If with no headache they're tormented,
Nor dunned by
landlord
for his pay,
They're careless, unconcerned, and gay.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Sones fell Gue into perdition black;
All his sinews were
strained
until they snapped,
And all the limbs were from his body dragged.
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Chanson de Roland |
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This
second element is that which the French
sculptor
in a different medium
has carried to perfection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Cunningham points out the
wrong
division
in 37, 8.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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(Enter
VICTORIAN
by the balcony.
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Longfellow |
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It has
survived
long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Between two mountains far away aloft
From midst the whirl of waters open lies
A gaping exit for the fleet, and yet
They seem
conjoined
in a single isle.
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Lucretius |
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The
bohemian
glass on the _étagère_ is no longer there.
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Imagists |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own
nurslings
stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The elements freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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dost thou pace
Our woods at night in ghostly chase
"Of some fair Dryad of old tales
Who chants between the nightingales
And over sleep by song
prevails?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on
automated
querying.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Solid and square to the world
the houses stand,
their windows blocked with
venetian
blinds.
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Imagists |
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]
91 (return)
[ Many
commentators
propose reading "exaction," instead of "augmentation.
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Tacitus |
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the theme surmounts the
loftiest
strains.
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Petrarch |
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--
It is
impossible
to say just what I mean!
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T.S. Eliot |
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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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These thorns are sharp, yet I can tread on them;
This cup is loathsome, yet He makes it sweet;
My face is steadfast toward Jerusalem,
My heart
remembers
it.
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Christina Rossetti |
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LXXVI
Whether it was his great desire to kill
That baron, or his hurry made him fail,
Or trembling heart, like leaf which flutters still,
Made hand and arm together flinch and quail;
Or that it was not the Creator's will
The church so soon her champion should bewail;
The
glancing
stroke his courser's belly tore,
Outstretched on earth, from thence to rise no more.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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John's Gate, we took a caleche in Market
Square for the Falls of the Chaudiere, about nine miles
southwest
of
the city, for which we were to pay so much, besides forty sous for
tolls.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about
To have men think he's
troubled
with the gout;
But 'tis no gout, believe it, but hard beer,
Whose acrimonious humour bites him here.
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Robert Herrick - Hesperide and Noble Numbers |
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And, if
governments fail to comply, at the very least they will lose the considerable
cooperative
power of the finpolities.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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Io udi' poi: <
proposizion
che cosi ti conchiude,
perche l'hai tu per divina favella?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The frozen
imperturbability
of the poet, his cutting enunciation, his
power of blasphemy, his hatred of Nature, his love of the artificial,
have been copied by the aesthetic blades of our day.
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heart |
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How do the aesthetic blades of our day emulate the frozen imperturbability of the poet and his other traits? |
Answer: |
The aesthetic blades of our day emulate the frozen imperturbability of the poet, along with his cutting enunciation, power of blasphemy, hatred of nature, and love of the artificial, all of which were first introduced by Baudelaire. |
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Baudelaire - Biographical Essay |
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Fair fame, bright honour, virtue firm, rare grace,
The
chastest
beauty in celestial frame,--
These be the roots whence birth so noble came.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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san tener parte en esa industria mayores
esperanzas
respecto a la pos?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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[8] The
beauteous
Adonis lieth low in the hills, his thigh pierced with the tusk, the white with the white, and Cypris is sore vexed at the gentle passing of his breath; for the red blood drips down his snow-white flesh, and the eyes beneath his brow wax dim; the rose departs from his lip, and the kiss that Cypris shall never have so again, that kiss dies upon it and is gone.
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Bion |
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Round the decay
Of that
colossal
wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Golden Treasury |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Grounded in magic he knew the future and predicted the
Christian
coming of the Saviour.
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Appoloinaire |
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:
_vquicquam_
Dah
2 _insperati_ Heinsius
3 _nobis quoque_ codd.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Tennyson |
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Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,
Nor that race that holds the English firth,
Nor, by the French Rhine, soldiers of worth,
Nor Germany with other
warriors
graced.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Nach dem Violett und der Linie G zu wird
das Blau immer lichtschwächer, und hier muss es daher rela-
tiv zum Gelb
verstärkt
werden, um Weiss zu geben.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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Nay;
He is my lord;
therefore
I hold my peace.
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Euripides - Electra |
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All other known
examples
are purely instrumental pieces.
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Troubador Verse |
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Be my girl or fair or brown,
Does she smile or does she frown,
Still I write a
sweetheart
down.
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Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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It is also related that he was driven from Rome by
the restless aspiring of his mother, whom he scorned to admit a partner
in the sovereignty; nor yet could entirely seclude, since as her gift he
had received the
sovereignty
itself.
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Tacitus |
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Note: The Scythians at the extreme end of the Empire in Roman times were
regarded
as living barbaric lives (See Ovid's Tristia and Ex Ponto).
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Ronsard |
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Thenceforth
had been a prisoner evermore
Dudon, who was derived of Danish stock.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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What but design of
darkness
to appal?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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þē mē se gōda ā-gifan þenceð (_the answer that the
good one
intendeth
to give me_), 355; (blōdig wæl) byrgean þenceð, 448;
þonne hē .
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Source: |
Beowulf |
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Leave me my tearless, sad refrain,
When in the pine-top wakes the gale
That
breathes
of coming rain.
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Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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The thick
darkness
carries with it
Rain and a ravel of cloud.
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Imagists |
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For pious poet it behoves be chaste 5
Himself; no chastity his verses need;
Nay, gain they finally more salt of wit
When over softy and of scanty shame,
Apt for exciting somewhat prurient,
In boys, I say not, but in bearded men 10
Who fail of movements in their
hardened
loins.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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mallit_
GRVen a
2 _Catule_ R
4
_notorum_
O: _not.
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Latin - Catullus |
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TO Fred'rick's eye an angel she appeared;
But shame he felt, that she, his soul revered,
Should find him poor:--no
servants
to attend,
Nor means to give a dinner to a friend.
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Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven:
A light, which in
yourself
you must perceive:
Jones and Le Notre have it not to give.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Now are you old,
blossoming
white and blanched,
Yet by such words you still appear infant.
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Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_
Unriddle
this vile wrangling, or----
_Gab.
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Byron |
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Coloured jackdaws I saw hiding,
Paroquets and kolibri,
Through the magic
branches
gliding
In the woods of Tusfery.
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Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a
reminder
of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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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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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Le
Printemps
adorable a perdu son odeur!
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Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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--Injuries do not
extinguish
courtesies: they only suffer them
not to appear fair.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Rejoice: forever you'll be
The Princess of Founts to me,
Singing your issuing
From broken stone, a force,
That, as a
gurgling
spring,
Bring water from your source,
An endless dancing thing.
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Source: |
Ronsard |
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Love can but be frendshipps outside; their two
Beauties
differ, as myndes and bodies do.
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Source: |
John Donne |
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CIV cum CIII
continuant
?
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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Source: |
La Fontaine |
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For
Hrothgar
soon a horse was saddled
wave-maned steed.
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Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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LIX
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which
labouring
for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child!
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Jules Laforgue (1860-1887)
Jules Laforgue
'Jules Laforgue'
1885,
Wikimedia
Commons
Pierrots
Emerges, on a taut neck,
From a starched ruff idem
A beardless face, cold-creamed,
A beanpole: hydrocephalic.
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Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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_All insert_ I
_before_
prayde.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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So good luck came, and on my roof did light,
Like
noiseless
snow, or as the dew of night:
Not all at once, but gently, as the trees
Are by the sunbeams tickled by degrees.
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Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes'
falsehood
hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
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Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That
Providence
which had so long the care
Of Cromwell's head, and numbered every hair,
Now in itself (the glass where all appears)
Had seen the period of his golden years.
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Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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--
The morn is come: the starry crowds
Are hid behind the thrice-piled clouds;
The new day lowers, and equal odds
Have changed not less the guest of gods;
Discrowned and timid, thoughtless, worn,
The child of genius sits forlorn:
Between two sleeps a short day's stealth,
'Mid many ails a brittle health,
A cripple of God, half true, half formed,
And by great sparks Promethean warmed,
Constrained by impotence to adjourn
To
infinite
time his eager turn,
His lot of action at the urn.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Therefore I pray the Sovran Mind, from whom
Thy motion and thy virtue are begun,
That he would look from whence the fog doth rise,
To vitiate thy beam: so that once more
He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive
Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls
With
miracles
and martyrdoms were built.
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Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs
Perceived
the scene, and foretold the rest--
I too awaited the expected guest.
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Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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SECOND OPAL
If, from a
careless
hold,
One gem of these should fall,
No power of art or gold
Its wholeness could recall:
The lustrous wonder dies
In gleams of irised rain,
As light fades out from the eyes
When a soul is crushed by pain.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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WARREN'S ADDRESS
JOHN PIERPONT
[Sidenote: June 17, 1775]
_Joseph Warren was commissioned by
Massachusetts
as a
Major-General three days before the battle of Bunker Hill, at which
he fought as a volunteer.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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,
_endowed
with a soul, human being_: gen.
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Source: |
Beowulf |
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And all night long the
captains
of the fleet
Kept their crews moving up and down the strait.
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Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The
apartment
and dress of the
zamorim were such as might be expected from the luxury and wealth of
India.
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Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thus went that beautiful multitude, nor far,
Ere from among some rocks of glittering spar,
Just within ken, they saw
descending
thick
Another multitude.
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Source: |
Keats |
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Virtue is no horn-maker; and my
Rosalind
is virtuous.
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Source: |
Shakespeare |
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Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Epitaph
Here there lies, and sleeps in the grave,
One whom Love killed with his scorn,
A poor little scholar in every way,
He was named
Francois
Villon.
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Villon |
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"Wee all must die," quod brave Syr CHARLES; 105
"Whatte bootes ytte howe or whenne;
Dethe ys the sure, the
certaine
fate
Of all wee mortall menne.
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Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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(_To_ KING
FRANCOIS)
Sir, you can have my room.
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Source: |
World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Should I all heaven, all earth explore,
I still should lovely Laura find;
Laura, whose
beauties
I adore,
Is ever present to my mind:
She's seen in all that strikes these partial eyes,
And her dear name still dwells in all my tender sighs.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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The following
additional
facts are based on statements in the poet's
own works.
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Li Po |
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_Widdie_, a rope, more
properly
one of withs or willows.
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
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** Clytia--The
Chrysanthemum
Peruvianum, or, to employ a
better-known term, the turnsol--which continually turns
towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from
which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its
flowers during the most violent heat of the day.
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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None finds me ugly today, though I am
monstrously
strong.
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as
specified
in paragraph 1.
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Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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but true as strange,
How much I was
mistaken!
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Answer: |
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Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Another tyme
imaginen
he wolde
That every wight that wente by the weye 625
Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde,
`I am right sory Troilus wole deye.
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Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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There are a few
things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
even without
complying
with the full terms of this agreement.
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Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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N'es-tu pas l'oasis ou je reve, et la gourde
Ou je hume a longs traits le vin du
souvenir?
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I could
not but confess to myself that my conduct at the
Simbirsk
Inn had been
most foolish, and I felt guilty toward Saveliitch.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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o'er-defalking to thy crew
Against thyself, thyself far overfew
To front yon
multitudes
of rebel scheming?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Endymion follow'd--for it seem'd that one 930
Ever pursued, the other strove to shun--
Follow'd their languid mazes, till well nigh
He had left
thinking
of the mystery,--
And was now rapt in tender hoverings
Over the vanish'd bliss.
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Keats |
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at the table there be all the great,
Whose lives are bubbles that best joys
inflate!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
frequent
stone is hurled where eer they go;
When badgers fight, then every one's a foe.
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John Clare |
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He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats, and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like
horrible
hammer-blows.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Nicolas
carefully
annotates "Dieu," "La Divinite,"
&c.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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