Shapes of Democracy total, result of centuries,
Shapes ever
projecting
other shapes,
Shapes of turbulent manly cities,
Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
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Here he spent a
great deal of his time with
Ildebrando
Conti, bishop of that city, a man
of rank and merit.
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Petrarch |
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Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine
importune
thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
questioned
the Commandant's
wife.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Send me now, and I shall go;
Call me, I shall hear you call;
Use me ere they lay me low
Where a man's no use at all;
Ere the
wholesome
flesh decay,
And the willing nerve be numb,
And the lips lack breath to say,
"No, my lad, I cannot come.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And if I did, each thing
That may do harm or woe,
Continually
may wring
My heart, where so I go!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Li Bu Collection, by Li Bu
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Find example of
_tmesis_
(separation of prep.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Then she, 'Let some one sing to us:
lightlier
move
The minutes fledged with music:' and a maid,
Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang.
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Tennyson |
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27 _fines_ T: _signes_ Palmer ||
_conubia_
T: _conn.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Robert Forst |
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While suffering from "hope deferred" as to its fate,
Poe
presented
a copy of "Annabel Lee" to the editor of the "Southern
Literary Messenger," who published it in the November number of his
periodical, a month after Poe's death.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The older faces still are here,
More grave and true and kind,
Ennobled by the
steadfast
toil
Of patient heart and mind.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Cotton loan, its
imaginary
nature.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A
THANKSGIVING
TO GOD, FOR HIS HOUSE
Lord, thou hast given me a cell,
Wherein to dwell;
A little house, whose humble roof
Is weather proof;
Under the spars of which I lie
Both soft and dry;
Where thou, my chamber for to ward,
Hast set a guard
Of harmless thoughts, to watch and keep
Me, while I sleep.
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Robert Herrick |
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There, in the very night we came, the god
Brought winter ere its time, from bank to bank
Freezing
the holy Strymon's tide.
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Aeschylus |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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furatae Veneris prato per inane columbae
florea conexis serta tulere rosis,
fractaque
flebilium ramis electra sororum
cycnus oloriferi uexit ab amne Padi,
et Nilo Pygmaea grues post bella remenso
ore legunt Rubri germina cara maris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O the burials of me past and present,
O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever;
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;)
O to
disengage
myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and
look at where I cast them,
To pass on, (O living!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And now, again, a hungry company
Of traders, led by
corporate
sons of trade,
Perversely borrowing from the shop the tools
Of science, not from the philosophers,
Had won the brightest laurel of all time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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--
I marvel, room for such a
paltering
mood
Should be within thy mind, now so nearly
Deified with the first sense of my love.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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A smile
suffused
Jehovah's face;
The cherubim withdrew;
Grave saints stole out to look at me,
And showed their dimples, too.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Then indeed, hapless and
dismayed
by doom, Dido prays for death, and is
weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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From the
forgotten
you call forth dreams; the
child
Reposing on the ground in the corn-clad fields,
In harvest-glow beside the naked mowers.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Gone from sweet sunshine
Underneath
the sod,
Turned from warm flesh and blood
To senseless clod;
Gone as if never
They had toiled or trod,
Gone out of sight of all
Except our God.
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Christina Rossetti |
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if through
confidence
misplaced
They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
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Golden Treasury |
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"Where shall I be sent," thought I, "if not to
Petersburg?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Enter
this room and behind a screen you will find another door leading to a
corridor; from this a spiral
staircase
leads to my sitting-room.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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One
venturous
day Love came;
Found us; and bound with a link
Of gold the jewels he prized.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Yea, and my heart
It was, my heart in its hiding of green love,
That took so wildly the approaching sound
Of something
strangely
fearful walking near.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He spent most of his career as court poet and close friend of
Boniface
I of Montferrat.
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Troubador Verse |
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[346] Albinus himself
embarked
from Tingitana
for Caesariensis, and was murdered as he landed.
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Tacitus |
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--For thy sake cursed be the hour,
Even as a father by an evil child, _265
When the orient moon of Islam rolled in triumph
From
Caucasus
to White Ceraunia!
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Shelley |
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[Sidenote A: It was she who caused me to test the renown of the Round
Table,]
[Sidenote B: hoping to grieve
Guenever
and cause her death through fear.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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So he; and, by his
admonition
stay'd,
The Greeks fled not.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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replied the
princess
fair,
No, no--I now indeed would fain repair,
(Could I my wishes have), to Zarus' court,
My native country:--thither give support.
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La Fontaine |
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Lewis Carroll |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Keats - Lamia |
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His little range of water was denied;[2]
All but the bed where his old body lay,
All, all was seized, and weeping, side by side,
We sought a home where we
uninjured
might abide.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[At the request of Advocate Hay, Burns composed this Poem, in the hope
that it might
interest
the powerful family of Dundas in his fortunes.
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Robert Forst |
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Io vidi gia nel cominciar del giorno
la parte
oriental
tutta rosata,
e l'altro ciel di bel sereno addorno;
e la faccia del sol nascere ombrata,
si che per temperanza di vapori
l'occhio la sostenea lunga fiata:
cosi dentro una nuvola di fiori
che da le mani angeliche saliva
e ricadeva in giu dentro e di fori,
sovra candido vel cinta d'uliva
donna m'apparve, sotto verde manto
vestita di color di fiamma viva.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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[Sidenote A: With
permission
of the lord,]
[Sidenote B: Sir Gawayne salutes the elder,]
[Sidenote C: but the younger he kisses,]
[Sidenote D: and begs to be her servant.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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and at once I visited
The
ceaseless
wonders of this ocean-bed.
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Keats |
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i-ip-pu-us ul-sa-am
is-si-ma i-ni-i-su
i-ta-mar a-we-lam
iz [32]-za-kar-am a-na harimti
sa-am-ka-at uk-ki-si [33] a-we-lam
a-na mi-nim il-li-kam
zi-ki-ir-su lu-us-su [34]
ha-ri-im-tum is-ta-si a-we-lam
i-ba-us-su-um-ma i-ta-mar-su
e-di-il [35] e-es-ta-hi-[ta-am]
mi-nu a-la-ku-zu na-ah- [36] [ -]ma
e pi-su i-pu-sa-am-[ma]
iz-za-kar-am a-na iluEn-[ki-du]
bi-ti-is e-mu-tim [ ]
si-ma-a-at ni-si-i- ma
tu-sa [37]-ar pa-a-ta-tim [38]
a-na ali dup-sak-ki-i e si-en
UG-AD-AD-LIL e-mi sa-a-a-ha-tim
a-na sarri Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [39] a-na ha-a-a-ri
a-na
iluGilgamis
sarri sa Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim
pi-ti pu-uk epsi [40]
a-na ha-a-a-ri
as-sa-at si-ma-tim i-ra-ah-hi
su-u pa-na-nu-um-ma
mu-uk wa-ar-ka-nu
i-na mi-il-ki sa ili ga-bi-ma
i-na bi-ti-ik a-pu-un-na-ti-su [41]
si- ma- az- zum
a-na zi-ik-ri id-li-im
i-ri-ku pa-nu-su
REVERSE II
.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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This hope hath been to me for love and fame,
Hath made me wholly lonely on the earth,
Building me up as in a thick-ribbed tower,
Wherewith
enwalled
my watching spirit burned,
Conquering its little island from the Dark,
Sole as a scholar's lamp, and heard men's steps,
In the far hurry of the outward world,
Pass dimly forth and back, sounds heard in dream, 130
As Ganymede by the eagle was snatched up
From the gross sod to be Jove's cup-bearer,
So was I lifted by my great design:
And who hath trod Olympus, from his eye
Fades not that broader outlook of the gods;
His life's low valleys overbrow earth's clouds,
And that Olympian spectre of the past
Looms towering up in sovereign memory,
Beckoning his soul from meaner heights of doom.
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James Russell Lowell |
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And Richesse mighte it wel sustene,
And hir
dispenses
wel mayntene,
And him alwey swich plentee sende 1145
Of gold and silver for to spende
Withoute lakking or daungere,
As it were poured in a garnere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Ev'n Wedlock asks not love beyond
Death's tie-dissolving portal;
But thou, omnipotently fond,
May'st promise love
immortal!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But Heaven, and all the Greeks, have heard my wrongs;
To Heaven, and all the Greeks, redress belongs;
Yet this I ask (nor be it ask'd in vain),
A bark to waft me o'er the rolling main,
The realms of Pyle and Sparta to explore,
And seek my royal sire from shore to shore;
If, or to fame his doubtful fate be known,
Or to be learn'd from oracles alone,
If yet he lives, with
patience
I forbear,
Till the fleet hours restore the circling year;
But if already wandering in the train
Of empty shades, I measure back the main,
Plant the fair column o'er the mighty dead,
And yield his consort to the nuptial bed.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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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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Do not repay me my own coin,
The sharp rebuke, the frown, the groan;
No, stir my memory to disjoin
Your
emanation
from my own.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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And the brown clay is
runneled
by the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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The bald-head philosopher
Had fix'd his eye, without a twinkle or stir
Full on the alarmed beauty of the bride,
Brow-beating her fair form, and
troubling
her sweet pride.
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Keats - Lamia |
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quis scit an adiciant hodiernae
crastina
summae
tempora di superi?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as
creation
of derivative works, reports, performances and
research.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Had it a reason for delay,
Dreaming in witlessness
That for a bloom so
delicately
gay
Winter would stay its stress?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Ellison
and the PG Online
Distributed
Proofreading Team.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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O Liebe, leihe mir den
schnellsten
deiner Flugel,
Und fuhre mich in ihr Gefild!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I have no garden where the roses breathe;
I have a city full of women crying
And babies
starving
and men weak with thirst
Who fight each other for a dole of water.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Yet still their hands the
peaceful
olive bore
Whene'er they anchor'd on a foreign shore:
But nor their seeming nor their oaths I trust,
For Afric knows them bloody and unjust.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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The King of Castile is
Ferdinand
III of Castile and Leon.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The same day
As many
entertainments
be!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_
[229]
_Tu quoque littoribus nostris, AEneia nutrix,
AEternam
moriens famam,
Caieta, dedisti.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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I am perjur'd most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest faith in thee is lost:
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;
And, to
enlighten
thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,
To swear against the truth so foul a lie!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Ennius sang the
Second Punic War in numbers
borrowed
from the Iliad.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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by this tender thought,
Your torpid bosoms to
compassion
wrought,
Look on the people's grief!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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But there's no bottome, none
In my Voluptuousnesse: Your Wiues, your Daughters,
Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp
The
Cesterne
of my Lust, and my Desire
All continent Impediments would ore-beare
That did oppose my will.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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As when the bolt, red-hissing from above,
Darts on the consecrated plant of Jove,
The mountain-oak in flaming ruin lies,
Black from the blow, and smokes of sulphur rise;
Stiff with amaze the pale beholders stand,
And own the terrors of the
almighty
hand!
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I admire it much, and yesterday I set the
following
verses to
it.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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org
[Picture: Book cover]
POEMS OF THE PAST
AND THE PRESENT
* * * * *
BY
THOMAS HARDY
* * * * *
* * * * *
* * * * *
MACMILLAN
AND CO.
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Disappeared
in blessed wife;
Servant to a wooden cradle,
Living in a baby's life.
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Here defiled and old
I perish through unnumbered hours, I swoon,
Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand;
And all my hopes must with my body soon
Be but as
crouching
dust and wind-blown sand.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER
When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could
scarcely
cry 'Weep!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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e
Emperour
whan he was brou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Far safer, of a midnight meeting
External ghost,
Than an
interior
confronting
That whiter host.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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" The ancient tower
Sends out, above the houses and the trees,
And the wide fields below the ancient walls,
A
measured
phrase of bells.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Methinks not so it is:
For unto each has been divided off
Its function quite apart, its power to each;
And thus we're still
constrained
to perceive
The soft, the cold, the hot apart, apart
All divers hues and whatso things there be
Conjoined with hues.
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Lucretius |
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Gives the King reason for this
judgment?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Chanson de Roland |
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And are these two all, all the crew,
That woman and her
fleshless
Pheere?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Never fear for your legs if they're broken to-day;
Winds only blow straws, dust, and
feathers
away.
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John Clare |
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See around us, drawing nearer,
Those faint
yearning
shapes of air--
Friends than whom earth holds none dearer!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Contents
Translator's Introduction
Mallarme's Preface of 1897
The French Text
The French Text - Compressed, and Punctuated
The English Translation
The English Translation - Compressed, and Punctuated
Translator's Introduction
The French text displayed here is as close as I could achieve to that printed in the edition of July 1914, which produced a
definitive
version superseding the original publication of 1897.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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I am resolved to face Aeneas, resolved to bear
what
bitterness
there is in death; nor shalt thou longer see me shamed,
sister of mine.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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(Note: The septet may
indicate
the constellation of Ursa Major in the north.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" And I hurried him briskly to the
staircase, which he
staggered
down, grumbling.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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You are a full-spread, fair-set vine,
And can with
tendrils
love entwine,
Yet dried ere you distil your wine.
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Robert Herrick |
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He knows of nothing but the
football
match,
And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch.
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John Clare |
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For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke,
And
reverence
what I said:
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Now the whole wall is tight everywhere, securely bolted and well guarded;
it is patrolled, bell in hand; the
sentinels
stand everywhere and beacons
burn on the towers.
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Aristophanes |
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Upon this hill
outwakes
the moon.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A
haunting
music, sole perhaps and lone
Supportress of the faery-roof, made moan
Throughout, as fearful the whole charm might fade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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sic certe est: clamant
Victoris
rupta miselli
ilia, et emulso labra notata sero.
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Latin - Catullus |
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