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The Faerie Queene — Volume 01The Faerie Queene — Volume 01Thus edition (August 2004) corrects a few errors in the convention for italic type. A few definitions appearing in the wrong place have also been fixed, as have anomalous top-bit set characters in the Hales Biography, which has been...
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Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John MiltonPoemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John MiltonElegy I -To Charles Diodati. Elegy II -On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge. Elegy III-On the Death of the Bishop of Winchester. Elegy IV -To My Tutor, Thomas Young. Elegy V -On...
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De LieremanDe LieremanVrienden! koopt! wie koopen kan, Koopt wat van den Liereman; 'k Heb wer liedjes van elks gading, 'k Breng een schip met rijke lading, Zoekt maar uit den vollen hoop, 'k Heb er nog genoeg te koop. Maar, gij vraagt me: "zijn ze...
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Songs of Labor, and Other PoemsSongs of Labor, and Other PoemsIn the Factory My Boy The Nightingale to the Workman What is the World? Despair Whither? From Dawn to Dawn The Candle Seller The Pale Operator The Beggar Family A Millionaire September Melodies Depression The Canary Want and I...
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The Poetical Works of Mrs. LeprohonThe Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon When, in after ages, the literature of Canada comes to be written, it is to be hoped that among the mighty sons and daughters of genius now unknown, or as yet unborn, some room will be kept for...
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The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poemsThe Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems The following variations appear in the first two verses of Hector's Farewell, as given in The Robbers, act ii. scene 2. The following additional verse is found in Amalia's Song, as sung in The Robbers, act iii....
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The Poems of Schiller — Third periodThe Poems of Schiller — Third period TOBOLSKO, 2d February. Flowers in Siberia? Behind this lies a piece of knavery, or the sun must make face against midnight. And yetif ye were to exert yourselves! 'Tis really so; we have been hunting sables long...
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The Poems of Schiller — Second periodThe Poems of Schiller — Second period [In spite of Mr. Carlyle's assertion of Schiller's "total deficiency in humor," 12 we think that the following poem suffices to show that he possessed the gift in no ordinary degree, and that if the aims of...
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The Poems of Schiller — First periodThe Poems of Schiller — First period 1 The allusion in the original is to the seemingly magical power possessed by a Jew conjuror, named Philadelphia, which would not be understood in English. 2 This most exquisite love poem is founded on the platonic...
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Aristotle on the art of poetryAristotle on the art of poetry In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in...
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Nets to Catch the WindNets to Catch the Wind Better to see your cheek grown hollow, Better to see your temple worn, Than to forget to follow, follow, After the sound of a silver horn. Better to bind your brow with willow And follow, follow until you die,...
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Christmas EveChristmas Eve Out of the little chapel I burst Into the fresh night-air again. Five minutes full, I waited first In the doorway, to escape the rain That drove in gusts down the common's centre At the edge of which the chapel stands, Before...
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Poems of PowerPoems of PowerThe final word in the title of this volume refers to the Divine Power in every human being, the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness. It is this idea which many of the verses endeavour to illustrate....
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Hello, Boys!Hello, Boys!The greater part of these verses dealing with the war were written in France during my recent seven months sojourn there, and for the purpose of using in entertainments given in camps and hospitals to thousands of American soldiers. They were the result...
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Poems and SongsPoems and SongsI lived far more than e'er I sang; Thought, ire, and mirth unceasing rang Around me, where I guested; To be where loud life's battles call For me was well-nigh more than all My pen on page arrested. What's true and strong...
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Perpetual Light : a memorialPerpetual Light : a memorial"Ah, do not turn to me that face which is no longer of this world! There are enough angels to serve the mass in Heaven! Have pity on me, who am only a man without wings, who rejoiced in this...
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The torch-bearers [v.1]Watchers of the SkyThis volume, while it is complete in itself, is also the first of a trilogy, the scope of which is suggested in the prologue. The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unitya unity of purpose and endeavourthe single torch...
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Right RoyalRight RoyalHe was from Sleins, that manor up the Lithe; Riding the Downs had made his body blithe; Stalwart he was, and springy, hardened, swift, Able for perfect speed with perfect thrift, Man to the core yet moving like a lad. Dark honest eyes...
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Playful PoemsPlayful PoemsThe last volume of these Companion Poets contained some of Chaucers Tales as they were modernised by Dryden. This volume contains more of his Tales as they were modernised by later poets. In 1841 there was a volume published entitled, The Poems of...
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The IliadThe Iliad In the spring of 1862 I was induced, at the request of some personal friends, to print, for private circulation only, a small volume of Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern, in which was included the first Book of the Iliad. The...
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