The Horse
Pegasus
'Pegasus'
Jacopo de' Barbari, 1509 - 1516, The Rijksmuseun
My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
My gold-charioted fate will be your lovely car
That for reins will hold tight to frenzy,
My verses, the
patterns
of all poetry.
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Appoloinaire |
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Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen
Were imaged by the water's love
Of that fair forest green:
And all was interfused beneath
With an Elysian glow,
An
atmosphere
without a breath,
A softer day below.
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Golden Treasury |
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After the war she served as a
training
ship.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Would you not laugh to meet a great
councillor of State in a flat cap, with his trunk hose, and a hobbyhorse
cloak, his gloves under his girdle, and yond
haberdasher
in a velvet
gown, furred with sables?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The person or entity that provided you with
the
defective
work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Where, for example, he wishes to convey an impression
of horror he is apt to exhaust himself in the first quatrain, and the
rest of the poem is a network of
straggling
repetitions.
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Li Po |
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High in the air the tree its boughs display'd,
And o'er the dungeon cast a
dreadful
shade;
All unsustain'd between the wave and sky,
Beneath my feet the whirling billows fly.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Their sleeping-places over
The torn and trampled clover to braver beauty blows;
Of all their grim
campaigning
no sight or sound remaining,
The memory of them mutely to greater glory grows.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Three times circling beneath heaven's veil,
In devotion, round your tombs, I hail
You, with loud summons; thrice on you I call:
And, while your ancient fury I invoke,
Here, as though I in sacred terror spoke,
I'll sing your glory,
beauteous
above all.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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How many lovers
Hath not its lulling
Cradled to slumber
With the ripe flowers, 15
Ere for our pleasure
This golden summer
Walked through the corn-lands
In
gracious
splendour!
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Sappho |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Leisurely flocks and herds,
Cool-eyed cattle that come
Mildly to wonted words,
Swine that in
orchards
roam,--
A man and his beasts make a man and his home.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Tired with kisses sweet,
They agree to meet
When the silent sleep
Waves o'er heaven's deep,
And the weary tired
wanderers
weep.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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_Occhi, piangete;
accompagnate
il core.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Infants, the
children
of the Spring!
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John Clare |
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One thing there is alone, that doth deform thee;
In the midst of thee, O field, so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Is it not he who taught the
warlike virtues, the art of fighting and of
carrying
arms?
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Aristophanes |
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The invalidity or
unenforceability
of any
provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Sweet views which in our world above
Can never well be seen
Were imaged by the water's love
Of that fair forest green:
And all was
interfused
beneath
With an Elysian glow,
An atmosphere without a breath,
A softer day below.
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Golden Treasury |
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That mingled wrack
No
livening
sun shall visit till the crust
Of earth be riven, or this rolling planet
Reel on its axis; till the moon-chained tides,
Unloosed, deliver up that white Atlantis
Whose naked peaks shall bleach above the slaked
Thirst of Sahara, fringed by weedy tangles
Of Atlas's drown'd cedars, frowning eastward
To where the sands of India lie cold,
And heap'd Himalaya's a rib of coral
Slowly uplifted, grain on grain.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The seventh stanza has several minute faults; but I
remember I composed it in a wild
enthusiasm
of passion, and to this
hour I never recollect it but my heart melts, my blood sallies, at the
remembrance.
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Robert Forst |
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For thou art not a God that takes
In
wickedness
delight 10
Evil with thee no biding makes
Fools or mad men stand not within thy sight.
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Milton |
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No more of
wailing!
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Euripides - Electra |
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He gaz'd, and, fear his mind surprising,
Himself no more the hermit knows:
He sees with foam the waters rising,
And then
subsiding
to repose,
And sudden, light as night-ghost wanders,
A female thence her form uprais'd,
Pale as the snow which winter squanders,
And on the bank herself she plac'd.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Maintenant, les petits
sommeillent
tristement:
Vous diriez, a les voir, qu'ils pleurent en dormant,
Tant leurs yeux sont gonfles et leur souffle penible!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A tongue that can cheat widows, cancel scores,
Make Scots speak treason, cozen
subtlest
w***es,
With royal favourites in flattery vie,
And Oldmixon and Burnet both outlie.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A Paduan with these
Florentines
am I.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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To the wild woods and the plains,
And the pools where winter rains
Image all their roof of leaves,
Where the pine its garland weaves
Of sapless green, and ivy dun,
Round stems that never kiss the sun,
Where the lawns and pastures be
And the
sandhills
of the sea,
Where the melting hoar-frost wets
The daisy-star that never sets,
And wind-flowers and violets
Which yet join not scent to hue
Crown the pale year weak and new;
When the night is left behind
In the deep east, dim and blind,
And the blue noon is over us,
And the multitudinous
Billows murmur at our feet,
Where the earth and ocean meet,
And all things seem only one
In the universal Sun.
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Golden Treasury |
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Next he sings
Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream,
And by a sister of the Muses led
To the Aonian mountains, and how all
The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how
The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine,
Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake:
"These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou,
Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given,
Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw
Time-rooted ash-trees from the
mountain
heights.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The country house
received
him ev'ry night;
At home he never dreamed but all was right.
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La Fontaine |
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It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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Appoloinaire |
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OSWALD I
interrupt
you?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Not Cybele, nor he that haunts
Rich Pytho, worse the brain confounds,
Not Bacchus, nor the Corybants
Clash their loud gongs with fiercer sounds
Than savage wrath; nor sword nor spear
Appals it, no, nor ocean's frown,
Nor
ravening
fire, nor Jupiter
In hideous ruin crashing down.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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And with so gret
devocion
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They maden her confession,
That they had ofte, for the nones,
Two hedes in one hood at ones.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"I see a horse and woman on it now,"
Said Gasclin, "and
companions
also show.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Overhead
the Fagoo
eagles.
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Kipling - Poems |
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neptimine_ (et hoc quidem
recentius)
R: _Nereine_
Haupt: _Nerinarum_ Sam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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)
I too,
following
many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I
descend into the arena,
(It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there, the
winner's pealing shouts,
Who knows?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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queintise
in book ywrite; ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I
remember
how you stooped
to gather it--
and it flamed, the leaf and shoot
and the threads, yellow, yellow--
sheer till they burnt
to red-purple in the cup.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Examples of such a poem were
familiar
enough to Pope.
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Alexander Pope |
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He said it and quit and faded away,
A
gunnysack
shirt on his bones.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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at
cortaysly
hade hym kydde, & his cry herkened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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C'est la fee
africaine
qui fournit
La mure, et les resilles dans les coins.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Sing, hey my braw John
Highlandman!
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Robert Forst |
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Yet none shrink
Who come to gaze here now; albeit 't was planned
Sublimely in the thought's simplicity:
The Lady, throned in empyreal state,
Minds only the young Babe upon her knee,
While sidelong angels bear the royal weight,
Prostrated
meekly, smiling tenderly
Oblivion of their wings; the Child thereat
Stretching its hand like God.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CXCII
It was hot, and sleep, gently flowing,
Was trickling through my dreaming soul,
When the vague form of a vibrant ghost
Arrived to disturb my dreaming, softly
Leaning down to me, pure ivory teeth,
And offering me her
flickering
tongue,
Her lips were kissing me, sweet and long,
Mouth on mouth, thigh on thigh beneath.
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Ronsard |
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An
enviable
life for the tsar's people!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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If I glance up
it is written on the walls,
it is cut on the floor,
it is
patterned
across
the slope of the roof.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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IV
Ask
whomever
you will but you'll never find out where I'm lodging,
High society's lords, ladies so groomed and refined.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CHORUS
How left thee then Apollo's wrath
unscathed?
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Aeschylus |
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We stood,
In happy trance-like solitude,
Hearkening a lullay grieved and sweet--
As when on isle uncharted beat
'Gainst coral at the palm-tree's root,
With brine-clear, snow-white foam afloat,
The wailing, not of water or wind--
A husht, far, wild, divine lament,
When
Prospero
his wizardry bent
Winged Ariel to bind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Ninmada,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The annual
occasion
once past, she withdrew again into her seclusion,
and except for a very few friends was as invisible to the world as if
she had dwelt in a nunnery.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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You who
consoled
me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Safe in his excavated gallery
The
burrowing
mole groped on from year to year;
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me
His prickly back for fear.
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Christina Rossetti |
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_--This important place
was made an archbishopric, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the
east, and the seat of their viceroys; for which purposes it is
advantageously
situated
on the coast of Dekhan.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Forever they shall meet in this rude shock:
These from the tomb with
clenched
grasp shall rise,
Those with close-shaven locks.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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THE BLOSSOM
Merry, merry
sparrow!
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blake-poems |
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Like
stranger
gods; by twos and twos
Their red eyes gleam.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: VI
Among love's
pounding
seas, for me there's no support,
And I can see no light, and yet have no desires
(O desire too bold!
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Ronsard |
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But natheles, this ilke Diomede
Gan in him-self assure, and thus he seyde, 870
`If ich aright have taken of yow hede,
Me
thinketh
thus, O lady myn, Criseyde,
That sin I first hond on your brydel leyde,
Whan ye out come of Troye by the morwe,
Ne coude I never seen yow but in sorwe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I had return'd, to break the weary fast
Of seeing her, my sole care in this world,
Kinder to me were Heaven and Love than e'en
If all their other gifts together join'd,
When from the right eye--rather the right sun--
Of my dear Lady to my right eye came
The ill which less my pain than pleasure makes;
As if it
intellect
possess'd and wings
It pass'd, as stars that shoot along the sky:
Nature and pity then pursued their course.
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Petrarch |
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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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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My
departing
blossoms
Obviate parade.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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In the "Appendix" to the
_Two
Foscari_
(first ed.
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Byron |
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Funeral
Libation
(At Gautier's Tomb)
To you, gone emblem of our happiness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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We could not understand their
French here very well, but the
_potage_
was just like what we had had
before.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
scampered
to the bushes far away;
The shepherd called the ploughman to the fray;
The ploughman wished he had a gun to shoot.
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John Clare |
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,
_spotted
with blood, bloody_, 2061.
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Beowulf |
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Now that beyond the'
accursed
stream she dwells,
She may no longer move me, by that law,
Which was ordain'd me, when I issued thence.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[Footnote M: Crosses commemorative of the deaths of
travellers
by the
fall of snow and other accidents very common along this dreadful road.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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VIII
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
So that one might judge this single city
Had found her
grandeur
held in check solely
By earth and ocean's depth and latitude.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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For Ares, lord of strife,
Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold,
War's money-changer, giving dust for gold,
Sends back, to hearts that held them dear,
Scant ash of warriors, wept with many a tear,
Light to the hand, but heavy to the soul;
Yea, fills the light urn full
With what
survived
the flame--
Death's dusty measure of a hero's frame!
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Aeschylus |
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_
* * * *
Hesperus!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD
The
darkness
hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
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Rilke - Poems |
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The
gentleman
is learn'd and a most rare speaker;
To nature none more bound; his training such
That he may furnish and instruct great teachers
And never seek for aid out of himself.
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THE PARDAH NASHIN
Her life is a revolving dream
Of languid and sequestered ease;
Her girdles and her fillets gleam
Like
changing
fires on sunset seas;
Her raiment is like morning mist,
Shot opal, gold and amethyst.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Come on,
Why are we
dawdling?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Shiver the palaces of glass;
Shrivel the rainbow-colored walls,
Where in bright Art each god and sibyl dwelt
Secure as in the zodiac's belt;
And the
galleries
and halls,
Wherein every siren sung,
Like a meteor pass.
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Emerson - Poems |
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From cocoon forth a butterfly
As lady from her door
Emerged -- a summer afternoon --
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On
miscellaneous
enterprise
The clovers understood.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her
departed
lover; 250
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
"Well now that's done: and I'm glad it's over.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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1605
I see wel now that ye
mistrusten
me;
For by your wordes it is wel y-sene.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Spark (Somer's
_Tracts_
2.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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This fellow from
Aberdeen
hither did skip
With a waxy face and a blubber lip,
And a black tooth in front to show in part
What was the colour of his whole heart.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Driftwood
My
forefathers
gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The sun those
mornings
used to find,
Its clouds were other-country mountains,
And heaven looked downward on the mind,
Like groves, and rocks, and mottled fountains.
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John Clare |
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Past
noontime
they went trampin' round
An' nary thing to pop at found,
Till, fairly tired o' their spree,
They leaned their guns agin a tree,
An' jest ez they wuz settin' down
To take their noonin', Joe looked roun'
And see (acrost lots in a pond
That warn't mor'n twenty rod beyond)
A goose that on the water sot
Ez ef awaitin' to be shot.
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James Russell Lowell |
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11-13 '_Tam gratum est
mihi quam ferunt puellae Pernici
aureolum
fuisse malum, Quod
zonam soluit diu ligatam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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I say that
rightfully
I slew my mother,
A thing God-scorned, that foully slew my sire
And chiefest wizard of the spell that bound me
Unto this deed I name the Pythian seer
Apollo, who foretold that if I slew,
The guilt of murder done should pass from me;
But if I spared, the fate that should be mine
I dare not blazon forth--the bow of speech
Can reach not to the mark, that doom to tell.
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Aeschylus |
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_60
Even from this morning I have lost my way
In this wild place; and my poor horse at last,
Quite overcome, has stretched himself upon
The enamelled
tapestry
of this mossy mountain,
And feeds and rests at the same time.
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Shelley |
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I must take a gold-bound pipe,
And outmatch the
bubbling
call
From the beechwoods in the sunlight,
From the meadows in the rain.
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Sappho |
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