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Unwritten Literature of Hawaii; The Sacred Songs of the Hula Collected and Translated with Notes and an Account of the Hula

By: Nathaniel B. Emerson

...Doctor Emerson is the first of the Bureau's Hawaiian series. It is expected that this Bulletin will be followed shortly by one comprising an extended list of works relating to Hawaii, compiled by Prof. H. M. Ballou and Dr. Cyrus Thomas....

...4 -- The gods of the hula. 23 -- Support and organization of the hula. 26 -- Ceremonies of graduation; debut of a hula dancer. 31 -- The password—the song of admission. 38 -- Worship at the altar of the halau. 42 -- Costume of the hula dancer. 49 -- The hula ala&?a-papa. 57 -- The hula pa-ipu, or kuolo. 73 -- The hula ki?i. 91 -- The hula pahu. 103 -- The hula uliui. 107 -...

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Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems 1800 in Two Volumes

By: William Wordsworth

.......................................................................... 22 SONG ......................................................................... .......................................................................... 38 SONG ......................................................................... ...l come hither with my paramour, And with the dancers, and the minstrel’s song, We will make merry in that pleasant bower. Till the foundations o... ...ter journey’d with his paramour; And with the dancers and the minstrel’s song Made merriment within that pleasant bower. The Knight, Sir Walter,... ...ence mock’d his skill, Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprize Has carried far into his heart... ...The stream came thundering down the dell And gallop’d loud and fast; I listen’d, nor aught else could hear, The Briar quak’d and much I fear. ... ... And now, all eyes and feet, hath gain’d The middle of the arch. When list! he hears a piteous moan— Again! his heart within him dies— His pu... ...nd the thrush Vied with this waterfall, and made a song Which, while I listen’d, seem’d like the wild growth Or like some natural produce of the... ...e been So distant from us now for two long years, That you will gladly listen to discourse However trivial, if you thence are taught That they...

......11 ELLEN IRWIN, ............................................................................................................................... 22 SONG............................................................................................................................................... 24 The WATERFALL and the EGLANTINE. ............................................

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Paradise Regained

By: John Milton

... By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds Wi... ... the tongue discourst, pleasing to th’ ear, And tuneable as Silvan Pipe or Song; 480 What wonder then if I delight to hear Her dictates from thy ... ...nest, high towring to descry 280 The morns approach, and greet her with his Song: As lightly from his grassy Couch up rose Our Saviour, and found... ... all Wealth, pleasure, pain or torment, death and life, 305 Which when he lists, he leaves, or boasts he can, For all his tedious talk is but vai... ...rew’d With Hymns, our Psalms with artful terms inscrib’d, 335 Our Hebrew Songs and Harps in Babylon, That pleas’d so well our Victors ear, decl... ...udest sing The vices of thir Deities, and thir own 340 In Fable, Hymn, or Song, so personating Thir Gods ridiculous, and themselves past shame. ...

...t, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughtst him thence By proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted Song else mute, And bear through highth or depth of natures bounds With prosperous wing full summ?d to tell of deeds Above Heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an Age, Worthy t?have not remain?d so ...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

... above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl’s cheek, mantled her brow to the root... ... yellow braids carefully dis- posed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul’s impassioned wooing, and af- 6 T... ...young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady’s champion. “The very worst; I knew him at Nice,” said La... ...rs. Beaufort, then, had as usual appeared in her box just before the Jewel Song; and when, again as usual, she rose at the end of the third act, drew ... ...here’ll be no such thing as Society left.” VII. MRS. HENRY VA N DER LUYDEN listened in silence to her cousin Mrs. Archer’s narrative. It was all very ... ...a per- fect likeness.” Indeed the Mrs. van der Luyden who sat be- neath it listening to Mrs. Archer might have been the twin- sister of the fair and s... ...sh arts, such as dancing a Spanish shawl dance and singing Neapolitan love-songs to a guitar. Under the direction of her aunt (whose real name was Mrs... ...oing to church …” With a groan he plunged back into his book. “Newland! Do listen. Y our friend Madame Olenska was at Mrs. Lemuel Struthers’s party la... ...ence of “cocottes,” and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears. Archer had reverted to all hi...

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Swan Song

By: Marian Fell

...n by Marian Fell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Swan Song by Anton Checkov, trans. Marian Fell is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Swan Song by Anton Checkov, trans. Marian Fell, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ..............................................................4 Chronological List of the Principal Works of Anton Tchekoff..................10 The Swan ... ...List of the Principal Works of Anton Tchekoff..................10 The Swan Song ......................................................................... .................................................... 11 4 Anton Checkov Swan Song by Anton Checkov Translated from the Russian, with an introduction by ... ...sts, made visible to us by the light of an approaching day . Chronological List of the Principal W orks of Anton Tchekoff Plays: The Swan Song 1889 Th... ...s [beats his breast] quivered in this breast! It chokes me to think of it! Listen now, wait, let me catch my breath, there; now listen to this: “The... ...wn, thun- der roars, lightning—zzz zzz zzz—splits the whole sky, and then, listen: “Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cata- racts a... ...a. Wait a second, let me come to my senses again. Oh! Good Lord! Now then, listen! Did you ever hear such tenderness, such music? Sh! Softly; “The m...

Excerpt: Swan Song by Anton Checkov, translated by Marian Fell.

...Contents INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................4 Chronological List of the Principal Works of Anton Tchekoff..................10 The Swan Song .............................................................................................. 11...

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Songs and Sonnets

By: John Donne

...u Editions E-book, ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE ... .... . . . . . . 1 THE GOOD-MORROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 WOMANS CONSTANCY . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . . . 11 LOVERS INFINITENESSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE LEGACIE . . . . . . . . . ... ... that none doe slacken, none can die. - 1 - THE GOOD-MORROW John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" SONG GOE, and catche a falling starre, Get with ch... ... Will bee False, ere I come, to two, or three. - 2 - SONG John Donne’s "Songs and Sonnets" WOMANS CONSTANCY NOW thou hast lov’d... ... Are Sunne, Moone, or Starres by law forbidden, To smile where they list, or lend away their light? Are birds divorc’d or, are they chidde... ...nd can att pleasure chuse, When I am caught he can be gone, And when he list refuse. Nor he that loves none but faire, For such by all are sought...

...Table of Contents: THE GOOD-MORROW, 1 -- SONG, 2 -- WOMANS CONSTANCY, 3 -- THE UNDERTAKING, 4 -- THE SUNNE RISING, 5 -- THE INDIFFERENT, 6 -- LOVES USURY, 7 -- THE CANONIZATION, 8 -- THE TRIPLE FOOLE, 10 -- LOVERS INFINITENESSE, 11 -- SONG, 12 -- THE LEGACIE, 13 -- ...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

.......................................................................... 20 SONG ......................................................................... .......................................................................... 25 SONG ......................................................................... .......................................................................... 42 SONG ......................................................................... .......................................................................... 43 SONG ......................................................................... ...me, Keeps house for me, was very sick, Waking upon the midnight chime, And listening to the stair-clock’s click, I heard a rustling, half uncertain, C... ...– And gradually, with stealthier foot, Became herself a thing as mute, And listened,—while with swift alarm Her alien heart shrank from the charm; Yet... ...the calm cold ear o’ the moon Whose yellowing crescent down the West Leans listening, now when every breast Its basest or its purest heaves, The soul ... ...f relation, All—all is a blank to thine ear and thine eye; The ear may not listen, the eye may not glisten, Nevermore waked by a smile or a sigh. The ... ... The sigh and the kiss Of the latest close mingling; But love, thought he, listening, Will not do a dove hurt, I know,—and a tingling, Latent with bli...

.............. 19 THE OLIVE BRANCH .................................................................................................................. 20 SONG .............................................................................................................................................. 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ..............................................

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Rewards and Fairies

By: Rudyard Kipling

............................................................... 36 A Truthful Song ......................................................................... ...........................................................................73 Song of the Men’s Side ....................................................... ......................................................................... 131 Song of the Red War-Boat ..................................................... ..........................................................147 An Astrologer’s Song ......................................................................... ... they halted just like cattle, and let the sun warm their backs while they listened to the flies in the wood. ‘Little Lindens is awake,’ said Una, as ... ...o hang ‘em when they re-enter her realms. (Hm, that’s as may be.) Here’s a list of burnt shipping slipped between two vows of burning adoration. Oh, p... ...ow we come to the Spaniard in his shirt!’ (She waved the letter merrily.) ‘Listen here! Philip will prepare for Gloriana a destruction from the West—a... ... great responsibility—particularly with that old cat Amoore looking at the lists over your shoulder. And such a shocking thing happened last summer! P... ... toy trumpets. So I slipped into the hollow, and choked down my cough, and listened. Rene had never shown me any of these trumpets.’ ‘T rumpets? Aren’...

.... 35 THE WRONG THING................................................................................................................... 36 A Truthful Song ........................................................................................................................................................... 36 The Wrong Thing ................................................

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...s 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 period ... ...ol cannot half so well help himself—but soft, whom have we here?” he said, listening to the trampling of several horses which became then audible. “Ne... ... so?—Prior, your collar is in danger; I will wear it over my gorget in the lists of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.” “Win it fairly,” said the Prior, “and wear it... ... have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowa... ...ring from that fatal land! I too might ask—I too might enquire—I too might listen with a beating heart to fables which the wily strollers devise to ch... ...d to =none=,” said the Pilgrim, who had stood near enough to hear, and had listened to this conversation with marked impatience. All turned toward the... ... fluttering in the moonbeams, and from which could be heard the hum of the song with which the sentinels were beguiling their night-watch. Here the th... ...unable to carry the air so high as his worshipful taste approved. When the song was ended, the anchorite emphatically declared it a good one, and well... ...ched the harp, and entertained his guest with the following characteristic song, to a sort of derry-down chorus, appropriate to an old English ditty.*...

...vil 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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Ballads

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents ... ..............60 CHRISTMAS AT SEA .................................................................................64 Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson ... ... and village, and river, and vale, and mountain above, Each had a name in the land for men to remember and love; And never the name of a place, but lo... ... of trees, In the icy stream of the rivers he waded over the knees; And still in his empty mind crowded, a thousand-fold, The deeds of the strong and ... ...two, I have collected singular al- though imperfect legends, which I hope soon to lay before the public in another place. Of Ahupu, except in snatches... ...length she came, To men who were foes to the Tevas and hated their race and name. There was she well received, and spoke with Hiopa the king.** And Hi... ...an his lunatic rounds, and howled for the flesh of men; All day long he ate not, nor ever drank of the brook; And all day long in their houses the peo... ...hy as a cat, with never a change of face, Taheia slips to the door, like one that would breathe a space; Saunters and pauses, and looks at the stars, ...

...Contents THE SONG OF RAHERO ............................................................................4 I. THE SLAYING OF TAMATEA .............................................................................................................

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Gambara

By: Honoré de Balzac

... gems, that pil- grim seated at the gate of Paradise with ears to hear the songs of the angels but no longer a tongue to repeat them, playing on the i... ...ation, believing that he is expressing ce- lestial music to his bewildered listeners. It was you who created Gambara; I have only clothed him. Let me ... ...ount. “This one,” said he, “is a poor composer who would like to rise from song-writing to opera, and cannot. He blames the managers, music-sellers,—e... ...eing that on the en- trance of the musician’s wife the Count had ceased to listen to him. On seeing Andrea here, Signora Marianna started visibly and ... ...ian,” he went on, with an air of diffidence. “I owe it solely to my little songs in vaudevilles, and the success of my dance music in drawing-rooms; b... ... the musical regeneration of which he believed himself to be the Messiah. “Listen,” said he, “you who so far have not insulted me. I will tell you the... ...t had been seeking that of the fair Marianna, fixing his eyes on her while listening to Gambara. “I was born at Cremona, the son of an instrument make... ...nts and of the human voice, wherein they differed and how they harmonized, listening to the score and apply- ing the rules taught me by my father. “It... ...er forget her! What fireworks of triumph! what a rush of glad and rippling song go up from the two young voices (first and second soprano) of Ayesha a...

...ou tossed to my pen a figure worthy of Hoffmann,--that casket of unrecognized gems, that pilgrim seated at the gate of Paradise with ears to hear the songs of the angels but no longer a tongue to repeat them, playing on the ivory keys with fingers crippled by the stress of divine inspiration, believing that he is expressing celestial music to his bewildered listeners....

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Pirates of Penzance, The

By: W. S. Gilbert ; Arthur Sullivan

...rg/people_public.php?peopleid=77 JemmaBlythe Sergeant of Police: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=5719 John Fricker Chorus: <ul style=list-style: none; <li> https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=66 Alex Foster </li> <li> https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=4323 BookAngel7 </li> <li> https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=83...

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Sylvie and Bruno

By: Lewis Carroll

...d that they were shouting for different things, but the Chancellor would not listen to my suggestion for a moment. “They all shout the same words, I a... ...ess myself.” “And what kind of weather does that produce?” said the Warden. “Listen, children! Now you’ll hear something worth knowing!” “Horizontal w... ...dance 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 always, ... ...t ef fort, and pointed to the open window. “If your High Excel lency will listen for a moment to the shouts of the exasper ated populace—” (“of th... ...ng to the window, from which he shortly returned with an air of relief. “Now listen!” he exclaimed, holding up his hand impressively. And now the word... ...u thought you saw—he thought he saw—” and then it sud denly went off into a song:— “He thought he saw an Elephant, That practised on a fife: ... ...med to close in upon us and through the darkness harshly rang a strange wild song:— He thought he saw a Buffalo Upon the chimney piece: He... ...nd Bruno less natural that he should show it by such wild dances, such crazy songs! “He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Gr... ...eard him mutter, glancing savagely at Sylvie and Bruno, who were courteously listening to the Gardener’s song, “there would be no diffi culty whateve...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

.................................................................... 4 Puck’s Song ......................................................................... .................................................................... 4 A Tree Song ......................................................................... ............................................................ 21 Sir Richard’s Song ......................................................................... ..................................................................... 37 Harp Song of the Dane Women........................................................ ...than ever reminded her of ‘Sir Isumbras at the Ford’. They settled down to listen, Sir Richard bare-headed to the sunshine, dandling the sword in both... ...he Sword sang loud and angrily, so that the rowers leaned on their oars to listen. Here they all spoke together, screaming like gulls, and a Yellow Ma... ...t darkness. Y es; I think it was the silence we most feared.’ He paused to listen to the comfortable home noises of the brook. ‘When we had lost count... ... Waters settled our fates for each of us, maiden.’ He rose to his feet and listened, leaning on the shield-rim. 79 Rudyard Kipling ‘I think that’s Da... ...lt. Go back further still.” He went back to the time of Diocletian; and to listen to him you would have thought Eternal Rome herself was on the edge o...

............................................................................................................................................... 4 Puck?s Song ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 A Tree Song .......

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Annotations on Old Malayalam Film Songs

By: Ved from Victoria Institutions

...Old Malayalam film songs are wonderful. Most of them lend a most mesmerising sensation to the hearer. The style and tone has been set and led by Vayalar Ramavarma. Such others as P Bhaskaran, Sree Kumaran Thampi, and others have more or less tr...

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Barrackroom Ballads

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ication Dedication Dedication To T. A. I have made for you a song, And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me ... ...mmed a gander in your bloomin’ ‘aversack, You will understand this little song o’ mine. But the service rules are ‘ard, an’ from such we are debarred... ...pade the beggars under Why lootin’ should be entered as a crime; So if my song you’ll ‘ear, I will learn you plain an’ clear 26 Barrack-Room Ballads ... ...elts, belts, an’ that’s done for you!” O buckle an’ tongue Was the song that we sung From Harrison’s down to the Park! There was a row in ... ... But it runs as fast as troop-trains, and we cannot get away; An’ the sick-list to the Colonel makes ten more to-day. There ain’t no fun in women nor ... ...t the Captain ‘ad ‘is jacket, an’ the jacket it was new — (‘Orse Gunners, listen to my song!) An’ the wettin’ of the jacket is the proper thing to do... ... Captain saw the shrapnel, which is six-an’-thirty clear. (‘Orse Gunners, listen to my song!) “Will you draw the weight,” sez ‘e, “or will you draw t... ...ked: So we fired economic with the shells we ‘ad in ‘and, (‘Orse Gunners, listen to my song!) 90 Barrack-Room Ballads But the beggars under cover ‘a... ...imbered up an’ galloped — there were nothin’ else to do — (‘Orse Gunners, listen to my song!) An’ the Battery came a-boundin’ like a boundin’ kangaro...

...Excerpt: I have made for you a song, And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it?s true; I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain, And, Thomas, here?s my best respects to you!...

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A Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...................................................................................................................... 16 Marching Song .................... ... nurse, the little book you hold! And grant it, Heaven, that all who read May find as dear a nurse at need, And every child who lists my rhyme, In the... ... me packed into bed; But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes, And the stars going round in my head. XXII Marching Song Bring the comb an... ... I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the grass— O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the differ... ...push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all— O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! O you that are s... ...ast of field and tree, Or just a stronger child than me? O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! 18 Robert Louis...

............................................................................................................................................ 16 Marching Song ............................................................................................................................................................. 16 The Cow.......................................................

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The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... Complaint of Ninathóma: From the same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Songs of the Pixies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Rose -... ...an Infant . . . 107 To the Rev. W. J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Pity... ... CONCLUSION TO PART II . . . . . . . . . 222 Lines to W. L. while he sang a Song to Purcell’s Music . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Fire, Famine, and Slau... ...in the Hartz Forest - iv - . . . . . . . . 289 The British Stripling’s War-Song. Imitated from Stolberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290... ...rapture and his bosom glows. With generous joy he views th’ ideal gold: He listens to many a Widow’s prayers, And many an Orphan’s thanks he hears;... ... Thy native cot she held to view, Thy native cot, where Peace ere long Had listen’d to thy evening song; Thy sister’s shrieks she bade thee hear, ... ... eye! Who lovest with limbs supine to lie; Soother sweet of toil and care Listen, listen to my prayer; And to thy votary dispense Thy soporific i... ...lt and wonder’d at the tale! Dear haunts! where oft my simple lays I sang, Listening meanwhile the echoings of my feet, Lingering I quit you, with ... ...ourse, she chains my speed, While thus her forceful words proceed: — ‘‘Ah! listen, Youth, ere yet too late, What evils on thy course may wait! To ...

...Excerpt: Easter Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divi...

...h Fielding?s ??Amelia??, 50 -- Written After a Walk Before Supper, 51 -- Imitated from Ossian, 52 -- The Complaint of Ninath¢ma: From the same, 53 -- Songs of the Pixies, 54 -- The Rose, 57...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

..................................................................... 166 THE SONG OF ATLI ................................................................. ...the latter part of this century has it been studied, and in the brief book-list at the end of this volume may be seen the little that has been done as... ...as a word-hoard to the En- glish-speaking peoples, and that in its legend, song, and story there is a very mine of noble and pleasant beauty and high ... ...ragi is famous for wisdom, and best in tongue-wit, and cunning speech, and song-craft. ‘And many other are there, good and great; and one, Loki, fair ... ...brought upon her, and as European attention had been drawn to her, she was listened to. Newspapers, periodi- cals, and a Useful Knowledge Society were... ...pulsive, quick to quarrel or to love, faithful, brave; ready with sword or song to battle with all comers, or to seek adventure whereso- ever it might... ... household, gathered together at their spinning, weaving, and so on, would listen to one of their 20 The V olsunga Saga number who told anew some old... ...eful. All sagas that have yet appeared in English may be found in the book-list at end of this volume, but they are not a tithe of those that remain. ... ...V olsunga Saga BONDMAID: Go out, Sigrun From Sevafell, If thou listest to look on The lord of thy people! For the mound is uncovered...

....... 161 THE SECOND OR ANCIENT LAY OF GUDRUN ................................................................................................ 166 THE SONG OF ATLI ............................................................................................................................................... 176 THE WHETTING OF GUDRUN ............................................

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Underwoods

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

.................................................................... 8 II – A SONG OF THE ROAD ............................................................. ...sing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore! II – A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger pl... ...outh now flees on feathered foot Faint and fainter sounds the flute, Rarer songs of gods; and still Somewhere on the sunny hill, Or along the winding ... ...ve The hum of city cabs that sought the Bois, Suburban ashes shivered into song. A patter and a chatter and a chirp And a long dying hiss – it was as ... ... your fortune lead Forever by the crooks of Tweed, Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The... ... so fallen earth, alas! too late, Alas! in evil days, thy steps return, To list at noon for nightingales, to grow 20 Underwoods A dweller on the beac... ...in vain So is pain cheered, death comforted; the house Of sorrow smiles to listen. Once again – O thou, Orpheus and Heracles, the bard And the deliver... ...ere on palace walls I hung While that Consuelo sung; But I heard, though I listened well, Never a note, never a trill, Never a beat of the chiming bel...

...VOY ........................................................................................................................................ 8 II ? A SONG OF THE ROAD .......................................................................................................... 8 III ? THE CANOE SPEAKS ...............................................................................

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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

................................................................... 24 Poem: Song In The Songless ......................................................... ...ft Strung to barb with archer’s craft, Legs like plaited lyre-chords, feet Songs to see, past pitch of sweet. Fearful swiftness they outrun, Shaggy wi... ... the flowers are various, he has choice. Perchance his wound is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he,... ...his wound is deep; she listens long; Enjoys what music fills the plaintive song; And marks how he, who would be hawk at poise Above the bird, his plai... ...And marks how he, who would be hawk at poise Above the bird, his plaintive song enjoys. She reads him when his humbled manhood weeps T o her invoked: ... ... sought, Of all the Gods to let her secret fly, Hermes, after the thirteen songful months! Prompting the Dexterous to work his arts, 21 George Meredi... ... an appetite, By plunging, whizzing, till his wings Are webbed, and in the lists he swings, A shrouded lump, for her to see Her banquet in her victory... ...e done; the web had vanished quite; With it the strange opposing pair; And listless waved on vacant air, For her adieu to heart’s content, A solitary ... ... the settled peace desired By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired. I listen at their breasts: is there no jar Of wrestlings and of stranglings, ...

... 22 Poem: The Hueless Love ................................................................................................................. 24 Poem: Song In The Songless .......................................................................................................... 25 Poem: Union In Disseverance .....................................................................

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The First Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...ngst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song. Helpe then, ô holy Virgin chiefe of nine, Thy weaker Nouice to perf... ...sweete harmony, Which therein shrouded from the tempest dred, Seemd in their song to scorne the cruell sky. Much can they prayse the trees so straight... ...y howre Hath now made thrall to your commandement, Before that angry heauens list to lowre, And fortune false betraide me to your powre, Was, (O what ... ...armes and magicke to haue wondrous might, Ne euer wont in field, ne in round lists to fight. And said, Why Archimago, lucklesse syre, What doe I see? ... ...eir fury to refraine, And if that either to that shield had right, In equall lists they should the morrow next it fight. Ah dearest Dame, (quoth then ... ...seemd in sight, Before that shield did fade, and suddeine fall: And when him list the raskall routes appall, Men into stones therewith he could transm... ... could transmew, And stones to dust, and dust to nought at all; And when him list the prouder lookes subdew, He would them gazing blind, or turne to o... ...ong Cannot describe, nor wit of man can tell; Too high a ditty for my simple song; The Citie of the great king hight it well, Wherein eternall peace a... ...ling notes to play, To driue away the dull Melancholy; The whiles one sung a song of loue and iollity. THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE 161 Durin...

...lence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song....

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The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

................................................................... 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ..................................................... ..................................................................... 24 Road-Song of the Bandar-Log ....................................................... ................................................................. 50 Mowgli’s Song.......................................................................... .................................................................. 126 Parade Song of the Camp Animals ..................................................... ...low in the thickets. I might have saved my- self the message.” Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard ... ...I right?” “Good! Good!” said the young wolves, who are 12 always hungry. “Listen to Bagheera. The cub can be bought for a price. It is the Law.” “Kno... ... sorrow, for, wolflike, the wolves had never told him how they hated him. “Listen you!” he cried. “There is no need for this dog’s jabber. Ye have tol... ...her and I.” “Come soon,” said Mother Wolf, “little naked son of mine. For, listen, child of man, I loved thee more than ever I loved my cubs.” “I will... ...heard by pulling at Bagheera’s shoulder fur and kicking hard. When the two listened to him he was shouting at the top of his voice, “And so I shall ha...

.............................................................................................................................................. 4 Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack ............................................................................................................................ 23 Kaa?s Hunting .............................................................

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

... by an angel, bearing souls to Purga- tory.—Their landing.—Casella and his song.—Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................ ...nce yours I am, and here let Calliope somewhat mount up, ac- companying my song with that sound of which the wretched Picae felt the stroke such that ... ...the 1 The nine daughters of Pieros, king of Emathia, who, con- tending in song with the Muses, were for their presumption changed to magpies. 2 By “... ... long beard and mingled with white hair, like his locks, of which a double list fell upon his breast. The rays of the four holy stars so adorned his f... ...ed by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.—Their landing.—Casella and his song.—Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. NOW HAD THE SUN reached the h... ...he time passes, and the man observes it not: for one faculty is that which listens, and another is that which keeps the soul entire; the latter is as ... ...ey come to pray thee,” said the Poet; “wherefore still go on, and in going listen.” “O soul,” they came crying, “that goest to be happy with those lim... ...from behind, and at his side one brings himself to mind. He does not stop; listens to one and the other the man to whom he reaches forth his hand pres... ...d be satisfied,—here among the dead, since I did it not among the living.” Listening, I bent down my face; and one of them, not he who was speaking, t...

......... 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of a boat, guided by an angel, bearing souls to Purgatory.? Their landing.?Casella and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.?Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.? Manfred. ............. 13 CANTO IV. Ante-Purgatory.?Ascen...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...ow’d Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ AONIAN Mou... ...e bright Image nightly by the Moon 440 SIDONIAN Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In SION also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensi... ...mplain that Fate 550 Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance. Thir song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when Spirits immo... ...he thronging audience. In discourse more sweet 555 (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense,) Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d, In though... ...ide CERBEREAN mouths full loud, and rung 655 A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturb’d thir noyse, into her woomb, - 3... ...rly conceiv’d And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when they list into the womb That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw My ... ...t to reach The Organs of her Fancie, and with them forge Illusions as he list, Phantasms and Dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint Th... ...ions harmonie Divine 625 So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear Listens delighted. Eevning approachd (For we have also our Eevning and ... ... don against the most High, Thee once to gaine Companion of his woe. But list’n not to his Temptations, warne Thy weaker; let it profit thee to ...

...se out of CHAOS: Or if SION Hill Delight thee more, and SILOA?S Brook that flow?d Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th? AONIAN Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th? upright heart and pure, In...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...it to protect every liv­ ing thing, even the huge black beetle that scared him. Listening to his grandfather, he wondered how anyone could protect a... ...e had taken on too much, which ulti­ mately cost him his relationship with River Song. At the time, Dr. River 'Ray' Song had been the Director of the... ...g brave." 'Richard's grandfather was only one-quarter Suquamish Indian, but to listen to him he was a full blooded Chief. Richard's father, who had... ...hought Richard Hawk had was to take the mysterious artifact to Dr. River 'Ray' Song. It was the perfect excuse to see her again. PUGET SOUND, WASH... ...n he arrived, just as he had planned. From the moment he decided to show River Song his mysterious find, he couldn't get her out I. Johnathan Cros... ...gh the air. He closed his eyes for an instant, inhaled deeply and smiled. River Song was standing with her back toward him; her black-dyed, deerskin... ..." "You will give them to the world." "I told you, I am no one, and no one will listen to me. I have no platform from which to speak." "You will ma... ...y?" Richard asked with a feeling of foreboding. Seattle cocked his head, as if listening to unseen voices, "In seven days I will send you a warrior... ...rby clock. Motionless, they waited for their eyes to adjust to the darkness and listened for any unusual sound. Seconds passed, but they still could...

...fact he believes has spiritual significance. He takes his disovery to the one person he knows who might identify it: a beautiful shamness names River Song, who once headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and shared a past with Hawk. River Song is less than excited to see him again, but reluctantly agrees to take a look at his artifact. She believes it is a partial piece of a...

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A Book of Nightmares : Additional Details in a Continuing Study

By: Neil Azevedo

...be as a means of escapism, and all by unpunctuated expertly crafted emotionally evocative (and) beautiful sequences of words. It's akin to poetry, or song lyrics at times. Words are used rather like musical notes, arranged in a sensitive, sometimes aggressive ways, constructing and deconstructing, effectively facilitating your own unique 'nightmare reading' of this story. ...

...ng This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower —Percy Bysshe Shelley ​ it is dark all around listen I say can you hear that she is gone I hear Firefly move uncomfortably in his bed across the room no he says that’s the sound of knives I cannot say he doesn’t hear that it’s not what I hear  Firefly is sleeping that...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ...erstein stood out. Jordi showed a dogged ability to track down obscure 1950s songs that was almost scary. Addi- tional thanks go to Jennifer Ma, Tolu ... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ...that the final arbiter of cul- ture should be the people who watch, read, and listen to it, and who remake it every day. And even if you are dubious ab... ...s of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to the people who actually read, or listen to, or watch the stuff. This is our cultural policy and it is driv... ..., musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the world— and make a living doing so if their work finds favor. ... ...g differences be- tween the three fields I have described. Should we not just list the specific rights about which we are speaking—copyright, patent, or... ... culture. No one is reprinting the books, screening the films, or playing the songs. No one is allowed to. In fact, we may not even know who holds the ... ...hen comes the Internet. Right now, you can search for those books or films or songs and have the location of the work instantly displayed, as well as a...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

.................................................................145 GALLIO’S SONG ......................................................................... ............................................................. 167 THE RABBI’S SONG ......................................................................... ...ere, she assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and,... ...in three generations’ experience, but for the present sitting out, bent to listen to her flushed and eager grandchild. “I must look!” Sophie tiptoed t... ...ent were more amazing than anything in the record. There- fore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shonts. “But why—why—why—did So-and-... ...-room’s couch (it was Empire, not Heppelwhite after all), and laid aside a list of linen and blankets. “It has changed everything, hasn’t it?” she whi... ...s, to show her little airs and graces, and struck up her usual whiney sing-song before slumber. The stranger-dog softly edged toward me. I put out my ... ...ce. What will he do when he goes to the Hills? The doctor’s put him on the list.” It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids fro... ...r. “Not by a whole comb,” cried the young bee who had broken the cluster. “Listen here! I’ve studied the question more than twenty minutes. It’s as si...

............................................................................................................................................145 GALLIO?S SONG .......................................................................................................................................................... 166 THE HOUSE SURGEON ..............................................

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ght be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia’s song, — ‘It is engendered in the eyes, By reading fed—and t... ...is strength and height of his spirits, encountered young Des Lorges in the lists, re- ceived the splinter of a lance in his eye, and died two days aft... ...arls ‘Soh, Follet. I have no bread for thee, only two apples; but, Follet, listen. There’s my beau-pere the Count, and the Cheva- lier, all spite, and... ...me out to fall upon the poor Huguenots, who are doing no harm at all, only listening to a long dull sermon. And I am much afraid my father is there, f... ...n, an absorbed- looking stranger, merely said, ‘Importune me not, child.’ ‘Listen!’ said Beranger; ‘it imports—’ ‘Peace,’ was the stern answer; but a ... ...my mother takes such pains to make us speak rightly. Are we then, going?’ ‘Listen, my son. Thou hast to-day proved thyself worthy of trust, and thou s... ...mont had a trained ear, and the very voice that was wanting to the Italian song they were practising. And so sped a happy hour, till a booted and spur... ...imes be mistaken for vigour. Ere long, the merry cadence of an old English song fell with a homelike sound upon Sidney’s ear, and in another moment th... ...the poor King’s good-will did enable him to do his part with Sidney in the songs that endeavoured to soothe the torments of the evil spirit which had ...

...arily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost be described in Portia?s song....

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...r be responsible enough, and for every inch of his surface and note of his song, I track my uncontrollable footsteps, right and left, after the fact, ... ...s in the clean glass held up to so many of the “short stories” of our long list and yet after all never a whit to the prejudice of his being just as ... ...ether better literary manners of “The Ambassadors” and “The Golden Bowl”—a list I might much extend by the mention of several shorter pieces. Inevitab... ...own that these things in Charlotte Stant now affected him; items in a full list, items recognised, each of them, as if, for the long interval, they ha... ... of water which looked so cold and uncomfortable to the non amphibious. He listened to his companion to night, while he smoked his last pipe, he watch... ...ed. The echo, not loud but deep, filled for a little the room. He seemed to listen to it die away; then he began again. “How are you sure?” Book I, Ch... ...ing but respectfully occupied, he let his native gaiety go in outbreaks of song, or even of quite whimsical senseless sound, either expressive of inti... ...e Gloucester; ‘Glo’ster Glo’ster,’ as you say, making it sound like an old song. However, I’m sure ‘Glo’ster Glo’ster’ will be charming,” she still ad... ...od deal as if she had sneezed ten times or had suddenly burst into a comic song. There were breaks in the connexion, as there would be hitches in the ...

...he picture or the chanter of the ballad (whatever we may call him) can never be responsible enough, and for every inch of his surface and note of his song, I track my uncontrollable footsteps, right and left, after the fact, while they take their quick turn, even on stealthiest tiptoe, toward the point of view that, within the compass, will give me most instead of least so...

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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare

...d happy mother Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: ‘thou single wilt pr... ...d your true rights be term’d a poet’s rage And stretched metre of an antique song: But were some child of yours alive that time, You should live t... ...o sufferance, bide each cheque, Without accusing you of injury. Be where you list, your charter is so strong That you yourself may privilege your time... ...hat which gives thee all thy might? Spend’st thou thy fury on some worthless song, Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light? Return, forgetful ... ...e like her I sometime hold my tongue, Because I would not dull you with my song. 103 Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth, That having such a sc... ... love be call’d idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so. Kind is my ...

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Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore. Vol. 6

By: Abraham Fornander

...now beílieved to be complete, and appears here for the first time in translated form. Besides this, the chants comprise eulogies, lamentations, name songs, prayers, love songs and other meles?a valuable collection rescued from oblivion....

...ory of Kahahana -- 282 -- A Lamentation for Kahahana -- 292 -- Notes on a Lamentation for Kahahana -- 299 -- On Hawaiian Rank -- 307 -- Chronological List -- 312 -- Events in Hawaiian History -- 317 -- Traditional and Genealogical Notes -- 318 -- Birthplace and Interment Localities of Celebrities -- 319 -- Hawaiian Genealogy -- 324 -- Notes on the Polynesian Calendar -- 33...

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Who Are You? : Essential Questions for Hitchhikers on the Road of Truth

By: Ph.D. John Gregory Cottone

...aphysics, Meditation & Spirituality.. 74 Chapter 6: God..108 Chapter 7: Truth..116 Appendix A: The Lost Sayings of Guru Sakshat..118 Appendix B: Song List..120 Appendix C: Notable Reflections of Others..122 Appendix D: Rides for Hitchhikers..135...

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