THE
CHILDREN
OF THE POOR.
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Of mines I little know, myself,
But just the names of gems, --
The colors of the commonest;
And scarce of diadems
So much that, did I meet the queen,
Her glory I should know:
But this must be a
different
wealth,
To miss it beggars so.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Who are these coming to the
sacrifice?
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Keats |
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The phocae[15] also, rising from the waves,
Offspring of
beauteous
Halosydna, sleep
Around him, num'rous, and the fishy scent
Exhaling rank of the unfathom'd flood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Then sang he of the stones by Pyrrha cast,
Of Saturn's reign, and of Prometheus' theft,
And the
Caucasian
birds, and told withal
Nigh to what fountain by his comrades left
The mariners cried on Hylas till the shore
"Then Re-echoed "Hylas, Hylas!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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--O spectres saints et blancs de Bethleem,
Charmez plutot le bleu de leur
fenetre!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Do you have hopes the lyre can soar
So high as to win
immortality?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Tarchon flies like fire over the
plain,
carrying
the armed man, and breaks off the steel head from his
own spear and searches the uncovered places, trying where he may deal
the mortal blow; the other struggling against him keeps his hand off his
throat, and strongly parries his attack.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And now in fix'd gaze stand,
Now wander through the Eden of thy hand;
Praise the green arches, on the fountain clear
See fragment shadows of the
crossing
deer;
And with that serviceable nymph I stoop
The crystal from its restless pool to scoop.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Who's yon, that, near the waterfall,
Which thunders down with headlong force,
Beneath the moon, yet shining fair,
As
careless
as if nothing were,
Sits upright on a feeding horse?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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RECUEILLEMENT
Sois sage, o ma Douleur, et tiens-toi plus tranquille,
Tu
reclamais
le Soir; il descend; le voici:
Une atmosphere obscure enveloppe la ville,
Aux uns portant la paix, aux autres le souci.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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And with a
fixed stare, as if peering through some
invisible
window opening upon
eternity, he died, August 31, 1867, aged forty-six.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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After-effect
immortality
thanks to
our love
- he
prolongs
us
beyond
in exchange
we give back
life to him
in deepening
our thought
47.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Additional
terms will be linked
to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
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Stephen Crane |
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Should war's mad blast again be blown,
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy
broadsides
roar with ours.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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[Sidenote D:
Therefore
come to her and make merry in my house.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Huius aequalis
Boccatius
(?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Leconte de Lisle
'Leconte de Lisle'
Library of the World's best Literature, Ancient and Modern (p579, 1896)
Internet
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The Jaguar's Dream
Beneath the dark mahoganies, creepers in flower
Hang in the heavy, motionless, fly-filled air,
Twining among the tree-stumps, falling where,
They cradle the brilliant parrot, the quarreller,
The wild monkeys, spiders with yellow hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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If
remembrance
ended
When life and love are gathered,
If the world were not living
Long after one is gone,
Song would not ring, nor sorrow
Stand at the door in evening;
Life would vanish and slacken,
Men would be changed to stone.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or
limitation
of certain types of damages.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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InTem- Hesaith:"Redspearsborethewarriordawn Of old
**:
Strange!
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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XLVIII
Fine woven purple linen
I bring thee from Phocaea,
That, beauty upon beauty,
A
precious
gift may cover
The lap where I have lain.
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Sappho |
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Act II Scene VIII (King Ferdinand, Don Diegue, Chimene, Don Sanche, Don Arias, Don Alonso)
Chimene
Sire, Sire,
justice!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And sharp the link of life will snap,
And dead on air will stand
Heels that held up as
straight
a chap
As treads upon the land.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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They'll suffer for it, the godless
wretches!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of
Sicilian
July, with Etna smoking.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whilst thus I dream, the bells clash out
Upon the Sabbath air,
Each seems a hostile faith to shout,
A selfish form of prayer:
My dream is shattered, yet who knows
But in that heaven so near
These discords find
harmonious
close
In God's atoning ear?
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sez he, "I guess,
Though physic's good," sez he,
"It doesn't foller that he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed 'J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms
Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees,
With some
uncertain
notice, as might seem,
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire
The hermit sits alone.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It
remained
now only to encourage Charlie to talk, and here there was no
difficulty.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the
Jumblies
live:
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue;
And they went to sea in a sieve.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Your husband this contrived I plainly see,
Who fancies that replies were not to be,
Since in our bargain they were never named;
For shuffling conduct he was ever famed;
But I'll come round him, spite of all his art;
I can reply for you, and from the heart,
Since I can read your wishes in your eyes;
'Tis thus to say--Good, sir, I would advise
That you regard me, not as marble cold;
Your various
tournaments
and actions bold,
Your serenades, and gen'ral conduct prove,
What tender sentiments your bosom move.
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La Fontaine |
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The faint light cast from every distant star
Showed thirty ships now
crossing
the bar;
The waves swelled beneath, and their effort
Brought the tide-borne Moors within the port.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Nothing is sure for me but what's uncertain:
Obscure, whatever is plainly clear to see:
I've no doubt, except of
everything
certain:
Science is what happens accidentally:
I win it all, yet a loser I'm bound to be:
Saying: 'God give you good even!
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Villon |
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_
TO A FRIEND,
COUNSELLING
HIM TO ABANDON EARTHLY PLEASURES.
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Petrarch |
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And what's thy
purchase?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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I would send them where their
industry
should
be daily increased by praise, and that kindled by emulation.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The error of imputing to Virtue what are only the
calamities
of
Nature or of Fortune, v.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in
forgetful
snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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After the king's death as Merlin and Bleys walked out from the
castle walls into the dismal misty night, they saw a wonderful
fairy-ship shaped like a winged dragon sailing the heavens, with shining
people
collected
on its decks; but in the twinkling of an eye the ship
was gone.
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Tennyson |
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Come from deep glen, and
From
mountain
so rocky;
The war-pipe and pennon
Are at Inverlochy.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nor took from that
dwelling
the duke of the Geats
save only the head and that hilt withal
blazoned with jewels: the blade had melted,
burned was the bright sword, her blood was so hot,
so poisoned the hell-sprite who perished within there.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I think I once mentioned something to you of a
collection
of Scots
songs I have for some years been making: I send you a perusal of what
I have got together.
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Robert Forst |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The star grew pale and hid her face
In a bit of
floating
cloud like lace.
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Sara Teasdale |
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If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or
appearing
on the
work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Short life and bitter
nuptials
should be theirs.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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XXIV
Up then, up dreary Dame, of
darknesse
Queene,
Go gather up the reliques of thy race,
Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, 210
That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place,
And can the children of faire light deface.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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But not in silence pass Calypso's isles,
The sister tenants of the middle deep;
There for the weary still a haven smiles,
Though the fair goddess long has ceased to weep,
And o'er her cliffs a
fruitless
watch to keep
For him who dared prefer a mortal bride:
Here, too, his boy essayed the dreadful leap
Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide;
While thus of both bereft, the nymph-queen doubly sighed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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e wowes,
Vnder
couertour
ful clere, cortyned aboute;
& as in slomeryng he slode, sle3ly he herde
[C] A littel dyn at his dor, & derfly vpon;
1184 & he heue3 vp his hed out of ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Fore all the rest, 'twas voted by the Franks
That Guenes die with
marvellous
great pangs;
So to lead forth four stallions they bade;
After, they bound his feet and both his hands;
Those steeds were swift, and of a temper mad;
Which, by their heads, led forward four sejeants
Towards a stream that flowed amid that land.
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Chanson de Roland |
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His hat
slouched
down, and great coat buttoned close
Bellied like hooped keg, and chuffy face
Red as the morning sun, he takes his round
And talks of stock: and when his jobs are done
And Dobbin's hay is eaten from the rack,
He drinks success to corn in language hoarse,
And claps old Dobbin's hide, and potters back.
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John Clare |
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Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind
perished
utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Sara Teasdale |
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We do not solicit donations in locations
where we have not
received
written confirmation of compliance.
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Yeats |
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_ You think rightly; but if you cannot assent to my
conclusion you ought to show that the premises are false, or that
the
consequences
are unfairly deduced; for if the premises be
granted, you cannot reject the inferences from them.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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THE
REJECTED
WIFE
By Yuan-ti (508-554).
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Healest thy
wandering
and distempered child:
Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,
Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets,
Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters,
Till he relent, and can no more endure
To be a jarring and a dissonant thing,
Amid this general dance and minstrelsy;
But, bursting into tears, wins back his way,
His angry spirit healed and harmonized
By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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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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And in the blast there smote along the hall
A beam of light seven times more clear than day:
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail
All over covered with a
luminous
cloud.
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Tennyson |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with discordant mutiny,
Working on you its eternal
vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
"Fill thy hand with sands, ray
blossom!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the
simplicity
you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the stranger you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'"
If he
astounded
them at first, much more so did he after this speech,
and fear held them all silent.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Time will go by, and pass the
appointed
day;
Tidings of us no Frank will hear or say.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The son of
God, therefore, was
vanquished
by the devil; and being punished by him,
teaches us also to despise the punishments inflicted by him; Christ at
the same time predicting that Satan would appear on
{28}
the earth, and, like himself, would exhibit great and admirable works,
usurping to himself the glory of God.
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Tacitus |
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--my
thoughts
do twine and bud
XXX I see thine image through my tears to-night
XXXI Thou comest!
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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In the case of the
present author, there was
absolutely
no choice in the matter; she
must write thus, or not at all.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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"
I
straight
obey'd; and with mine eye return'd
Through all the seven spheres, and saw this globe
So pitiful of semblance, that perforce
It moved my smiles: and him in truth I hold
For wisest, who esteems it least: whose thoughts
Elsewhere are fix'd, him worthiest call and best.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Or if he left his arrows sharp
And came a
minstrel
weary,
I'd never tell him by his harp
Nor know him for my dearie.
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Sara Teasdale |
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had I deem'd my sighs, in numbers rung,
Could e'er have gain'd the world's approving smile,
I had awoke my rhymes in choicer style,
My sorrow's birth more tunefully had sung:
But she is gone whose inspiration hung
On all my words, and did my
thoughts
beguile;
My numbers harsh seem'd melody awhile,
Now she is mute who o'er them music flung.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of
damages.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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No more the thundering memory of the fight
Wrapped his weaned bosom in its dark delight;
No more the irksome restlessness of Rest
Disturbed
him like the eagle in her nest,
Whose whetted beak[389] and far-pervading eye 310
Darts for a victim over all the sky:
His heart was tamed to that voluptuous state,
At once Elysian and effeminate,
Which leaves no laurels o'er the Hero's urn;--
These wither when for aught save blood they burn;
Yet when their ashes in their nook are laid,
Doth not the myrtle leave as sweet a shade?
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| Source: |
Byron |
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On the bow stood Bishop Sigurd,
In his robes, as one transfigured,
And the
Crucifix
he planted
High amid the rain and mist.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
|
SAS Note further that in Night One, page 9, Blake had
inserted
"Night the Second", even though the end of the First Night One is indicated on page 22.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
"We may conjecture," says Canon Rawlinson, "that the monument was in
reality a stele containing the king [Sennacherib] in an arched frame,
with the right hand raised above the left, which is the ordinary
attitude, and an inscription commemorating the occasion of its erection"
[the
conquest
of Cilicia and settlement of Tarsus].
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Byron |
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or
filename
24689 would be found at:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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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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The 34 first lines of this poem are extant upon another of the
vellum-fragments, given by
Chatterton
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Ah, my
darling!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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For I have taught
That this their number is innumerable
And
infinite
the sum of the Abyss,
And I have shown with what stupendous speed
Those bodies fly and how they're wont to pass
Amain through incommunicable space.
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Lucretius |
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Phaedra
I hear that a swift
departure
takes you far
From us, my Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Distressed
that I don?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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All good
thoughts
be near,
For thee to speak and me to understand!
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Euripides - Electra |
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Google's mission is to organize the world's
information
and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Are those really
Congressmen?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended, she is bored and tired,
Endeavours
to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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O
ruthless
Death!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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consilia
nullus mente tam pura dedit
uel altiore conditu texit data.
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For while they all were
travelling
home,
Cried Betty, "Tell us, Johnny, do,
Where all this long night you have been,
What you have heard, what you have seen: 440
And, Johnny, mind you tell us true.
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He spake, nor she was loth, but bedward too
Like him inclined; so then, to bed they went,
And as they lay'd them down, down stream'd the net
Around them, labour
exquisite
of hands
By ingenuity divine inform'd.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often
difficult
to discover.
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The Warders strutted up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the
quicklime
on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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How sweet the
soothing
calm that smoothly stills
Oer the heart's every sense its opiate dews,
In meek-eyed moods and ever balmy trills!
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John Clare |
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Footsteps
shuffled on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"
DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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She's coming, and must not be seen by the
neighbor!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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She hath no scorn of common things,
And, though she seem of other birth,
Round us her heart intwines and clings,
And
patiently
she folds her wings
To tread the humble paths of earth.
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