's warring seen,
its fiendish fury far and near,
as the grim
destroyer
those Geatish people
hated and hounded.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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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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I will not look upon the quickning Sun,
But
straight
her beauty to my sense shall run;
The ayre shall note her soft, the fire most pure; 75
Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure.
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John Donne |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with melancholy eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth
breathe!
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Keats - Lamia |
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8 ubi pro
_perdidit_
traditum est _per odit_ uel _reddidit
LII
Quid est, Catulle?
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Latin - Catullus |
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E come a messagger che porta ulivo
tragge la gente per udir novelle,
e di calcar nessun si mostra schivo,
cosi al viso mio s'affisar quelle
anime fortunate tutte quante,
quasi
obliando
d'ire a farsi belle.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Who is here so vile that will not love his
country?
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Shakespeare |
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It says much
for the genius of Morris that _Sigurd the Volsung_, with all these
faults, is not to be condemned; that, on the contrary, to read it is
rather a great than a tiresome experience; and not only because the
faults are relieved, here and there, by exquisite beauties and
dignities, indeed by
incomparable
lines, but because the poem as a whole
does, as it goes on, accumulate an immense pressure of significance.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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THIS servant girl now
hastened
to the fair,
And ev'ry circumstance detailed with care.
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La Fontaine |
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what
conqueror
hath committed this cruelty upon you?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's
simultaneous
sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The last day of her stay at Lucknow came, and
Hannasyde
saw her off
at the Railway Station.
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Kipling - Poems |
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In
addition
this use of the bare thought with its retreats, prolongations, and flights, by reason of its very design, for anyone wishing to read it aloud, results in a score.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The bitter little that of life remains:
No more the
thickening
brakes and verdant plains
To thee shall home, or food, or pastime yield.
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Robert Burns |
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or engaged in
business?
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Whitman |
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I then considered myself amply justified
in resorting to that heroick treatment the felicity of which, as applied
by the great Bentley to Milton, had long ago
enlisted
my admiration.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Arbor ut
indpmitos
ornet vix una labores,
Tempora nee foliis praecingat tota malignis ;
Dum simul implexi, tranquillae ad serta quietis,
Omnigeni coeunt flores, integraque sylva.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And now the
glorious
artist, ere he yet 370
Had reach'd the Lemnian isle, limping, return'd
From his feign'd journey, for his spy the sun
Had told him all.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They burn with an unquenched and smothered fire
Consumed by longings over which they brood,
Oblivious
of time, without desire,
Alone and lost in their great solitude.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
proceedings of Sin and Death; God
foretels
the final Victory of his Son
over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the present commands
his Angels to make several alterations in the Heavens and Elements.
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Milton |
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)
ALTER BAUER:
Furwahr, es ist sehr wohl getan,
Dass Ihr am frohen Tag erscheint;
Habt Ihr es vormals doch mit uns
An bosen Tagen gut
gemeint!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian courtesan and mistress of
Alexander
the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme
Your friends to death before their time
Moping
melancholy
mad:
Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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When I behold the pharos shine
And lay a path along the sea,
How gladly I shall feel the spray,
Standing upon the
swinging
prow;
And question of my pilot old, 5
How many watery leagues to sail
Ere we shall round the harbour reef
And anchor off the wharves of home!
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Sappho |
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Children, ye heard his
promise?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I wot my-self as wel as any wight; 220
For I loved oon with al my herte and might
More then my-self, an hundred
thousand
sythe,
And called him my hertes lyf, my knight,
And was al his, as fer as hit was right;
And whan that he was glad, than was I blythe, 225
And his disese was my deeth as swythe;
And he ayein his trouthe me had plight
For ever-more, his lady me to kythe.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I pray thee, take
And keep yon woman for me till I make
My
homeward
way from Thrace, when I have ta'en
Those four steeds and their bloody master slain.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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I looked on the eyes of fair woman too long,
Till silence and shame stole the use of my tongue:
When I tried to speak to her I'd nothing to say,
So I turned myself round and she
wandered
away.
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John Clare |
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[8] The name of the mother of Gilgamish has been
erroneously
read
_ri-mat ilat_Nin-lil, or _Rimat-Belit_, see Dhorme 202, 37; 204,
30, etc.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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CCXXXI
"Fair son Malprimes," says
Baligant
to him,
"I grant it you, as you have asked me this;
Against the Franks go now, and smite them quick.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Many ages, he said, before his time,
there were ballads in praise of
illustrious
men; and these
ballads it was the fashion for the guests at banquets to sing in
turn while the piper played.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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VII
Eternal providence
exceeding
thought, 55
Where none appeares can make herselfe a way:
A wondrous way it for this Lady wrought,
From Lyons clawes to pluck the griped pray.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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"
Poor Avarice one torment more would find;
Nor could
Profusion
squander all in kind.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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But while on mortal lips I shape anew
A sigh to mortal issues, verily
Above the
unshaken
stars that see us die,
A vocal pathos rolls; and HE who drew
All life from dust, and for all tasted death,
By death and life and love appealing, saith
_Do you think of me as I think of you?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We do not solicit
donations
in locations
where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Enter
MENENIUS
AGRIPPA
SECOND CITIZEN.
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Shakespeare |
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Here of thy mother sweet, where waters flow,
Here of thy
fatherland
we whispered low;
Here, music, praise, and prayer
Filled the glad summer air.
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Hugo - Poems |
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3915
Bothe in cloistre and in abbey
Chastite
is werreyed over-al.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'Divine
Inviters!
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Emerson - Poems |
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But the
fearless
Hiawatha
Cried aloud, and spake in this wise:
"Let me pass my way, Kenabeek,
Let me go upon my journey!
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Longfellow |
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He presently appeared; yet to detail
How Alice stormed, I certainly should fail;
Unless an iron tongue I could obtain:
All Hell was ransacked
epithets
to gain;
And Lucifer and Beelzebub were used:
No mortal ever was so much abused.
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La Fontaine |
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That shrinking back, like one that had
mistook!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Shaking with serious air the head,
In whispers low the
neighbours
said:
'Tis time she to the altar went!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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53) that
Ariovistus
had two wives.
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Tacitus |
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I
encounter
no troubles like those.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Acharnians were throughout the most extreme partisans of the
warlike party during the
Peloponnesian
struggle.
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Aristophanes |
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440
What blazours then, what glorie shall he clayme,
What
doughtie
Homere shall hys praises synge,
That lefte the bosome of so fayre a dame
Uncall'd, unaskt, to serve his lorde the kynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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O
grievous
the tale is,
And grievous their fall,
To the house, to the land,
And to me above all!
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Aeschylus |
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Was hilft's, wenn Ihr ein Ganzes
dargebracht?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch,
But like a
treatment
civil,
So, spite of buffet, prayers, and calls--
Too late her friends to rally--
We, eighty strong, bore her along
Unto the Pirate Galley.
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Hugo - Poems |
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We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
Show us where
shadowed
hidest thou in shade!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly
important
to maintaining tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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IV
He speaks to the moonlight
concerning
the Beloved.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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' This exact and thorough scholar then goes on to point out
many false
quantities
and barbarisms.
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James Russell Lowell |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Robert Herrick |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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VALENTIN
(fallt):
O weh!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Petrarch
answered that he had nothing
more to say.
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Petrarch |
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Her innocence, and simple, gentle way,
At length appeared his
frantick
rage to lay.
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La Fontaine |
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But by sending one of his sons to each, the equal
treatment of both was maintained; as also the majesty of the supreme
power, which from
distance
ever derived most reverence.
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Tacitus |
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Now, to me the elm-leaves whisper
Mad,
discordant
melodies,
And keen melodies like shadows
Haunt the moaning willow trees,
And the sycamores with laughter
Mock me in the nightly breeze.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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