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- $ PYTHONPATH=src lwrap python3 src/generate_unconditional_samples.py --model_name poetry
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- ======================================== SAMPLE 1 ========================================
- the flourish of my bough--
- Tho' I know you would look always green--
- First swap wher'--of old cots, and a' old crock.
- ------------
- Come ben your gotons in yon ready-made,
- And seek at your lug an' when you are lyin';
- A ladle for wark is your bishoplip,
- And ane ane for wark is the ivy within,
- Just flappin' tiv it, ye'll see wha ye like,
- To wauk the next day, both late ane an' early.
- ------------
- Let not a' things be,Wal, frae me an' thine,
- Who're crooked and crooked, I guess, may ride;
- Since knaves are crooked, the same it is weel meet--
- Who think we are _used_ to be beatified.
- ------------
- Aifi'rish version of an old yet recent song is found in
- Under Rowland's authority, the title of "Hermann and
- Sir bask a while a Chief ass,
- Mruments suited well,
- An' blest a blaze to sing an' see the facts
- At the Twist o' acquaintance.
- An' be so good on pawpaw now,
- In hook or pan,
- As ither angler yit o' fav'rite hooks,
- Is the best we can.
- ------------
- When on you and me the ask is heard,
- We've a right to friend, clerk, or peasant, we're
- Quick as e'er the steps o' the Muse he left
- On the loadstone hill--
- Thro' the rowdy bush they roamed, and soon
- Came the Mole and boulders from Helicon--
- 'Twas the manner, though, of these unto me
- In the home of mind.
- ------------
- Says thedigger--"I can guess-whatCapit--"
- Says mamma--"aizzle--"what couldn' I do!
- I have got to watch--THAT? How d' ye hurry,
- That animal which now swims in the sea?--
- As I do, dissolute, a short highway
- Or two at stretch, will take my instructions
- To my uncle Bill--
- What next, we'll show him--_The docile man_
- Masks in the trench! If ever he find him,
- Come set some scores on him to attend him--
- As one-leg his kin'gin--which don't mope,
- But he can't explain.
- ------------
- Nor spurs he afterward, 'n he can't stand
- While one's the railroad-absorbs him with it,
- (His blouse he can't escape 'anse's high land's edge
- And haven't got sich fine-made omnisuter)--
- As it comes to pass
- That elephants by-gone things fall off in the grass,
- Such animals, God, are notroth'd to their sin
- If You momkey ponds their legs and their back hair in,
- From Oshk untied to seriousness they stick,
- And, making statement, (not a sermon, they want,)
- They will perish of our fault-whether they will.
- ------------
- O' marrying her--I have liked her so--
- (She kissed him once--she ca'd him Hope, and Trust, and Trust!)
- That is my secret--head--I wish that you
- Would be fern-stitched with her pretty pinky hood--
- And all that's in print--(a-holdin' up my lust,
- That revolutionary storm, perchance, will part from the dust!)
- I'm in some utmost haste--he'p them, youngobby--
- And 'pout, beller their pants, and call such music
- It taunts him--"_I like your breezes, and no other--
- The stuff of your breezes."_ "'I like your limes, son--
- You needn't take them _well_, you know my froadoes."
- ------------
- (Ah yes! 'tis the thing, as white hair, rough and hard,
- That's its equivalent in a white hair's colour),
- And Berge, the Pierre, that smart-licking Schiller,
- And inventor John Sforza,--and the prophet
- Whose heart and brains true topsy turquoise,
- Are captured now!--
- You say 'they mentioned one of the misses
- In better times! but few, you see, wereIndia
- With all the monkish, boorish smoky
- Getations from Camelot. She says--
- 'Are you?'--that habitually grows thick
- With clovers and careering bees, Divinely
- Thinking the opposition is divinely;
- But yet--
- ======================================== SAMPLE 2 ========================================
- ι.
- hra, the Philosophical Society in London receive
- Mistance ofandra, the Russell, and Greek],
- which was the scene of that meeting upon montain, the
- Meese, and by other treats deeply quoted,
- ------------
- interfere, probably in the early part of the play,
- and as the waiterpillars throweast and west that the
- figure of the figure, or rather a stave of blue in the
- scream; then simply require some explanation.]
- You are but, again, current appendages, the horse of the
- horse of the Duke of Glocester was wonted to start from
- the quick, as Hafiz, for one of his hack-hounds, all know him.]
- ------------
- We often think that, although many of the people of the
- day had drunk of it before, they would soon put an hour
- of baseness in the water, which we also have not yet
- reach'd.]
- ------------
- intended to call them the 'poet'odes of the 'genius', where
- Jalet, and Ovid, Mathrana, Andern, versgraver, and
- Shahite, and Hales, and Shakespeare; is all there is to
- be noticed. The pillow is nauseated of all monstrously
- furnishing slaughtered birds which devour life's matchless songs
- which fly at eternal light, to the falling of the light
- star, where Crabtree constellation closes its horns like a
- circle in the heavens, its heavy-sown orbit like a sphere of
- lofty planets, which descends down in its own furthest yellow
- combed through a mist. Theshared family sits on the car of
- would say that he shared a midnight life his whole day. A
- though along with him in a later on, yet, and only with his
- husbands, he must be kept strictly through his master till
- their lord's voice and their acts proclaim his faults.
- ------------
- disease, which during the next year was under the sun made the
- acquainted with the magi of heaven. Otto of Chester in its
- furniture at the building of the Chapel, where his prope unlearned
- thoughts were more carefully put in his sheets, and he found to
- figure a figure for the corpse, formerly carver, which drew great
- blows, with the witness of his enduring fame as he had uncleated
- all his noble life in mutual accusation. While the regeneration
- and regrets, to be scarred with their high epitaph, turned my
- sorrow into mourning, and set forth to weep as they were
- innocent, and mustard the Holy Bible, with positively black
- tenants for the death of the Prophets. They would have had
- lifting up the vulgar actors in perfect divisions, but they
- all the wicked Christians had taken up, and hauled them all to such
- spirits as it was natural to laugh, look, and woo,
- as we have seen, on occasion, if not of frankerity; but in
- singing some blind old gazerk, he would have judged a very
- poet. Ourellery he did not know for mere being this sacrifice
- ------------
- the press and excellent pen. Dover quietly and in silence
- in the Cursed Pots, which divides them from mankind in its
- subdivination of Morona, and, even though the bidder were yet
- fair, they could not get him leaving them to purchase what was.
- ------------
- _Anstius (a poem) a man Phineus who was Marcus Claudius_
- ------------
- DIANA, _a Berkper_; Cæsar, recognizing corner
- ------------
- FUDadium Tirabata. Naiad osiers
- Florentine intro.
- Nempe Fraticelli. Virg. _Carthus_. Deeds of the lawyer!
- zar of Nero. Messullus, the dead, perhaps, have relinquished their
- Italian rank, but death, not terror, breaks neither off the
- zac and the Roman Empedocles. When Latin and Latin both had
- been settled, the recital was written only in ahexameters, not
- perfect either for the rhyme on a broken line, or in a painted direction.
- The antagonists ofttimes took the _ mushamum_ and caprised
- quote out the most ancient Latin and mahogany of our
- English epaulettes on the Natrine massacre and their engine of the
- other. After the death of Sabellius the Roman poets were paid
- by Roman critics of due heroic and less modern studies
- of Besides worth than poetical license, and hence the present
- ------------
- But old Phæstus nourishes old age and give the other scope for
- still, the living were much improved, while virgins,
- year by year, would have all
- ======================================== SAMPLE 3 ========================================
- comet's thought in women's faces.
- ------------
- Poor fool, he lies on some hard-fisted plan
- That steadily explores and mocks at Fate,
- Observing still how slow and tempest-beaten _man_
- Recoils upon his paunch the farthest rates;
- Desiring suns and moons rein-ready.
- ------------
- Whilst he the genial sunshine holds so fast
- Where the wind turns the salt snood salutes;
- He shames a vast rug's frozen breast.
- And hey ye, for your time of winter charge,
- Souls wandering to and fro with altering hearts,
- Who know you lave life in a little lightsome cask,
- Lord, fill thebowls with wine.
- ------------
- He is dead, but keeps man snugly there;
- His horns are clear and his sleep is sweet.
- His bright appreciation of good and ill
- pictured in countless pictures,
- He holds aloft, with eurocine to probing, still,
- The "tears he sheds" and the "heart that beats its beats
- Is satisfied that other men's atones!
- But o'er each head the moonlight gleams and glows
- As without frost or change of earth.
- ------------
- Ev'ry fibre matters,
- And some reflection:
- Atjun and hiberar! You majestic,
- Curious revolving revolution!
- You upheld the world from hold of time,
- Whilst the stormy salt-sea's billows ocean
- Heaving gently beneath your vast volcano,
- Ashes to the feet of the barbarian scion.
- To create a final principle unending
- And create too sure--for, Noah and that Noah--
- Fore-fathers of the fiery and the boiling--
- Fore-fathers of both nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations,
- Fore-fathers of all nations!
- ------------
- Before you a strong plain opens,
- And borders it round and round.
- One street as the dove-frequented streets,
- And the battle-glints flicker and glance,
- Blent with the thrilling turmoil
- As you go through a study discourse,
- And with a distant whisper--
- ------------
- Wandering, wandering from room to room,
- Unheeding, and watching your brows,
- And feeling your meshes like lamps in a room.
- ------------
- Even so, forever! This room is an immense house.
- coping ascending from stair to stair,
- Clad you in woolen garments,
- Blossom and almond and bloom,
- Through the ancestral darkness
- Running light-hearted through itself,
- Threshold forever.... There you stand;
- The mantled mountains of rock and tree,
- The sea and the shore of mountains in appeal.
- ------------
- Then will you fall, fall into your rest,
- Falling into the idle dust,
- Noiseless and white, noiseless as the chaff
- That your womb reaps in its husk....
- They will point at you, plough them,
- Roughly, and drive you again....
- ------------
- Know we aught of loneliness in the eventide,
- Hard to the card coach or the draft.
- NothingElsewhere is or shall befall us,
- Deprive or flay us: this great street of yours
- Journeying, blighted into vermin-trees,
- Opens, and lies weariness
- And the wild war-drums on your breasts (rended in part).
- ------------
- So in advance of death of noiseless processions--
- Erect and sepultured, wild generation,
- You shall enter, focus, and grow older,
- To thrust this stage into the sea.
- I saw my Lady admiration, in
- A sea-blue day's superb excess
- Prattle: I saw Her from her play, her face,
- Though sometimes hurried with a smile,
- Look of her in the eyes of vivid youth;
- And in the liberal sovereign grace
- Of common things she worked,
- The lilac brigantines stole or wept them forth,
- And brought all painting into some immortal breast.
- ------------
- O heroes,always at war with souls,
- Shout on your spilled America,
- Urge on the triumph of their dooms,
- Vouchsafe when other mouths are breath
- To that unpolluted wickedness of death,
- That, killing the more souls and suffering time,
- Ye shall say: Lo, ages past
- When unleashed Europe leaped to pieces all,
- Like an all-finished fleets, borne to the sands
- Never so heavy nor so fair adrift
- As
- ======================================== SAMPLE 4 ========================================
- , and vainly, where he sat he guided
- Juan with Validean motion, but he first thought to give
- Pride, and the meaning of what he had done is well, for, after
- the attack, men would say that it was embarrassed him. At one
- figure scored he set up an axe for exultation of mass, and
- thundered in triumphal variety, as the result of opinion and
- information that was apparent to the village. Moreover, he whittled
- praised the dog as a dog not of the gentleman at first, but of
- his master compelled his noble master to appear. With "So
- ------------
- Lend me this! to give you something, and let me know!
- I shall now call you Martha, and bring in a word from her;
- then I devote her into order. I know where I am, she should
- ------------
- But now no more of this. Nothing further. And the ghost of
- death has now shouldered in cupboard and in deer-skin the body
- of Oberon. See also how he takes his seat in the cart.
- ------------
- He awakened the talk of the crowd riding home right gladly
- up and down his steps; after which he crossed the sea to the
- sea.
- ------------
- Swiftly he climbed up the river and was swallowed in the current
- of the sea, stopping to take his journey, then he got in a
- hurry to the sea and said to his boatman that he was on the
- bay.
- ------------
- They led him to his castle upon the morn of his life, where
- to lie down at night in the customary haven, after which he
- went on his way and accompanied him, when he reached the
- city of Queen Philistratus. By and by the Lady took him
- bitterly on board her--for the first time that he came to live
- with his herds and his flocks. When they had now won the
- reader's heart with pleasant knolas, and joined him with the
- ------------
- In ten days, after three days' fasting, on a fine October
- morning, which the new herdsman wore before him, he went to his
- What manner of life came of it then, and what deaths befell it,
- as it doth live from my breaking to this day?
- At the next month's end before the feast of Stephen and the paladins,
- then was food and drink to herarers; to assure him saved himself
- from the Cooking of his progenitor, but at that time he
- presently said to her, Hence, as hitherto I have been patient, you
- exports.
- ------------
- Sure your judgement at once was so bad--how can I have known it?
- Now, for my part, I answer you, say whatever you will, and possibly
- I proceed further on, and will not hide aught; but swear, I tell
- while I have cause to swear this-- amend everything from the beginning.
- At an earlier hour this year one of my century two and fifty
- hundred kind of shot had come forth from Paris with only disks
- of bullets reaching home, but had raised up the order of their
- ------------
- Those whom Charles waged were sober and certain of aim to defend
- their lives, for Holmes received them in the hands of Cleobulus
- Augustus Cinyras was rich in interest. Among his relatives,
- and their progeny was more than two hundred and brilliant,000 knights were
- inhabitants of Stranger settlements, but were able to advise against
- some against Grolyssian relatives, for the purpose of the matter
- of perilous expedition. Chieftains of Bruntia, the exception of
- detached stations, wereready assembled at Skanderfertz, and Leins's
- ------------
- The next thirty miles to this began with a strong run of eight
- ouple and twain, rolling like Banquo wind over the river.
- Many a man, ye see,rather exhausted the other. Meantime
- along by a fair company. The number of rounds as the horses were
- fire that he had at for others in the lumber of Thebes, goddess
- and horse. And in another place, taking names of foreigners, he
- seemed to be making them, while others were eating up his arrows, or
- in his contemplation, meditating comfort and help for their own
- feasts. Before the revolution ofseason by the calendar of
- orientation, the days of Hephaestus end. Among the Greeks named
- small by the name of Macistes is Colneus, a man chiefly, who is for
- campaigns on the town of the tenth generation, and mistress of thirty
- in each, for the latter he has fewereating and straining.
- Papyrus too was a peer of the gods,
- ======================================== SAMPLE 5 ========================================
- time.”
- ------------
- “More I'll not phase you in widow’d prise,
- For with my rolling eyes you gaze
- Beyond that arm, where vain I try,
- Where prickly masses shoot, and fly,
- Where’er one makes you bodder cry.”
- ------------
- Unknown, disheartened, unoffendowed
- Nature’shuge power, could not conceive,
- Which would fall full of years so low,
- And with its Babel deal and grow.
- She bade the dockyards spurn the lea,
- The pansied, Ibla, and eglantine;
- She pluck’d all appareles to her thatch,
- The yearling with his studious silver:
- The stars alone lent light to her,
- To vanquish bad or good commotion.
- “No more will set upon yourself despair,
- Or send you beauty’s dream upbraid;
- But who shall know the soul that’s born in air,
- As foss-born sailor down the tide
- Of a rough ocean pines by tide!
- ------------
- “Still may the printer, reeking ink—
- Closed in his pantry—pleod his scrip
- Where lodkeys hoist the clinking post—
- One of those Anachron thieves.”
- ------------
- Then smiling OMAN saw his shaving goal.
- How the two poets parted young ELUCAN!
- The narrative was told the week before;
- The book for three months past; the fourth still not.
- And then that sadder and strange affair.
- ------------
- When either poet had a common pen,
- It just appeared that verse should be the same;
- And several stanzas were in full to term
- “A silent, at this moment, melody”
- It was not becoming that his Summer's heat
- Existed with the liquid interspace.
- So lofty his original; for all
- That lay within him, or Diana’s Hall,
- Alas! it was the only thing he Burns
- Whispered that one was surely one or two;
- He wrote straight down the others, and ere long
- The workman from his furnace brought the fire;
- “ uber he loved if Party did the same,
- “ thwack his poet too much if not his flame:
- “If Trist his name, which he so well describes,
- “And would so call his glory, that at last
- For one expert, sad Superstition he
- At hispriced voice foretold his Callanthe,
- “The mighty call o’er all the wide world rang,
- And none could doubt the blessing this most blessed be,
- While Galen and Apollo wed the King.
- It was Ben Jonson’s phrase and not his boast,
- He chiefly held that natures looks and coons;
- But his invention was approved quite well,
- Until the summons came the ancient Hebes,
- And genius found that nature’s works were such
- That Freeland took it ill to make him stoop.
- So a mere Breit he fawned on unaware,
- And all which critics and the critic wear;
- Catiline and Goose and the Goose were stars
- In saving their own heads but little ken
- What language for a man such children means
- And a small town of yours with its immense domains;
- That his mind never reached the earth that rolls,
- And on that was a name known living place,
- Would therefore not be worth a moment’s space,
- And to speak science was too small a thing
- To answer or to parry the wing.
- Old Adam Brown, a lapwing cobbler’s son,
- Was a most bushel good at his employ;
- He rent no silkworms down, but got a broom
- And he loved to to his very life a shilling:
- He paddled along with his sheep, but he
- Was a boy what now we call Canadian tea.
- Indeed, his brain was proud, his frame was proud;
- ’Twas the only birds with learning laden,
- To swear by a flag without a star,
- By grass and cobwebs himself said nay,
- In a manner too his talkative insight
- Did his unlearned eyes ever turn awry;
- His blue-eyed ladies sate by on their shelves,
- When he fell into the Thames all silent,
- He roused no thought, he neither spoke nor rous'd,
- I wonder in what manner people talk,
- Their minds, or souls, or bodies, would attack
- Some secret cause, more rickety far than cash.
- It was a comical imagination,
- A more usual concern was _adme_ for sale.
- Of this or so a kind
- ======================================== SAMPLE 6 ========================================
- Seal me to the core
- Of gods no more.
- ------------
- Across the stubble and the meadow-wall
- That skirts the river-let that skirts your stream
- For rising yet,
- The troubling note of living silence rings,
- And from the cot the heavy weeds I read
- To captivate a nation from its birth;
- But edged by all men's rights, the shame and sorrow--
- Alike a groan, in which all nations mourn--
- The stony grief and woe-- heading the way
- To the rough world's estrangement by the sorrow.
- ------------
- The wheels of fate
- Roll backward in the verge of life's events;
- The seat resigned of a weight so great,
- When the sad swallowing of the Future grips
- An indivisible and ending fate.
- Now, where you stand beneath a grassy mound
- Stand, overgrown with forest flowers of all
- That leaf can bend, down-climbing to the brink,
- To plunge the flood-gates of destruction in,
- Underfare a world that owns no law,
- Meet in a fugitive and prosperous birth;
- Far scattered, in a vaster deep immersed,
- Unresting, to the very depths forlorn,
- Clothed in a garment eider- Prometheus torn
- Of body and soul and shoulder; bowed and bowed
- In vain, nor touch his reeling throne inlaid
- With death around him. On him kingdoms frown
- And fertile facing!--fame the eagle flings
- With death, at judgment in that hour of need;
- And far in turbid bays the sunset gleams--
- The lightning and the thunder where it whirls
- Its weightless plumes, and yet whose far loud call
- Makes reverent pause, ye mailed men of war.
- ------------
- "He waits you, then ... we must not wait for _him_,--
- Would we had still not loved him without end;
- It is not possible, he guides us on;
- The Heavenly Bequest gives us the short hour
- More wings than faltering breath could send or lend."
- ------------
- That earnest smile had power and will to fall
- From the full moon,--as if it had not swerved
- In a moment's pause, when all life's flowers be
- Nipped to the last star-gossamer at call.
- Swift he made pause, in that great victory
- Where some new wonder lightened the obscure
- But twelve sad days that used to light the sod.
- Once more the gold of warranty burned
- In the blue sky; the front of the array
- Grew deadly white; in the still fervour flamed
- Laughter and blood; there smote the trenchant blade
- And lifeless spear; at last on the strong point
- Struck back the gleaming blade of miracle.
- ------------
- Here one fierce conflict seized on mortal arm.
- Here one fierce word set woman's pulses bound.
- Women, for one sole moment of man's life,
- Mingled with conquest, in the crash of war
- No more screen from the arrowy torrent's roar,
- Nor from the sloping pine shut leafless out
- The pitiless brood:--again on the brow,
- When the last skies on earth put on the sheaf
- Of idle spoil, blazed the Olympian will,
- And voices rose along the listening guard.
- ------------
- The lessening point of it was not to have
- Bear witness (so it whispered) that a creed
- ------------
- Nowise could type it any hour from the mind
- Of a slayer the lesser score runs to unhear
- The age-long years of war in the defiled.
- forgot the gods; if vexed with fears,
- The god hath palsied this imperial bird,
- The livid legend of his only son,
- Who hath not heart, nor glory in his heart,
- Divine-embracing. Suddenly White Moon
- Came through the drifting smoke to greet the dawn
- Of triumph, and to temples lit with steel
- The Temple of the God, where holy zeal
- Above the thunder of the Chaos fell;
- From golden East and snows of sullen North
- Fled like a wind, the sky at random torn,
- And fain he wist not what the day-god was;
- But, gliding past, the Sea that toppling came
- Ere man could say, 'This world is our today;'
- Dawned upon sunset, and the purple grip
- Of all the trees with tossing water-trees;
- Not even the eagle bent so low before
- The altar-lights that show man's purposes
- And color's wont to lead him through the day.
- Ah the anguish of it that the gods have sent!
- Men saw it through the boltings of a cloud,
- That darkly beat against the stubborn heart
- ======================================== SAMPLE 7 ========================================
- ,
- Mysterious Pedant, yonder be the fight;
- What were the bravest and the last, iffriends,
- By flight prepared, or by disgrace untaught
- To wound the noblest breast, or slack one's tongue?
- Soon as our truce appears, I then decide;
- The foes are scattered, but the war gleams forth.
- Yet these, yourselves'd, are brothers who, august,
- Would say, by virtue of the godhead joined.
- This day, Troy's proud Bellona shall pay due
- To Folio's troops, and join them there in arms.
- Here, therefore, let us two admit our aid,
- And hero-like encounter fierce assault."
- Fear and illusion spread his wings already
- O'er all the Trojans; they, with ease, stood off
- Their arms, and unguents, in their bucklers strong;
- And well-greav'd Grecians, lances, lances, darts,
- Battle or death despising, to their feet
- Recounting, and the multitude in heart,
- So well their mutual end the Dardan pierced.
- Vain hope! if we should meet, on the wide main,
- irresistible despair;
- Nor may we part till sad necessity
- Befit the flight of fear; but, as I judge,
- If Trojan else remain, then we may feel
- For ever and lamented Troy in fire,
- Nor lose the memory of this pursuit;
- But when Antilochus with all his fleet
- Shall to o'erthrow, and of that evil fame
- Which in the long-wind'd summer-season, rage
- The winter,--’mid their sable tents, approach
- (’Tis clear that ten, and twenty, had a name
- ’Mous’d seven times by a name ’mong goddesses,)
- The Trojan, so by woes urged, of the womb
- Aided not; they fury thought to find
- The sturdy armies, and their front to earth
- In cloth of gold, upheld the stubborn fight;
- And copious gifts (from Hector) thus resound.
- Ye sons of bold Pelasgus! of some stock
- (Not Danymedes match'd with him in arms)
- Yet wast thou not inglorious to disperse
- Our shining buckler, nor was Telamon
- (Such was our youth, all in one night, to deeds
- Heroic hurl’d) himself in furious fight.
- Now council summon’d, we dispense alone
- Of the arrived Ægisthus; first to wit
- And advice flows Troy. Whoe’er thy peril was
- Born to contend for this insulting host,
- ’Tis come; their strength no more shall render fail;
- And, equal-mastered in the race, thine aim
- Shall assoil the nations to thy fate!
- We, arm’d with bows, and thund’ring arrows, we
- Thy place possess; apportion to the spear."
- Thus charged the dauntless hero; Chromius turns
- His friend to flight, and through the files succeeds
- A brave and gallant host. Doubt succeeds;
- The courage of the Grecians numbers claim’d
- Their utmost might; they, undismay’d, retire,
- Allow’d the hindmost, most their friend and fame
- To win, their safety, and the prelude found.
- Then Dolon thus: "Stern power! who warms the most,
- Prison our numbers down; so many slain,
- Ill-fated Greeks! These numbers, charged with odds,
- Are zeal’d for slaughter, and to Hector yield.
- To whom the monarch of the fields, replied:
- Let each man aim to wound the sacred wall
- Or slaughter Ajax, or despoil the dead:
- But Jove the spirit of all-seeing Jove
- In Ilium own’d the courage and the rage:
- Let each resist, nor reach the other’s wall.
- But bid the hindmost, whom he summons up,
- Incite him, if he may, to bear away
- His weapon or his lance, and at one blow
- Add this, or that, or something yet bestowed,
- If to escape, adoring to his sire."
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- Thus spoke the chief. The very assent
- Deep weigh’d the matter on his haughty soul,
- Who, deaf to his command, his speech refus’d;
- He gnash’d his teeth, and thus he speaks in turn:
- "Too vent’st thou, friend! thy swelling grief restrain,
- And leave the prey, Virginiaathed in arms,
- To toil in vain, and
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- your kings[O] ostensibly to pray:
- T� be more plucked as fate inspires,
- But shall some victim victim feed unfeign'd atones,
- Or raise his tearful cheeks together with their joys:
- Let this be found in contemplation to her mind,
- Nor all the main,
- To whom so quaintly thou art friendship's glory--prithee tell.
- Tell me, my love, wouldst thou an escort have,
- To meet one beauteous blisse apart, apart?--
- Let from the world's extent that we have cares,
- But one heart strong, and take another for our own:
- In thee if nought are left which will be ours,
- Our hearts, soon parted, will be never on the wing:
- So may our footsteps see not weary days,
- 'Till the last echo of thy heart be gone--
- May Eve, and we together ne'er beheld
- Partome thy farewell dance, nor once beheld
- Thy form return along the fluid floor,
- As when we went beneath the somber skies.
- We'll make a wow for thy dear mother dead:
- She will not, will not, will not let me go;
- And when I join with thee, then God forbid
- To further us two wandering ones, my dear!
- The web of grief that time may not undo,
- Flutt'ring new joys, new sorrows knit in twine:
- Thou wilt not, will not, will not let me go;
- But, join'd with one now with another's air,
- Patient perhaps, and prattling of its woes,
- A fresh young heart rejoiced my bosom's share,
- But when, my madam, I had torn thy love,
- And fix'd thy peace, and sin'd within thy breast,
- Fondly I'd clasp thee to my heart again,
- In all but love, then should it cease to pain:
- No, never shall it then come into play,
- To dispute our love, to war and to devour,
- To tread the paths that were so dear to thee,
- Nor simply up to re-won victory:
- The widow, and the orphan wage their strife
- In blood and fruitless tears, and drive for food;
- Without them bleeds a mother for her life,
- Upon her sons they take the glorious food,
- They are the toys of all the worlds our life,
- And which, as life, seem'd worthier to look on;
- And thus when somewhat short their sympathy,
- They little think what others did, than they
- Who open not their hearts to seraphs dear,
- And earth's plain breast less joyfully should bear;
- Who leave rich fruits when call'd on to unfold
- Without their coin, to pamper in the gold.
- Thus when Saturnia spoke my soul was quite
- Devoted to her prayer, and scarce could bend
- The smiling head of Demos, from the sight
- Took ye this view the sweetness of the spring,
- Nor could, nor could I, cannot enter or unite:
- And not that she could beautify the Throng,
- Or grace the silken lyre with more ethereal
- Than her own branches of the laurel-tree.
- O! the deep heart, the soul itself shall feel,
- And he shall learn that liberty is Greece,
- Accusing of its patron-saint amiss.
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- How easy 't is to doubt where every means are tried
- By charges like the most recorded accident,
- All cases often own weak hands are tamed:
- Their images you'll find arerists, of men they're used.
- O! by all Thraldom wielded, 'tis the greatest woe,
- Who for dull pleasure, gain or loss admits no end,
- While some remunerating fool thinks short to crown
- His own prime ignorance, my lord, of mankind's friend,
- Or wishes truth, not worth, to make more friends than one;
- By Hannibal, the mighty coffee-wool of Rome,
- Which thus he builds for greater sweating than his own.
- But such the say--his life 'tis pressing to his end;
- How quick the stage runs to her theatre or stage,
- Most lewd he hates to lack one true-true applause:
- Besides, refer himself aside to his own age,
- Till he ten thousand flung away for years,
- Dull as old Dusanos, to his vices urged;
- His works a load of thought and noble deeds infect;
- His throne a shameful waste, his pension void of wealth;
- His most obedient slaves with foolish triumph thrust,
- Assumed by all perjur'd wits, that force not shoveller:
- Yet such as doth Rebellion itself make.
- Then first these mould'ries after oneness grow,
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- Fitzperare; truly, we often tried
- To hang a sailor on his longer stays,
- And view his boat at sea; since then indeed,
- Since morning broke, to find a narrow pebble dry,
- And fail to turn the paint be there no more,
- So to lay out to build a boat, and in,
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- That service I should fear, and leave in haste,
- Than to make this fantastic crime reveal
- And choose the trick if in my work I did
- Aught to conceal, in presence of all time
- We enter on life's stream. I tell you truth,
- And have been very jealous to you all,
- Though I felt devilish, and could, even swear,
- As you felt Lion's heart through lungs and hair,
- Haply, if in my house, and could, I'd fly
- To reach you there.' Then Lancelot to avenge
- The shoot of Diocle, nor to move him back
- Was slow, nor causeless nor so very slow;
- ------------
- And full, in full assurance of the proof
- (The accusation cannot clear it in),
- A battle raging loud, if any sight
- Of human kind out of our eyes should see,
- As Beatrice saw, through agony,
- An old man founding towers in France,
- And setting on a field his keening eye.
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- 'Remember, first' cried Arthur, 'well I can--
- Then Arthur made a halt and gazed about.
- He must have seen himself--was I to strike?--
- Or one fantastic engine working round
- Wasting the nursery, or was it a rune
- Brooding its rage upon the citadel
- All over, that blew out the fire to flame,
- Each vest and couch illumined and alive?...
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- 'O, Lancelot du Lake,' the man pursued
- Wonderfully, 'what call of man and beast
- Do mortals make of?' and he thought the shape
- Where sculptured like a rising hand of God
- On earthly faces and on holy hearts,
- The name of knighthood in the voice and face
- Of him in whom Geraint and Leto first,
- And after, Merlin's friend and battle-rout--
- Though I how humibly he yet might tell
- Of other hints--were all eludes of those
- Delights, the remnant and the prodigal;
- The teacher as he carved her by the hand
- With absent letters, and the younker's wail
- Sent up by hands unseen from out his heart,
- Had thought of all the shining straw that drew
- Lyonilius to the exorcist that laid
- Scatheless about him. 'Go,' he said; 'go there.'
- The shadows cried, 'Go'--and the light of day
- When the faint colours like obscured light moved slow
- Into the purple in the darkening east,
- And issuing unseen in cloudy folds,
- Revealed the knights and ladies stared in love
- Beneath the winking moon, no more he knew
- The dreams that thronged his brain. For on a day,
- Suddenly, all along the silent west,
- He saw the tinkle of the path below;
- And from within (those memories without name)
- Sprang with the winds a great sound as of a clap
- Through the pine forests, piercing his new heart
- Till both the shadowy summits burst and fade
- In mists of rosy glory round it--such,
- Such cowering shadows, Vivien, shield and sword
- From the imprisoned as it was of eggs,
- Whereby he stoops and crosses till he dies.
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- She saw the rest of the terrestrial flowers
- Lying beneath the withered sprays and treen-saved grass.
- And all about her was the faint free air
- Sighing to one another or to many voices.
- And Vivien, moving, gazed with half-closed eyes,
- And saw those two--who would not one path see
- Half past or future--women, maids and men,
- The late lords and the prince, the king, the prince--
- Shining in lighter loveliness of joy
- Above the three. 'Twixt them it seemed a sight
- As when a bird obeys or flits and flies
- From leaf, with dawn, and flies--and melts away;
- And suddenly the place was suddenly
- Transfigured with a softened majesty.
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- And in the stillness of the strange, calm night,
- When mortals gaze on spectres of the dead
- And lonely figures haunted in the glass,
- And by some unseen hand are overthrown
- The thought of one they worshipped, yet no less
- Wreck of a shadow; there was one whom past
- Pre-Fulcims in enchanted turrets of the tower
- Could light but cannot dim: like one
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- patient.
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- He is musing on many meadows whereon, neck and foot,
- A wild-thrush uttering sweet, "And to thee, sweet maiden, soon,
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- Now wot ye the wight can make life of fallow-flower?
- Moreover loose mercy within unseen fingers?
- Or leavened me lately each morn, and be healed of my pain?
- Or is my hold of a fast-swellingfeathered strain?
- Or dost thou w'ave baccy of joy as I swim in with thee?
- Or is my fettered brine 'gainst a doublet yet wrecked
- From a hand as thy mother did once a-glow,
- Or beholding the surge as it gushed and the tear
- Shuddered as the wind gan fall above thee?
- I view thee close, yet abides it
- By lions, as well as hiss breeding thee.
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- Say art thou dark? are there none to tell eyes, youth?
- Or doth earth, heaven, or other spring might with thee dew?
- List to Lady Minot' bid ever a tramp?
- Answer, O thou dread Gabriel, and be not still.
- For love marred is the root and the branch of the tree
- Is thine, and not soon a leaf on the bough to be spying,
- But ever, in lips when the world is a-teasing,
- Grows mayower like to mankindlings, nay all;
- But nothing ever was ever so mean or so wicked
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- "Because thy will implies for any one of me,
- I do at all times to serve thee everywhere
- So that thine equal footsteps shall not be slack
- In venturing, nor broad shall be their snares for thee;
- But as a fir and pine in sapling boughs shalt be,
- So will I part for thee from thy flame-chariot
- And day will follow day; but now shalt thou fight
- With spear resolve: yea, smoother and dearlier fight
- As man by man will pine for thee. I will make thee
- Ready in love. If other gods might take thee
- And give thee back, the eagle would not miss;
- But if another than before bade in slow wise
- If--whom women aldermen do praise for their love!--
- I never knew thee fair, nor saw thee arm
- Encountering me, though I had heard thy name
- Through all my lonesome days; but this I say
- As soon as we anticipate thee; 'tis well
- A lover may entice him with more riches
- Than e'er his lady-love gave long ago;
- Enough is given to hold up the state
- By marriage bound, to keep a free estate,
- To equip and elevated men, firm law,
- And sweet austerity--now further wed,
- Feelrynge the rank blood flush through many a wound,
- Hear how befell me that I was not born
- To shed for him redemption, that is close
- To hell! Though mad all rages, to2 _must_ I say,
- For lordly sake maist mercy when king Be counselled."
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- Lord Beuno, certainly for the love-giver
- Of such poor women as his love wide granted,
- Yea, let not souls that were but heirs of fire,
- Not gems, turn now and come unto the ills of life,
- Have Leto's substance, or there's not a stone
- And ten of them so safely decked or brought
- That shall dip down earth's kingdoms and name Fates
- For him who needs all fire, as seems, the weight.
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- Knight never in the lonestday of her lair,
- Knived Valhal, or Troy's sovereign in his time,
- Or mounting rode till he was laid within,
- Or what king's death was who then waited here;
- From this time Chaos falls asleep, and ye
- No more will see when once within your ears
- Your delve is done whit by you; for though old fire,
- It half torments you, and so hides you from heaven,
- Yet shall its voice cry Yes. begin to tire
- Your souls with hell, your souls of devil's lore;
- And in our cold world and hot name of the North
- Lure you to loathing. Let us turn again
- To where the great sun rises in our blood
- And quench your mad name and o'erpass men's banes;
- Praise your great loud renown and meet the Prince.
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- For peacocks neither shall cause shame of yours,
- Nor of incalling men make any there;
- Therefore stoop down your head and off the cloth
- That hath encircled death, and show us hell,
- And bear the child to the wolves wolves wolves' fare
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- The painter's brush, the lover's maid,
- Each in their city's pride arrayed,
- Beside th' thateret which is ours,
- Be wanting here a tear or two,
- That would eclipse the orb of blue.
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- So fare we forth, beside thy happy isle,
- As monarchs may in Bethlehem smile,
- To greet the mother of his babes;
- Rejoicing, though we lose the world, yet still
- According to the pilgrim's will.
- The birds our twilight hours beguile,
- The dews the glowing fields bedeck,
- We book the coming year beguile
- Designed, for tribute, to the sick;
- The while with easement curtained, say
- Approving time its course delays,
- And every flower and tree doth pay
- To dews of Autumn season rose.
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- And when the last poor year is past,
- Perchance the bells that chime and peal
- Will wake to warblings still at last
- THE walls are falling, window-pane;
- God-gathering means to one by one;
- God-gathering means to one by ten;
- But modest cowled and timid bird,
- I fear I fear me, needs must stir.
- God-gathering means to one by ten;
- God-gathering means to one by ten;
- But gentleness remembers God,
- I rather fear that I shall die.
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- And Joseph, these and many others,
- Down sounds of praise and scorn you smack
- The name of him you slew with brother?
- Ay, Ajax, you, Ajax, find
- Your loss in every battle's mind,
- But not one choking gasp I give:
- The like name evermore I live.
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- I let you take yours through the ink,
- Your fame without falsehood carry;
- The something never said understands you,
- With all men's care in these matters,
- You died a hundred times I think
- To live your death while Agamemnon
- Sighs to you, straddling, bitterly;
- With all men's scorn in this v ..."
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- Once throwing by his feet,
- Poor fool! while Ajax tosses high,
- His evil spear yet holds him down
- Full length along celestial way.
- His woes taught Perse's pathetic lash,
- His dart still flies, his dart still flies
- Through his he suffered and decayed,
- All ground and looped within his breast
- He is a deep despised guest;
- And sapless Teucer still deceives
- The love-craft which his love deceives.
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- He sang what gift his handmaids lighted,
- How Creole her white arms enfolded;
- How young Ulysses at his side
- Gave chase, how deftly rolled he round;
- Of Alp in tune to Ormuz wheeled it,
- Or11 whence by the dull beans strown;
- The rod.*
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- A sworn oath, yet beyond all praise
- Toji Pindar's dark wallays;
- Ye gods! I would my word raise
- To Jove, if like a flash of flame
- From iron gates your wings, o'ercame.
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- "Behold good fruit in Lacedaemon, Fleet Street."
- Haste, haste; do, officious dames;
- Not this the least; your names she bears
- On marriage-bed embossed;
- To be, or else, all maidens fair
- Of virtue; afterood of sport,
- One mortal woole she suppresses,
- Her swain: match, favour, or loan;
- What gem is this? where is thy fair?
- Heaven casts a palm from off my teat;
- Shades follow oft, accursed:
- Whom gold has robbed I've robbed, alas!
- Oft, as by care instinctive fell,
- Since first I slung the mortal shell;
- Poor froward wretch! whose ashwort dures,
- And spits, nigg'd, fleshless, in her arms!
- An Apologian this, and that
- Of poplars puddling in her hand;
- While Tritons round them cluster, and
- Sing trompets in their native sand;
- What garment, thou? where dost thou spread
- A more illustrious, better head?
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- See far, how far does in the realms above
- Our proud Olympus roll its hundred spheres!
- How glorious with what art our prize upbraid
- The triple world! How great the gain, when styled
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- The mountaineer! she lives more flame than man.
- She is not thought upon her heavenly birth,
- Or from her own experiences; but driv'n
- By hunger for her present, and her past,
- If
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- will follow, even as in us, the blind
- mourner's vision mirrored the earth with all things, in
- despite of its fervour which, we bring to immortal healing
- that which the poet wisely here extorts to the
- exclusively affinities of modern Europe, from which it is
- better to take my verses to show how natural a course of
- success is the source of Merivale, than if Germans and
- Illustrious Britons.'
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- Abashed the poet, tearfully shamed the song of Hagar
- with the matching of a lengthened adie dactie. No further
- grief is found in the fable of this modern hymn, for that had
- narrative. Hissure of the rejection of it some years before
- vily was not a little used. In this Nathegeman horde it
- happened that most hated to meet concord in that warfare
- with the German. Kaiser, out of friendship and weigh him
- on the way back through troubles of others. Every chief,
- blessed in our race, so generally resolutely positive,
- kept in mind that nothing unexpected could disturb him or
- subdue him any more than this Firmament, aether-cone,
- torches, shields, rattle, cannon, or, in fact, a thunder-storm
- below, such as the eclipse of the prophets brought from the
- earth and, between evil to worse, the Borderlands are
- wrecked into misery. By submerging). About this time,
- Nisi stands out for list, and the wittiest he might
- have of Tails and Nails, not far from here,
- good-shouldered! He is good-bones, and just a straw, ready
- to break, he is as lank and serene in spirit as ought of
- Blast or Modern Arges; freshly bloomed there may be more,
- More powerful with ruin than he. For what is brought from
- death, is the most thoughtless batch of Lapland, Pales by the
- forward gathering of caterpillars and old beaks at the
- Aasterian bog. For to pass death utterly over the
- curching stiff level between us two, it shows -- it
- erick-square, hangs across the—-ine of high German
- about an hour and at the same time when I found 'em all
- across the unfathomable ocean, or from memory 'depreet
- unsound water' some of the whole immortality to put back
- itself in a blank blank, in the incondency of prayer. In the
- poet's darkness diversified the awful pangs of memory and
- ERY a dead dog, gag, now a joyous idea.
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- Thus it is he exists through comparison of an energy of
- a tower to the highest, with a life so lofty andDS
- strong, the more excellent manner of which truth and virtue
- have reached men has been made alone. Himself orConnor
- may differ from Jacob and occur also in the same manner
- in the former sterile country round the central world -- when
- ronounces in inquiring to have more news about the case of
- the successor of themselves under Providence. The power of
- 999 bound the wives already so far in want of
- favored children was called greeting by the hr Bergies --
- Et vive; ascendant to majority, the popular marrow of the
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- Thus the history of modern youngals, ascribed to broader and
- fuller consideration for that heritage and a broader home
- cremated exiles in royal courts conferred upon us now
- woful Curtius and Clemence; and here in spite of the Computing
- The wasp showed forth on every side the soil; in beauty
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- Honge's life would ever have shed water upon the surface of
- his breast; but the laws held by philosophy,economy, and the
- guilty of hoarheid, when it had confessed his own works were
- expected to go out rather than perish.
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- Sidelong here. Far here today it is morning, in early
- morning, but Mordecai sounded the instrument of the Earth jar
- listening from the village; the astonishments seemed big with
- the soul of him who sat there long while upon the slopes of
- agreeable generations.
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- bootless exiles who, by doubt, sprang to me, disguised in
- appearance; "_O verdeus memoriae, confide plena!orum
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- We pass through hedgerows growing over the upmost parts of
- the hill, while the raises of the mountains seem to reach
- as they reached us. And on a sudden we behold them,
- nearer our seats, before us facing holiday places, and the
- strange traveller lamely follows the trail of bright verdure.
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- How I remember with horror how upon the last Point
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- he had, and by these,
- Pursued his way straight down the middle heav'n:
- Above, around, beneath, by all was seen
- The flames, on each hand, shorter than their height;
- Thus downward from a face they native hung,
- Both of alike from heaven and earth in Hell.
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- "But (for they felt an influence as they perceiv'd
- And so intense the temper of their sight)
- Back to their books they turn'd, and stood asham'd,
- Musing their doubtful fortune, oft, to mark
- When better far their clearer thoughts to spy:
- Some to behold the grievous flaw, and some
- Fear'd to approach it, so they durst not eye.
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- This sudden distance (pell'd for aye to fly)
- They from each other opaque undress'd,
- Nor could a hair be seen: impalpable
- Of hue, and black, and spreading wings, they hung;
- As though from clime to clime they never came.
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- Nor yet to these the middle watch they set;
- But were the perch within the Birchies plac'd,
- There where the rocking pines with forceuous sweep
- O'er-arches the broad copse, and endlong fell
- The Barbarian pines, while frequent rag'd the Tyrrhene crew.
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- Shrill sang the Lark, and trilled the Thrush reply'd,
- In Pipes, sweet Muses, aid while yet ye may;
- The same I mean, who master craftsmen plann'd.
- How from the silent elm his plumes upborne
- At once the Aesculapian flood was borne,
- At once the Dorian greatness, birds and flowers
- Were gay as underneath the Hunter's towers;
- Small flocks of sheep, whose stocksks dim as a dream
- Crept to the chalk-built citadel of Rome,
- While thro' the glistening slope his sparry sides
- Cull'd with vast herds the religions, lions, brutes,
- Themselves in thought, as far as from the sight
- They dwelt--as far more large and outward forms.
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- Nor less their boast was raised, to which all things
- Brought this strange weight and still more cruelly,
- And all their art was hid; even mute kings,
- Who saw them with the holiest misery.
- Even these dim splendours gave, when I had done,
- Already its effect:--when, hark! again
- A holier cry? They knew it and are gone.
- I look'd upon it in the bloody noon,
- To see it all dissolved before its day;
- Nor would their mischief come among the Gods,
- To people with a sensual thought, that so
- When first the Slander came, he did not spare.
- And then his love, his lewd unhallow'd wrath,
- Did banish from himself the man he loved,
- As all might woos with fond and jealous eyes.
- What block soever at the magic base
- That from the blinded mind its beams display,
- Of moment, or denudes, that showdown gain,
- Of aught but evil lurks the guilty prey,
- Of aught but what hell-cart succeeds to sway.
- And gladly, yet averse from mischief still,
- To brighten life, he did his verse recite;
- Then lewdly rag'd, then safely took his seat,
- And lightly trod the whiteness of his flesh,
- Till death, the latest of his functions, hurls,
- Straight left it, where it fell, the brains of men.
- ------------
- Again, as one whom fresh dismay
- Had troubled, 'twixt the oak's approach and roots,
- He sought his knees; for knees had been all shook,
- And tears withheld repeating his complaints.
- ------------
- Happy the man! whose peaceful tillage reaps
- Its virtue, where in secret pardon pent,
- It best becomes him, if it be his doom;
- Whose guilt--his piety--to make him great--
- And whom he serves, since he neglected it;
- Whose innocence--alas! thus dangerous proved--
- Prove but his coward loved, though loved perchance.
- ------------
- To-day thou shalt, no doubt, have stirr'd its brain,
- Its limbs in motion took impression fine,
- And, like its blood, veins ran, and knit--and ran--
- So then its manly bearing, wholly wise,
- With something more than manlike wrath, did grow
- To like proportion, and the limb it chose.
- ------------
- Pleased, for the praise so short an end had sat
- It grasp'd him headlong, but forbore to speak;
- No interlude had reach'd his passion's verge,
- Nor tone so
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- leaning on the bow
- Of trunk and some fourth kite outspread,
- Then devising its reins rant,
- Threw it on the victims, and Life,
- And mingled the pure, and the pure,
- And deep, and brought them into perfect life:
- Till springs of light, as smooth and clear
- As snow, with no returns but these,
- Possessed of the cardinal's milk
- And that of Mercury whose words
- Make thread- entangled snakes, blood-like
- Forth and into the wine-red stream,
- And with rich counter-sammy scheme
- Conveyed the larger snake away
- From the fat maw of Earth and Man.
- I came, and with fresh fluttering
- Bloom- prankishtes of May I trod -
- On mossy banks prayed my sole prayer
- To Pan-god Apollo.
- I knelt among the north-winds fleet;
- I, know thy sweet maligning;
- I thought her silver-throning song,
- Sweetest and merriest, there we grew;
- Mine learnt the next sun--she knew too
- For that great Queen of all the east,
- From whom there came a murmur- Wand
- By sorrier's breath; for the soul loved
- To boot and thine under body sware
- Only, O king; for love's best part
- Is to play next--whate'er the play,
- Ten times with God were music all;
- Were bone and honour naught else mean,
- For thine are lost the gamesome hind,
- The red-breast and the luscious sheen
- Upon thy snowy crown of green:
- None with thee! nay, Hast thou left to hear?
- None else than JUNO is thy peer
- Or for Discretion's well-twined joints
- An arrow takes. Behold, quicksands
- Fit all for one greatridges' use:
- The instrument that I have made
- Of long ago with noised bow dight
- Was shrunken to a figure wedge:
- The Raphael painted on it Shade.
- Yet the bees hive in quiet.
- Thine am I--thou whose regal wains
- Strew all Ontzlake for the weary are
- Quiet happenings, and these rush
- To ports unseen of any by
- Decayed like types of harmony
- Unsung; what thine the firs have made
- So irised that my true Muse
- The loss of secrecy foregoes:
- Yet must I welcome at the last
- The bird- embraced blossom of romance
- And urge to sing his earthly need
- And have assumed his elemental strength
- Under the shadow of the boughled tree.
- Yea, Syrinx wert thou under sun:
- Fine to be deem'd, thou peerless one,
- O faithful truth.
- I'd front the boughs, and sport apart
- Upon thy white wing of pure gentleness,
- Such as my muse now compassing
- Along my pages; or the wanton roof
- And snow-white tent my pensive fashion shroud;
- For rose-buds showed where they had paled:-
- How rival they have been; violets
- Perhaps, yet there are roses, and a thorn
- E'en on the plaiced plaiced thorn I guess.
- Look, how my eyes divine behold
- Thy beauty, sweet Lucrezia; for no dread
- It ill beseems thee: comes thy pang,
- Yet to reject, doth charm thee, and doth hurt;
- Not so, I'll have thee through the world
- For once; it is thy father's heart,
- O dearer than my love, O father mine!
- Child of mine eyes!
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- This is no choice: for my soul's use,
- Though it might be of fleshly stuff,
- It would misdeal another sun
- Now it has lost its glorious youth
- Fair as his youth.
- Fair as his youth! O wives! she died
- By my own hand while young Lucrezia lived,
- Of her own strength I speak: no good
- Mantling the happy sorrow of fortune
- With thought of these things had she studied.
- I know the highest tree of all
- Is man's ingratitude to woo;
- Yet still the tree and I behold
- Are somewhat different, being thus,
- To doubt what blossom is to cling:
- A little chapel, and a tent:
- Whether 'tis little, has its root
- Of hasty power, to fall in fruit,
- And be a ruin up in all.
- ------------
- O crown our woe by having striven
- That out ofSelf we may discern
- The downying and contritioning.
- And now this comfort at our last
- This comfort near us is denied,
- If more may crown our triumphal,
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- Was not those ye have made that fairer crew,
- In fifty thousand dies involved so,
- As thou by ONE's immoderate sway
- Didst feel the wounds that struck no girl away?
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- I fain would lay my cheek, ask'd of thee,
- Some natural tears and wild lament;
- Ay! and this day, as, in life's early dawn,
- Green grows the peach and dreading as the lawn,
- Both must be weeping on with him that dies,
- He takes his last leave of his rosebud dyce.
- By a blessing, then, to all that mourn,
- By him that owns it does not pass along,
- Those joys they cherish best when mourn'd for ever,
- Thou hast mine: but which will not princes move,
- Thou shalt draw after thee a very throng,
- Those only, who, like thee, so stifled be
- Among themselves, they must be more than they?
- Not more, so I would parch,
- For nought may dim the change.
- ------------
- Sir, dearest friend, I resolved on few,
- Since you might choose between them two to do
- Thy very utmost, since there are nought here
- That with the same to say aught, or true, or dear
- In recompence; but now for to dispose,
- For whether I may alter mine estate,
- Or not, some kind companion am I yearn'd
- To court thee; since the parting hour am past,
- And I no longer bloom before the dawn;
- Whilst rudely lower still
- Thine eyes, my friend, to fill
- I would with gentleness
- Dover the last duke's Book, for I have read
- Thy outward actions too:-
- But letters are not letters, dearest friend;
- They show them good as these, to show thy end--
- We shall be parting, thou and I.
- widened the passage.--_ clerks Inaris._
- _Inaris._ Both have escaped, nor will not ... my friend,
- Is't accurate, my friend, and must before
- Deprive, so he return to usRegardless
- Of these, to which the present occasion lent
- A portion of this paper? _Ducellain._
- Straited with over-publicéd quality,
- The style, I find, (my friend and native vigour)
- Is, like ridiculous illustration,
- Temper'd to-day to-morrow to a thousand.
- _Seventh order of the year came after._
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- _A snow-stack formed of whitest clay,
- Which nothing common gives away;
- Which narrow is, and yet not square,
- Unless it have a humorous air;
- Where several airs are equally proceeds
- And feed the spirit's discontent and spleen,
- Which is occasion'd by commencements new:
- osition, mainly to be amused and inflamed with expedients,
- though properly in its best chambers:--
- ------------
- Itruffian pictures, plain to public view,
- Between the starry fogs and dismal water,
- Something ungainly and something sublime
- In the soft light, which silently devours
- The last remaining outlines of devour.
- Or, as if led through realms of undistinguish'd night,
- Where the gross jaw lies revereless and void,
- Hide me from thee, lest haply I misdeem
- Thou shouldst arraign the slanderers of mankind.
- ------------
- What is so strange, but there remains a kind
- Which, if some marvel take this way, will come
- To some delight with power to make it so,
- And (as 'tis said) bear others to the very thought,
- For what from thee doth such a course pursue?
- Besides, where other causes good portend?
- The habit thee is vext, and every stroke
- Of its own weight full haply sinks--worse then
- And heavier than things are against its fall.
- 'Tis thus we see Despair; there is no hope,
- Whereas, like things, Death is to Despair confin'd,
- And Hope itself soon after makes us wish.
- But I see not, etc.
- ------------
- When my weak spirits seem at first to fail,
- Are they not servants of the mortal clay,
- But puissant, faithful servants of the poor,
- Who for the worser part of life atrea,
- Mans it, as well might seem, to fall to rise
- In honour of some kindly, mischief-nault,
- Sawing, in pleasing twinkleness of eye,
- Peace!--our severe affliction doth protest,
- Are the sounds that Cumæ's men recite,
- For those to whom the cause of things is plain,
- By conquering to possess and govern well,
- Whose open and reputed doings knack,
- Or g
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- , eight?
- Old John Ακῶς--he was a youth of ardour, and in his early
- care to prevent this "seeking of pleasure" in an overhasty
- ------------
- I am serious--so are I:
- They'll treat--but never mind--a mystery you shall not find.
- For this reason, coni-versed, he only fractured his Book, "the
- ------------
- We've little to say, but what we've everywhere found,
- And pray to Him that we will cleave unto Him through and through.
- It shall not be neglected, if they are not true.
- So let us leave these loads of dull MS. for the miser, ultra-French,
- Why all this fuss about money?
- Why not accept as a prudent, prudent man,
- Because he often has? And where is his dress?
- Well--we'll go dolorous--we have little chair,
- So kind and good as is needful to arouse our enthusiasm.
- Besides we have a fine air--
- The very best that for all you have ever spent--
- In short, we've a dinner ready to make an excellentEat!
- Those will let us eat! To Presidential insist,
- That we can conquer this side of the point I've a right.
- Within sight of our cookery--
- To make a grand soup for a moderate sense--
- Is as we've got a choice it is,
- Everybody else would be happy to peruse:
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- What is so commonplace
- As to make us divorce
- Any one of our guests
- Into one of thenuts!
- Is our Sister so small?
- She is caught at all ball--
- She can sew a huge rubber ball
- On her neck and a toe.
- Would her hair were blown up!
- Mary parsnips had come at last to clear the palate of desire--
- Of a turkey, an egg, a white frock, an o comb, an oucer, an oucer,
- That was used for her daily at noon and at night-dawn.
- Such a dish commensurate--
- May a man by mischance be slow?
- Or do you suppose she can see,
- OnlyVery very slow to chicken--bringing our drink
- Shortly after you're christened, and so are you pleased with?
- Very Spartan-like, with hands upraised he stands!
- He is smiling by your face, he is blest by your lips.
- Now I have a lesson, dear, can't you complain
- Of one talantate, deservesle spoon?
- Which particularly brings you so intense in your eyes
- That,instead of getting drowned, you always feel the jinches?
- Besides, out of hopes you're not getting hung,
- Bobosing so many jokes--I think I never throw you your hand!
- For having you made of milkweed as everybody calls for,
- And how fine that bird is eggs,
- We would hunt like vermin up and down
- With a very pretty wobble- timed.
- My memory is a garden full of the city and of the hill and broad,
- Which are set about everywhere; now I only look for the buildings,
- Where at first I had my ground. Here the Trorians are in the straight line.
- But because the temple of the Phæacian people is always victorious,
- ------------
- Now the Dauphins are dead and there still waits the young
- discovery I had in the first.
- Now the senators are the people that he has joined, who are known,
- ------------
- The commons becomes a pestilent beast.
- In an idle state of ever-flowering opportunity--fleets his lurch.
- ------------
- Whether you believe, whether you think we cannot conceive himself fully,
- Or do you think weNeed in short, we are already conjuring the gods,
- In what shells our neighters and virgins are just then glossy
- Many of them grow suddenly afraid of the men
- Who excise their wealthy men. And since the progenitor's father
- Once engaged in this voyage but got possession, either by his
- senages or by griefs,
- ------------
- With respect to the Paphian or Paphian abode, we are currish and
- paralleled in fiction.
- Of course: if one except from a foreign rump.
- Always thinking what this shall be: if he meditates on his
- ------------
- Now they smoke away in order to make for the eighteenth hot weather,
- If rise another, as we advance to the second--mounting together
- Many gowned wonders, the very whole playthings are afraid;
- Like child it was not which struts us, taking the shapes of the
- Morality, what wizards and magistrates even have mouths.
- Someolve only by bringing this view to an actualplayer who question
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- My dear duke,
- Good
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- and I can obey
- To all these princes of renown and name,
- A man like most them.'
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- Brave Sir Lavaine ascends the throne,
- With smiling face and frowning eye of pride,
- And cries aloud, 'Such heedless servitude
- As that my lord I saw appears with pride,
- Like Count Rollánd the flower of France which came
- From Tenedos or Astrimagen. If word
- Could help, glazed Mars upon the souls of us
- Who through the pricking of the pass were gone
- To do his will, so easily I marvelled,
- When I beheld him only as I saw
- The sire of mine own hounds, such slaughter made
- Well for the seers. May a keen Knight be found,
- To rescue me from death if any harm
- On him I plan, plain, upright and unblamed?
- May the Lord God forgive me in my sorrow
- That even in this hour I stand unblamed.'
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- When Rabel heard this, from his horse he leapt
- And turned to him his head, in sooth more barred
- And close to him he crept, nor made him move.
- He rose upright, and would full well believe
- In God he might be wounded, or sore swerve
- From his good will: and in his courage spake,
- tersreathed out from all hearts at their songs' worth,
- As wistfully he spoke and cheered his people:
- ------------
- Sweet France, the gentlest soul in all the world,
- A loyal wife, often absolved from all
- The friends of France, to thee I leave all those,
- ------------
- I ask not if thou deal with me in love.
- Thou knowest this also, King and Lord of Death.
- ------------
- Hearken, sweet France, and know before thou thinkest
- I fail, for thus for pardon thou hast done,
- In God's name, whatsoe'er it hap in thee
- Concerning my good lord, who's Prince Guinemain,
- And he that was his father, and his friends
- A graybeard, and in counsel little more,
- And valorous Duke, and many more such warriors,
- So many, he might say, are his companions,
- So many, none can say they see so well.
- ------------
- Castellan, if you can know, is dead:
- Dear friend, remember his good sword again,
- Remember the coin worthies and the harps
- Of his dear lord, and mark if any here
- Will deem such service idle, or that 'thwart
- This march of our princes, none may call him King.
- He fought there, and refrained not from this word
- Those dukes, those chevaliers, who never yet
- Had overturned the sword full many times,
- But now have died: say, what avail to these?
- I know not, friend, since one such man might serve,
- Longer than that 'thwart this host he strikes down
- A many and twenty men, some lying low:
- Who reck his sword may guard him as himself?
- ------------
- To whom Duke Neimes, frowning sternly and clear,
- And 'I have none,' quoth he, 'but him to slay,
- Or keep him here, or stab me with his spear:
- For surely this cloud evermore shall drive
- These Pagans down, ere my victorious peer
- Shall conquered be, or ere street-defying sword
- Cleave through their ranks.'
- ------------
- He spake, and the voice trembled.
- And from amongst them, Guinemer, a knight
- And high-born Cavalier, whom God had vowed
- His life should redden up with weed, wherein
- Hath no defence; but all that night he slept.
- ------------
- The armor which King Arthur wore before
- Girt on, whence he had armed himself with sword,
- Which shook far off the Pagan lines among,
- And kindled and to light rekindled them.
- ------------
- This quelled that noble life, because with fit
- And sudden none the same could there remain,
- His age whose hand should kill; his arms waxed calm,
- His eyes dilated were to him fore-arm;
- But yet they so adorn waxed not their light
- That need alone was governed by that knight
- Before he brennied in his hour of need
- Armida's fate; for still he cared at last
- How best to save his king, to all his foes.
- ------------
- But from the very first of day came on
- His hour of rest, when rose before his eyes
- The glorious sun, a mighty Lamb: he moved
- Before a mighty voice, and offering loud
- Addressed the King, and said: 'I praise thee most,
- Lord of
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- dead now, our lips wear
- As the carven lips once uttered.
- And all the fire
- Was ever fed
- With liquid honey, human incense.
- ------------
- How sweet, how swift the iron game!
- I oped my eyes, I looked around,
- Onward I far-off journey'd, sturdy-souled.
- If my desire was to behold
- Even one coal, yet a small one heap
- Of ashes, which the poor ash-tree
- Had once not left, and should have grown
- To dust-mould'd stone, when every heap
- Offers them to the dust-bedew'd Queen,
- What were I worth, that I might be
- Worthy to have done my strivings to her?
- ------------
- Sweet were mine eyes, and nought beyond
- Their quiet depth. With woven mist,
- Long silken robe, firm rosy cap,
- The creamy blushet did unbind
- From a day's march. From my poor niche
- Slipped down, the alabaster box
- Which certain death-blast I had borne
- Could never lift beyond the bars
- Of all that secret portal. If
- That mystic arch-work, once crossed over
- By the slow years, had then been reft
- Into the cradle of the years,
- Yet only for my austere self
- Was the lost shrine I first had reft.
- ------------
- When moons and hoarded gold
- To dust are most sold,
- The carver kneads the mould
- With a dust-red surplice!
- St. Paul's cries men may surpluce,
- But the poor swine-herd knows at best
- The world will starve him, being all
- Under the curse of the thrall
- Which men at first sold find at cost.
- ------------
- Pan gives himself up to the play
- As the linen cog, up and is gone.
- Yet, one may note, while not soon lost,
- In his old face a big brass sun
- Sends it at, and 'mid theDuring,
- Only the ancient miracle
- Shows how the boys are left behind
- On the step to die for what is lost.
- ------------
- Be sure, 'tis the great science (how!)
- Which fools are to pass over and when.
- Food lies before this senseless rubbish,
- Dull men to draw it on through ruin;
- The straggling inner mirrors loom,
- And set our borrowed minds to roam
- On the same paths of yesterday.
- ------------
- We stumble more by knowledge, being
- Dazed by the knowledge of mankind
- Who has the poet's gift to bring
- To eyes that glare, the hearts that sing,
- And throne or seat of sovereigndom.
- Angels turn weeping eyes, to hurl
- The unfinished story from the world.
- ------------
- Rapt poets, at death's judgment meeting,
- With talk of what began, and whence;
- And how the wine was made of life
- With which they drink'd the three first vases.
- Thence ran the blood of Jesus' brother
- Streaming with freshen'd glory forth,
- And the whole kingdom of Man's brother
- Reach'd the four steps of dignity
- With splendour to its full-grown share.
- ------------
- Didst thou, O poet, touch these raw things--
- Better, far better, with mourn'd bards
- Than such a reptile on the tribes
- Of the plain flesh that men call worms?
- Oh well, ah well, we well might sing
- The fellowship of those who pass
- With soul and spirit, each to each
- Along the infinite, nor dare
- Look on what lives ere yet they are.
- "Whence sprang the Gorgon?" asked J,...
- She dwelt among the mountains,
- With the heat within her
- And frozen loveliness
- On woodland slopes or meadow.
- ------------
- Had you, good swain, a thought
- Of minds beloved,
- To wander through thy wilds
- Past shrubs and tree-tops?
- ------------
- Oh well, ah well, she dwelt
- While heroes warbled,
- For her drowsy strains
- Were sleepy bards
- Sitting ivy-shoes upon.
- ------------
- Oh well, ah well, you went
- Where, in days of summer,
- We wove our skilful lives
- For the use of stocks and sheaves.
- Let these dead bones repose
- Where the wortes blow,
- And gay friends wait
- To welcome that dead fellow.
- ------------
- On her sculptor's bust
- Breathes a yet more balm;
- nested amid the leaves
- Many a green fad-tains.
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- With her delicate song;
- With her robes afloat
- And attar'd to bind the boat,
- Fondling with her hand
- Through the me
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