LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line,
remember
not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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"We sing old Sagas, songs of weal and woe,
Mystic because too cheaply understood;
Dark sayings are not ours; men hear and know,
See Evil weak, see
strength
alone in Good,
Yet hope to stem God's fire with walls of tow.
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Leonor
Madame, pardon me,
If I'm at fault for censuring this folly,
A great princess so
strangely
to forget
Herself, and love a simple knight as yet!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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' they cried, 'The world is wide,
But
fettered
limbs go lame!
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Wilde - Poems |
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To
gratulate
with mee!
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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I wot 'twere shame
on the law of our land if alone the king
out of Geatish
warriors
woe endured
and sank in the struggle!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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brandished pikes are thick,6 the mansions of
meritorious
officials rise high.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Far the calling bugles hollo,
High the
screaming
fife replies,
Gay the files of scarlet follow:
Woman bore me, I will rise.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Centuries
ago--in the Dark Ages, before I
ever met you, dear.
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Kipling - 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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Wilde - Poems |
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address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Unto his horse, that's feeding free,
He seems, I think, the rein to give;
Of moon or stars he takes no heed;
Of such we in
romances
read,
--'Tis Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Not you," sighed I, "but my own
inconstancy!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Here the forest contracts, there the mead extends,
Of all that was ours, there is little left--
Like the ashes that wildly are whisked by winds,
Of all
souvenirs
is the place bereft.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And there
Aegisthus
stayed,
The omens in his hand, dividing slow
This sign from that; till, while his head bent low,
Up with a leap thy brother flashed the sword,
Then down upon his neck, and cleft the cord
Of brain and spine.
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Euripides - Electra |
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XCIII
When in the spring the swallows all return,
And the bleak bitter sea grows mild once more,
With all its thunders
softened
to a sigh;
When to the meadows the young green comes back,
And swelling buds put forth on every bough, 5
With wild-wood odours on the delicate air;
Ah, then, in that so lovely earth wilt thou
With all thy beauty love me all one way,
And make me all thy lover as before?
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Sappho |
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that
such a stinking
creature
can have gone to the gods.
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Aristophanes |
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But the danger was past--they had landed at last,
With their boxes, portmanteaus, and bags:
Yet at first sight the crew were not pleased with the view,
Which
consisted
of chasms and crags.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Bernard, "you will
find more in the woods than in books; the forests and rocks will teach
you more than you can learn from the
greatest
Masters.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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What, to
passions
I witness around me to-day, was the sea risen?
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Whitman |
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Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brothers,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the
darkening
green.
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blake-poems |
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He warmed waters to bathe our feet, 32 and cut paper
streamers
to call back our souls.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Steamer,
straining
at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Mute the first echo that so
grateful
rung!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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More than for any work your guild adjureth,
Am I
ordained
to labour for my Lord,
Thus I will prosper, for my Lord endureth,
I ever serve my kindly Lord.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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33
THE RETURN By Scudder Middleton
Hold me, O hold me,
love—your
lips are life!
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I cannot breathe such an
atmosphere!
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Longfellow |
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Erlaub, dass ich ein
Irrlicht
bitte!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Since I have touched my lips to your brimming cup,
Since I have bowed my pale brow in your hands,
Since I have sometime
breathed
the sweet breath
Of your soul, a perfume buried in shadow lands;
Since it was granted to me to hear you utter
Words in which the mysterious heart sighs,
Since I have seen smiles, since I have seen tears
Your mouth on my mouth, your eyes on my eyes;
Since I have seen over my enraptured head
A light from your star shine, ah, ever veiled!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Her women
removed her wraps and
proceeded
to get her in readiness for the night.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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The mother dreads you for her son,
The thrifty sire, the new-wed bride,
Lest, lured by you, her
precious
one
Should leave her side.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Southey addresses his
declamation against
impurity!
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Byron |
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Don Sanche caused me ill, in my defence,
And that ill-dealing arm I must
recompense!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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In many cases these
verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with
rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and
a fragrance not
otherwise
to be conveyed.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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how venture to smooth the tale to the
frenzied
queen?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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the thought of such a cruel death
Has
overwhelmed
him.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook; 20
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou
watchest
the last oozings hours by hours.
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Keats |
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The
greatest
of these recluses was T'ao Ch'ien (A.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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To the
Honorable
Mr.
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Byron |
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Let this
pernitious
houre,
Stand aye accursed in the Kalender.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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As, in your field, I plant I lose no grain,
For the harvest
resembles
me, and ever
God orders me to plough, and sow again:
Even for this end are we come together.
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Villon |
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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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Havynge wythe mouche
attentyonn
redde
Whatt you dydd to mee sende,
Admyre the varses mouche I dydd,
And thus an answerr lende.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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325
Cum seruos fueris proprios mercatus in usus 311, vi
Cum socios nostros mandisset impius Cyclops 6, ix
Cura, labor, meritum, sumpti pro munere honores 300
Curantes magna cum cura tum cupientes 15
Cursu uolucri pendens, cum nouacula 226
Custodes ouium tenerae propaginis, agnum 49
Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis 165
Dea sancta Tellus, rerum naturae parens 229
Debilem facito manu, debilem pede, coxa 108, ii
Deficiunt magico torti sub carmine rhombi 170
Deinde pollens sagittis inclutus Arquitenens 8, v
Denique si uocem rerum natura repente 70
De numero uatum si quis seponat Homerum 322, i
Desine de quoquam quisquam bene uelle mereri 89
Desine, Paulle, meum lacrimis urgere sepulcrum 179
Desinite, o ueteres, Calpurnia nomina, Frugi 339, ii
Dianae sumus in fide 74
Dicebam tibi uenturos, irrisor, amores 167
Dicebas quondam solum te nosse Catullum 91, a
Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus es idem 279
Diffugere niues, redeunt iam gramina campis 152, ii
Di meliora ferant, nec sint mihi somnia uera 184
Diuitias
alius fuluo sibi congerat auro 154
Diuom templa cante 1, i
Donec gratus eram tibi 126
Dum dubitat natura marem faceretne puellam 350
Dum lasciuiam nobilium et laudes fucosas petit 50
Dum tibi Cadmeae dicuntur, Pontice, Thebae 168
Dum tu forsitan inquietus erras 268, ii
Ede tuos tandem populo, Faustine, libellos 283
Ego cum genui tum morituros sciui et ei rei sustuli 27
Ego deum genus esse semper dixi et dicam caelitum 26
Ego semper pluris feci 9, iv
Ego tui memini 3, i
Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume 134
Enni poeta, salue, qui mortalibus 33
Enos, Lases, iuuate 2
Eripitur nobis iam pridem cara puella 174
Esse quid hoc dicam, quod tam mihi dura uidentur 210
Est locus in primo felix oriente remotus 310
Estne tibi, Cerinthe, tuae pia cura puellae 188
Est quod mane legas, est et quod uespere.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Oldfield
with more than harpy throat endued,
Cries "Send me, gods!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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HAIL native Language, that by sinews weak
Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak,
And mad'st imperfect words with childish tripps,
Half unpronounc't, slide through my infant-lipps,
Driving dum silence from the portal dore,
Where he had mutely sate two years before:
Here I salute thee and thy pardon ask,
That now I use thee in my latter task:
Small loss it is that thence can come unto thee,
I know my tongue but little Grace can do thee: 10
Thou needst not be ambitious to be first,
Believe me I have thither packt the worst:
And, if it happen as I did forecast,
The
daintest
dishes shall be serv'd up last.
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Milton |
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II
So was I bound to sing, but I begun
Another song, Rinaldo crossed my way,
And then those deeds by savage Guido done,
Kept me employed and caused no small delay;
And so from subject I to subject run,
That I forgot of
Bradamant
to say.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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In short, in the
space of about eighteen months, from October 1768 to April 1770,
besides the Poems now published, he
produced
as many compositions,
in prose and verse, under the names of Rowley, Canynge, &c.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Di mia semente cotal paglia mieto;
o gente umana, perche poni 'l core
la 'v' e mestier di
consorte
divieto?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Seven years, the traitor rich Mycenae sway'd,
And his stern rule the
groaning
land obey'd;
The eighth, from Athens to his realm restored,
Orestes brandish'd the avenging sword,
Slew the dire pair, and gave to funeral flame
The vile assassin and adulterous dame.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Black day he chose for planting thee,
Accurst he rear'd thee from the ground,
The bane of
children
yet to be,
The scandal of the village round.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Ynne honnoure, & a greater love, be dreste;
Botte I wylle call the mynstrelles roundelaie;
Perchaunce
the swotie sounde maie chafe your wiere[99] awaie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He said, "My friends have wended forth
With farewells smooth and kind;
Mine oldest friend, my
plighted
bride,
Ye need not stay behind:
Friend, wed my fair bride for my sake,
And let my lands ancestral make
A dower for Rosalind.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This school has been widely discussed by those
interested
in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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o,
So
chaunged
was his chere; 780
(66)
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The
selfsame
moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And it was the
princess
at the
place Jack was had to be given to it that time, and the king had been
feeding a bully underground for seven years, and you may believe he got
the best of everything, to be ready to fight it.
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Yeats |
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[a]]
[Variant 6: This and the
previous
line were added in 1827.
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Say, is it Love, that was divinity,
Who hath left his godhead that his home might be The
shameless
rose of her unclouded heart?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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She, bereav'd
Of her first husband,
slighted
and obscure,
Thousand and hundred years and more, remain'd
Without a single suitor, till he came.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ SALTABADIL _goes out, and seeing_ TRIBOULET,
_approaches
him with an air of mystery.
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Se Giove stanchi 'l suo fabbro da cui
crucciato prese la folgore aguta
onde l'ultimo di percosso fui;
o s'elli stanchi li altri a muta a muta
in Mongibello a la focina negra,
chiamando
"Buon Vulcano, aiuta, aiuta!
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Even whilst we speak
The
ministers
of justice wait below: _65
They grant me these brief moments.
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Shelley |
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Marlow, and I were
directed
hither by a
young fellow----
MISS NEVILLE: One of my hopeful cousin's tricks.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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, and
I have adopted it in
preference
to 'But scarce a Poet', which is an
awkward phrase and does not express what the writer means.
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John Donne |
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_("Ho,
guerriers!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Once we met at the
Southern
end of Wei Bridge, but scattered again to
the north of the Tso Terrace.
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Li Po |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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Imagists |
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Her
evenings
then were dull and dead;
Sad case it was, as you may think,
For very cold to go to bed,
And then for cold not sleep a wink.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Since he sends word, that King Marsiliun,
Homage he'll do, by finger and by thumb;
Throughout
all Spain your writ alone shall run
Next he'll receive our rule of Christendom
Who shall advise, this bidding be not done,
Deserves not death, since all to death must come.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Aid for them each woman prayed for them,
Treading
back slowly the track of their march.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hectora tot fratres, tot defleuere sorores
et pater et coniux
Astyanaxque
puer
et longaeua parens: nec et ille redemptus ab igne:
nulla super Stygias umbra renauit aquas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The effects Homer
produced
with his methods
were as great as any effects produced by later and more elaborate
methods, after poetry began to be read as well as heard.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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O City city, I can sometimes hear
Beside a public bar in Lower Thames Street, 260
The pleasant whining of a mandoline
And a clatter and a chatter from within
Where fishmen lounge at noon: where the walls
Of Magnus Martyr hold
Inexplicable
splendour
of Ionian white and gold.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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"I love my love" the
ploughman
sung,
And all the fields with music rung.
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John Clare |
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My mother taught me
underneath
a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointed to the east, began to say:
"Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday.
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blake-poems |
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Have I done
anything
to offend you?
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Kipling - Poems |
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They were
afterwards
incorporated in full in the edition of
1857, issued by Mr.
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And as the meteor's
midnight
flame
Startles the dreamer, sun-like truth
Flashed on his visionary youth,
And filled him, not with love, but faith, _620
And hope, and courage mute in death;
For love and life in him were twins,
Born at one birth: in every other
First life then love its course begins,
Though they be children of one mother; _625
And so through this dark world they fleet
Divided, till in death they meet;
But he loved all things ever.
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The
subsequent
course of events, as gathered from hints of
this epic, is partly told in Scandinavian legend.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Not for
increase
to himself
Of good, which may not be increas'd, but forth
To manifest his glory by its beams,
Inhabiting his own eternity,
Beyond time's limit or what bound soe'er
To circumscribe his being, as he will'd,
Into new natures, like unto himself,
Eternal Love unfolded.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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PROKTOPHANTASMIST:
Verfluchtes
Volk!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Did chosen chiefs across the gulfy main
Attend his voyage, or
domestic
train?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We
wandered
from pine-hills
through oak and scrub-oak tangles,
we broke hyssop and bramble,
we caught flower and new bramble-fruit
in our hair: we laughed
as each branch whipped back,
we tore our feet in half buried rocks
and knotted roots and acorn-cups.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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"
He felt his very
whiskers
glow,
And frankly owned "I do not know.
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Lewis Carroll |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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And Betty's most
especial
charge,
Was, "Johnny!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Qui desponsa tua firmes conubia flamma,
Quae pepigere viri,
pepigerunt
ante parentes
Nec iunxere prius quam se tuus extulit ardor.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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This is clear--
you fell on the downward slope,
you dragged a bruised thigh--you limped--
you
clutched
this larch.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of
exporting
a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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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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50
In the faint
fragrance
of flowers,
On the sweet draft of the sea-wind,
Linger strange hints now that loosen
Tears for thy gay gentle spirit,
O Lityerses!
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Sappho |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic
philosopher
(368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and independence of mind.
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Villon |
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ealo
drincende
ōðer sǣdan (_ale drinkers
said other things_), 1946; acc.
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Beowulf |
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Quick, 'neath the spiral round
Of the deep
staircase
fly!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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28
theye were allwaye blythe and hende,
In hope that god shollde hem sende
[folio 145b] Some maydyn chyllde, or some man,
That theyre
herytages
myght hane;
So long theye prayed with good entent, 33
that a man chyllde god hem sent;
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whan they wyst ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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XXIX
Do you have hopes that posterity
Will read you, my Verse, for
evermore?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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