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_'Tresvolontiers;' _and he
proceeded
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this Errours den,
A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: 115
Therefore
I read beware.
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I'll give you the best help I can:
Before you up the
mountain
go,
Up to the dreary mountain-top,
I'll tell you all I know.
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At length it comes among the forest oaks,
With sobbing ebbs, and uproar
gathering
high;
The scared, hoarse raven on its cradle croaks,
And stockdove-flocks in hurried terrors fly,
While the blue hawk hangs oer them in the sky.
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The apple tree is also
mentioned
by Homer and Herodotus.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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PART I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he
stoppeth
one of three.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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His
everlasting
jokes about the
Commandant's family, and, above all, his witty remarks upon Marya
Ivanofna, displeased me very much.
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our troop
Floats
lovingly
up
With a quick-oaring stroke
Of wings steered to the rock,
Having softened the soul of our father below.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Um zu erläutern, wie
dadurch die Lichtintensität des Spectrums geändert werde,
beschränken wir unsere Betrachtung
zunächst
auf einen einzi-
gen Spalt.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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"So at last have
journeyed
hither,
Seeking out some better sport;
I intend to try my prowess
On the mighty Atta Troll.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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" There was simplicity, as well as strength,
in the way in which the
initials
were cut.
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William Wordsworth |
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II I accept frailty and white hair in my life, in lonely
isolation
now at the ends of the earth.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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_ Observe the fitting
slowness
of the
first half of the line, and the sudden leap forward of the second.
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Keats |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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O, this world's
transience!
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Where were ye, Nymphs, when the
remorseless
deep
Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?
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Golden Treasury |
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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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Troubador Verse |
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Even yet, however, he was not completely
satisfied
and from time to time
he added a touch to his work until he finally produced the finished
picture which we know as 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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Alexander Pope |
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That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy
highways
where I went
And cannot come again.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Do their tongues ever shrivel with a pain of fire
Across those simple
syllables
"sac-ri-fice"?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
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accepting
unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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-- Dey's
mightily
in de grass, grass,
Dey's mightily in de grass.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And still within a summer's night
A
something
so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too inspecting face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Waldo Abigail Fithian Halsey Louis Ginsberg
Marjorie
Allen Seiffert J.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Ah
luckless
poet!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Nearly all the individual
works in the
collection
are in the public domain in the United
States.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"I must have stepped on
something
when I was alive and walking about and
it has bounced up and hit me.
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Kipling - Poems |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Brutus with the knife,
Rienzi with the fasces, throb beneath
Rome's stones,--and more who threw away joy's fife
Like Pallas, that the beauty of their souls
Might ever shine untroubled and entire:
But if it can be true that he who rolls
The Church's
thunders
will reserve her fire
For only light,--from eucharistic bowls
Will pour new life for nations that expire,
And rend the scarlet of his papal vest
To gird the weak loins of his countrymen,--
I hold that he surpasses all the rest
Of Romans, heroes, patriots; and that when
He sat down on the throne, he dispossessed
The first graves of some glory.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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It's on your slopes, visited by Venus
Setting in your lava her heels so artless,
When a sad slumber
thunders
where the flame burns low.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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The
landlord
had not yet returned from the field with his men, and the
cows had yet to be milked.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But their glory shall never cease,
Nor their light be
quenched
in the light of peace.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Did the harebell loose her girdle
To the lover bee,
Would the bee the harebell hallow
Much as
formerly?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He passed through
Kiukiang
on his way,
and released the prisoners there.
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Li Po |
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ELECTRA
Right well in this too hast thou
schooled
my thought.
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Aeschylus |
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C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous
remuent!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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We have seen the rise and
progress
of reform.
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Shelley |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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For aught
the men knew, the enemy might be
attempting
all four sides of the square
at once.
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Kipling - Poems |
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At eight months he
peremptorily
refused to put his signature to the
Temperance pledge.
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Poe - 5 |
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So he sent his slaves before
To seize upon the Bank and Tower,
And was proceeding with intent
To meet his pensioned
Parliament
_85
22.
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Shelley |
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ATOSSA
And who is shepherd of their host and holds them in
command?
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Aeschylus |
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"
"They are all made to unscrew," said the Crabs; and forthwith they
deposited a great pile of claws close to the boat, with which Violet
uncombed all the pale pink worsted, and then made the
loveliest
mittens
with it you can imagine.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Why gather the heroes, 645
All the flower of Greece, without
Hippolytus?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Then, in rising day,
On the grass they play;
Parents were afar,
Strangers
came not near,
And the maiden soon forgot her fear.
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Blake - Poems |
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--Have you ever thrown
That
searching
glance on Louis with Fontange,
On Anne with Buckingham; and did they not
Start, with flushed cheeks, to hear your laugh ring forth
From corner of the wood?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My
substance
of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Shuttleworthy
was one of the most
respectable and, undoubtedly, he was the most wealthy man in
Rattleborough, while "Old Charley Goodfellow" was upon as intimate terms
with him as if he had been his own brother.
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Poe - 5 |
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Having completed a
scrutiny
whose exact purpose was perhaps
unintelligible to himself, he drew close to his seat a small table
covered with books and papers, and soon became absorbed in the task
of retouching a voluminous manuscript, intended for publication on the
morrow.
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Poe - 5 |
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At times when men seek most repose and rest,
I yielded, and unlock'd her all my heart,
Who with a grain of manhood well resolv'd
Might easily have shook off all her snares:
But foul
effeminacy
held me yok't 410
Her Bond-slave; O indignity, O blot
To Honour and Religion!
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Milton |
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][30]
What dost thou here,
Katrina dear,
At
daybreak
drear,
Before thy lover's chamber?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Ye sons of old Killie,
assembled
by Willie,
To follow the noble vocation;
Your thrifty old mother has scarce such another
To sit in that honoured station.
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Robert Burns |
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This way my Lord, the Castles gently rendred:
The Tyrants people, on both sides do fight,
The Noble Thanes do brauely in the Warre,
The day almost it selfe
professes
yours,
And little is to do
Malc.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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When by evil lust entic'd,
Remember ye be men, not senseless beasts;
Nor let the Jew, who
dwelleth
in your streets,
Hold you in mock'ry.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The tablet is said to have been found at Senkere, ancient
Larsa near Warka, modern Arabic name for and vulgar descendant
of the ancient name Uruk, the Biblical Erech
mentioned
in Genesis
X.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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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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So
notoriously
do they degenerate not only from
a state of liberty, but even below a state of bondage.
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Tacitus |
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The Sarazin this hearing, rose amain,
And
catching
up in hast his three-square shield,
And shining helmet, soone him buckled to the field.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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This has doubtless been the
practice
of many
distinguished authors of fiction whose names will readily occur to
the reader.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Forty years had I in my city seen
soldiers
parading,
Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and
turbulent city,
Sleepless amid her ships, her houses, her incalculable wealth,
With her million children around her, suddenly,
At dead of night, at news from the south,
Incens'd struck with clinch'd hand the pavement.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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This step is necessary to the end;
Some lad of little worth I recommend;
But not ill made, nor
savagely
robust,
To give your lady terror nor disgust.
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La Fontaine |
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What
flowers?
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Troubador Verse |
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The great humanity which beats
Its life along the stony streets,
Like a strong and
unsunned
river
In a self-made course,
I sit and hearken while it rolls.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Tell me, pray; oh, said she, they sleep most sound;
But then between them plac'd shall I be found,
And while the one amidst Love's frolicks sports,
The other quiet lies, or
Morpheus
courts.
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La Fontaine |
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The Lilly of the valley breathing in the humble grass
Answerd the lovely maid and said: I am a watry weed,
And I am very small and love to dwell in lowly vales:
So weak the gilded
butterfly
scarce perches on my head
Yet I am visited from heaven and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley, and each morn over me spreads his hand
Saying, rejoice thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower.
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Blake - Poems |
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mountains
bare
That leap up peak by peak and catch the palls
Of purple and silver mist to rend and share
With one another, at electric calls
Of life in the sunbeams,--till we cannot dare
Fix your shapes, count your number!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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This banquet hall looks an abyss outlined
With shadowy vagueness, though indeed we find
In the far depth upon the table spread
A sudden, strong, and glaring light is shed,
Striking upon the goldsmith's
burnished
works,
And on the pheasants killed by traitor hawks.
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Hugo - Poems |
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It,
groaning
thing,
Turned black and sank.
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Stephen Crane |
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Even the rishi[28] had to wait
For a yellow crane to ride;
But the sailor[29] whose heart had no guile
Was
followed
by the white gulls.
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Li Po |
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There is peace
In homeward waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long
struggle
cease.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Emerson - Poems |
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His eldest
daughter
was Biatrix.
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Troubador Verse |
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When you scrape up the coals with a
delicate
sound,
You enrapture my life with delight,
Your nose is so shiny, your head is so round,
And your shape is so slender and bright!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Her throat was serpent, but the words she spake
Came, as through
bubbling
honey, for Love's sake,
And thus; while Hermes on his pinions lay,
Like a stoop'd falcon ere he takes his prey.
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Keats - Lamia |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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" The three stanzas
respectively
describe
"My First," "My Second," and "My Whole.
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Lewis Carroll |
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No, my good lord, it is more
pleasing
stuff.
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Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Straight line and arabesque--intention and expression--the
rigidity
of
the will and the suppleness of the word--a variety of means united for a
single purpose--the all-powerful and indivisible amalgam that is
genius--what analyst will have the detestable courage to divide or to
separate you?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
|
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Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave;
At the cool casement, to the evening breeze flung wide,
Leans the Sultana, and delights to watch the tide,
With surge of silvery sheen, yon
sleeping
islets lave.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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How could such sweet and
wholesome
hours
Be reckon'd, but with herbs and flowers!
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Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Je trone dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris;
J'unis un coeur de neige a la
blancheur
des cygnes;
Je hais le mouvement qui deplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Have I, in silent wonder, seen such things
As pride in slaves, and avarice in kings;
And at a peer, or peeress, shall I fret,
Who starves a sister, or
forswears
a debt?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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With
shuddering
of grief, with tears that start,
With wailful escort, let them hither come--
For one or other make divided moan!
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Aeschylus |
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A whole wagon of charcoal,
More than a
thousand
pieces!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Lewis Carroll |
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He wuz as
outspoken
as a norwester _he_ wuz, but I
tole him I hoped the fall wuz from so high up thet a feller could ketch
a good many times fust afore comin' bunt onto the ground as I see Jethro
C.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Time bring back the order of classic days;
Earth has
shuddered
with prophetic breath.
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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Keep watch and ward
Lest
heedlessness
bring death: full oft, I ween,
Friend hath slain friend, not knowing whom he slew.
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But
helpless
Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Doubt was born of the
corruption
of
society; Nature and Man were said to be against faith in the rule of a
God, wise, just, and merciful.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Then
Aegisthus
was in fear
Lest she be wed in some great house, and bear
A son to avenge her father.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The Warders with their shoes of felt
Crept by each padlocked door,
And peeped and saw, with eyes of awe,
Grey figures on the floor,
And
wondered
why men knelt to pray
Who never prayed before.
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Wilde - Poems |
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I am he attesting sympathy,
(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that
supports
them?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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Appoloinaire |
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The rest of his journey, his error by sea, the sack of Troy, are put not
as the argument of the work, but
episodes
of the argument.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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