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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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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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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limitation
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interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
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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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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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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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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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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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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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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Imagists |
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His distant sonne, Sire Romara de Biere, 255
Soughte to revenge his fallen kynsman's lote,
But soone Erie Cuthbert's dented
fyghtyng
spear
Stucke in his harte, and stayd his speed, God wote.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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The lustres of the
chandelier
are bright, and clusters of rubies leap in
the bohemian glasses on the _étagère_.
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Imagists |
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Why so glum,
comrade?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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THE YEARS
TO-NIGHT I close my eyes and see
A strange procession passing me--
The years before I saw your face
Go by me with a wistful grace;
They pass, the
sensitive
shy years,
As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Quivi le brutte Arpie lor nidi fanno,
che cacciar de le
Strofade
i Troiani
con tristo annunzio di futuro danno.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A mere automaton in the hands of the Demon, he thrust the point
through his heart, and underwent a
painless
death.
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Byron |
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And Betty, now at Susan's side,
Is in the middle of her story,
What comfort Johnny soon will bring,
With many a most
diverting
thing,
Of Johnny's wit and Johnny's glory.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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O the vision of winning my favor makes easy
Hitherto unexplored paths, under that
powerful
foot.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Then they followed
Where the vision led,
And saw their
sleeping
child
Among tigers wild.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Housman's poems, is
the
encounter
his spirit constantly endures with life.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Soll ich den Augen trauen,
Oberon, den schonen Gott,
Auch heute hier zu
schauen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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The victor rushing to despoil the dead,
From Paris' bow a
vengeful
arrow fled;
Fix'd in his nervous thigh the weapon stood,
Fix'd was the point, but broken was the wood.
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Iliad - Pope |
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But their wild
exultation
was suddenly checked
When the jailer informed them, with tears,
Such a sentence would have not the slightest effect,
As the pig had been dead for some years.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Blake - Zoas |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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We feel so grateful, when to soft discourses
Of tree-tops, slanting rays towards us travel,
And only look, and listen when in pauses,
The ripened fruit
resounds
upon the gravel.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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So clings to her, is fixed as with a nail,
My heart, as the bark cleaves to the rod,
She is of joy my tower, palace, chamber;
And I love her more than brother, or uncle:
And twice the joy in
Paradise
for my soul,
If any man there through true loving enters.
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Troubador Verse |
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By the all-pitying love
That could thy Godhead move
To dwell a lowly
sojourner
on earth,
Turn, Lord!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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OSWALD Lord
Clifford?
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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hunc solum Paphie puto lucum fecit amori:
hic Martem
exspectare
solet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Li Po |
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Was I not once the son of
Revolution?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You've not
surprised
my secret yet
Already the cortege moves on
But left to us is the regret
of there being no connivance none
The rose floats at the water's edge
The maskers have passed by in crowds
It trembles in me like a bell
This heavy secret you ask now
?
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Appoloinaire |
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622 in the
Bodleian
library by F.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The rudeness of one of his
servants
produced a quarrel
with the Caffres, or Hottentots.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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That courage its own praises flies :
Digitized by VjOOQIC
THE POEMS
Therefore to your obscurer feats,
From his own
brightness
lie retreats ;
Nor he the hills, without the groves.
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Marvell - Poems |
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What satire of the Romish
priesthood
in xviii-xx?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Ne barrier wall, ne river deep and wide,
Ne horrid crags, nor
mountains
dark and tall
Rise like the rocks that part Hispania's land from Gaul
XXXIII.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And checks his song to
execrate
Godoy,
The royal wittol Charles, and curse the day
When first Spain's queen beheld the black-eyed boy,
And gore-faced Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Mein
Fernrohr
hat ein Faden-
kreuz aus zwei sich rechtwinkelig kreuzenden Fäden, diese
stellte ich den dunkelen Linien der beiden sich deckenden
Spectra parallel.
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Helmholtz - 1851 - Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben |
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Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son,
Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire,
Where shall we
sometimes
meet, and by the fire
Help waste a sullen day, what may be won
From the hard season gaining?
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Golden Treasury |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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