Oh! there are spirits of the air,
And genii of the evening breeze,
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And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
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I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
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Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
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INTER marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles
Fortunata mmis Machina dicit horas.
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HERE I sit with my paper, my pen my ink,
First of this thing, and that thing,
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Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know That things depart which never may return:
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A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
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I hated thee, fallen tyrant! I did groan To think that a most unambitious slave,
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MY faint spirit was sitting in the light
Of thy looks, my love;
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Yet look on me -- take not thine eyes away, Which feed upon the love within mine own,
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From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living,
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TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF HOMER. I.
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From the Greek of Plato. Kissing Helena, together
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From the Greek. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?
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From the Greek. A man who was about to hang himself,
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From the Greek of Bion. I mourn Adonis dead—loveliest Adonis--
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From the Greek of Moschus. Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--
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Tan ala tan glaukan otan onemos atrema Balle--k.t.l. When winds that move not its calm surface sweep
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Pan loved his neighbour Echo--but that child Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;
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Melodious Arethusa, o'er my verse Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:
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And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains Stood, and received him in its mighty portal
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DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI: Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,
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FROM THE PURGATORIO OF DANTE, CANTO 28, LINES 1-51. And earnest to explore within--around--
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ADAPTED FROM THE VITA NUOVA OF DANTE. What Mary is when she a little smiles
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INFERNO 33, 22-75. Now had the loophole of that dungeon, still
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GUIDO CAVALCANTI TO DANTE ALIGHIERI: Returning from its daily quest, my Spirit
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Hast thou not seen, officious with delight, Move through the illumined air about the flower
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Ask not the pallid stranger's woe, With beating heart and throbbing breast,
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Extract from Poetical Essay
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