Food poems

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Afar In The Desert

© Thomas Pringle

Afar in the Desert I love to ride,

  With the silent Bush-boy alone by my side:

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The Day Of The Daughter Of Hades

© George Meredith

He tells it, who knew the law
Upon mortals:  he stood alive
Declaring that this he saw:
He could see, and survive.

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The Heroic Enthusiasts - Part The Second =Second Dialogue=

© Giordano Bruno

MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which is
written: Levius aura; which means that Divine love does not weigh down,
nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but
raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter IX - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius

© Robert Browning

  Thus
Would I defend the step,—were the thing true
Which is a fable,—see my former speech,—
That Guido slept (who never slept a wink)
Through treachery, an opiate from his wife,
Who not so much as knew what opiates mean.

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Metamorphoses: Book The First

© Ovid

OF bodies chang'd to various forms, I sing:
  Ye Gods, from whom these miracles did spring,
  Inspire my numbers with coelestial heat;
  'Till I my long laborious work compleat:

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The Aeneid of Virgil: Book 8

© Publius Vergilius Maro

WHEN Turnus had assembled all his pow’rs,  

His standard planted on Laurentum’s tow’rs;  

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Thebais - Book One - part V

© Pablius Papinius Statius

The king once more the solemn rites requires,  

And bids renew the feasts, and wake the fires.  

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The Angel In The House. Book I. Canto X.

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

II The Devices
  Love, kiss'd by Wisdom, wakes twice Love,
  And Wisdom is, thro' loving, wise.
  Let Dove and Snake, and Snake and Dove,
  This Wisdom's be, that Love's device.

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Metamorphoses: Book The Twelfth

© Ovid

 The End of the Twelfth Book.


 Translated into English verse under the direction of
 Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
 William Congreve and other eminent hands

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When I Was an Editor

© Stephan Stephansson

So maudlin, with pity and pathos I stood
If someone who erred got the lashes;
If hanged, I'd weep over the ashes.
With vocal dispraise such injustice I viewed

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Song Of The Wild Bushman

© Thomas Pringle

Let the proud White Man boast his flocks,

  And fields of foodful grain;

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On The Road

© Dante Gabriel Rossetti

October, and eleven after dark:

Both mist and night. Among us in the coach

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Tale IX

© George Crabbe

course,"
Replied the Youth; "but has it power to force?
Unless it forces, call it as you will,
It is but wish, and proneness to the ill."
  "Art thou not tempted?"--"Do I fall?" said

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The Beasts In The Tower

© Charles Lamb

Within the precincts of this yard,

Each in his narrow confines barred,

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The Columbiad: Book IX

© Joel Barlow

Shrouded in deeper darkness now he veers
The vast gyration of a thousand years,
Strikes out each lamp that would illume his way,
Disputes his food with every beast of prey;
Imbands his force to fence his trist abodes,
A wretched robber with his feudal codes.

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The Woodland Hallo

© Robert Bloomfield

In our cottage, that peeps from the skirts of the wood,

 I am mistress, no mother have I;

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Lone Wild Goose

© Du Fu

Alone, the wild goose refuses food and drink,

his calls searching for the flock.

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Sonnet 71: Who Will in Fairest Book

© Sir Philip Sidney

Who will in fairest book of nature know

  How virtue may best lodg'd in beauty be,

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The Price of An Equipage

© William Shenstone

Servum si potes, Ole, non habere,

Et regem potes, Ole, non habere. Mart.

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Meditation Before Sacrament

© Thomas Parnell

Arise my soul & hast away

Thy god doth call & canst thou stay