Il le prend par le bras, arrache le velours
Des rideaux, et lui montre en bas les larges cours
Ou fourmille, ou fourmille, ou se leve la foule,
La foule epouvantable avec des bruits de houle
Hurlant comme une chienne, hurlant comme une mer,
Avec ses batons forts et ses piques de fer,
Ses tambours, ses grands cris de halles et de bouges,
Tas sombre de
haillons
saignants de bonnets rouges;
L'Homme, par la fenetre ouverte, montre tout
Au roi pale, et suant qui chancelle debout,
Malade a regarder cela!
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Yet in the soul of earth,
Deep in the primal ground,
Its searching roots are wound,
And centuries have
struggled
toward its birth.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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But when he saw the evening star above
Leucadia's far-projecting rock of woe,
And hailed the last resort of
fruitless
love,
He felt, or deemed he felt, no common glow:
And as the stately vessel glided slow
Beneath the shadow of that ancient mount,
He watched the billows' melancholy flow,
And, sunk albeit in thought as he was wont,
More placid seemed his eye, and smooth his pallid front.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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It happens also, when less sharp the blow,
The vital motions which are left are wont
Oft to win out--win out, and stop and still
The uncouth tumults
gendered
by the blow,
And call each part to its own courses back,
And shake away the motion of death which now
Begins its own dominion in the body,
And kindle anew the senses almost gone.
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Lucretius |
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When I asked the man to whom I have referred, if there were any falls
on the Riviere au Chien,--for I saw that it came over the same high
bank with the
Montmorenci
and St.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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There's grief of want, and grief of cold, --
A sort they call 'despair;'
There's
banishment
from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Ce qu'il faut a ce coeur profond comme un abime,
C'est vous, Lady Macbeth, ame puissante au crime,
Reve d'Eschyle eclos au climat des autans;
Ou bien toi, grand Nuit, fille de Michel-Ange,
Qui tors
paisiblement
dans une pose etrange
Tes appas faconnes aux bouches des Titans!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The people watched with
startled
mien
And passed with frightened glance
For all know that only a Queen
May dance in the lanes: dance!
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Rilke - Poems |
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]
[Footnote 21: Five are to the
Countess
of Bedford--'Reason
is', 'Honour is', 'You have refin'd', 'To have written then',
and 'This Twy-light'.
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John Donne |
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13
Not if I feigned me that guard of Crete, 23
Not if with
Pegasean
wing I sped,
Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped, 25
Or Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white:
Add the twain foot-bewing'd and fast of flight,
And of the cursive winds require the blow:
All these (Camerius!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Two sounding darts the Lycian leader threw:
The first aloof with erring fury flew,
The next transpierced Achilles' mortal steed,
The generous Pedasus of Theban breed:
Fix'd in the shoulder's joint, he reel'd around,
Roll'd in the bloody dust, and paw'd the
slippery
ground.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Therwith
he gan hir faste in armes take,
And wel an hundred tymes gan he syke, 1360
Nought swiche sorwfull sykes as men make
For wo, or elles whan that folk ben syke,
But esy sykes, swiche as been to lyke,
That shewed his affeccioun with-inne;
Of swiche sykes coude he nought bilinne.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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--We who have
laboured
long and sore
Times out of mind,
And keen are yet, must not regret
To drop behind.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Then in the corb Aegisthus set his hand,
Took the straight blade, cut from the proud bull's head
A lock, and laid it where the fire was red;
Then, while the young men held the bull on high,
Slew it with one clean gash; and suddenly
Turned on thy brother: "Stranger, every true
Thessalian, so the story goes, can hew
A bull's limbs clean, and tame a
mountain
steed.
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Euripides - Electra |
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A Dream about Cynthia_
VIDI te in somnis fracta, mea uita, carina
Ionio lassas ducere rore manus,
et
quaecumque
in me fueras mentita fateri,
nec iam umore grauis tollere posse comas,
qualem purpureis agitatam fluctibus Hellen,
aurea quam molli tergore uexit ouis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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From my memory
With nothing of language but
O dreamer, that I may dive
All at once, as if in play,
Not meaningless flurries like
Any solitude
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
The virginal, living and lovely day
Victoriously the grand suicide fled
Her pure nails on high dedicating their onyx,
- 'Over the lost woods when dark winter lowers
To the sole task of voyaging
All summarised, the soul,
What silk of time's sweet balm
To introduce myself to your story
Crushed by the
overwhelming
cloud
My books closed again on Paphos' name,
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
Each Dawn however numb
She slept: her finger trembled, amethyst-less
Frigid roses to last
O so dear from far and near and white all
Mery,
Since Maria left me to go to another star - which one, Orion, Altair - or you
The flesh is sad, alas!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Loud crash'd the thorns 270
Which down he cast before the cavern's mouth,
To whose
interior
nooks we trembling flew.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Colts jumped the fence,
Snorting, ramping, snapping, sniffing,
With
gastronomic
calculations,
Crossed the Appalachians,
The east walls of our citadel,
And turned to gold-horned unicorns,
Feasting in the dim, volunteer farms of the forest.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Holy Odd's
bodykins
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XXVIII
THE WELSH MARCHES
High the vanes of
Shrewsbury
gleam
Islanded in Severn stream;
The bridges from the steepled crest
Cross the water east and west.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_ One who is born of thee:
It is
ordained
so.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A singing lark rose toward the sky,
Circling
he sang amain;
He sang, a speck scarce visible sky-high,
And then he sank again.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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Thej approve it thus far, and said it was fine ;
Yet his lordship to finish it would be unable,
Unless all abroad he
divulged
the design,
For his house then would grow like a vegetable.
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Marvell - Poems |
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" whispered a voice which
thrilled
through
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Yet they do well who name it with a name,
For all its rash
surrenders
call it true.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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XXI
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
Found no way to tame, this proud city,
That with a courage forged in adversity,
Sustained the shock of endless wars,
Though her ship, plagued at the source
By great waves, felt the world's enmity,
None ever saw the reefs of adversity
Wreak havoc on her fortunate course:
But, the object of her virtue failing,
Her power opposed its own flailing,
Like the voyager whom a cruel gale
Has long since
separated
from the shore,
Driven now by the storm's wild roar,
And shipwrecked there, when all efforts fail.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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At last we passed the
principal
gate, and for ever left Fort Belogorsk.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Look, look I the very embers of themselves
Have caught the altar with a
flickering
flame,
While I delay to fetch them: may the sign
Prove lucky!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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[Poems by William Blake 1789]
SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE
and THE BOOK of THEL
SONGS OF INNOCENCE
INTRODUCTION
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he
laughing
said to me:
"Pipe a song about a Lamb!
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blake-poems |
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Vaster and still more vast,
Peak after peak, pile after pile,
Wilderness still untamed,
To which the future is as was the past,
Barrier spread by Gods,
Sunning their shining foreheads,
Barrier broken down by those who do not need
The joy of time-resisting storm-worn stone,
The
mountains
swing along
The south horizon of the sky;
Welcoming with wide floors of blue-green ice
The mists that dance and drive before the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Touching
those letters, sir, I wot not of them.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The soul sees through the senses, imagines, hears,
Has from the body's powers its acts and looks:
The spirit once
embodied
has wit, makes books,
Matter makes it more perfect and more fair.
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Ronsard |
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I can recall no word
Of
anything
he did;
For me he is a man who died and was interred
To leave a pyramid
Whose purpose was exprest
Not with its first design,
Nor till, far down in Time, beside it found their rest
Two countrymen of mine.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And when the sun sinks slowly down,
And the great rock-walls grow dark and brown,
When the purple river rolls fast and dim,
And the ivory Ibis
starlike
skim,
Wing to wing we dance around," etc.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Such shall our poet's blest
companions
be,
And in their deaths, as in their lives, agree.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The valet fain would try a diff'rent dish;
'Twas not allowed;--you've got, said they, your wish;
'Tis pie alone; you like it best you know,
And no
objection
you must dare to show.
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La Fontaine |
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A LITTLE BOY LOST
"Nought loves another as itself,
Nor
venerates
another so,
Nor is it possible to thought
A greater than itself to know.
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blake-poems |
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It is
certainly
very different from that of the
other letters to noble ladies.
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John Donne |
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Starlight is a usual occurrence
Any
pleasant
night beside the sea.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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I lost six
brothers
in the flower of their youth,
And the hopes of an illustrious house in truth!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Describe
Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Nusch
The
sentiments
apparent
The lightness of approach
The tresses of caresses.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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& wet thy veil with dewy tears, *
In
slumbers
of my night-repose, infusing a false morning?
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Blake - Zoas |
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"
'Twas in the
seventeen
hunder year
O' grace, and ninety-five,
That year I was the wae'est man
Of ony man alive.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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) This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker
figures far and wide in the
Literature
of the World, from the time of
the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name
of "Pot theism," by which Mr.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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A kinde
goodnight
to all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Whose
harshest
idea
Will to melody run,
O!
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And we know what it is to reign,
And finally did heark--
Aye, masters of the narrow Neck,
We
hearkened
to our heart,
And gave him freedom on our deck,
His town, and gold--in part.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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7645
And sir, of o thing herkeneth me:--
Sith ye this man, that loveth yow,
Han seid such harm and shame now,
Witeth wel, if he gessed it,
Ye may wel demen in your wit, 7650
He nolde no-thing love you so,
Ne callen you his freend also,
But night and day he [wolde] wake,
The castel to
destroye
and take,
If it were sooth as ye devyse; 7655
Or som man in som maner wyse
Might it warne him everydel,
Or by him-self perceyven wel;
For sith he might not come and gon
As he was whylom wont to don, 7660
He might it sone wite and see;
But now al other-wyse [doth] he.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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miseri, quibus
intemptata
nites.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The younger generation
will come
knocking
at my door.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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That
Emperour
does with the morning rise;
Matins and Mass are said then in his sight.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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O Phoebus, if that fond desire remains,
Which fired thy breast near the Thessalian wave;
If those bright tresses, which such pleasure gave,
Through lapse of years thy memory not disdains;
From
sluggish
frosts, from rude inclement rains.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'
'Shame, Shame,' seyde Ielousy,
'To be
bitrasshed
gret drede have I.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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His choice will prove to
courtiers
as in this
That there's but scant reward for present service.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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One of
these is the invitation which I have received to edit a
selection
from
Whitman's writings; virtually the first sample of his work ever published
in England, and offering the first tolerably fair chance he has had of
making his way with English readers on his own showing.
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Whitman |
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The
pleasure
soon
Becomes a shame, scarce to be spoken aloud;
And in best minds, either detested doting
Man's joy in woman's beauty will become;
Or a strict binding fire, holding him down
In lust of beauty where no beauty is.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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SAID he, what anxiously I wish to get,
You've plenty stored, and never wanted yet;
You surely know my
meaning?
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La Fontaine |
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Know'st thou not well, with thy superior wisdom, that
On a vain tongue
punishment
is inflicted?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Canto II
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno
toglieva
li animai che sono in terra
da le fatiche loro; e io sol uno
m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra
si del cammino e si de la pietate,
che ritrarra la mente che non erra.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I haue giuen Sucke, and know
How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me,
I would, while it was smyling in my Face,
Haue pluckt my Nipple from his
Bonelesse
Gummes,
And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne
As you haue done to this
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Whan the
pilgrymes
commen were 7475
To Wicked-Tonge, that dwelled there,
Hir harneis nigh hem was algate;
By Wicked-Tonge adoun they sate,
That bad hem ner him for to come,
And of tydinges telle him some, 7480
And sayde hem:--'What cas maketh yow
To come into this place now?
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"
Brings his horse his eldest sister,
And the next his arms, which glister,
Whilst the third, with
childish
prattle,
Cries, "when wilt return from battle?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It is quite true that
the later epics take over, to a very great extent, the methods and
manners of the earlier poems; just as architecture hands on the style of
wooden
structure
to an age that builds in stone, and again imposes the
manners of stone construction on an age that builds in concrete and
steel.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Am I like
withered
leaves?
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Christina Rossetti |
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The covinens, the 'agreement', mentioned at the end of the fourth verse is the standard term for the
concordia
that ended conflicts in eleventh and twelfth-century Occitania.
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Troubador Verse |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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For my part I was
convinced
it was all right, and merely stepped aside,
out of the range of the Egyptian's fist.
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Poe - 5 |
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They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As
laughter
was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a travelling show,
Or who died yesterday!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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[The verses enclosed were written on the death of the Lord President
Dundas, at the
suggestion
of Charles Hay, Esq.
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Robert Burns |
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said the mother, never be so nice;
Go, nothing fear, and do whate'er's desired;
Much
understanding
will not be required;
The first or second time thou'lt get thy cue,
And cousin Anne will less know what to do.
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La Fontaine |
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that love-prompted strain,
('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond)
Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain:
Yet might'st thou seem, proud
privilege!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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As pleased as little children where these grow
In cobbled pattens and worn gowns they go,
Proud of their wisdom when on gooseberry shoots
They stuck
eggshells
to fright from coming fruits
The brisk-billed rascals; pausing still to see
Their neighbour owls saunter from tree to tree,
Or in the hushing half-light mouse the lane
Long-winged and lordly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Their
versification, which, having received its laws only from the ear,
abounds in irregularities, seems
licentious
and uncouth.
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I took my leve, and
streight
I went
Unto the hay; for gret talent
I had to seen the fresh botoun,
Wherin lay my salvacioun;
And Daunger took kepe, if that I 3475
Kepe him covenaunt trewly.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The troops
clamoured
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Tacitus |
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Tree, victory's bright guerdon, wont to crown
Heroes and bards with thy
triumphal
leaf,
How many days of mingled joy and grief
Have I from thee through life's short passage known.
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Petrarch |
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The Princeton
University
Press:--"To France," by Herbert Jones, from _A
Book of Princeton Verse_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Thou lyest
abhorred
Tyrant, with my Sword
Ile proue the lye thou speak'st.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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They sailed away in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a
beautiful
pea-green veil
Tied with a ribbon, by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it:
During the day she was joy,
happiness
all the night long.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The last
suggests
that the one is
a copy of the other, but again they diverge in such cases as III.
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And after three and thirty years, during which my mother, and the
nurse, and the priest have all died, (the shadow of God be upon
their
spirits)
the soothsayer still lives.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you
Sit
careless
in the shade, and, at your call,
"Fair Amaryllis" bid the woods resound.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants,
chantant
dans la coupole!
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