LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
That where the hills first draw from off the plain,
And the high ridge with gentle slope descends,
Down to the brook-side and the broken crests
Of yonder veteran beeches, all the land
Was by the songs of your
Menalcas
saved.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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;--So Cicero, who seems to translate it--Proh
dii
immortales!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But
this subject is almost too
horrible
for a joke.
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Shelley |
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Here, where the
ancients
paid thee homage long--
Thou, who didst call the Furies from the abyss,
And round Orestes bade them howl and hiss
For that unnatural retribution--just,
Had it but been from hands less near--in this
Thy former realm, I call thee from the dust!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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There beams our sun of life, whose genial ray
With brighter verdure thy left shore adorns;
Perchance
(vain hope!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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us in
Arthurus
day ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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XXVIII
She loved upon the balcony
To
anticipate
the break of day,
When on the pallid eastern sky
The starry beacons fade away,
The horizon luminous doth grow,
Morning's forerunners, breezes blow
And gradually day unfolds.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the
dressing
of his lines!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I see his messengers
attending
thee.
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Longfellow |
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1570, The Rijksmuseun
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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Yet when the long-time stagnant winds arise,
And day by day the keel to westward flies,
My Good my people's Ill doth come to be:
`Ever the winds into the West do blow;
Never a ship, once turned, might homeward go;
Meanwhile we speed into the
lonesome
main.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Visiting
churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,
I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Albion groand on Tyburns brook
Albion gave his loud death groan The Atlantic Mountains trembled
Aloft the Moon fled with a cry the Sun with streams of blood
From Albions Loins fled all Peoples and Nations of the Earth Fled {Erdman's notes
indicate
that "Blake first wrote ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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When the An Lu-shan revolution broke out, he took to living sometimes
at Su-sung,
sometimes
on Mount K'uang-lu.
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Li Po |
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XX
Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as
beautiful
again
That in the water are;
The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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I was a man who stood in symbolic
relations
to the art and culture of my
age.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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But in that line on the British right,
There massed a corps amain,
Of men who hailed from a far west land
Of
mountain
and forest and plain;
Men new to war and its dreadest deeds,
But noble and staunch and true;
Men of the open, East and West,
Brew of old Britain's brew.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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)
But there comes Godunov
Bringing
reports to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Having been each a seer
To whom all things were near,
Not
resenting
or grieving
But simply believing.
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Tennyson |
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Through his whole body
something
ran,
A most strange something did I see;
--As if he strove to be a man,
That he might pull the sledge for me.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Such as eternity at last
transforms
into Himself,
The buried shrine shows at its sewer-mouth's
The black rock enraged that the north wind rolls it on
Hyperbole!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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115
Sed quid ego a primo digressus carmine plura
Conmemorem, ut linquens genitoris filia voltum,
Vt consanguineae conplexum, ut denique matris,
Quae misera in gnata deperdita laetabatur,
Omnibus his Thesei dulcem praeoptarit amorem, 120
Aut ut vecta rati spumosa ad litora Diae
_Venerit_, aut ut eam devinctam lumina somno
Liquerit inmemori discedens pectore
coniunx?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Professor Dowden
justifies his plan of relegating the Fenwick and other notes to the end
of each volume of his edition, on the ground that
students
of the Poet
'must' take the trouble of hunting to and fro for such things.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, "What wailing wight
Calls the
watchman
of the night?
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blake-poems |
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or
filename
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http://www.
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Sappho |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thy narrow pride, thy fancied green
(For vanity's in little seen),
All must be left when Death appears,
In spite of wishes, groans, and tears;
Nor one of all thy plants that grow
But
Rosemary
will with thee go.
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Golden Treasury |
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In the talk on the soul
and
eternity
and God, off of his equal plane, he is silent.
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Whitman |
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Says Old Brown,
Osawatomie
Brown,
"Boys, we've got an army large enough to march and take
the town!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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IV
These latter scenes confine my roving vers,
To this Horizon is my Phoebus bound,
His Godlike acts, and his temptations fierce,
And former sufferings other where are found;
Loud o're the rest Cremona's Trump doth sound;
Me softer airs befit, and softer strings
Of Lute, or Viol still, more apt for
mournful
things.
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Milton |
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No pangs of ours can change him; not though we
In the mid-frost should drink of Hebrus' stream,
And in wet winters face Sithonian snows,
Or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole
Of drought is dying, should, under Cancer's Sign,
In
Aethiopian
deserts drive our flocks.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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You should never have dropped your sword as you fled
Which, left in her hands,
condemns
you instead:
Or rather in order to complete your treachery, 1085
You should have robbed her of life and speech.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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nullo spatio relicto
1 _Varus_ C: _Varius_ GOR Ven La1:
_Verannius_
D
3 _tunc_ ORVen Laur.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For
additional
contact information:
Dr.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse of thy deeds
There is such strength and
warrantise
of skill,
That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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1639, _News from
Hogsdon_, 1598, and Dekker,
_Roaring
Girle_, _Wks.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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has
travelled
everywhere,
And all politeness to the fair.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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]
[C] Renaud com
richchande
?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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To
SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit www.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poet Li Po, by Arthur Waley and Bai Li
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Li Po |
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--to tell
The
loveliness
of loving well!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Hurry, hurry, for the winds are fickle; make haste, while the
divine will is set on
stopping
this cruel war and is showering on us the
most striking benefits.
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Aristophanes |
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Alcinous, then, (for in the dance they pass'd
All others) call'd his sons to dance alone,
Halius and Laodamas; they gave
The purple ball into their hands, the work
Exact of Polybus; one, re-supine,
Upcast it high toward the dusky clouds,
The other,
springing
into air, with ease 460
Received it, ere he sank to earth again.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Certainly
he would
behave with discretion.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Nothing can be more
loathsome
than to see
Power conjoin'd with Nature's cruelty.
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Robert Herrick |
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Quand La lumiere arrive intense et folle
Fouillant
a vos cotes les luxes ruisselants,
Vous n'allez pas baver, sans geste, sans parole,
Dans vos verres, les yeux perdus aux lointains blancs,
Avalez, pour la Reine aux fesses cascadantes!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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he is sunk down into a deadly sleep
But we immortal in our strength survive by stern debate
Till we have drawn the Lamb of god into a mortal form
And that he must be born is certain for One must be All
And comprehend within himself all things both small & great
We therefore for whose sake all things aspire to be be & live
Will so recieve the Divine Image that amongst the Reprobate
He may be devoted to
Destruction
from his mothers womb {This group of 9 lines, "Refusing.
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Blake - Zoas |
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They sun themselves gladly and all are gay,
They celebrate Christ's
resurrection
to-day.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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As o'er the fresh grass her fair form its sweet
And
graceful
passage makes at evening hours,
Seems as around the newly-wakening flowers
Found virtue issue from her delicate feet.
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Petrarch |
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Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter garment of
Repentance
fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search.
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Meredith - Poems |
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False Notions of Happiness,
Philosophical
and Popular, answered from
v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Yes, it is in this
atmosphere
that it would be good to live,--yonder,
where slower hours contain more thoughts, where the clocks strike the
hours of happiness with a more profound and significant solemnity.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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So many
hurrying
home--
And thou still away.
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Sappho |
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Just
When I had dealt with their front rank, the Germans
Repulsed
us utterly.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He hath beene in vnusuall Pleasure,
And sent forth great
Largesse
to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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She snuffs and barks if any passes bye
And swings her tail and turns
prepared
to fly.
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John Clare |
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Then Devens looked and saw the light:
He got him forth into the night,
And watched alone on the river-shore,
And marked the British
ferrying
o'er.
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Sidney Lanier |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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I do respect
Thine order, and revere thine years; I deem
Thy purpose pious, but it is in vain:
Think me not churlish; I would spare thyself,
Far more than me, in
shunning
at this time
All further colloquy--and so--farewell.
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Byron |
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Divide ye bands
influence
by influence
Build we a Bower for heavens darling in the grizly deep
Build we the Mundane Shell around the Rock of Albion {Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no indication of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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)
This is, in my opinion, more
poetical
than "Ne'er made sic anither.
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Robert Burns |
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"Three times shall a young foot-page
Swim the stream and climb the mountain
And kneel down beside my feet--
'Lo, my master sends this gage,
Lady, for thy pity's
counting!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But each day brings less summer cheer,
Crimps more our ineffectual spring,
And
something
earlier every year
Our singing birds take wing.
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James Russell Lowell |
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If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
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Sara Teasdale |
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dic mihi, quid feci, nisi non
sapienter
amaui?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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wæs hira blǣd scacen
(of both tribes),
_strength
was gone_, i.
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Beowulf |
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Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying
combinations
touched by the sun's last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Still, Nature, ever just, to him imparts
Joys only given to
uncorrupted
hearts.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The literary value, if I am allowed to say so, of this print-less distance which
mentally
separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one's simultaneous sight of the page: the latter taken as unity, as elsewhere the Verse is or perfect line.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Devoyd of pryde certeyn she was;
To
Bialacoil
she wente a pas,
And to him shortly, in a clause, 3725
She seide: 'Sir, what is the cause
Ye been of port so daungerous
Unto this lover, and deynous,
To graunte him no-thing but a kis?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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the tribunal is rolling out its
thunder!
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Aristophanes |
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Stephen Crane |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And
wondered
if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Explicit
Liber Quartus.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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farewell, a short
farewell!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Toward the hall with her attendant train
She moved, and when, most graceful of her sex,
Where sat the suitors she arrived, between
The columns standing of the stately dome, 490
And covering with her white veil's lucid folds
Her features, to
Antinous
thus she spake.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Well may'st thou pause, and gloom, and stare,
A visible conscience: I arraign
Thee, criminal Cloud, of rare
Contempts on Mercy, Right, and Prayer, --
Of murders, arsons, thefts, -- of
nameless
stain.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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31
I know you step within mine house 32
'Tis not wise until the latest hour 32
The hill where o'er we wander lies in shadow 33
Needs must thou be upon the wastelands
yearning
.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft
deceitful
wiles.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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If I
renounced
her love, she'd scorn me:
She ought not, for love it is adorns me.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The naked
lightnings
in the heaven dither
And disappear.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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He is a
Corporal
in the Twelfth York and Lancaster
Regiment.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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.
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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thou shining light
of my
earthenware
lamp, from this high spot shalt thou look abroad.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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A
SHROPSHIRE
LAD
By A.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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: _iuncta Lycaoniae_ Parthenius: _iuncta
Lycaonia_
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Latin - Catullus |
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" Thus spake the gods:
Then swift
ascended
to the bright abodes.
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Iliad - Pope |
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" In the
February number of the "American Review" the poem was published as
by "Quarles," and it was introduced by the
following
note, evidently
suggested if not written by Poe himself.
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Poe - 5 |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Erleuchtet nicht zu diesem Feste
Herr Mammon
prachtig
den Palast?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Timotheus
placed on high
Amid the tuneful quire
With flying fingers touch'd the lyre:
The trembling notes ascend the sky
And heavenly joys inspire.
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Golden Treasury |
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Therefore
they watch'd a time when they might sift
This hidden whim; and long they watch'd in vain;
For seldom did she go to chapel-shrift,
And seldom felt she any hunger-pain;
And when she left, she hurried back, as swift
As bird on wing to breast its eggs again; 470
And, patient, as a hen-bird, sat her there
Beside her Basil, weeping through her hair.
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Keats |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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They first
appeared
after l.
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Alexander Pope |
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