Sous les lunes particulieres
Aux pialats ronds
Entrechoquez
vos genouillieres,
Mes laiderons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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hoolnesse
of science.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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From its situation between two
seas, Horace says,
_Bimarisve
Corinthi
mœnia.
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Tacitus |
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the assault begins; now low, now high,
That pair the
sounding
steel in circles ply.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Can you keep the bee from ranging
Or the ringdove's neck from
changing?
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Golden Treasury |
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II
Its boughs, which none but darers trod,
A child may step on from the sod,
And twigs that
earliest
met the dawn
Are lit the last upon the lawn.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Eternal Spirit of the
chainless
Mind!
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Golden Treasury |
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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Byron |
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Euryclea awakens
Penelope
with the news of Ulysses' return, and
the death of the suitors.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Next, of my lineage quickly thou shalt learn:
An Argive am I, and right well thou know'st
My sire, that Agamemnon who arrayed
The fleet and them that went therein to war--
That chief with whom thy hand combined to crush
To an uncitied heap what once was Troy;
That Agamemnon, when he homeward came,
Was brought unto no
honourable
death,
Slain by the dark-souled wife who brought me forth
To him,--enwound and slain in wily nets,
Blazoned with blood that in the laver ran.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I, habitue of the Alleghanies,
treating
man as he is in himself, in his own
rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, the great
pride of man in himself;
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be;
I project the history of the future.
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Whitman |
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We hear how chariots of war, areek
With hurly slaughter, lop with flashing scythes
The limbs away so
suddenly
that there,
Fallen from the trunk, they quiver on the earth,
The while the mind and powers of the man
Can feel no pain, for swiftness of his hurt,
And sheer abandon in the zest of battle:
With the remainder of his frame he seeks
Anew the battle and the slaughter, nor marks
How the swift wheels and scythes of ravin have dragged
Off with the horses his left arm and shield;
Nor other how his right has dropped away,
Mounting again and on.
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Lucretius |
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quas fugit in auras
spiritus?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Sometimes
humility o'ercomes disdain,
Sometimes inflames it to worse spite again;
This knew I, who so long was left in night,
That from such prayers had disappear'd my light;
Till I, who sought her still, nor found, alas!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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[35]
But now
farewell
to each and all--adieu
To every charm, and last and chief to you, [36]
Ye lovely maidens that in noontide shade
Rest near your little plots of wheaten glade; [37] 130
To all that binds [38] the soul in powerless trance,
Lip-dewing song, and ringlet-tossing dance;
Where sparkling eyes and breaking smiles illume
The sylvan cabin's lute-enlivened gloom.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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"
Again her soft
mysterious
voice:
"I am thy only Love.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Come,
harmless
characters, that no one hit;
Come, Henley's oratory, Osborne's wit!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Among the gifted spirits of our time
His name
conspicuous
shines; in every clime
Admired, approved, his strains an echo find.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Encore une heure; apres, les maux sans nom
--Cependant, alentour, geint, nazille, chuchote
Une collection de
vieilles
a fanons;
Ces effares y sont et ces epileptiques
Dont on se detournait hier aux carrefours;
Et, fringalant du nez dans des missels antiques
Ces aveugles qu'un chien introduit dans les cours.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"Does spring hide its joy,
When buds and
blossoms
grow?
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blake-poems |
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Then, with his victors back he came;
All France with booty teemed, her name
Was writ on
sculptured
stone;
And Paris cried with joy, as when
The parent bird comes home again
To th' eaglets left alone.
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Hugo - Poems |
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e folk of Rome were,
godus seruise forte here,
&
biddynge
of holy bede,
Page 57
348
And seide ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The earth, a brittle globe of glass,
Lies in the hollow of thy hand,
And through its heart of crystal pass,
Like shadows through a
twilight
land,
The spears of crimson-suited war,
The long white-crested waves of fight,
And all the deadly fires which are
The torches of the lords of Night.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Thou, like the dying Swanne, didst lately sing
Thy Mournfull Dirge, in audience of the King; 30
When pale lookes, and faint accents of thy breath,
Presented
so, to life, that peece of death,
That it was fear'd, and prophesi'd by all,
Thou thither cam'st to preach thy Funerall.
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John Donne |
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CHORUS
Even as a
swaddled
child, she lull'd the thing.
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Aeschylus |
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Being refused an asylum, he
committed
suicide.
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William Wordsworth |
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I loved, was loved, agreed were both our fathers;
I was telling you the delightful news
At the sad moment when they
quarrelled
too,
Which fatal telling, as soon as it was done,
Ruined all hope of its consummation.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat,
And the raven his nest has made
In its
thickest
shade.
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blake-poems |
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There is no copse-clad
bank
fronting
Anne Tyson's cottage at Hawkshead.
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William Wordsworth |
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Others
again, often mere fragments, have been
admitted
as characteristic, or
as expressing in poetic form thoughts found in the Essays.
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Emerson - Poems |
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LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which
labouring
for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Vixdum emissa dies, et iam
socialia
praesto
omina, iam festa feruet domus utraque pompa.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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distributed
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Believe me, my dear, it is love like
this alone which can render the
marriage
state happy.
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Robert Burns |
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In these first two volumes the poet is satisfied with painting in words,
full of sonorous beauty, the
surrounding
world.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Grant accompany us to
Kildrummie--two young ladies--Miss Rose, who sung two Gaelic songs,
beautiful and lovely--Miss Sophia Brodie, most agreeable and
amiable--both of them gentle, mild; the sweetest creatures on earth,
and
happiness
be with them!
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Robert Burns |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Imagists |
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Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Wherethe
good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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1590
Ci sourt as gens novele rage,
Ici se changent li corage;
Ci n'a mestier sens, ne mesure,
Ci est d'amer volente pure;
Ci ne se set conseiller nus;
Car Cupido, li fils Venus,
<<
So
cercleth
it the welle aboute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"Tell the master that the
visitors
are waiting, and the soup is getting
cold.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'Tis sure no
pleasure
to be shot.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a
thousand
sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Quale ne'
plenilunii
sereni
Trivia ride tra le ninfe etterne
che dipingon lo ciel per tutti i seni,
vid' i' sopra migliaia di lucerne
un sol che tutte quante l'accendea,
come fa 'l nostro le viste superne;
e per la viva luce trasparea
la lucente sustanza tanto chiara
nel viso mio, che non la sostenea.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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s post as
Reminder
was also a Chancellery post.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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O poplar, you are great
among the hill-stones,
while I perish on the path
among the
crevices
of the rocks.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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complying
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charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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What cloud o'er
Tiridates
lowers,
I care not, I.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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and
with Chambers and the later editions,
connected
'for hearing him' with
what follows.
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John Donne |
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Many
confused
voices cry.
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Euripides - Electra |
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GHOST OF DARIUS
By
nevermore
assailing Grecian lands,
Even tho' our Median force be double theirs--
For the land's self protects its denizens.
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Aeschylus |
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See, the elder and younger move
At the garden's edge, and beside them
White carnations with long frail stems,
Stirred by the wind, in a marble urn,
Lean, watching them, live and motionless,
And,
trembling
with shade there, seem to be
Butterflies caught in flight, frozen ecstasy.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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As to Alexey Ivanytch, it's
different; he was
transferred
from the Guard for sending a soul into the
other world.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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III
Madame se tient trop debout dans la prairie
Prochaine
ou neigent les fils du travail; l'ombrelle
Aux doigts; foulant l'ombelle; trop fiere pour elle
Des enfants lisant dans la verdure fleurie
Leur livre de maroquin rouge!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"
Garibaldi
was to share;
And "Ole Axel Kettleson!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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O, when I am safe in my sylvan home,
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;
And when I am
stretched
beneath the pines,
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore and the pride of man,
At the sophist schools and the learned clan;
For what are they all, in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Of Argive
anguish!
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Euripides - Electra |
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His
conversation
seldom,
His laughter like the breeze
That dies away in dimples
Among the pensive trees.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so
gallantly
streaming?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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V
"She whispers it in each pathetic strenuous slow endeavour,
When in
mothering
she unwittingly sets wounds on what she loves;
Yet her primal doom pursues her, faultful, fatal is she ever;
Though so deft and nigh to vision is her facile finger-touch
That the seers marvel much.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or
redistribute
this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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And in the nights it seemed a jar
Cut in the
substance
of a star,
Wherein a wine, that will be poured
Some time for feasting Heaven, was stored.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Yet we dream that he still,--in that shadowy region
Where the dead form their ranks at the wan drummer's sign,--
Rides on, as of old, down the length of his legion,
And the word still is
Forward!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Some exceptions (or apparent
exceptions)
to these rules will no doubt be
found.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I laugh his laughter
and sing his happy hours, and with thrice winged feet I dance
his
brighter
thoughts.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Hyde is in comedy,
and stirred a large
audience
very greatly.
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Yeats |
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Fur einem
Leichnam
bin ich nicht zu Haus;
Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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not overfond of the stench
choking native respiration,
poked down off the shelf
with the aid of some
mere blades of grass;
and deliberately climbing up,
brazenly
usurping one end
of the new America,
now waves his spears aloft
and shouts down valleys,
across plains,
over mountains,
into heights:
Come, what man of you
dares climb the other?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Artemis
The
thirteenth
returns.
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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O wilt thou
therefore
rise from me?
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| Source: |
John Donne |
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How the spasm and the pain
And the fire on the brain
Strike, burning me
through!
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| Question: |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Of whom a youth thus,
insolent
began.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The best sketch that I know of Whitman as an accessible human
individual
is
that given by Mr.
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Whitman |
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It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The
mornings
blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE LITTLE BLACK BOY
My mother bore me in the
southern
wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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So, at last, third hand
possessed
it--
Julietta, and at Paris
It reposes in her chamber,
Serving as a bed-side carpet.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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(How my heart trembles while my tongue
relates!
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Iliad - Pope |
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"
'Therwith hir liste so wel to live,
That
dulnesse
was of hir a-drad.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Of snow, frost, and ice,
That jagged cut, and wound, and sting;
And dead the calls, cries, trills and whistles,
Among the twigs, and
leafless
bristles.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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The Bands of Heaven flew thro the air singing & shouting to Urizen [the lord ]
Some fix'd the anvil, some the loom erected, some the plow
And harrow formd & framd the harness of silver & ivory
The golden compasses, the quadrant & the rule & balance
They erected the furnaces, they formd the anvils of gold beaten in mills
Where winter beats incessant, fixing them firm on their base
The bellows began to blow & the Lions of Urizen stood round the anvil
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And the leopards coverd with skins of beasts tended the roaring fires
Sublime
distinct
their lineaments divine of human beauty {Erdman notes that there is a pencil line here followed by erased pencil lines in the right margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Will to the old times
faithful
be.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Virgil's
felicity
left him in
prose, as Tully's forsook him in verse.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Indulgence
bids the dropsy grow;
Who fain would quench the palate's flame
Must rescue from the watery foe
The pale weak frame.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The
expedients
consciously used by the Chinese before the sixth century
were rhyme and length of line.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The maids beside
Tattiana
keep--
Men opposite.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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>>,
tal parve quelli; e poi chino le ciglia,
e umilmente ritorno ver' lui,
e
abbracciol
la 've 'l minor s'appiglia.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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_convulsed
spur_, they spurred their horses violently and
uncertainly, scarce knowing what they did.
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Keats |
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, but its
volunteers
and employees are scattered
throughout numerous locations.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In his view of life he is one
with the artist who knows that by the
inevitable
law of self-perfection,
the poet must sing, and the sculptor think in bronze, and the painter
make the world a mirror for his moods, as surely and as certainly as the
hawthorn must blossom in spring, and the corn turn to gold at harvest-
time, and the moon in her ordered wanderings change from shield to
sickle, and from sickle to shield.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Those I once would seek to cheer
Leave them
cheerless
now I must.
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Troubador Verse |
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She that has dealt with such a pride of spirit
In all her ways of life, so that she seemed
To feel like shadow, falling on the light
Her own mind made, the common
thoughts
of men;
Ay, she that to-day came down into our woe
And stood among the griefs that buzz upon us,
Like one who is forced aside from a bright journey
To stoop in a small-room'd cottage, where loud flies
Pester the inmates and the windows darken;
This she, this Judith, out of her quiet pride,
And out of her guarded purity, to walk
Where God himself from violent whoredom could
Scarcely preserve her shuddering flesh!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Inserti fundunt radii per opaca domorum,
it is
possible
that _clatris_ may be the lost word.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The myrtle groves are those of the
Underworld
in Classical mythology.
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Ronsard |
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The dispute is of no
importance; for, as Lipsius says, whether we give the Dialogue to
Quintilian or to Tacitus, no
inconvenience
can arise.
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Tacitus |
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