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Orpheus could lead the savage race,
And trees uprooted left their place
Sequacious of the lyre:
But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher:
When to her Organ vocal breath was given
An angel heard, and straight appear'd--
Mistaking
Earth for Heaven!
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Golden Treasury |
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[535] Meaning he was too poor,
Aristophanes
represents him as a glutton
and a parasite.
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Aristophanes |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Then Eno [Ono] a
daughter
of Beulah took a Moment of Time *
And drew it out to twenty years Seven thousand years with much care & affliction *
And many tears & in the twenty Every years gave visions toward heaven made windows into Eden *
She also took an atom of space & opend its center
Into Infinitude & ornamented it with wondrous art
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Blake - Zoas |
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In 1726, Swift visited Pope and encouraged him to
complete
a satire
which he seems already to have begun on the dull critics and hack
writers of the day.
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Alexander Pope |
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[725] Merchants were exempt from
military
service; in this case, it is
another kind of service that the old woman wants to exact from the young
man.
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Aristophanes |
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The pewit turned over and stooped oer my head
Where the raven croaked loud like the
ploughman
ill-bred,
But the lark high above charmed me all the day long,
So I sat down and joined in the chorus of song.
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John Clare |
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--with
assenting
nod,
Its head upon its mother's breast,
The Baby bow'd, without demur--
Of the kingdom of the Blest
Possessor, not inheritor.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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copyright law (does not
contain a notice indicating that it is posted with permission of the
copyright holder), the work can be copied and
distributed
to anyone in
the United States without paying any fees or charges.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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And there right
suddenly
the fool looked up
And saw the crowd divided in two ranks.
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Sidney Lanier |
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So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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I do not sing here to the common tune,
Claiming that
everything
beneath the moon
Is corruptible and subject to decay:
But rather I say (not wishing to displease
Those who would argue by contraries)
That this great All must perish some fine day.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Here holy
thoughts
a light have shed
From many a radiant face,
And prayers of humble virtue made
The perfume of the place.
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Emerson - Poems |
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And similarly, if we cannot accept the current estimate of Li Po,
we have at least the
satisfaction
of knowing that some of China's
most celebrated writers are on our side.
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Li Po |
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"Why
loosened
I olden control here
To mechanize skywards,
Undeeming great scope could outshape in
A globe of such grain?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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There ran one with the racers
Straight-fashioned as a sword,
With sail-brown cheek and eyes as deep
As water in a fiord
And till the King's word bade them cease
None passed or touched him near,
He leapt as frightened chamois leap
And ran like a
stricken
deer.
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Tennyson |
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At dusk we left the blue mountain-head;
The mountain-moon followed our
homeward
steps.
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Li Po |
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Some lowly cot in the rough fields our home,
Shoot down the stags, or with green osier-wand
Round up the
straggling
flock!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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Imagists |
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Some fancied they heard in the air
A weary and
wandering
sigh
That sounded like "-jum!
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Lewis Carroll |
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FROSCH:
Lass Er uns das zum zweiten Male
bleiben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ah, who is able fully to express
Her
pleasing
ways, her merit?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Over and over and over and over again
The same hungry thoughts and the hopeless same regrets,
Over and over the same truths, again and again
In a heaving ring
returning
the same regrets.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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This
familiar
proverb
first appears in Aristides 2.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived the scene, and
foretold
the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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But since on me your bright glance ever shines,
E'en as a sunbeam through
transparent
glass,
Suffice then the desire without the lines.
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Petrarch |
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Nor had I time to love; but since
Some
industry
must be,
The little toil of love, I thought,
Was large enough for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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For a moment I thought that I saw the smock
Of a
shepherd
in search of his flock.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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He it was who first
taunted Nature with being an
imitator
of art, with always being the
same.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I saw alone, dim, white and grand
As in a dream, the angel's hand
Stretched forth in gesture of command
Straight
through the haze.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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THE KING OF ARGOS
Speak now to me his name, this
greybeard
wise.
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Aeschylus |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In
gracious
splendour!
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Sappho |
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Childless
thou art, Childless remaine:
So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two 990
Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
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Milton |
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1173)
Raimbaut, Lord of Orange, Corethezon and other lands in
Provence
and Languedoc, was the first troubadour originating from Provence proper.
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Troubador Verse |
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The wilderness is cracked and browned
But through the water pale and thin
Still shine the
unoffending
feet
And there above the painter set
The Father and the Paraclete.
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T.S. Eliot |
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This does not seem consistent with the idea of
the gradations of
existence
which Pope has been preaching throughout
this Epistle.
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Alexander Pope |
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10
quae nunc, si mihi uera nuntiantur,
illum deperit
impotente
amore.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys and girls raising their
innocent
hands.
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blake-poems |
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Rodrigue
I haste towards that hour
That yields my being to your
vengeful
power.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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God now
commands
the multi-colored bands
Of angels to intrude and slay the beast
That His good sons may have a feast of food.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Afar he
marvels at the armour and
chariots
empty of their lords: their spears
stand fixed in the ground, and their unyoked horses pasture at large
over the plain: their life's delight in chariot and armour, their care
in pasturing their sleek horses, follows them in like wise low under
earth.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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From his proud car the prince
impetuous
springs,
On earth he leaps, his brazen armour rings.
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Iliad - Pope |
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40
And thenne Duke Wyllyam to his
knyghtes
did saie;
My merrie menne, be bravelie everiche;
Gif I do gayn the honore of the daie,
Ech one of you I will make myckle riche.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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I knew, I knew 890
There was a place
untenanted
in it:
In that same void white Chastity shall sit,
And monitor me nightly to lone slumber.
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Keats |
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At first such contradictions wrought
Mutual
repulsion
and ennui,
But grown familiar side by side
On horseback every day they ride--
Inseparable soon they be.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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4 How the Central Plain has been cast in
darkness!
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The old cross-grained, whiggish, ugly,
slanderous
Miss ----, with all
the poisonous spleen of a disappointed, ancient maid, stops me very
unseasonably to ease her bursting breast, by falling abusively foul
on the Miss Lindsays, particularly on my Dulcinea;--I hardly refrain
from cursing her to her face for daring to mouth her calumnious
slander on one of the finest pieces of the workmanship of Almighty
Excellence!
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Robert Burns |
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So unto these
Must added be a somewhat, and a fourth;
That somewhat's
altogether
void of name;
Than which existeth naught more mobile, naught
More an impalpable, of elements
More small and smooth and round.
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Lucretius |
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at he was hire owe; 1002
And hou his fader
sergeauntz
alle,
veyn glorie gonne hym calle,
And gorre on hym gonne ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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' --
And wente his wey,
thenking
on this matere,
And how he best mighte hir beseche of grace,
And finde a tyme ther-to, and a place.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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At school he is said to have known the classical
dictionary by heart, but his inspiration is more likely to have been due
to his later reading of the Elizabethan poets, and their
translations
of
classic story.
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Keats |
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Between the publication of his edition of Shakespeare,
however, and the appearance of the 'Dunciad', Pope
resolved
to complete
his translation of Homer, and with the assistance of a pair of friends,
got out a version of the Odyssey in 1725.
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Alexander Pope |
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E'en thou wentst forth in poverty and hunger
To set the goodly plant, that from the vine,
It once was, now is grown
unsightly
bramble.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Yet, yet rejoice, though Pride's
perverted
ire
Rouze Hell's own aid, and wrap thy hills on fire!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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My
thoughts
tear me,
I dread their fever.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And when
Was that song put in hiding 'mid my
thought?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Dost promise me I shall recover
In this hodge-podge of
craziness?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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He'll speak for
himself!
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Tennyson |
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Please do the poet a favor and shorten the
glorious
hours
Which the painter devours, eagerly filling his eyes.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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118
King John sends to explore the East by land 122
Emmanuel succeeds; his dream of the rivers Ganges and Indus 123
The king consults his council 125
Entrusts the
expedition
to Vasco de Gama 125
Vasco de Gama's preparations 127
Parting of the armada with their friends 129
The old man's farewell address 130
BOOK V.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I give you here a saying deep and therefore, haply true;
'Tis out of Merlin's prophecies, but quite as good as new:
The
question
boath for men and meates longe voyages yt beginne
Lyes in a notshell, rather saye lyes in a case of tinne.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her,
Can human nature not survive
Without a
listener?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Now all that faith, so free from care, hath vanished,
Now in the short respite I haste and gather
Of all remaining, binding leaf and blossoms;
Half
withered
marvels of my sorrowed hand.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
or PGLAF), owns a
compilation
copyright in the collection of Project
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Indeed, if in a ball of wool there be
As much of body as in lump of lead,
The two should weigh alike, since body tends
To load things downward, while the void abides,
By
contrary
nature, the imponderable.
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Lucretius |
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Light flew his earnest words, among the
blossoms
blown.
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Keats - Lamia |
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--Learning needs rest:
sovereignty
gives it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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at he (cani{us}) was knowyng {and}
consentyng of a
coniurac{i}ou{n}
maked a?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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She's stately like yon
youthful
ash,
That grows the cowslip braes between,
And drinks the stream with vigour fresh;
An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.
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Robert Burns |
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Nor from the seat of scornful pride
Casts forth his eyes abroad,
But with
humility
and awe
Still walks before his God.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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No, no, too eagerly my soul deceives
Its
powerless
self: I know this cannot be.
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Keats |
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The boatman smiles,
Princess
Volupine extends
A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand
To climb the waterstair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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XLIII
But how long time, said then the Elfin knight,
Are you in this
misformed
house to dwell?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Hath
language
left thy lips, to place
Its vocal in thine eye?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Said I, "And what path of wisdom
followest
thou?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the
finished
Sabbath
On the pavement here--and, there beyond, it is looking
Down a new-made double grave.
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Whitman |
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[PHERES _is now out of sight;_ ADMETUS _drops his
defiance
and
seems like a broken man.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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And justly so; for all that time creates,
He does well who
annihilates!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Why fade these
children
of the spring?
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blake-poems |
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This
is
indicated
here and elsewhere by the letter A.
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Alexander Pope |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Why should rose
blossoms
be born,
Tender blossoms, on a thorn
Though so sweet?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Good sons and brave good sires approve:
Strong bullocks, fiery colts, attest
Their fathers' worth, nor
weakling
dove
Is hatch'd in savage eagle's nest.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
national romances, neglected by the great and the refined whose
education had been finished at Rhodes or Athens, continued, it
may be supposed, during some
generations
to delight the vulgar.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Ronsard |
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how can one
deliberately
renounce
this coloured, unquiet, fiery human life of
the earth?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Are we sae
foughten
an' harass'd
For gear to gang that gate at last?
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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MOONLIGHT
As a pale phantom with a lamp
Ascends some ruin's haunted stair,
So glides the moon along the damp
Mysterious
chambers of the air.
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Longfellow |
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This tie
explains the fact, which we learn from Jonson's
conversations
with
Drummond, that Hall is the author of the _Harbinger to the Progresse_.
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John Donne |
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Germanicus, not yet
informed
that his journey was censured, sailed up
the Nile, beginning at Canopus, [Footnote: Near Aboukir.
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Tacitus |
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Is it that death forgets to free
You fishes of
melancholy?
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Appoloinaire |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin
caresses
stroking her.
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Ronsard |
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The
neighbors
do not yet suspect!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The
Dardanian
princes knew the god
and the arms of deity, and heard the clash of his quiver as he went.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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