And only not to
desperation
driven,
Because not altogether of such clay
As rots into the souls of those whom I survey.
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The dark bronze tigers crouch on either side
Where redcoats used to pass;
And round the bird-loved house where Mercer died,
And violets dusk the grass,
By Stony Brook that ran so red of old,
But sings of
friendship
now,
To feed the old enemy's harvest fifty-fold
The green earth takes the plow.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Restless Minds,
Such Minds as find amid their fellow-men
No heart that loves them, none that they can love,
Will turn
perforce
and seek for sympathy
In dim relation to imagined Beings.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Longue, mince, en grand deuil, douleur majestueuse,
Une femme passa, d'une main fastueuse
Soulevant,
balancant
le feston et l'ourlet;
Agile et noble, avec sa jambe de statue.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in Sibylline
whiteness
to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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_--We now come to
the passage
condemned
by Voltaire as so lascivious, that no nation in
Europe, except the Portuguese and Italians, could bear it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Incipit Liber Primus
The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, 1
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his
aventures
fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,
My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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the whole company of the
inhabitants
had each but a single
eye and but one hand.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,--
The lives
travelling
dark fears,
And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool
Thrown down abysmal places?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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"Let rest my ancestors"--'twas Mahaud spoke;
Then
murmuring
added she, "For you are much
Too small their noble armor here to touch.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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So giebt
Zinnober
und Ultra-
marin statt des Rosa, welches der Zusammensetzung ihres
Lichts entspricht, ein etwas in das Violette ziehendes Schwarz-
grau.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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Finley, the
American
Red Cross, and the _Red Cross Magazine_:--"The Red
Cross Spirit Speaks.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And O dear what shall I do,
When nobody
whispers
to marry me--
Nobody cometh to woo?
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John Clare |
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Smile on, thou new-come Spring--if on thy breeze
The breath of a great man go
wavering
up
And out of this world's knowledge, it is well.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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and she went _40
Singing and
gathering
flower after flower,
With which her way was painted and besprent.
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Shelley |
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{1e} A
disturber
of the border, one who sallies from his haunt in
the fen and roams over the country near by.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
Receive the summer sky, you water, and
faithfully
hold it till all
downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of
epics are heresies worse than the
futilities
of the Baconians; at any
rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a
wilder fantasy.
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Stephen Crane |
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_Tecum habita_, _ut noris quam sit tibi curta
supellex_
{11}
PERS.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every
blackening
church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Stephen Crane |
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But,
in fact, the 'Paradise Regained' is little, if at all, inferior to the
'Paradise Lost,' and is only supposed so to be because men do not like
epics, whatever they may say to the contrary, and, reading those of
Milton in their natural order, are too much wearied with the first to
derive any
pleasure
from the second.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
The mother of
Gilgamish
she that knows all things,
said unto Gilgamish:--
"Truly oh Gilgamish he is
born [56] in the fields like thee.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Do not be decoyed
elsewhere!
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Whitman |
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Rilke - Poems |
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Over
buttered
scones and crumpets
Weeping, weeping multitudes
Droop in a hundred A.
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T.S. Eliot |
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FAUST:
Doch warum gehst du nicht durchs
Fenster?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks, and
by the
justification
of perfect personal candour.
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Whitman |
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We know them all, Gudrun the strong men's bride,
Aslaug and Olafson we know them all,
How giant Grettir fought and Sigurd died,
And what
enchantment
held the king in thrall
When lonely Brynhild wrestled with the powers
That war against all passion, ah!
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Wilde - Poems |
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1090, he seized the castle of Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which
lies in the mountainous tract south of the Caspian Sea; and it was
from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the
Crusaders as the OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through
the Mohammedan world; and it is yet disputed where the word Assassin,
which they have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark
memorial, is derived from the hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the
Indian bhang), with which they maddened themselves to the sullen pitch
of
oriental
desperation, or from the name of the founder of the
dynasty, whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days, at Naishapur.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Vast were the task, I feeble; inborn shame,
And she, who makes the
peaceful
lyre submit,
Forbid me to impair great Caesar's fame
And yours by my weak wit.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Meredith - Poems |
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"You're wanted to work up your smaller
sketches
and sell them to the
dealers.
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Kipling - Poems |
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If there are any nut
trees which still retain their nuts
standing
at a distance without the
wood, their paths often lead directly to and from them.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
affirms, "Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate
workings, and he never
introduces
a word, or a thought, in vain or out of
place.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Yet some could see him cringe,
As in a place of danger,
Throwing
frightened glances into the air,
A-start at threatening faces of the past.
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Stephen Crane |
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She wore a
kerchief
on her neck,
Her bare arm showed its dimple,
Her apron spread without a speck,
Her air was frank and simple.
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Christina Rossetti |
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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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XIII
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
Nor the cutting edge of conquering blade,
Nor the havoc
ruthless
soldiers made,
In sacking you, Rome, ever and again,
Nor the tricks that fickle fortune played,
Nor envious centuries corrosive rain,
Nor the spite of men, nor gods' disdain,
Nor your own power in civil strife displayed,
Nor the impetuous storms that you withstood,
Nor the river-god's winding course in flood,
That has so often drowned you in its thunder,
Not all combined have so abased your pride,
As that this nothing left you, by Time's tide,
Still makes the world halt here, and gaze in wonder.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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' The hero was no more,
Leaving in my arms only his
disfigured
corpse,
Sad object of the god's triumphant anger,
Unrecognisable, even to his own father.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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But now help god to
quenchen
al this sorwe,
So hope I that he shal, for he best may;
For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060
Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day;
And after winter folweth grene May.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Still they,
hovering
o'er him,
Kiss him where he lies,
Hark, he sees them weeping,
"Gabriel!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Robert Forst |
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I ha' seen him cow a
thousand
men
On the hills o' Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between, Wi' his eyes like the grey o' the sea.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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: _excepta_ D:
_execta_
a, Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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He called upon me
Christmas
Eve--
His son is married, just conceive!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The
children
walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Rilke - Poems |
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ai
schullen
wende
To ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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convenience
of comparison of two later repre|sentatives of one unknown original.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"
XXX
Supposing
that I should have the courage
To let a red sword of virtue
Plunge into my heart,
Letting to the weeds of the ground
My sinful blood,
What can you offer me?
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Stephen Crane |
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Heere abiure
The taints, and blames I laide vpon my selfe,
For
strangers
to my Nature.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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INDEED so fickle proved this giddy youth,
That nothing long would please his heart or tooth;
Howe'er he earnestly
inquired
her name,
And ev'ry other circumstance the same.
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La Fontaine |
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Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;
Therefore
we'll knock.
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Shakespeare |
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Obsession
After years of wisdom
During which the world was transparent as a needle
Was it cooing about
something
else?
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Did you but know how easy the prize to
win, how facile the end to reach, and how all save Death is naught, not
so greatly would you fatigue yourselves, O ye laborious alive; nor would
you so often vex the slumber of them that long ago reached the End--the
only true end of life
detestable!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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at I may
vnderstonde
what be ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Others will lead me towards happiness
By the horns on my brow knotted with many a tress:
You know, my passion, how ripe and purple already
Every pomegranate bursts, murmuring with the bees:
And our blood,
enamoured
of what will seize it,
Flows for all the eternal swarm of desire yet.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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If so^
indulgent
to his own, how dear
To him the children of the Highest were !
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Marvell - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thenceforth
her waters waxed dull and slow,
And all that drinke thereof do faint and feeble grow.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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He started epileptic fits of an
appalling
kind.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
He is old, and kind, and deaf, and blind,
And very, very pleased with his
charming
moat
And the swans which float.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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He to my narrow domains far wider limits laid open,
He too gave me the house, also he gave me the dame,
She upon whom both might exert them,
partners
in love deeds.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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These are a prince's virtues: and they
that give him other
counsels
are but the hangman's factors.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thus in Arthur's time this
adventure
befell, whereof the "Brutus Books"
bear witness (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Tennyson |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Hence it is that
talkative
shallow men do often content the
hearers more than the wise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Drapings
of satin are absent; the mattress is quite unembroidered.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sonnets Pour Helene Book I: L
Though the human spirit gives itself noble airs
In Plato's doctrine, who calls it divine influx,
Without the body it would do nothing much,
While vainly
praising
its origin up there.
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Ronsard |
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XVIII
All bustle when he makes a sign:
He drinks, all drink and loudly call;
He smiles, in
laughter
all combine;
He knits his brows--'tis silent all.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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l vert folh
When flowers are in the leaves green
Can la frej' aura venta
When fresh breezes gather,
Can la verz folha s'espan
When the
greenery
unfolds
Pel doutz chan que?
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Troubador Verse |
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For several minutes he sat rigidly as a statue
of marble; his eyes seeming, in the intense vacancy of their gaze, to
be turned inward and
absorbed
in the contemplation of his own miserable,
murderous soul.
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Poe - 5 |
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Clarke,
acknowledging
money and requesting the loan of
a further sum
CCCXXXVI.
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Robert Forst |
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I have offer'd my style to every one, I have journey'd with confident step;
While my
pleasure
is yet at the full I whisper So long!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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HIGH on a mountain of enamell'd head--
Such as the drowsy shepherd on his bed
Of giant pasturage lying at his ease,
Raising his heavy eyelid, starts and sees
With many a mutter'd "hope to be forgiven"
What time the moon is quadrated in Heaven--
Of rosy head, that
towering
far away
Into the sunlit ether, caught the ray
Of sunken suns at eve--at noon of night,
While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light--
Uprear'd upon such height arose a pile
Of gorgeous columns on th' unburthen'd air,
Flashing from Parian marble that twin smile
Far down upon the wave that sparkled there,
And nursled the young mountain in its lair.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Here, in my rude log cabin,
Few poorer men there be
Among the
mountain
ranges
Of Eastern Tennessee.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"But Dravot never showed me
disrespect
before the people.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
The conscript levied a
contribution
on both gifts; for he prided himself
on being a good soldier.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Half in
playfulness
she spoke, I thought, and half in indignation;
Friends, who listened, laughed her words off, while her lovers deemed
her fair:
A fair woman, flushed with feeling, in her noble-lighted station
Near the statue's white reposing--and both bathed in sunny air!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It was no dream; or say a dream it was,
Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass
Their pleasures in a long
immortal
dream.
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Keats - Lamia |
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His people erected a wonderful statue
to his memory, which uttered a
melodious
sound at dawn, when the sun
fell on it.
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1802, a French anatomist
and
physiologist
of eminence.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Hast thou found any fire
Will draw from our hearts a smoke of burn'd
idolatrous
desire?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The spirit of the old sea-kings lived
again in Drake and his bold buccaneers, who swept the proud
Spaniards
from
the seas.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yet, Lord, o'er Thy toil-wearied weepers
The storm-clouds hang muttering and frown:
On threshers and
gleaners
and reapers,
O Lord of the harvest, look down;
Oh for the harvest, the shout, and the crown!
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Christina Rossetti |
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And then, not to mislead,
I give you an
adversary
to fear indeed.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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At dusk we left the blue mountain-head;
The mountain-moon
followed
our homeward steps.
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NOTES
Of the many verses from time to time
ascribed
to the pen of Edgar Poe,
and not included among his known writings, the lines entitled "Alone"
have the chief claim to our notice.
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In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged
manacles
I hear:
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.
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Blake - Poems |
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"And the tsar has
commanded
to arrest him--"
OFFICER.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Why, Troilus, what
thenkestow
to done?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Well, here, after all the bad rhyme I've been spinning,
I've got back at last to my story's beginning:
Sitting there, as I say, in the shade of his mistress,
As dull as a volume of old Chester mysteries,
Or as those puzzling specimens which, in old histories,
We read of his verses--the Oracles, namely,-- 50
(I wonder the Greeks should have swallowed them tamely,
For one might bet safely
whatever
he has to risk,
They were laid at his door by some ancient Miss Asterisk,
And so dull that the men who retailed them out-doors
Got the ill name of augurs, because they were bores,--)
First, he mused what the animal substance or herb is
Would induce a mustache, for you know he's _imberbis;_
Then he shuddered to think how his youthful position
Was assailed by the age of his son the physician;
At some poems he glanced, had been sent to him lately, 60
And the metre and sentiment puzzled him greatly;
'Mehercle!
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James Russell Lowell |
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Your whole empire now lies open to him;
There all's allowed him, beneath your sway;
He
triumphs
over me, as the Moors today.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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To
Beatrice
on my right l bent,
Looking for intimation or by word
Or act, what next behoov'd; and did descry
Such mere effulgence in her eyes, such joy,
It past all former wont.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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