Over sea, over shore, where the cannons loudly roar,
He still was a
stranger
to fear;
And nocht could him quail, or his bosom assail,
But the bonie lass he lo'ed sae dear.
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"Let pass the banners and the spears,
The hate, the battle, and the greed;
For greater than all gifts is peace, 15
And strength is in the
tranquil
mind.
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That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee:
Then what could death do if thou
shouldst
depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
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What man,' quod he, `was ever thus at ese
As I, on whiche the
faireste
and the beste 1280
That ever I say, deyneth hir herte reste.
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nor seas, streams, heights,
So long have barr'd and bann'd,
But love alone, who with his haughty lights
The more allures me as he worse excites,
Till nature fails against his
constant
wiles.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I have been long a sleeper, but I trust
My absence doth neglect no great design
Which by my
presence
might have been concluded.
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a toilsome way
Set
bleeding
feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart;
I'd charm her with the magic of a switch,
I'd kiss her maids, and kick the
perverse
bitch.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_conuertite_
T
18 _incipiaent_ T
20 in marg.
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There he remained till
March, 1791, when he "voluntarily
surrendered
himself" to the captain of
the _Pandora_, and was immediately put in irons.
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Byron |
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Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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No squirrel went abroad;
A dog's belated feet
Like
intermittent
plush were heard
Adown the empty street.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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That little floweret's peaceful lot,
In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet's flight, I wot,
Nae ruder visit knows,
Was mine, till Love has o'er me past,
And blighted a' my bloom;
And now, beneath the
withering
blast,
My youth and joy consume.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_ is all it has to say
In
plaintive
cadence o'er and o'er,
Like children that have lost their way,
And know their names, but nothing more.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A
circular
figure (of magic).
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A
swelling
of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Die then,"--He said; and as the word he spoke,
The
fainting
stripling sank before the stroke:
His hand forgot its grasp, and left the spear,
While all his trembling frame confess'd his fear:
Sudden, Achilles his broad sword display'd,
And buried in his neck the reeking blade.
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Iliad - Pope |
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You will not then on palfrey nor on steed,
Jennet nor mule, come
cantering
in your speed;
Flung you will be on a vile sumpter-beast;
Tried there and judged, your head you will not keep.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Soft went the music the soft air along,
While fluent Greek a vowel'd undersong 200
Kept up among the guests, discoursing low
At first, for scarcely was the wine at flow;
But when the happy vintage touch'd their brains,
Louder they talk, and louder come the strains
Of powerful instruments:--the gorgeous dyes,
The space, the
splendour
of the draperies,
The roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer,
Beautiful slaves, and Lamia's self, appear,
Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human trammels freed, 210
No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine,
Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine.
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Keats |
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When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even
then I speak of the
noontide
that dances upon the hills and of
the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou
canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating
against the stars--and I fain would not have thee hear or see.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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are just
To all that pass away:
But yet methought the living great
Some higher sparks should animate,
To dazzle and dismay:
Nor deem'd
Contempt
could thus make mirth
Of these, the Conquerors of the earth.
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Byron |
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Let us (since Life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate
free o'er all this scene of Man; 5
A mighty maze!
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Meredith - Poems |
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II
What shall we do,
Cytherea?
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Sappho |
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I wat she was a sheep o' sense,
An' could behave hersel' wi' mense:
I'll say't, she never brak a fence,
Thro'
thievish
greed.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Now even I, a fond woman,
Frail and of small understanding, 20
Yet with
unslakable
yearning
Greatly desiring wisdom,
Come to the threshold of reason
And the bright portals.
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Sappho |
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Let us
challenge
meeting at the water's edge,
while they waver and their feet yet slip as they disembark.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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are fled, and since I felt LOVE'S flame,
Experience whispers, I'm no more the same;
No longer have charms that please your eyes:
How happy I should feel if they'd
suffice!
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La Fontaine |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"I thank Him now, that I can think
Of those same future days,
Nor from the
harmless
image shrink
Of what I there might see--
Strange babies on their mothers' knee,
Whose innocent soft faces might
From off mine eyelids strike the light,
With looks not meant for me!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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No, they were
tolerant
and Christian, saying, 'We
Only deplore .
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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, but its volunteers and
employees
are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit and play with similes,
Loose types of things through all degrees,
Thoughts
of thy raising;
And many a fond and idle name
I give to thee, for praise or blame,
As is the humour of the game,
While I am gazing.
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Golden Treasury |
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Alas, that
business
forces us to do it!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's
beauties
on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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All the birds sang loud and sweetly
Songs of
happiness
and heart's-ease;
Sang the bluebird, the Owaissa,
"Happy are you, Hiawatha,
Having such a wife to love you!
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Longfellow |
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A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven,
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple,
And
swooning
at the holy feet of Night.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Not only thou hast pleasant garden-hours,
Judith, here in Bethulia; the Lord Death
Has bought the city for his garden-close,
And saunters in it
watching
the souls bloom
Out of their buds of flesh, and with delight
Smelling their agony.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Meredith - Poems |
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But then strange gleams shot through the grey-deep
eyes
As though he saw beyond and saw not me, And when he moved to speak it
troubled
him.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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_ In many senses, since their crime was (1) concealed
from Isabella, (2) darkly evil, (3) done in the
darkness
of the wood.
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Keats |
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Are you back
already?
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140
"Ah,
goddelyke
HENRIE!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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The trust of my young sovereign to requite
With
horrible
betrayal!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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So
beautiful
their bodies were,
Built with so exquisite a care:
So young and fit and lithe and fair.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He roar'd a horrid murder-shout,
In dreadfu'
desperation!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Do not all charms fly
At the mere touch of cold
philosophy?
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Keats - Lamia |
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Wilt thou go forth despite of this true
warning?
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Byron |
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Hail, Majesty most
Excellent!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If white and black blend, soften, and unite
A
thousand
ways, is there no black or white?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A single conventional episode,
with a reversal of the
customary
proceeding, is retained from the
morality-play.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
It was now the turn of the officials to look
mockingly
at me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Rodrigue
After the Count's death, the Moors defeat,
Is this honour of mine not yet
replete?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The fanciful motive of the infernal
visitant
to earth was found to
be of too slight texture for Jonson's sternly moral and satirical
purpose.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Moke moe thanne deathe in
phantasie
I feele;
See!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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20
Vnam Septumius misellus Acmen
Mavolt quam Syrias Britanniasque:
Vno in Septumio fidelis Acme
Facit
delicias
libidinesque.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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She
therefore
wrote a few lines of
explanation and, at the first opportunity, dropped it, with the letter,
out of the window.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I do confess thee sweet, but find
Thou art so
thriftless
o' thy sweets,
Thy favours are the silly wind
That kisses ilka thing it meets.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Upon a wooden coffin we attend;
And death's dishonourable victory
We with our stately presence glorify,
Like captives bound to a
triumphant
car.
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Shakespeare |
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[214] Sparta had been menaced with an
earthquake
in 427 B.
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Aristophanes |
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If anyone
mentioned
the names of Wagner or Manet, he smiled.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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My prayers shall reach the avengers of all wrong;
No
expiations
shall the curse unbind.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For, right within, the sword of Sin
Pierced to its
poisoned
hilt,
And as molten lead were the tears we shed
For the blood we had not spilt.
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Wilde - Poems |
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For you a
programme
of chants.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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And last, a matron now, of sober mien,
Yet radiant still and with no earthly sheen,
Whom as a faery child my childhood woo'd
Even in my dawn of thought--Philosophy;
Though then unconscious of herself, pardie,
She bore no other name than Poesy;
And, like a gift from heaven, in lifeful glee,
That had but newly left a mother's knee,
Prattled and play'd with bird and flower, and stone,
As if with elfin playfellows well known,
And life reveal'd to
innocence
alone.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Fearest thou, a groan of thine
Would make the pulse of thy
creation
fail
As thine own pulse?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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One of their reforms was the remodelling of the equestrian order;
and, having effected this reform, they
determined
to give to
their work a sanction derived from religion.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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In one of his poems
he
described
a landscape of metal, of marble and water; a babel of
staircases and arcades, a palace of infinity, surrounded by the silence
of eternity.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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, _speech in which one promises great things for himself
in a coming combat, defiant speech,
boasting
speech_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Title: Lamia
Author: John Keats
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LAMIA
By John Keats
Part 1
Upon a time, before the faery broods
Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,
Before King Oberon's bright diadem,
Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem,
Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns
From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns,
The ever-smitten Hermes empty left
His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft:
From high Olympus had he stolen light,
On this side of Jove's clouds, to escape the sight
Of his great summoner, and made retreat
Into a forest on the shores of Crete.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Your Beauty's a flower in the morning that blows,
And withers the faster, the faster it grows:
But the
rapturous
charm o' the bonie green knowes,
Ilk spring they're new deckit wi' bonie white yowes.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Des
curiosites
vaguement impudiques
Epouvantent le reve aux chastes bleuites
Qui sont surpris autour des celestes tuniques
Du linge dont Jesus voile ses nudites.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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O Sicilian shores of a marshy calm
My vanity plunders vying with the sun,
Silent beneath scintillating flowers, RELATE
'That I was cutting hollow reeds here tamed
By talent: when, on the green gold of distant
Verdure offering its vine to the fountains,
An animal whiteness
undulates
to rest:
And as a slow prelude in which the pipes exist
This flight of swans, no, of Naiads cower
Or plunge.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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75 or some such fractional matter;) so to let you a
little into the secrets of my pericranium, there is, you must know, a
certain clean-limbed, handsome,
bewitching
young hussy of your
acquaintance, to whom I have lately and privately given a matrimonial
title to my corpus.
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Robert Forst |
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Sees he some
likeness
here?
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Euripides - Electra |
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It's
a thing no married man knows
anything
about.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" said a voice,
scornfully
naming the best baggage-breed that
he knew.
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Kipling - Poems |
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_Katenine_
translated
Corneille's tragedies into Russian.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
garlands
wither on your brow;
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
Upon Death's purple altar now
See where the victor-victim bleeds:
Your heads must come
To the cold tomb;
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
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Golden Treasury |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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While my
pleasure
is yet at the full, I whisper, _So long_!
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Whitman |
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O, for a draught of
vintage!
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Keats |
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A learned writer says that
_Lullaby_
is derived from "Lilla, abi!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Poi, come nel percuoter d'i ciocchi arsi
surgono innumerabili faville,
onde li stolti sogliono agurarsi,
resurger parver quindi piu di mille
luci e salir, qual assai e qual poco,
si come 'l sol che l'accende sortille;
e quietata
ciascuna
in suo loco,
la testa e 'l collo d'un'aguglia vidi
rappresentare a quel distinto foco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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{29d} The chronology of this epic, as
scholars
have worked it out,
would make Beowulf well over ninety years of age when he fights the
dragon.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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You dropped a purple
ravelling
in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you 've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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That, set him to a pint of ale,
An' either douce or merry tale,
Or rhymes an' sangs he'd made himsel',
Or witty catches,
'Tween
Inverness
and Tiviotdale,
He had few matches.
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Robert Burns |
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How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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