at he euer come,
For he schal haue
fleschlich
lyf; forto a?
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Since then have fled; 'twas in that very year
When to the seat of
sovereignty
the Lord
Anointed thee--there came to me one evening
A simple shepherd, a venerable old man,
Who told me a strange secret.
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now
scarcely
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The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass
Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
From which a golden Cupidon peeped out 80
(Another hid his eyes behind his wing)
Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra
Reflecting
light upon the table as
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it,
From satin cases poured in rich profusion.
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scientific merit, or a mere
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of friends and interest.
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laws in most countries are in
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Then shall I see her as I first beheld,
But
lovelier
far, and by herself excell'd;
And I distinguish'd in the bands above
Shall hear this plaudit in the choirs of love:--
"Lo!
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The
destined
victim 'mid the snows
Of Algidus in oakwoods fed,
Or where the Alban herbage grows,
Shall dye the pontiff's axes red;
No need of butcher'd sheep for you
To make your homely prayers prevail;
Give but your little gods their due,
The rosemary twined with myrtle frail.
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Triumphal arches, domes at heaven's doors,
That an
astonished
heaven sees full plain,
Alas, by degrees, turned to dust again.
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) Ever the
selfsame
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that
eloquent
voice
Surely I never heard--yet it were well
Had I but heard it with its thrilling tones
In earlier days!
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Thy far blue eye,
A remnant of the sky,
Seen through the
clearing
or the gorge
Or from the windows of the forge,
Doth leaven all it passes by.
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Thus it is
That rolling ages change the times of things:
What erst was of a price, becomes at last
A discard of no honour; whilst another
Succeeds
to glory, issuing from contempt,
And day by day is sought for more and more,
And, when 'tis found, doth flower in men's praise,
Objects of wondrous honour.
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But Sylyio soon had me
beguiled
;
This waxed tame, while he grew wild,
And quite regardless of my smart,
Left me his fawn, but took his heart.
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_Quand' io mi volgo
indietro
a mirar gli anni.
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'642 love to praise:'
a love of
praising
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indifferent
earth
grave
not flowers
wreaths, our
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And I will bear along with you
Leaves
dropping
down the honied dew,
With oaten pipes, as sweet, as new.
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Pompaedius
was struck by this, as with a divine admonition from heaven, and, convinced by what Domitius had said, he immediately returned home.
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Stretch not the hand of
Cromwell
for the prize
Meant not for him, nor his!
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But of all sadness this was sad,--
A woman’s arms tried to shield
The head of a
sleeping
man
From the jaws of the final beast.
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headlong
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"Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this
horrible
affair up.
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[Soon after the death of Burns, the very handsome Miscellanies of
Brash and Reid, of Glasgow, contained what was called an
improved
John
Anderson, from the pen of the Ayrshire bard; but, save the second
stanza, none of the new matter looked like his hand.
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XLII
But nothing changed in them is seen,
All in the good old style appears,
Our dear old aunt,
Princess
Helene,
Her cap of tulle still ever wears:
Luceria Lvovna paint applies,
Amy Petrovna utters lies,
Ivan Petrovitch still a gaby,
Simeon Petrovitch just as shabby;
Pelagie Nikolavna has
Her friend Monsieur Finemouche the same,
Her wolf-dog and her husband tame;
Still of his club he member was--
As deaf and silly doth remain,
Still eats and drinks enough for twain.
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple drenched in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood
glitters
the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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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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Thus gentle Lamia judg'd, and judg'd aright,
That Lycius could not love in half a fright,
So threw the goddess off, and won his heart
More
pleasantly
by playing woman's part,
With no more awe than what her beauty gave,
That, while it smote, still guaranteed to save.
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Keats |
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He was
defeated
with heavy loss
by the Illyrians, and died soon afterwards.
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defeated |
| Question: |
How did he die? |
| Answer: |
Answer: His brother was defeated with heavy loss by the Illyrians and died soon afterwards. |
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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"
"My song sounds best in the green wood," said the bird; but
still she came
willingly
when she heard the emperor's wish.
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2 Connacorex did not approach Cotta, whom he regarded as
oppressive
and untrustworthy, but he made an arrangement with Triarius, which Damopheles readily consented to.
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deceitful |
| Question: |
What did Cotta do to Connacorex? |
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Memnon - History of Heracleia |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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CONCERNING
THE PSYCHOSOMATICS OF THE ZEITGEIST
ears have the capacity to see, and the eyes can distinguish warm from cold.
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(And I
Tiresias
have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.
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If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In
singleness
the parts that thou shouldst bear.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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That new-born nation, the new sons of Earth,
With war's lightning bolts creating dearth,
Beat down these fine walls, on every hand,
Then vanished to the
countries
of their birth,
That not even Jove's sire, in all his worth,
Might boast a Roman Empire in this land.
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20
LXVII
Indoors the fire is kindled;
Beechwood is piled on the hearthstone;
Cold are the
chattering
oak-leaves;
And the ponds frost-bitten.
| Guess: |
soft |
| Question: |
Who is by the fire? |
| Answer: |
A man wondering on lost love is by the fire. |
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Sappho |
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Even then sometimes,
When things acquired by the
sternest
toil
Are now in leaf, are now in blossom all,
Either the skiey sun with baneful heats
Parches, or sudden rains or chilling rime
Destroys, or flaws of winds with furious whirl
Torment and twist.
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Lucretius |
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I would have sent it
through the
universe
like a flash of fire.
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Yeats |
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The
other presses hotly on his
stealthy
errand, and now bent his way towards
Messapus' comrades, where he saw the last flicker of the fires go down,
and the horses tethered in order cropping the grass; when Nisus briefly
speaks thus, for he saw him carried away by excess of murderous desire;
'Let us stop; for unfriendly daylight draws nigh.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Orso, my friend, was never stream, nor lake,
Nor sea in whose broad lap all rivers fall,
Nor shadow of high hill, or wood, or wall,
Nor heaven-obscuring clouds which torrents make,
Nor other
obstacles
my grief so wake,
Whatever most that lovely face may pall,
As hiding the bright eyes which me enthrall,
That veil which bids my heart "Now burn or break,"
And, whether by humility or pride,
Their glance, extinguishing mine every joy,
Conducts me prematurely to my tomb:
Also my soul by one fair hand is tried,
Cunning and careful ever to annoy,
'Gainst my poor eyes a rock that has become.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Longingly--I think of my friends,
But neither boat nor
carriage
comes.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Rude is the tent this
architect
invents,
Rural the place, with cart ruts by dyke side.
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John Clare |
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All those relentless Mars untimely slew,
And left me these, a soft and servile crew,
Whose days the feast and wanton dance employ,
Gluttons
and flatterers, the contempt of Troy!
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Iliad - Pope |
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What had Death in store to awe
Those eyes, that huge sea-beasts unmelting saw,
Saw the swelling of the surge,
And high Ceraunian cliffs, the seaman's
scourge?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use;
When the
materials
are all prepared, the architects shall appear.
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Whitman |
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It is probable, that the harsh manner of Lucilius, _durus componere
versus_,
infected
the eloquence of Lælius, since we find in Cicero,
that his style was unpolished, and had much of the rust of antiquity.
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Tacitus |
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My
shivering
blood, congeal'd, forgot to flow;
Aghast I stood, a monument of woe!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Jealousy's eyes are green,
Scorpions are green, and water-snakes, and efts, _75
And verdigris, and--
PURGANAX:
Honourable Swine,
In Piggish souls can
prepossessions
reign?
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Shelley |
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Thou, spirit of the earth, art to me nearer;
I feel my powers already higher, clearer,
I glow already as with new-pressed wine,
I feel the mood to brave life's ceaseless clashing,
To bear its frowning woes, its raptures flashing,
To mingle in the tempest's dashing,
And not to tremble in the shipwreck's crashing;
Clouds gather o'er my head--
Them moon
conceals
her light--
The lamp goes out!
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The great men held a
large portion of the community in dependence by means of advances
at
enormous
usury.
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A very short poem,
while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never
produces
a
profound or enduring effect.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then I might see the joyfu' sight,
My
Highland
Harry back again.
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Half of my life has
entombed
the other,
I must revenge myself, this fatal blow,
For one no more, on one still here below.
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I'll drain this cup of gall,
And scale with step
resolved
that dangerous height,
Which rather seems a fall.
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That color every drop they hold,
To change the
lifeless
wine of grief
To living gold.
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With hoary whiskers and a forky beard;
And four fair Queens whose hands sustain a flow'r,
Th'
expressive
emblem of their softer pow'r; 40
Four Knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band,
Caps on their heads, and halberts in their hand;
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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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Now, wham to chuse, and wham refuse,
At strife thir Carlins fell;
For some had
Gentlefolks
to please,
And some wad please themsel'.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I look'd, but all in vain: the potent ray
Flash'd on my sight intolerable day
At first; but to the
splendour
soon inured,
My eyes perused the pomp with sight assured.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And all to pattern his example, boast ;
Their former
trophies
they recall to mind,
And now, to edge their anger, courage grind.
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Crowded--can we believe,
not in utter disgust,
in ironical play--
but the maker of cities grew faint
with the beauty of temple
and space before temple,
arch upon perfect arch,
of pillars and
corridors
that led out
to strange court-yards and porches
where sun-light stamped
hyacinth-shadows
black on the pavement.
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Heark, she speaks, I will set downe what comes
from her, to satisfie my
remembrance
the more strongly
La.
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What you once
mentioned
of "flaxen locks" is
just: they cannot enter into an elegant description of beauty.
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Drapings
of satin are absent; the mattress is quite unembroidered.
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States without
permission
and without paying copyright
royalties.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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A son of God was the Goodly Fere That bade us his
brothers
be.
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Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
License as specified in
paragraph
1.
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Imagists |
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Weak was the Old World,
Wearily war-fenced;
Out of its ashes,
Strong as the morning,
Springeth
the New.
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And every human heart that breaks,
In prison-cell or yard,
Is as that broken box that gave
Its treasure to the Lord,
And filled the unclean leper's house
With the scent of
costliest
nard.
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Wilde - Poems |
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_Enter_ PHERES _with
followers
bearing robes and gifts_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Life in its
splendor!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Kline (C) Copyright 2008 All Rights Reserved
This work may be freely reproduced, stored, and transmitted,
electronically
or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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O you dear women's and men's
phantoms!
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Whitman |
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And all their hearts in silken veils to wind,
And set them in coffers of marble white;
After, they take the bodies of those knights,
Each of the three is wrapped in a deer's hide;
They're washen well in
allspice
and in wine.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Der Dichter sollte wohl das hochste Recht,
Das Menschenrecht, das ihm Natur vergonnt,
Um
deinetwillen
freventlich verscherzen!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Peace, impudent and
shameless
Warwick,
Proud setter up and puller down of kings!
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Shakespeare |
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And weigh the massy Globes Cubes, then fix them in their awful stations
And all the time in Caverns shut, the golden Looms erected
First spun, then wove the Atmospheres, there the Spider & Worm
Plied the wingd shuttle piping shrill thro' all the list'ning threads
Beneath the Caverns roll the weights of lead & spindles of iron
The enormous warp & woof rage direful in the affrighted deep
While far into the vast unknown, the strong wing'd Eagles bend
Their
venturous
flight, in Human forms distinct; thro darkness deep
They bear the woven draperies; on golden hooks they hang abroad
The universal curtains & spread out from Sun to Sun
The vehicles of light, they separate the furious particles
Into mild currents as the water mingles with the wine.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Of little use the man you may suppose,
Who says in verse what others say in prose;
Yet let me show, a poet's of some weight,
And (though no
soldier)
useful to the State.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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How forego
Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild words
forlorn?
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Now the New Year
reviving
old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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In our weal-public scarce one thing succeeds,
For one man's
weakness
a whole nation bleeds
Ill-luck starts up, and thrives like evil weeds.
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Marvell - Poems |
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loaden all with gold;
Two iron coffers hong on either side,
With
precious
mettall full as they might hold;
And in his lap an heape of coine he told;
For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240
And unto hell him selfe for money sold;
Accursed usurie was all his trade,
And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Was it not enough, Stars, to have given me
This
marriage?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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