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...r praise poem in honour of the Christian god he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry. It is also one of the earliest recorded examples of sustained poetry in a Germanic language. (Summary from wikipedia)...

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...se of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...o reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cher- ished it for being small and inconvenient,... ...tists should be translated into Italian for the clearer un- derstanding of English-speaking audiences. This seemed as natural to Newland Archer as all... ...anned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose monstrous obesity had long since made it imp... ...ss and the march from Lohengrin, pictured her at his side in some scene of old Euro- pean witchery. He did not in the least wish the future Mrs. Newla... ... married two of her daughters to “foreigners” (an Italian mar- quis and an English banker), and put the crowning touch to her audacities by building a... ...to dream of it sufficed her. It was like hearing him read aloud out of his poetry books the beautiful things that could not possibly happen in real li... ... been an oasis.” 112 The Age of Innocence “Ah, but she won’t abandon you. Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. It IS poetry you write, Mr. W... ... a tendency to ask him to read aloud whenever she saw him with a volume of poetry: not that he disliked the sound of his own voice, but because he cou...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ry they were represented only by a young man whose name was Emilio, and an old palace which is regarded as one of the chief orna- ments of the Grand C... ...e, painted in fresco, screen off the glare. The flooring throughout is the old Venetian inlay of marbles, cut into unfading flowers. The furniture, li... ...lue or russet fishes swam. Whatever may be said in favor of the natural or English garden, these trees, pruned into parasols, and yews fantastically c... ...upiter alone could hold his own with his divine better- half, on whom many English ladies model themselves. Emilio set his mistress far too high ever ... ... be a victim to this noble error which attacks none but very young or very old men. 9 Balzac But as the archer who shoots beyond the mark is as far f... ...had rushed down on V enice like a raven on a corpse, to croak out in lyric poetry—the first and last utterance of social man—the burden of a de profun... ...rst and last utterance of social man—the burden of a de profundis. English poetry! Flung in the face of the city that had given birth to Italian poetr... ..., in painting his Saint-Cecilia, Raphael gave the preference to music over poetry. And he was right; music appeals to the heart, whereas writing is ad...

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...The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an English translation....

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...A complete collection of the poems and poetic fragments of the great English language stylist and Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Volume 3 of The Reader's Library Series. ISBN: 978-1-932023-45-9. https://www.facebook.com/williamralpheditions...

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...ce of Music (Ash-boughs) "Thee God I Come from to Thee Go" On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People Epithalamion Summa "What Being in Rank-Old Nature Should Earlier Have That Breath Been" "The Sea Took Pity It Interposed with Doom" "Hope Holds to Christ the Mind’s Own Mirror Out" "What Shall I Do for the Land That Bred Me" "The Times Are Nightfall Look Their...

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.......... 27 THE SLEEPING CITY.................................................................................................................. 27 THE POETRY OF CHAUCER .................................................................................................... 30 THE POETRY OF SPENSER.....................................................................................

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...................................................................... 27 THE POETRY OF CHAUCER ............................................................ ...................................................................... 30 THE POETRY OF SPENSER ............................................................ ...................................................................... 30 THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE ........................................................ .................................................................... 109 THE OLD CHARTIST ................................................................. .......................................... 259 THE YOUNG PRINCESS—A BALLAD OF OLD LAWS OF LOVE .................................. 262 KING HARALD’S TRANC... ...a couch just by her, Where in the lone dark hours to lie: For neither dear old nurse nor I Would any single wish deny her. And there unto the last it ... ...T ender to tearfulness—childlike, and manly, and motherly; Here beats true English blood richest joyance on sweet English ground. THE POETRY OF SPENSE... ...eed the happy flocks, And hedge-rows hushing pleasant lanes, The charms of English home reflected In his shining eye: Ancestral oak, broad-foliaged el...

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...g the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song....

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ose bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a... ...ntry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of the English consti- tution, were entitled to hold themselves independent of feu... ... prolonged bag arose from within it, and fell down on one shoulder like an old-fashioned night- cap, or a jelly-bag, or the head-gear of a modern huss... ...pate.” “Nay, I can tell you more,” said Wamba, in the same tone; “there is old Alderman Ox continues to hold his Saxon epi- thet, while he is under th... ...cumstances which strongly recommended him to the youthful gentry. With the old, be had another part to play, which, when need- ful, he could sustain w... ...ur to the antiquary, that these verses are intended to imitate the antique poetry of the Scalds—the minstrels of the old Scandinavians—the race, as th... ...them, “Stern to inflict, and stubborn to endure, Who smiled in death.” The poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, after their civilisation and conversion, was of... ...e Reeve, or Steward, mentioned by Bishop Percy, in the Reliques of English Poetry,** is said to have turned on such an incident; and we have besides, ...

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...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...one. And indeed this taste was, in him, subordinate to those for music and poetry which he had cultivated from his childhood; and he thought success i... ...t made it tolerable. Ah! here comes our great Ottoboni, the most guileless old fellow on earth; but he is suspected of being the most vindictive of al... ...the advantage 14 Gambara of the intellect; that the brain alone had grown old in some great struggle. Andrea shot a swift look at Marianna, who was w... ...s. Andrea, to whom no form of intoxication was known but those of love and poetry, had soon gained the attention of the company and skilfully led it t... ...at of their pre- cursors, though their genius, too, is unquestionable. The old masters could sing, but they had not art and science at their command,—... ...kes deepest to the soul? You see in painting no more than it shows you; in poetry you have only what the poet says; music goes far beyond this. Does i...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ... its late Autumn—were gazing on each other. “No, you’ve never seen him,” the old man was saying: “you couldn’t, you know, he’s been away so long—trave... ...st, and read it over again: Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 11 Dear Old Friend, I m sure it will be as great a pleasure to me, as it can... ... cordance with your letter: and, till then, I shalt say, in the words of the old song, Oh for Friday nicht! Friday s lang a-coming! Yours alway... ...If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature!” “No doubt of it,” I echoed. “The true origin of all ... ... you may find it a little difficult, just at first, I had better put it into English for you. “Humans, I verily believe! A couple of stray Humans! Wha... ... it would be a real trea sure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry. If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new depar ture ...

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...ed pavement formed a mo- saic of coloured hand-bills, lids of tomato-cans, old shoes, cigar-stumps and banana skins, cemented together by a layer of m... ...the counters cleared and the wares in the win- dow lightly covered with an old sheet; but the shop-door re- 5 Edith Wharton mained unlocked till Evel... ...om remained in a greenish shadow which discreetly veiled the outline of an old- fashioned mahogany bedstead surmounted by a chromo of a young lady in ... ...trayed the clockmaker’s nationality, but he was evidently used to speaking English, or at least the particular branch of the vernacular with which the... ...ght afterward how different life might have been with a companion who read poetry like Mr. Ramy. VII DURING THE ENSUING weeks Mr. Ramy, though his vis...

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...A complete collection of the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born on January 19th in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, and died in his adopted home of Baltimore, Maryland on October 7th, 1849, making him the first American writer in this series. The c...

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...Contents Introduction Poetry Oh, Tempora! Oh, Mores! To Margaret To Octavia Tamerlane Song (I Saw Thee on Thy Bridal Day...) Dreams Spirits of the Dead Evening Star Imitation Stanzas (In Youth I Have Known One...) A Dream "The Happiest...

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... . . . . . . . . 227 France: An Ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 The Old Man of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 To a Young Lad... .... . 381 The Virgin’s Cradle-hymn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 English . . . . . 382 To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that W... .... . 399 The Knight’s Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 On Donne’s Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Israel’s Lament . . . . .... ...ur, Pleasure — what can ye bestow? Yet see, how high and low, and young and old Pursue the all-delusive power of Gold. Fond man! should all Peru th... ...grunt and yell Seiz’d on the ear with horrible obtrusion; — Then if aright old legendaries tell, Wert thou begot by Discord on Confusion! What tho... ...o a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 1796 Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween Tha... ... Spare us yet awhile, Father and God! O! spare us yet awhile! Oh! let not English women drag their flight Fainting beneath the burthen of their ba... ...onwards, I would full fain pull in my hard-mouthed runaway hunter; But our English Spondeans are clumsy yet impotent curb-reins; And so to make him... ...the saints, I trust. - 399 - The Knight’s Tomb Coleridge: Poems On Donne’s Poetry ?1818 With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe ir...

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..._Our Old Nursery Rhymes_ (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le Mair. You and your child can listen and sing along as you read the http://www.childrensli...

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated by William Morris and Eirik... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... is in these. Volsunga Saga, with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda. Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies Originally written in Icelandic (Old No... ...older. A few of these works have been preserved in the collection of Norse poetry known as the “Poetic Edda.” The text of this edition is based on tha... ... taken to make him familiar with his own people or their tongue. Even that Englishman who knew Alfred, Bede, Caedmon, as well as he knew Plato, Caesar... ...r speech have been by the influx of foreign blood; but Iceland held to the old tongue that was once the universal speech of northern folk, and held al... ...of the then known world upon which they were unseen or unfelt. A glance at English history will show the large part of it they fill, and how they took... ...ven. During the first generations of the “land-tak- ing” a great school of poetry which had arisen among the Norsemen of the Western Isles was brought... ...hould be so, and Gunnlaug gave forth the (11) For all the old Scandinavian poetry extant in Icelandic, see “Corpus Poeticum Borealis” of Vigfusson and...

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...ll of his poems sans his two long verse plays. Keats was born in London, England, on October 31, 1795. He dedicated his short life to the creation of poetry characterized by its sensuous and vivid imagery, classical themes, technical mastery and sincere and authentic emotional tenor. He died tragically young in 1821 of tuberculosis, a disease that had plagued his life sinc...

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...hold Thee Flippant, Vain Sonnet to Solitude Epistle to George Felton Mathew To —— (Had I a Man's Fair Form...) To —— (Hadst Thou Liv'd in Days of Old...) I Am As Brisk Women, Wine, and Snuff Specimen of an Induction to a Poem Calidore To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer's Eve To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses Happy Is England...

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...A complete collection of the poems of William Blake. Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, engraver, and painter. Early in his life, his unique and deceptively simple poems marked the beginning of Romanticism, particularly those from his volumes Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794)...

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...ser Blind Man’s Buff King Edward the Third Prologue, Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth Prologue to King John A War Song to Englishmen The Couch of Death Contemplation Samson Song 1st by a Young Shepherd Song 2nd by a Young Shepherd Song by an Old Shepherd AN ISLAND IN THE MOON SONG OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE Songs of Innocence: Introduc...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... 1920 To Jean V erdenal 1889-1915 Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters. Contents POE... ...e But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was nei... ...tea, Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter. I an old man, A dull head among windy spaces. Signs are taken for wonders. “We w... ...ne hand on the door. V acant shuttles Weave the wind. I have no ghosts, An old man in a draughty house Under a windy knob. After such knowledge, what ... ...he park Reading the comics and the sporting page. Particularly I remark An English countess goes upon the stage. A Greek was murdered at a Polish danc...

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...s also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing her... ...,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the curiously mangled form of English that patent law produces, it was described this way: A sealed cru... ...at the heart of intellectual property law are a set of ideas that a ten-year-old can understand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked th... ...stand perfectly well. (While writing this book, I checked this on a ten-year-old I then hap- pened to have around the house.) You do not need to be a ... ...y products for us? Why do we have trademark law, this “homestead law for the English language”? 4 Why not simply allow anyone to use any name or attra... ...brary of Congress catalogue online one night, track- ing down a seventy-year-old book about politics and markets, when my son came in to watch me. He ... ...tuition that this is a bad idea comes from our intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. A... ...w ones. This point is not confined to music. Earlier I quoted Northrop Frye: “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. A...

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...but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ay human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ‘Old Mortality’ and ‘Woodstock’ are not controversial tales, and the ‘Chaple... ...ike most of the other nobles of Picardy—and had thus been brought into the English camp, where, regarding Henry V. as lawfully appointed to the succes... ... ing him and his brother Nedford, he had become an ardent supporter of the English claim. He had married an English lady, and had received the grant i... ...ations were still more thrown out by the birth of a little daughter in the old age of the Count. Almost from the hour in which her sex was announced, ... ...r lip, and began to cry. The ‘husband and wife,’ now eight and seven years old, were in a large room hung with tapestry, representing the history of T... ...o discuss Ronsard’s last sonnet, showing no small taste and knowl- edge of poetry. Greatly attracted by Sidney, the King de- tained the whole English ... ...at the University, fencing and dancing from the best profes- sors, Italian poetry, French sonnets, Latin epigrams; nothing came amiss to Sidney, the f...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... frothed in the wreckage. But there stood great woods on the slopes beyond—old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ru... ...d again. The June sunshine twinkled on all the lights. It was as though an old lady, wise in three generations’ experience, but for the present sittin... ...we see the house? I’m afraid that’s our dog.” “No, ’tis Rambler,” said the old man. “He’s been, at my swill-pail again. Staying at Rocketts, be ye? Co... ...own links over Gale Anstey. I dare say you could hire it.” “No, I’m not as English as that—nor as Morristown. Cloke says all the farms here could be m... ...rves at all.” “Want a secretary?” “No, thanks, old thing! Isn’t that quite English?” “Too English! Go away.” But none the less in broad day- 14 Actio... ...ed. “He’d been to Bombay; he knew French Africa inside out; he could quote poetry and the Koran all day long. He played chess—you don’t know what that...

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...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tun...

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... 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, 26 -- FERGUS AND THE DRUID, 26 -- CUCHULAIN?S FIGHT ...

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... SALLEY GARDENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THE BALLAD OF FATHER O’HART . . . . ... ...OW OF LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 WHEN YOU ARE OLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 THE WHITE BIRDS . ... ...ISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER . . . . . . . . . . 41 THE BALLAD OF FATHER GILLIGAN . . . . ... ...That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry. I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a... ...ver known again. A CRAZED GIRL THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, ... ...man in the golden breastplate Under the old stone Cross. THE SPIRIT MEDIUM POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet Because of those new dead 334 THE COL... ...ever get the answers right. Did that play of mine send out Certain men the English shot? Did words of mine put too great strain On that woman’s reelin...

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...eflects heavily, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the condition... ... plain, my exploring tread, for application to it, had quite unlearned the old pace and found itself naturally falling into another, which might somet... ... doubtless, to speak more justly, the whole of his life intellectual. The “old” matter is there, re accepted, re tasted, exquisitely re assimilated an... ...ely re assimilated and re enjoyed—believed in, to be brief, with the same “old” grateful faith (since wherever the faith, in a particu lar case, has ... ...note that the highest test of any literary form conceived in the light of “poetry”— to apply that term in its largest literary sense—hangs back unpard... ...ts dark brown moustache and its expression no more sharply “foreign” to an English view than to have caused it sometimes to be observed of him with a ... ... character. He thought of these fellows, from whom he was so to differ, in English; he used, mentally, the English term to describe his difference, fo... ...ly snapping little box, there was, in spite of the due proportion of faint poetry, no great force of persuasion. They looked, the visitors, they touch... ...an life struck the Prince so convincingly. His old Roman life had had more poetry, no doubt, but as he looked back upon it now it seemed to hang in th...