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When huge Vesuvius in its torment long,
Threatening
has growled its cavernous jaws among,
When its hot lava, like the bubbling wine,
Foaming doth all its monstrous edge incarnadine,
Then is alarm in Naples.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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KAU}
Casting their sparkies dire abroad into the dismal deep
{Alternate
reading of "sparkles" for "sparkies.
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Blake - Zoas |
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A King or courtier or a courtesan or a
Community
was going to
die or get a new Constitution, or do something that was important on
the other side of the world, and the paper was to be held open till the
latest possible minute in order to catch the telegram.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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[Illustration]
There was a young lady of Firle,
Whose hair was addicted to curl;
It curled up a tree, and all over the sea,
That
expansive
young lady of Firle.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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God's own mother was less dear to me,
And less dear the
Cytheraean
rising like an
argent lily from the sea.
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Wilde - Poems |
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WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE
Six
thankful
weeks,--and let it be
A meter of prosperity,--
In my coat I bore this book,
And seldom therein could I look,
For I had too much to think,
Heaven and earth to eat and drink.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It was a
family feud; no farther inquiry was made; and from age to age, the
parties, who never injured each other,
breathed
nothing but mutual
rancour and revenge.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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where did you
discover
them, pray?
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Aristophanes |
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The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled;
As the good and gallant stripling shook and trembled;
A linen shirt so fine his frame invested,
O'er the shirt was drawn a bright pelisse of scarlet
The sleeves of that pelisse depended backward,
The lappets of its front were button'd backward,
And were spotted with the blood of unbelievers;
See the good and gallant stripling reeling goeth,
From his eyeballs hot and briny tears distilling;
On his bended bow his figure he supporteth,
Till his bended bow has lost its goodly gilding;
Not a single soul the stripling good encounter'd,
Till encounter'd he the mother dear who bore him:
O my boy, O my treasure, and my
darling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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With swordless belt, and
fettered
hand,
Oh, Christ!
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Byron |
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Fiercest attack
Was as a
perfumed
breeze to them, which drew
Their souls still closer unto God.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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595
Phaedra
If you hated me, I would not
complain
of it,
My Lord.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
considerable effort, much
paperwork
and many fees to meet and keep up
with these requirements.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Love, like a beggar, came to me
With hose and doublet torn:
His shirt
bedangling
from his knee,
With hat and shoes outworn.
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Robert Herrick |
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He threw with
weighted
dice.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"O Hector, all my
brothers
more were not so loved of me
As thy most virtues.
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The female of the Halcyon,
Love, the
seductive
Sirens,
All know the fatal songs
Dangerous and inhuman.
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Appoloinaire |
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God Neptune's
palaces!
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Keats |
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Doth he give
Thy tomb good
tendance?
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Euripides - Electra |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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You too be wise, my Plancus: life's worst cloud
Will melt in air, by mellow wine allay'd,
Dwell you in camps, with
glittering
banners proud,
Or 'neath your Tibur's canopy of shade.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O revered Mother, O Ether
Revolving
common light to all,
You see me, how unjust things I endure!
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Elvire
Reject, Madame, so tragic a design;
Reject this law,
tyrannical
and blind.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Dost
comprehend
things mortal, how they grow?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Remote from man, and storms of mortal care,
A
heavenly
silence did the waves invest;
I looked and looked along the silent air,
Until it seemed to bring a joy to my despair.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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[Cromek says, when a neighbour complained that his copy of the Morning
Chronicle was not regularly delivered to him from the post-office, the
poet wrote the following indignant letter to Perry on a leaf of his
excise-book, but before it went to the post he
reflected
and recalled
it.
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Robert Burns |
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Appear for him,
Avenger!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Meanwhile, tsarevich,
Hide in thy soul the seed of heavenly blessing;
Religious
duty bids us oft dissemble
Before the blabbing world; the people judge
Thy words, thy deeds; God only sees thy motives.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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How can we give you your
offerings?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Yes, I know that Earth in the depths of this night,
Casts a strange mystery with vast brilliant light
Beneath hideous
centuries
that darken it the less.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Here glows the Spring, here earth
Beside the streams pours forth a
thousand
flowers;
Here the white poplar bends above the cave,
And the lithe vine weaves shadowy covert: come,
Leave the mad waves to beat upon the shore.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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She points the path on high: and I who know
Her chaste anxiety and earnest prayer,
In
whispers
sweet, affectionate, and low,
Train, at her will, my acts and wishes there:
And find such sweetness in her words alone
As with their power should melt the hardest stone.
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Petrarch |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants,
chantant
dans la coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ignorance is like a
delicate
exotic fruit: touch it, and the blossom is
gone.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'
It may be, however, that the
contraction
is in 'th'orld.
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James Russell Lowell |
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HOW silly
neighbour
Stephen must appear!
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La Fontaine |
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Quare facta virum multantes vindice poena,
Eumenides, quibus anguino redimita capillo
Frons
expirantis
praeportat pectoris iras,
Huc huc adventate, meas audite querellas, 195
Quas ego vae!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Villa of Julius Martialis_
IVLI iugera pauca Martialis
hortis Hesperidum beatiora
longo
Ianiculi
iugo recumbunt:
lati collibus imminent recessus
et planus modico tumore uertex
caelo perfruitur sereniore,
et curuas nebula tegente uallis
solis luce nitet peculiari:
puris leniter admouentur astris
celsae culmina delicata uillae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Ich brauche wenigstens
vierzehn
Tag,
Nur die Gelegenheit auszuspuren.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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'
[Then
speaking
small] 'Ah Pyramus, my lover dear!
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Shakespeare |
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Among your heart-shaped leaves
Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
Their little weak soft songs;
In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song
sparrows
sitting on spotted eggs
Peer restlessly through the light and shadow
Of all Springs.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Laws,
promulgated
by Dungi, 138, 31.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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laetaturque
tamen; Mauortia signa rubescunt
floribus et subitis animantur frondibus hastae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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But now, my mind was heavy, you were blithe;
And in a moment, you, behold, are fixt
Gazing like
desperate
things, while I rejoice.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Le Poete prendra le sanglot des Infames,
La haine des Forcats, la clameur des maudits;
Et ses rayons d'amour
flagelleront
les Femmes.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Why on those shores are we with joy survey'd,
Admired as heroes, and as gods obey'd,
Unless great acts superior merit prove,
And
vindicate
the bounteous powers above?
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Iliad - Pope |
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1876
C H R Y S O M E L A
A
SELECTION
FROM THE LYRICAL POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK
PREFATORY
1.
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Robert Herrick |
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XXXVII
As through the wild green hills of Wyre
The train ran,
changing
sky and shire,
And far behind, a fading crest,
Low in the forsaken west
Sank the high-reared head of Clee,
My hand lay empty on my knee.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Well, that Sunday Albert was home, they had a hot gammon,
And they asked me in to dinner, to get the beauty of it hot--
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
Goonight
Bill.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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_Jimmal_
or _gimmal_, double or triple ring.
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Robert Herrick |
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And I in
slitting
with one stroke of the sickle that gullet
that bolted down the tripe.
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Aristophanes |
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And now your orphan parent's call
Sounds your untimely funeral ;
Death-trumpets creak in such a note, 415
And 'tis the
sourdine
in their throat.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice
Is a
gentlemanly
game,
But he does not win who plays with Sin
In the secret House of Shame.
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Wilde - Poems |
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HODGSON
YE
MARINERS
WHO SPREAD YOUR SAILS.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Sam: Your coming, Friends, revives me, for I learn
Now of my own experience, not by talk,
How counterfeit a coin they are who friends
Bear in their Superscription (of the most 190
I would be
understood)
in prosperous days
They swarm, but in adverse withdraw their head
Not to be found, though sought.
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Milton |
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And the marsh dragged one back,
and another
perished
under the cliff,
and the tide swept you out.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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syllīc spell rehte (_told a
wondrous
tale_), 2111; so
intrans.
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Beowulf |
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use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Appoloinaire |
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But never elsewhere in one place I knew
So many Nightingales: and far and near
In wood and thicket over the wide grove
They answer and provoke each other's songs--
With
skirmish
and capricious passagings,
And murmurs musical and swift jug jug
And one low piping sound more sweet than all--
Stirring the air with such an harmony,
That should you close your eyes, you might almost
Forget it was not day!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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'
dixit et ornatus, dederant quos nuper ouantes
Nereides, collo
membrisque
micantibus aptat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It swarmed with insects,
Just as if it had been
peppered!
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electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the
sentence
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Stephen Crane |
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Now we have met, we have looked, we are safe;
Return in peace to the ocean, my love;
I too am part of that ocean, my love--we are not so much separated;
Behold the great _rondure_--the
cohesion
of all, how perfect!
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Whitman |
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As
children
caper when they wake,
Merry that it is morn,
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance again.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Crudled, vii, 6; ix, 52, curdled,
congealed
(with cold).
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I was called by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they
saw me approaching or passing,
Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the
negligent
leaning of their
flesh against me as I sat;
Saw many I loved in the street, or ferry-boat, or public assembly, yet
never told them a word;
Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing,
sleeping;
Played the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
The same old role, the role that is what we make it,--as great as we like,
Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
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Whitman |
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The spring returns, with all her smiling train;
The wanton Zephyrs breathe along the bowers,
The glistening dew-drops hang on bending flowers,
And tender green light-shadows o'er the plain:
And thou, sweet Philomel, renew'st thy strain,
Breathing thy wild notes to the midnight grove:
All nature feels the
kindling
fire of love,
The vital force of spring's returning reign.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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'Oh, can't you take your answer then,
And won't you
understand?
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Christina Rossetti |
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I must also
acknowledge
suggestions
taken from Mr.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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One only, true to Hymen's flame,
Was
traitress
to her sire forsworn:
That splendid falsehood lights her name
Through times unborn.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What can they give that you should look to them for compassion
Though you bare your heart and lift an
imploring
face?
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Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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active links or
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A statue
Eviradnus
has become,
Like to the others in their frigid home.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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at his lyf was almest ydo,
ffor
siknesse
?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I am but two stanzas deep in the work, and
possibly
you may
think, and justly, that the poetry is as little worth your attention
as the music.
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Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Paint
Castlemain
in colours which will hold
Her, not her picture, for she now grows old.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
A REBEL
Tie a bandage over his eyes,
And at his feet
Let rifles
drearily
patter
Their death-prayers of defeat.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Since his lofty
exploits
have no equal
In such a matter he will have no rival.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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without one distress
Sick of herself through very
selfishness!
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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Mes baisers sont legers comme ces ephemeres
Qui caressent le soir les grands lacs transparents,
Et ceux de ton amant
creuseront
leurs ornieres
Comme des chariots ou des socs dechirants;
Ils passeront sur toi comme un lourd attelage
De chevaux et de boeufs aux sabots sans pitie.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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But this amusement delicate
Was worthy of that old baboon,
Our fathers used to dote upon;
The
Lovelaces
are out of date,
Their glory with their heels of red
And long perukes hath vanished.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Roused by his Ilia's
plaintive
woes,
He vows revenge for guiltless blood,
And, spite of Jove, his banks o'erflows,
Uxorious flood.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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But it is a
remarkable
meteorological
and psychological fact, that it is rarely
known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so
constructed.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Search well the measure--
The words--the
syllables!
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Poe - 5 |
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How tall among her sisters, and how fair, --
How grave beyond her youth, yet debonair
As dawn, 'mid wrinkled Matres of old lands
Our
youngest
Alma Mater modest stands!
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Sidney Lanier |
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When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smooths her hair with
automatic
hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Your loss is, as yourself, great; and you bear it
As
answering
to the weight.
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Shakespeare |
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Passing your lines,
Napoleon
oft
Electrified you with a look!
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Hugo - Poems |
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on
dastards
dead to fame
I waste no anger, for they feel no shame:
But you, the pride, the flower of all our host,
My heart weeps blood to see your glory lost!
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Iliad - Pope |
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Whether 'tis Spring's first shiver, faintly heard
Through the light leaves, or lizards in the brake
The
rustling
thorns have stirr'd,
Her heart, her knees, they quake.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Hate, envy, oft the Douglas bore,
But thou hast
superadded
more,
And sunk them in contempt;
Follies and crimes have stain'd the name,
But, Queensberry, thine the virgin claim,
From aught that's good exempt!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Laurence, on whose
festival
they
discovered it.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea;
The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape
With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape;
But O too fond, when have I
answered
thee?
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Tennyson |
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exseruere tuo quondam data munera sumptu
plaudentis
populi gaudia per cuneos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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_All insert_ moste
_before_
able.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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