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thou shining light
of my
earthenware
lamp, from this high spot shalt thou look abroad.
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II
Far fall the day when England's realm shall see
The sunset of
dominion!
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A
SHROPSHIRE
LAD
By A.
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: _iuncta Lycaoniae_ Parthenius: _iuncta
Lycaonia_
Simpson
70 marg.
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" Thus spake the gods:
Then swift
ascended
to the bright abodes.
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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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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Erleuchtet nicht zu diesem Feste
Herr Mammon
prachtig
den Palast?
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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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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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They first
appeared
after l.
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COROMANDEL FISHERS
Rise, brothers, rise, the
wakening
skies pray
to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn
like a child that has cried all night.
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The almond-groves of Samarcand,
Bokhara, where red lilies blow,
And Oxus, by whose yellow sand
The grave white-turbaned
merchants
go:
And on from thence to Ispahan,
The gilded garden of the sun,
Whence the long dusty caravan
Brings cedar wood and vermilion;
And that dread city of Cabool
Set at the mountain's scarped feet,
Whose marble tanks are ever full
With water for the noonday heat:
Where through the narrow straight Bazaar
A little maid Circassian
Is led, a present from the Czar
Unto some old and bearded Khan,--
Here have our wild war-eagles flown,
And flapped wide wings in fiery fight;
But the sad dove, that sits alone
In England--she hath no delight.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" "The poet
might perhaps, had he pleased, have
exhibited
Admetus in a more amiable
point of view.
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Oh, this
horrible
dream!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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The silver lamp burns dead and dim;
But
Christabel
the lamp will trim.
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Lord my God if I have thought
Or done this, if wickedness
Be in my hands, if I have wrought
Ill to him that meant me peace, 10
Or to him have render'd less,
And fre'd my foe for naught;
Let th'enemy pursue my soul
And overtake it, let him tread
My life down to the earth and roul
In the dust my glory dead,
In the dust and there out spread
Lodge it with
dishonour
foul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In six months where'll the People be,
Ef leaders look on
revolution
90
Ez though it wuz a cup o' tea,--
Jest social el'ments in solution?
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James Russell Lowell |
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As when some shepherd, from the rustling trees(110)
Shot forth to view, a scaly serpent sees,
Trembling
and pale, he starts with wild affright
And all confused precipitates his flight:
So from the king the shining warrior flies,
And plunged amid the thickest Trojans lies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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"And if they dare deny the same,
My herald shall appoint a week,
And let the
recreant
traitors seek
My tourney court--that there and then
I may dislodge their reptile souls
From the bodies and forms of men!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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If I was fair then sure I'm fairer now,
Sitting where a score of
servants
stand,
With a coronet on high days for my brow
And almost a sceptre for my hand.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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XVII
Pale rose leaves have fallen
In the
fountain
water;
And soft reedy flute-notes
Pierce the sultry quiet.
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He
questioned
softly why I failed?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I have lost
Beauties
and feelings, such as would have been
Most sweet to my remembrance even when age
Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Vassilissa
Igorofna, take her away quickly.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Thou
Paradise
of the four seas.
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Marvell - Poems |
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So canopied, lay an
untasted
feast
Teeming with odours.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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LE DORMEUR DU VAL
C'est un trou de verdure ou chante une riviere
Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons
D'argent; ou le soleil, de la
montagne
fiere,
Luit: c'est un petit aval qui mousse de rayons.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Affter kyng
Salomons
de?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And
cigarettes
in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more
beautiful
than the most beautiful face.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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for what Fate hath
ordained
will surely not
tarry but come;
Wide is the counsel of Zeus, by no man escaped or
withstood:
Only I Pray that whate'er, in the end, of this wedlock
he doom,
We as many a maiden of old, may win from the ill
to the good.
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But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Dost thou desire my
slumbers
should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The
Mountains
fled away they sought a place beneath
Vala remaind in desarts of dark solitude.
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Blake - Zoas |
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She now lies out of commission in
Rotten Row, at the
Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the creatures of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or
sharpened
claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Be
absolute
for death; either death or life
Shall thereby be the sweeter.
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Across the country, between two ocean shore lines,
where cities cling to rail and water routes,
there people and horses stop in their foot tracks,
cars and wagons stop in their wheel tracks--
faces at street
crossings
shine with a silence
of eggs laid in a row on a pantry shelf--
among the ways and paths of the flow of the Republic
faces come to a standstill, sixty clockticks count--
in the name of the Boy, in the name of the Republic.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
Those dream-endangering
eyewounds
no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee.
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and
literature
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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During more than a century after the institution of the
Tribuneship, the Commons
struggled
manfully for the removal of
the grievances under which they labored; and, in spite of many
checks and reverses, succeeded in wringing concession after
concession from the stubborn aristocracy.
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They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that in guess they measure by thy deeds;
Then--churls--their thoughts,
although
their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Pushkin alone remained
Closeted
with his host and talked with him
A long time more.
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This can unlock the gates of Joy;
Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears,
Or ope the sacred source of
sympathetic
Tears.
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Golden Treasury |
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" Naturally, people
stared and Baudelaire was happy--he had
startled
a bourgeois.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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With blood for blood
avenging
my loved sire;
And in this deed doth Loxias bear part,
Decreeing agonies, to goad my will,
Unless by me the guilty found their doom.
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Aeschylus |
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"Shady"
Delville had turned upon Mr Bent and rent him limb from limb, casting
him away limp and
disconcerted
ere she withdrew the light of her eyes
from him permanently.
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Kipling - Poems |
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how
repulsive
you are to look at!
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Aristophanes |
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Then the old-fashioned colonel
Galloped
through the white infernal
Powder-cloud;
And his broad-sword was swinging,
And his brazen throat was ringing
Trumpet loud.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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No more thy mother's smiles,
No more the painted tiles,
Delight thee, nor the
playthings
on the floor,
That won thy little, beating heart before;
Thou strugglest for the open door.
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Longfellow |
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While day and night can bring delight,
Or nature aught of
pleasure
give,
While joys above my mind can move,
For thee, and thee alone I live.
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"
The Nightingale was not yet heard, for the Rose was not yet blown: but
an almost
identical
Blackbird and Woodpecker helped to make up
something of a North-country Spring.
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larrons, pechies mortez,
Et erre par voie torte,
Esperance
me conforte
Qui a toy hui me raporte 20
A ce que soie deportez.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Thus far we've gone; the order of my plan
Hath brought me now unto the point where I
Must make report how, too, the universe
Consists of mortal body, born in time,
And in what modes that congregated stuff
Established itself as earth and sky,
Ocean, and stars, and sun, and ball of moon;
And then what living
creatures
rose from out
The old telluric places, and what ones
Were never born at all; and in what mode
The human race began to name its things
And use the varied speech from man to man;
And in what modes hath bosomed in their breasts
That awe of gods, which halloweth in all lands
Fanes, altars, groves, lakes, idols of the gods.
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The first and all those others slain, who fed,
All a
devouring
orc, that kept his place
Beside the port, what time into the main
The remnant of the herd retired again.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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When in this vain essay of words she sees Latinus fixed against her, and
the serpent's maddening poison is sunk deep in her vitals and runs
through and through her, then indeed, stung by
infinite
horrors, hapless
and frenzied, she rages wildly through the endless city.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And there's the
windflower
chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Round eastward slanteth the mast;
As the sleep-walker waked with pain,
White-clothed in the midnight blast,
Doth stare and quake, and stride again
To
houseward
all aghast.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Wherefore
each hour more firm, from time to time
Following where I heard my call from heaven,
And guided ever by a soft clear light,
I turn'd, devoted still, to those first boughs,
Or when on earth are scatter'd the sere leaves,
Or when the sun restored makes green the hills.
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Petrarch |
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Hauksbee
did her best to hold him in play, but, after two dances,
he crossed over to his wife and asked for a dance.
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Kipling - Poems |
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I pryze thie
threattes
joste as I doe thie banes,
The sede of malyce and recendize al.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He affirms, " That unless
princes have power to bind their subjects to
that religion they apprehend most advantageous to
public peace and tranquillity, and restrain those
religious mistakes that tend to its subversion, they
are no better than statues and images of author-
ity : That in cases and disputes of public con-
cernment, private men are not
properly
sui juris ;
they have no power over their own actions ; they
are not to be directed by their own judgments, or
Digitized by VjOOQIC
NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR.
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Marvell - Poems |
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A good Nationalist is, I suppose, one who
is ready to give up a great deal that he may preserve to his country
whatever part of her
possessions
he is best fitted to guard, and that
theatre where the capricious spirit that bloweth as it listeth has
for a moment found a dwelling-place, has good right to call itself a
National Theatre.
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Yeats |
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It is but an act of justice
to admit, that it contains many passages of exquisite beauty, and that
it is a performance which discovers much genius, a
cultivated
taste, and
a brilliant imagination.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Or quick
effluvia
darting through the brain,
Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Ronsard |
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They rise not from reason, but deeper
inconsequent
deeps.
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Sidney Lanier |
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XXV
And now her too accustomed plaint and wail
Repeating, of Rogero's cruelty
Fair Bradamant renewed the wonted tale;
She cursed her hard and evil destiny;
Then loosening to tempestuous grief the sail,
Heaven that
consented
to such perjury,
-- And did not yet by some plain token speak --
She, in her passion, called unjust and weak.
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If you
do not charge anything for copies of this eBook,
complying
with the
rules is very easy.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Then Aegle, fairest of the Naiad-band,
Aegle came up to the half-frightened boys,
Came, and, as now with open eyes he lay,
With juice of blood-red
mulberries
smeared him o'er,
Both brow and temples.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'Twill make a man forget his woe;
'Twill
heighten
all his joy;
'Twill make the widow's heart to sing,
Tho' the tear were in her eye.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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but when Urizen frownd She wept
In mists over his carved throne & when he turnd his back
Upon his Golden hall & sought the Labyrinthine porches
Of his wide heaven Trembling, cold in paling fears she sat
A Shadow of Despair
therefore
toward the West Urizen formd
A recess in the wall for fires to glow upon the pale
Females limbs in his absence & her Daughters oft upon
A Golden Altar burnt perfumes with Art Celestial formd
Foursquare sculpturd & sweetly Engravd to please their shadowy mother {"Pleasd" mended to "please.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Attendance none shall need, nor Train, where none 80
Are to behold the Judgement, but the judg'd,
Those two; the third best absent is condemn'd,
Convict by flight, and Rebel to all Law
Conviction
to the Serpent none belongs.
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Milton |
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The little
creatures
when they heard
this went back to their own country, and there their joy shall last as
long as the points of the rushes are brown, the people say, and that is
until God shall burn up the world with a kiss.
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Yeats |
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[Picture: Decorative graphic]
For three long years they will not sow
Or root or seedling there:
For three long years the
unblessed
spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Either from too early becoming his
own master, or from being betrayed into follies
to which his lively temperament and social quali-
ties readily exposed him, he became negligent of
his studies; and having absented himself from
certain " exercises," and otherwise been guilty of
sundry
unacademic
irregularities, he, with four
others, was adjudged by the masters and seniors
unworthy of *' receiving any further benefit from
the college," unless they showed just cause to the
* Another and more poetical version of the story is, that
Mr.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Those cheap
utilities
of rain and sun
Describe the foolish circle of our years,
Until death takes us, doing all undone,
And there's an end at last to hopes and fears.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"On the other side,
Incensed
with indignation, Satan stood
Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Spenser's residence in Cambridge
extended
over seven years, during which he
received the usual degrees of bachelor and master of arts.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But ye, O happy husbands, ye
With him were friends eternally:
The crafty spouse caressed him, who
By Faublas in his youth was schooled,(5)
And the suspicious veteran old,
The pompous, swaggering cuckold too,
Who floats
contentedly
through life,
Proud of his dinners and his wife!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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" and engaging his more
animated
brother to
flourish the Cid's sword and roar the tyrant's speeches.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Chambers,
obviously
quite wrongly, retains the
comma, and closes the sentence in the next line.
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John Donne |
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VII
When smoke stood up from Ludlow,
And mist blew off from Teme,
And blithe afield to ploughing
Against the morning beam
I strode beside my team,
The blackbird in the coppice
Looked out to see me stride,
And hearkened as I whistled
The
tramping
team beside,
And fluted and replied:
"Lie down, lie down, young yeoman;
What use to rise and rise?
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Ne'er heard I of host in haughtier throng
more graciously
gathered
round giver-of-rings!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"]
[Sidenote E: Then Sir Gawayne sets his helmet upon his head,]
[Sidenote F:
fastened
behind with a "urisoun,"]
[Sidenote G: richly embroidered with gems.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Behold, the people waits,
Like God: as He, in His serene of might,
So they, in their
endurance
of long straits.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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e
mydeward
of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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