" said my soul:
"I heard me bidden to this deed,
And
straight
obeyed the call.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Admit your law to spare the knight requires,
As beasts of nature may we hunt the
squires?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
assembled
priests are seized
with consternation, but their fears are removed by the arrival of
successive messengers.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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frenzied Lear
Should at thy bidding wander on the heath
With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo
For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear
Pluck Richard's
recreant
dagger from its sheath--
Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!
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Wilde - Poems |
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"
The two last sentences of this extract give
admirable
expression to one
feature of Wordsworth's interpretation of Nature.
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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"I see no reason, then, why our metaphysical poets should plume
themselves so much on the utility of their works, unless indeed they
refer to instruction with
eternity
in view; in which case, sincere
respect for their piety would not allow me to express my contempt for
their judgment; contempt which it would be difficult to conceal, since
their writings are professedly to be understood by the few, and it is
the many who stand in need of salvation.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And there was
sitting on the step below her chair four grey old women, and the one of
them was holding a great
cauldron
in her lap; and another a great stone
on her knees, and heavy as it was it seemed light to her; and another
of them had a very long spear that was made of pointed wood; and the
last of them had a sword that was without a scabbard.
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Yeats |
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Erdman has
recoverd
a portion of the line, reading: Above him he xxx Jerusalem ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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And when I
descended
to the valleys and the plains God was there
also.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In his third consulship he gave a check to
eloquence, and, as it were, bridled its spirit, but still left all
causes to be tried
according
to law in the forum, and before the
prætors.
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Tacitus |
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Can nothing
disabuse
you of your error?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Such are the
triumphs
of
faction!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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So it is I,
hands
accursed
-
who bequeathed you!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"Give voice to us, we pray, O Lord,
"That we may sing Thy
goodness
to the sun.
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Stephen Crane |
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"
III
When spring winds wakened the
mountain
floods,
And kindled the flame of the tulip buds,
When bees grew loud and the days grew long,
And the peach groves thrilled to the oriole's song,
Queen Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed,
Decking with jewels her exquisite head;
And still she gazed in her mirror and sighed:
"O King, my heart is unsatisfied.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Base int'rest's impulse: hideous modern stain;
The curse of ev'ry tender soft delight,
That charms the soul and
fascinates
the sight.
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La Fontaine |
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_'"
[Illustration: "AND SWING
YOURSELF
FROM SIDE TO SIDE"]
I said "You'll visit _here_ no more,
If you attempt the Guy.
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Lewis Carroll |
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THE TALISMAN
FROM THE RUSSIAN OF
ALEXANDER
PUSHKIN
WITH OTHER PIECES
Contents:
The Talisman
The Mermaid
Ancient Russian Song
Ancient Ballad
The Renegade
THE TALISMAN
From the Russian of Pushkin.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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THOUGH FAR FROM LAURA,
SOLITARY
AND UNHAPPY, ENVY STILL PURSUES HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword
His Wife, his Babes, and all
vnfortunate
Soules
That trace him in his Line.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Yea, death is better
for
liegemen
all than a life of shame!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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copyright
varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Oh, come you home of Sunday
When Ludlow streets are still
And Ludlow bells are calling
To farm and lane and mill,
Or come you home of Monday
When Ludlow market hums
And Ludlow chimes are playing
"The
conquering
hero comes,"
Come you home a hero,
Or come not home at all,
The lads you leave will mind you
Till Ludlow tower shall fall.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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'Et de
Postumio
et Corneli narrat amore, 35
Cum quibus illa malum fecit adulterium.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Then your father, who was brave as leopard or tiger, became
Governor
of
Ping-chou[39] and put down the rebel bands.
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Li Po |
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Time will go by, and pass the
appointed
day;
Tidings of us no Frank will hear or say.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Rome is no more: if downed architecture
May still revive some shade of Rome anew,
It's like a corpse, by some magic brew,
Drawn at deep
midnight
from a sepulchre.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And now, again, a hungry company
Of traders, led by corporate sons of trade,
Perversely
borrowing
from the shop the tools
Of science, not from the philosophers,
Had won the brightest laurel of all time.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The
woodland
rings with laugh and shout
As if a hunt were up,
And woodland flowers are gathered
To crown the soldier's cup.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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From
this search they almost immediately returned with the well-known
steel-bound, russet leather pocket-book which the old gentleman had been
in the habit of
carrying
for years.
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Poe - 5 |
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CHOR:
So Ehre denn, wem Ehre
gebuhrt!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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'
So he
vanished
from my sight;
And I plucked a hollow reed,
And I made a rural pen,
And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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a word that must be, and hath been--
A sound which makes us linger; yet,
farewell!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I burn'd, and had a combat in my breast,
Glad t' have her company, yet 'twas not best
(Methought) to see her lost, but 'tis in vain
T' abandon goodness, and of fate complain;
Virtue her
servants
never will forsake,
As now 'twas seen, she could resistance make:
No fencer ever better warded blow,
Nor pilot did to shore more wisely row
To shun a shelf, than with undaunted power
She waved the stroke of this sharp conqueror.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Tu vuo' saper chi e in questa lumera
che qui
appresso
me cosi scintilla
come raggio di sole in acqua mera.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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But they wolde hate you, percas,
And, if ye fillen in hir laas,
They wolde
eftsones
do you scathe,
If that they mighte, late or rathe; 6650
For they be not ful pacient,
That han the world thus foule blent.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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)
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so
digress?
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T.S. Eliot |
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[Illustration]
There was an old person of Dean
Who dined on one pea, and one bean;
For he said, "More than that, would make me too fat,"
That
cautious
old person of Dean.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
[Sidenote D: In cleanness and
courtesy
he was never found wanting,]
[Sidenote E: therefore was the endless knot fastened on his shield.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Aristotle
was the
first accurate critic and truest judge--nay, the greatest philosopher the
world ever had--for he noted the vices of all knowledges in all creatures,
and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one art.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Beaten and broke in the fight,
But
sticking
it--sticking it yet.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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London and the Countrey Carbonadoed and
Quartred
into
severall Characters.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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See,
projected
through time,
For me an audience interminable.
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Whitman |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All that's best remains
In the
essential
vision that can make
One light for life, love, death, their joys, their pains.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Entering, around Orlando turns his eyes,
Yet neither
cavalier
nor damsel spies.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Why seek ye me in dust, forlorn,
Ye heavenly tones, with soft
enchanting?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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to thee 'tis given
To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle stroke,
And bid its blendings shine afar,
Like
rainbows
on the cloud of war,
The harbingers of victory!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"The full-orbed moon with
unchanged
ray," verse, 406.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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To-day the doors and windows
Are hung with
garlands
all,
From Castor in the Forum,
To Mars without the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Why should that
Cause thy refusal, said the subtle Fiend,
Hast thou not right to all Created things,
Owe not all
Creatures
by just right to thee
Duty and Service, nor to stay till bid,
But tender all their power?
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Milton |
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`'Tis here, 'tis here,' and spurreth in fear
To the top of the hill that hangeth above
And
plucketh
the Prince: `Come, come, 'tis here --'
`Where?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Across two
counties
he can hear,
And catch your words before you speak.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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'
Upon his dateless fame
Our periods may lie,
As stars that drop anonymous
From an
abundant
sky.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Stephen Crane |
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Late, late, oh late, beneath the tree stood two;
In
trembling
joy, and wondering "Is it true?
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A composite animal, somewhat
resembling
the fabulous unicorn, whose
arrival is a good omen.
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Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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Huge sea-wood fed with copper
Burned green and orange, framed by the
coloured
stone,
In which sad light a carved dolphin swam.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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BOEHME | MYSTERIUMPANSOPHICUM | 95
Thus we now see the origin of two
different
religions from which Babel was born an idol, and that in the pagans and Jews.
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false |
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How was Babel born? |
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Answer: Babel was born as an idol from two different religions, pagan and Jewish, and is present in both as two races in one. |
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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A MASK
PRESENTED
At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634.
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Milton |
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XXIV
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Fails to rouse the
creatures
of a kind,
Whether swift bird aloft or fleeting hind,
Whether equipped with scales or sharpened claws,
What ardent Fury in her pincers' jaws
Gripped your hearts, so poisoned the mind,
That intent on mutual cruelty, we find,
Into your own entrails your own blade bores?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And as the tower came
crashing
down, the bells, in clear accord,
Pealed forth the grand old German hymn,--'All good souls, praise the
Lord!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
The logic of the old rascal
appeared
plausible even to me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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You came amidst the show of flow'ry splendour,
Again I saw you at the aftermath,
And, 'mid the ruddy corn-blades'
rustling
tender,
Unto your cottage always wound my path.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Give your
gladness
to earth's keeping,
So be glad, when you are sleeping.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Quand parfois sur ce globe, en sa
langueur
oisive,
Elle laisse filer une larme furtive,
Un poete pieux, ennemi du sommeil,
Dans le creux de sa main prend cette larme pale,
Aux reflets irises comme un fragment d'opale,
Et la met dans son coeur loin des yeux du soleil.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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formd the lovely limbs of Enitharmon XXX & to
lamentation
of Enion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Wine
I cannot die, who drank delight
From the cup of the crescent moon,
And
hungrily
as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Next he
would read up, in several languages, about his
proposed
subject; that
would take him perhaps a year.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Well was it for Rogero that he wore
The virtuous ring which served the truth to
explore!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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--Yet
There is
something
at my heart,
Gnawing, I would fain forget,
And an aching and a smart.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Come, let us gather our nets from the shore,
and set our
catamarans
free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for
we are the sons of the sea.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Among the stars your feet are set;
Your little feet are dancing yet
Their
rhythmic
beat, as when on earth.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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'
But your tresses are a tepid river,
Where the soul that haunts us drowns, without a shiver
And finds the
Nothingness
you cannot know!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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To Calvus: on the Death of Quintilia_
SI quicquam mutis gratum acceptumue sepulcris
accidere
a nostro, Calue, dolore potest,
quom desiderio ueteres renouamus amores
atque olim amissas flemus amicitias,
certe non tanto mors immatura dolorei'st
Quintiliae, quantum gaudet amore tuo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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If this be Love, how is the evil wrought,
That all men write against his
darkened
name?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Hushing signs she made,
And breath'd a sister's sorrow to persuade 410
A
yielding
up, a cradling on her care.
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Keats |
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XII
As if against
obstruction
sore
Tattiana o'er the stream complained;
To help her to the other shore
No one appeared to lend a hand.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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You Caffre, Berber,
Soudanese!
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Source: |
Whitman |
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And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a
question
on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
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Sundays and
Tuesdays
he fasts and sighs,
His teeth are as sharp as the rats' below,
After dry bread, and no gateaux,
Water for soup that floats his guts along.
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Villon |
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I could laugh--
more beautiful, more
intense?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But why should I keep my
thoughts
to myself?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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J'ecoute en
fremissant
chaque buche qui tombe;
L'echafaud qu'on batit n'a pas d'echo plus sourd.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Two years have passed, and with the
second volume it has seemed best to state at once the reasons which
actuated its
contributors
to join in such a venture.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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The background against which the figure of Rainer Maria Rilke is
silhouetted is so varied, the influences which have entered into his
life are so manifold, that a study of his work, however slight, must
needs take into consideration the
elements
through which this poet has
matured into a great master.
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Rilke - Poems |
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ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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We paused before a house that seemed
A
swelling
of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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"(263)
Thus she; and thus the god whose force can make
The solid globe's eternal basis shake:
"Against the might of man, so feeble known,
Why should
celestial
powers exert their own?
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Iliad - Pope |
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However, he may
have been the
worthiest
of mortals for aught that I know.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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