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Meredith - Poems |
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"
Some of the poems (or fragments of poems),
included
in the 'addenda' to
Volume viii.
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William Wordsworth |
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VIII
What can I give thee back, O liberal
And princely giver, who hast brought the gold
And purple of thine heart, unstained, untold,
And laid them on the outside of the wall
For such as I to take or leave withal,
In unexpected
largesse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
She scarcely
answered
when I paused,
But rather to herself said: "One
Is here," low-voiced and loving, "Yea,
Greater than Solomon.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Dare you accept the tasks
He shall impose, to find a spring, trap foxes,
Tell the sun's time,
determine
the true north,
Or stumbling on through vast self-similar woods
To thread by night the nearest way to camp?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Belacqua
strangled
a shrug and moved away in a tentative manner.
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Samuel Beckett |
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Tze-kung asked if there were a single verb that you could
practise
through life up to the end.
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"love" |
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The verb is "practise" in the sentence "Tze-kung asked if there were a single verb that you could practise through life up to the end." |
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Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects |
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The friends spoken of were Coleridge and my Sister, and the
facts
occurred
strictly as recorded.
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William Wordsworth |
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At a great
distance
yonder.
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Longfellow |
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These
travellers
were mounted on four dromedaries, and having passed through Spain, they went to Norway and from there to Babylon and the Holy Land.
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Chanson de Roland |
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As once, to fill the rapid page
My pen no longer finds delight,
Other and colder
thoughts
affright,
Sterner solicitudes engage,
In worldly din or solitude
Upon my visions such intrude.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[ Art thou not my slave & shalt thou dare
To smite me with thy tongue beware lest I sting also thee,]
Who art thou
Diminutive
husk & shell* [
Broke from my bonds I scorn my prison & yet I love]
If thou hast sinnd & art polluted know that I am pure*
And unpolluted & will bring to rigid strict account
All thy past deeds [So] hear what I tell thee!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Here,
trembling
with their weight, the branches bear,
Delicious as profuse, the tap'ring pear.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Already I'm
mildewed
for the grave,
So first myself I must drink my fill:
But all the rest may be yours, to save
Whomever you will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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He
dispatched
two cohorts of the
Tungri[238] and four troops of horse, together with the entire cavalry
regiment of the Treviri.
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Tacitus |
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Write me how many notes there be
In the new robin's ecstasy
Among astonished boughs;
How many trips the tortoise makes,
How many cups the bee partakes, --
The
debauchee
of dews!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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The blue breadth over the inland sea of Virginia and Maryland, and the sea
off Massachusetts and Maine, and over Manhattan Bay, and over Champlain and
Erie, and over Ontario and Huron and
Michigan
and Superior, and over the
Texan and Mexican and Floridian and Cuban seas, and over the seas off
California and Oregon, is not tallied by the blue breadth of the waters
below more than the breadth of above and below is tallied by him.
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Whitman |
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Not a soul at home may stay:
For the
shepherds
must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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301
The
dreadful
victor took his soft repose,
Scorning pursuit of such mechanic foes'.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Who wishes to receive
visitations
often,
Mustn't load with too many flowers the stone
My finger raises with a dead power's boredom.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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April Song
Willow, in your April gown
Delicate and gleaming,
Do you mind in years gone by
All my
dreaming?
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Sara Teasdale |
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Wherin ye have great glory wonne this day, 240
And proov'd your strength on a strong enimie,
Your first adventure: many such I pray,
And
henceforth
ever wish that like succeed it may.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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hoc quoque fatale est, sic ipsum
expendere
fatum.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Sweet friend, so good so gracious
When shall I have you in my power,
And lie with you at
midnight
hour,
And grant you kisses amorous?
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Troubador Verse |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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So speaking, the Cyllenian Argiphont _515
Winked, as if now his adversary was fitted:--
And Jupiter, according to his wont,
Laughed heartily to hear the subtle-witted
Infant give such a
plausible
account,
And every word a lie.
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Shelley |
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XLVI
[Published in _The Keepsake for 1851: an
illustrated
annual_, edited
by Miss Power.
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Tennyson |
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Come, bring the tither mutchkin in,
And here's--for a conclusion--
To ev'ry New Light^12 mother's son,
From this time forth,
Confusion!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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For, lo,
First came together the earthy particles
(As being heavy and
intertangled)
there
In the mid-region, and all began to take
The lowest abodes; and ever the more they got
One with another intertangled, the more
They pressed from out their mass those particles
Which were to form the sea, the stars, the sun,
And moon, and ramparts of the mighty world--
For these consist of seeds more smooth and round
And of much smaller elements than earth.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Wretched though I seem,
I can produce a champion that will prove
What is
avouched
there.
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Shakespeare |
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"Think now of one, who were a fit colleague,
To keep the bark of Peter in deep sea
Helm'd to right point; and such our
Patriarch
was.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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HE IS
CONTINUALLY
IN FEAR OF DISPLEASING HER.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The
Chinese have reproached Po with
ingratitude
to his Imperial patron,
but it would appear that he abandoned Prince Lin as soon as the latter
joined the revolution.
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Li Po |
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All else he deems the courier may recount,
Save that a wight had wrought him scaith and shame,
And cries (encountering him with
chearful
brow)
"How fares our lady?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--I tell thee, holy man,
Thy raiments and thy ebony cross
affright
me!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Seals in all periods frequently
represent
Enkidu in combat
with a lion.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The breeze, that visits me,
Was never Love's accomplice, never raised
The tendril ringlets from the maiden's brow,
And the blue, delicate veins above her cheek;
Ne'er played the wanton--never half disclosed
The maiden's snowy bosom, scattering thence
Eye-poisons for some love-distempered youth,
Who ne'er henceforth may see an aspen-grove
Shiver in sunshine, but his feeble heart
Shall flow away like a
dissolving
thing.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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A REMONSTRANCE WITH SCOTSMEN FOR HAVING SOURED THE
DISPOSITION
OF THEIR
GHOSTS AND FAERIES
NOT only in Ireland is faery belief still extant.
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Yeats |
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They knew him: his changed body was
Tall, proud and ruddy, and light wings
Were
hovering
over the harp-strings
That Etain, Midhir's wife, had wove
In the hid place, being crazed by love.
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Yeats |
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Besides, there, nightly, with terrific glare,
Love, jealous grown of so
complete
a pair,
Hover'd and buzz'd his wings, with fearful roar,
Above the lintel of their chamber door,
And down the passage cast a glow upon the floor.
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Keats - Lamia |
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For I was reared
In the great city, pent 'mid
cloisters
dim,
And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Ma chi pensasse il ponderoso tema
e l'omero mortal che se ne carca,
nol biasmerebbe se sott' esso trema:
non e pareggio da picciola barca
quel che fendendo va l'ardita prora,
ne da
nocchier
ch'a se medesmo parca.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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His is
stronger
every way.
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Euripides - Electra |
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dumu-anna,
daughter
of heaven, title of Bau, 179, 5; 181, 28; 184, 28.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Appearedst
thou not to Paris in this guise?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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In all our delay before that
obstinate
Trojan city, it was Hector and
Aeneas whose hand stayed the Grecian victory and bore back its advance
to the tenth year.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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They have sent us five
thousand
troops, and driven along ten thousand horses.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Straight the while,
A company came up the aisle
With measured step and sorted smile;
Cleaving the incense-clouds that rise,
With winking
unaccustomed
eyes
And love-locks smelling sweet of spice.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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O lord of the steed and the sea,
be thy trident
uplifted
to smite
In eager desire of the fray, Poseidon!
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Aeschylus |
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Nay if thou will'st, back to the beating brine,
Back to the boisterous billow let us go,
And walk all day beneath the hyaline
Huge vault of Neptune's watery portico,
And watch the purple
monsters
of the deep
Sport in ungainly play, and from his lair keen Xiphias leap.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"--
Starts with sudden life and hears
Through the slow
dripping
of the caverned caves,--
_Angel Voices.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He knew the holiest heart and heights of Rome,
He drave the base wolf from the lion's lair,
And now lies dead by that empyreal dome
Which
overtops
Valdarno hung in air
By Brunelleschi--O Melpomene
Breathe through thy melancholy pipe thy sweetest threnody!
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_ hoc
est, soles hoc
praestare
matribus.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Up then quickly
the Weders' {3c}
clansmen
climbed ashore,
anchored their sea-wood, with armor clashing
and gear of battle: God they thanked
or passing in peace o'er the paths of the sea.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi
throbbing
waiting,
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives,
Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see
At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives 220
Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Yet dare I'almost be glad, I do not see 15
That
spectacle
of too much weight for mee.
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John Donne |
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Hoc autem
maxime
invenitur
in Deo.
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John Donne |
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Guinevere
was with him on her
graceful palfrey.
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Tennyson |
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Et
pourtant
aimez-moi, tendre coeur!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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Keats - Lamia |
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Meantime as a precautionary measure they seize the Acropolis, where the
State treasure is kept; the old men of the city assault the doors, but
are repulsed by "the
terrible
regiment" of women.
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Aristophanes |
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--Is there who mid these awful wilds has seen
The native Genii walk the
mountain
green?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Nothing - not even old gardens mirrored by eyes -
Can restrain this heart that drenches itself in the sea,
O nights, or the
abandoned
light of my lamp,
On the void of paper, that whiteness defends,
No, not even the young woman feeding her child.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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" His
business
was
to stir up the people in Madras with a long pole--as you stir up stench
in a pond--and the people had to come up out of their comfortable old
ways and gasp:--"This is Enlightenment and progress.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Their motionless eyeballs of spirits grown mild with mysterious thought,
Watched her those seamless faces from the valley's glimmering girth;
As she murmured, 'O wandering Oisin, the
strength
of the bell-branch is
naught,
For there moves alive in your fingers the fluttering sadness of earth.
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Yeats |
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"
"The deep things," I replied, "which here I scan
Distinctly, are below from mortal eye
So hidden, they have in belief alone
Their being, on which
credence
hope sublime
Is built; and therefore substance it intends.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Leonor
Will you thus know the
quenching
of all courage,
Abandoning within you reason's usage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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If any disclaimer or
limitation
set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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," read to a society after the
President
of the Academy had
introduced him as "the most promising of our young lyrists.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Our God is
marching
on.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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She
followed
on slowly after the last
As though some object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk but fly.
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Rilke - Poems |
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A
swift
inspiration
came to me, and I merely dropped my own
sou into the bag and slid the silver coin into my pocket.
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bird |
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How does the swift inspiration lead the speaker to put their soul into the bag? |
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The swift inspiration led the speaker to put their soul into the bag when they decided to drop their own two-franc piece into the collection-bag and slide the English lady's coin into their pocket, thus withdrawing Laploshka's two francs from the poor. |
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saki-reginald-152 |
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My spirit drinks the music of her voice,
Whose speaking harmony (to heaven so dear)
They only feel who in its tone partake:
Again within her face my eyes rejoice,
For in its gentle
lineaments
appear
What Genius, Nature, Art, and Heaven can wake.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Robinson writes of it in his 'Diary' in
1818, as "the most
significant
of the crags at a spot where there is not
one insignificant,"--a rock on the western side of Thirlmere, where the
Greta issues from the lake.
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William Wordsworth |
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With honest fervour I commend
Those lips, those eyes; you need not fear
A rival,
hurrying
on to end
His fortieth year.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Alone for
Holofernes
am I come.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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TRIBOULET
(_relieved by the bravo's air_): What price?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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A Number 1
HARVARD^ 'university]
We need you now, strong
guardians
of our hearts, Now, when a darkness lies on sea and land,
When we of weakening faith forget our parts And bow before the falling of the sand.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They
threatened
its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap.
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Lewis Carroll |
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IO
Dark beyond
guessing
grows thine oracle.
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Aeschylus |
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Is there a lord who knows a cheerful noon
Without a fiddler, flatterer, or
buffoon?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Two
swimmers
wrestled on the spar
Until the morning sun,
When one turned smiling to the land.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Eftsoones I wylle bewryne[102] mie
ragefulle
ire,
And Goddis anlace[103] wielde yn furie dyre.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
Around her bower, with
quivering
leaves,
The tall Kamsamahs grew,
And Kitmutgars in wild festoons
Hung down from Tchokis blue.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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What is thy name, that in the battle thus
Thou
crossest
me?
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Shakespeare |
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I still
begrudge
them to the
cider-mill.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Of
Bialacoil
she took ay hede, 4295
That ever he liveth in wo and drede.
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Denying that which mine own spirit guesses
--Our great and ancient fame is also known--
Can I tear off the scarf which veils my tresses,
And with an early
widowhood
atone?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The Council have
resolved
for the last time
To put to proof the power of supplication
Upon our ruler's mournful soul.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Inscribed to a dear Child:
in memory of golden summer hours
and
whispers
of a summer sea.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Tennyson |
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I see (I cried) his woes, a
countless
train;
I see his friends o'erwhelm'd beneath the main;
How twice ten years from shore to shore he roams:
Now twice ten years are past, and now he comes!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And rays from God shot down that meteor chain
And hallow'd all the beauty twice again,
Save when, between th'
Empyrean
and that ring,
Some eager spirit flapp'd his dusky wing.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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evil spirits perhaps may presume
To haunt thy holy dwelling;
Pale ghosts are, perhaps,
stealing
into the room--
Oh, would that the lamp were relit!
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Hugo - Poems |
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