The
punishment
of the others then begins.
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Where is your
Husband?
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If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such
heavenly
touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For the heart of man must seek and wander, 5
Ask and
question
and discover knowledge;
Yet above all goodly things is wisdom,
And love greater than all understanding.
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Sappho |
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Oh, what has
happened?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Are they not
BRIDLED?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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What if assail they whom their souls in secrecy
cherish?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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(10)
[Note 10: _Denis Von Wisine_ (1741-92), a
favourite
Russian
dramatist.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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But in the tiny
landscapes
of the Prose Poems there is
nothing rigid or artificial.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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"
The Man who makes this feverish complaint 45
Is one of giant stature, who could dance
Equipped
from head to foot in iron mail.
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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KAU}
The
wondrous
work flow forth like visible out of the invisible
For the Divine Lamb Even Jesus who is the Divine Vision
Permitted all lest Man should fall into Eternal Death
For when Luvah sunk down himself put on the robes of blood
Lest the state calld Luvah should cease.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Then yet again
Melantho
with rude speech
Opprobrious, thus, assail'd Ulysses' ear.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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By God's truth I 've seen The arrowy
sunlight
in her golden snares.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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To
SEND
DONATIONS
or determine the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://pglaf.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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As no trace of an opening could be found, Doctor
Ponnonner
was preparing
his instruments for dissection, when I observed that it was then past
two o'clock.
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Poe - 5 |
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I will bestow a
breakfast
to make you friends; and we'll
be all three sworn brothers to France.
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Shakespeare |
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1440
But
wherefore
comes old Manoa in such hast
With youthful steps?
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Milton |
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E'en as you spoke--and gentle words were those
Spoken by you,--the silver moon uprose;
How that mysterious union of her ray,
With your impassioned accents, made its way
Straight
to my heart!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Letts_
SONG OF THE RED CROSS
O
gracious
ones, we bless your name
Upon our bended knee;
The voice of love with tongue of flame
Records your charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Songs of a Strolling Player
THROUGH the blossoms softly simmer
Drops
profound
and fair
Since the light-beams o'er them shimmer.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Perchance
she cannot meet him.
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Shakespeare |
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Lastly this, from whom
Thy look on me reverteth, was the beam
Of one, whose spirit, on high musings bent,
Rebuk'd the ling'ring
tardiness
of death.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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All
donations
should be made to "Project Gutenberg/CMU": and are
tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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THE TRANSFIGURATION
Immortal
clothing
I put on
So soon as, Julia, I am gone
To mine eternal mansion.
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Robert Herrick |
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Leon Bailby
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou notre sol brille deja
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere la terre t'eblouit
Quand tu leves la tete
Et moi aussi de pres je suis sombre et terne
Une brume qui vient d'obscurcir les lanternes
Une main qui tout a coup se pose devant les yeux
Une voute entre vous et toutes les lumieres
Et je m'eloignerai m'illuminant au milieu d'ombres
Et d'alignements d'yeux des astres bien-aimes
Oiseau tranquille au vol inverse oiseau
Qui nidifie en l'air
A la limite ou brille deja ma memoire
Baisse ta deuxieme paupiere
Ni a cause du soleil ni a cause de la terre
Mais pour ce feu oblong dont l'intensite ira s'augmentant
Au point qu'il deviendra un jour l'unique lumiere
Un jour
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Pour que je sache enfin celui-la que je suis
Moi qui connais les autres
Je les connais par les cinq sens et quelques autres
Il me suffit de voir leur pieds pour pouvoir refaire ces gens a
milliers
De voir leurs pieds paniques un seul de leurs cheveux
De voir leur langue quand il me plait de faire le medecin
Ou leurs enfants quand il me plait de faire le prophete
Les vaisseaux des armateurs la plume de mes confreres
La monnaie des aveugles les mains des muets
Ou bien encore a cause du vocabulaire et non de l'ecriture
Une lettre ecrite par ceux qui ont plus de vingt ans
Il me suffit de sentir l'odeur de leurs eglises
L'odeur des fleuves dans leurs villes
Le parfum des fleurs dans les jardins publics
O Corneille Agrippa l'odeur d'un petit chien m'eut suffi
Pour decrire exactement tes concitoyens de Cologne
Leurs rois-mages et la ribambelle ursuline
Qui t'inspirait l'erreur touchant toutes les femmes
Il me suffit de gouter la saveur de laurier qu'on cultive pour que
j'aime ou que je bafoue
Et de toucher les vetements
Pour ne pas douter si l'on est frileux ou non
O gens que je connais
Il me suffit d'entendre le bruit de leurs pas
Pour pouvoir indiquer a jamais la direction qu'ils ont prise
Il me suffit de tous ceux-la pour me croire le droit
De ressusciter les autres
Un jour je m'attendais moi-meme
Je me disais Guillaume il est temps que tu viennes
Et d'un lyrique pas s'avancaient ceux que j'aime
Parmi lesquels je n'etais pas
Les geants couverts d'algues passaient dans leurs villes
Sous-marines ou les tours seules etaient des iles
Et cette mer avec les clartes de ses profondeurs
Coulait sang de mes veines et fait battre mon coeur
Puis sur cette terre il venait mille peuplades blanches
Dont chaque homme tenait une rose a la main
Et le langage qu'ils inventaient en chemin
Je l'appris de leur bouche et je le parle encore
Le cortege passait et j'y cherchais mon corps
Tous ceux qui survenaient et n'etaient pas moi-meme
Amenaient un a un les morceaux de moi-meme
On me batit peu a peu comme on eleve une tour
Les peuples s'entassaient et je parus moi-meme
Qu'ont forme tous les corps et les choses humaines
Temps passes Trepasses Les dieux qui me formates
Je ne vis que passant ainsi que vous passates
Et detournant mes yeux de ce vide avenir
En moi-meme je vois tout le passe grandir
Rien n'est mort que ce qui n'existe pas encore
Pres du passe luisant demain est incolore
Il est informe aussi pres de ce qui parfait
Presente tout ensemble et l'effort et l'effet
MARIZIBILL
Dans la Haute-Rue a Cologne
Elle allait et venait le soir
Offerte a tous en tout mignonne
Puis buvait lasse des trottoirs
Tres tard dans les brasseries borgnes
Elle se mettait sur la paille
Pour un maquereau roux et rose
C'etait un juif il sentait l'ail
Et l'avait venant de Formose
Tiree d'un bordel de Changai
Je connais des gens de toutes sortes
Ils n'egalent pas leurs destins
Indecis comme feuilles mortes
Leurs yeux sont des feux mal eteints
Leurs coeurs bougent comme leurs portes
LE VOYAGEUR
A Fernand Fleuret
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
Tu regardais un banc de nuages descendre
Avec le paquebot orphelin vers les fievres futures
Et de tous ces regrets de tous ces repentirs
Te souviens-tu
Vagues poissons arques fleurs submarines
Une nuit c'etait la mer
Et les fleuves s'y repandaient
Je m'en souviens je m'en souviens encore
Un soir je descendis dans une auberge triste
Aupres de Luxembourg
Dans le fond de la salle il s'envolait un Christ
Quelqu'un avait un furet
Un autre un herisson
L'on jouait aux cartes
Et toi tu m'avais oublie
Te souviens-tu du long orphelinat des gares
Nous traversames des villes qui tout le jour tournaient
Et vomissaient la nuit le soleil des journees
O matelots o femmes sombres et vous mes compagnons
Souvenez-vous-en
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais parle
Le plus jeune en mourant tomba sur le cote
O vous chers compagnons
Sonneries electriques des gares chant des moissonneuses
Traineau d'un boucher regiment des rues sans nombre
Cavalerie des ponts nuits livides de l'alcool
Les villes que j'ai vues vivaient comme des folles
Te souviens-tu des banlieues et du troupeau plaintif des paysages
Les cypres projetaient sous la lune leurs ombres
J'ecoutais cette nuit au declin de l'ete
Un oiseau langoureux et toujours irrite
Et le bruit eternel d'un fleuve large et sombre
Mais tandis que mourants roulaient vers l'estuaire
Tous les regards tous les regards de tous les yeux
Les bords etaient deserts herbus silencieux
Et la montagne a l'autre rive etait tres claire
Alors sans bruit sans qu'on put voir rien de vivant
Contre le mont passerent des ombres vivaces
De profil ou soudain
tournant
leurs vagues faces
Et tenant l'ombre de leurs lances en avant
Les ombres contre le mont perpendiculaire
Grandissaient ou parfois s'abaissaient brusquement
Et ces ombres barbues pleuraient humainement
En glissant pas a pas sur la montagne claire
Qui donc reconnais-tu sur ces vieilles photographies
Te souviens-tu du jour ou une vieille abeille tomba dans le feu
C'etait tu t'en souviens a la fin de l'ete
Deux matelots qui ne s'etaient jamais quittes
L'aine portait au cou une chaine de fer
Le plus jeune mettait ses cheveux blonds en tresse
Ouvrez-moi cette porte ou je frappe en pleurant
La vie est variable aussi bien que l'Euripe
MARIE
Vous y dansiez petite fille
Y danserez-vous mere-grand
C'est la maclotte qui sautille
Toutes les cloches sonneront
Quand donc reviendrez-vous Marie
Les masques sont silencieux
Et la musique est si lointaine
Qu'elle semble venir des cieux
Oui je veux vous aimer mais vous aimer a peine
Et mon mal est delicieux
Les brebis s'en vont dans la neige
Flocons de laine et ceux d'argent
Des soldats passent et que n'ai-je
Un coeur a moi ce coeur changeant
Changeant et puis encor que sais-je
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Crepus comme mer qui moutonne
Sais-je ou s'en iront tes cheveux
Et tes mains feuilles de l'automne
Que jonchent aussi nos aveux
Je passais au bord de la Seine
Un livre ancien sous le bras
Le fleuve est pareil a ma peine
Il s'ecoule et ne tarit pas
Quand donc finira la semaine
LA BLANCHE NEIGE
Les anges les anges dans le ciel
L'un est vetu en officier
L'un est vetu en cuisinier
Et les autres chantent
Bel officier couleur du ciel
Le doux printemps longtemps apres Noel
Te medaillera d'un beau soleil
D'un beau soleil
Le cuisinier plume les oies
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Lastly those images
Which to our eyes in mirrors do appear,
In water, or in any shining surface,
Must be, since
furnished
with like look of things,
Fashioned from images of things sent out.
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Lucretius |
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Terrestrial Heav'n, danc't round by other Heav'ns
That shine, yet bear thir bright officious Lamps,
Light above Light, for thee alone, as seems,
In thee concentring all thir precious beams
Of sacred influence: As God in Heav'n
Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou
Centring receav'st from all those Orbs; in thee,
Not in themselves, all thir known vertue appeers 110
Productive in Herb, Plant, and nobler birth
Of
Creatures
animate with gradual life
Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summ'd up in Man.
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Milton |
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Far be he banish'd from this stately scene
Who wrongs his
princess
with a thought so mean.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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We have emptied the bunkers in open sea,
Their
shrapnel
bursts where our coal should be.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ye who have yearn'd 830
With too much passion, will here stay and pity,
For the mere sake of truth; as 'tis a ditty
Not of these days, but long ago 'twas told
By a cavern wind unto a forest old;
And then the forest told it in a dream
To a sleeping lake, whose cool and level gleam
A poet caught as he was journeying
To Phoebus' shrine; and in it he did fling
His weary limbs, bathing an hour's space,
And after,
straight
in that inspired place 840
He sang the story up into the air,
Giving it universal freedom.
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Keats |
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These, with a courteous welcome, led the knight
To this sweet
Paradise
of soft delight.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Nor could I go
burdened
with grief, but made merry
Till I came to the gate of that overgrown ground
Where scarce once a year sees the priest come to bury.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Oh soon, and better so than later
After long
disgrace
and scorn,
You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Imagists |
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_Willyart-glower_, a
bewildered
dismayed stare.
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Robert Burns |
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His wrath came on us to the uttermost,
His
covenanted
and most righteous wrath.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XXXIII
Then groning deepe, Nor damned Ghost, (quoth he,)
Nor
guileful
sprite to thee these wordes doth speake, 290
But once a man Fradubio,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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His
inaccessible
heart is opposed to love:
Let's find a weaker spot that he might be moved.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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This is a digital copy of a book that was
preserved
for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
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Meredith - Poems |
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See how it totters- the world's orbed might,
Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault profound,
All, see,
enraptured
of the coming time!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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She was thinking of all this
and a great deal more when the door of her apartment
suddenly
opened,
and Herman stood before her.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"
This speech was heard by few with approbation, and many proclaimed
their dissent; "for, that neither was that the point in debate, nor was
Caecina
considerable
enough to censure so weighty an affair.
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Tacitus |
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Again, since battle so
fiercely
one with other
The four most mighty members the world,
Aroused in an all unholy war,
Seest not that there may be for them an end
Of the long strife?
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Lucretius |
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| Transcriber's Notes |
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| Page 10: torse _sic_ |
| Page 11: lower case amended to title case ("your
shoulders
|
| are level" amended to "Your shoulders are level").
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In
Chronicles
of Franks is written down,
What vassalage he had, our Emperour.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The shutters were drawn and the
undertaker
wiped his feet--
He was aware that this sort of thing had occurred before.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Enter QUEEN
MARGARET
and the PRINCE OF WALES
EXETER.
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Shakespeare |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Here lawns and shades by breezy
rivulets
fann'd,
Here all the Seasons revel hand in hand.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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And O dear what shall I do,
When nobody
whispers
to marry me--
Nobody cometh to woo?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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When they left the moon was high, and they walked along the road
singing and
shouting
together.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Like Jove's locks awry,
Long muscadines
Rich-wreathe the
spacious
foreheads of great pines,
And breathe ambrosial passion from their vines.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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What will you find out there that is not torn and
anguished?
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Why be angered if the door
Repulses fifty suing maids
Who vainly there
implore?
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Hugo - Poems |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The magicians pass them from father to son and keep them imprisoned in a box where they are invisible, ready to fly out in a swarm and torment thieves, sounding out magic words, so they
themselves
are immortal.
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Appoloinaire |
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Hector
consults within himself what measures to take; but at the advance of
Achilles, his
resolution
fails him, and he flies.
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Iliad - Pope |
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The diuell
himselfe
could not pronounce a Title
More hatefull to mine eare
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Sordebant
tibi uillicae,
concubine, hodie atque heri.
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Latin - Catullus |
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In
thieving
thou art skill'd and giving answers;
For thy answers and thy thieving I'll reward thee
With a house upon the windy plain constructed
Of two pillars high, surmounted by a cross-beam.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Here,
regarding
the palace, and a testimony of the love that the King of England possessed for his mistress, is this quatrain from a poem whose Author I do not know.
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Appoloinaire |
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I give thee, sir, the gold-hemmed girdle as a token of thy
adventure
at the Green Chapel.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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For the first time the sun
kissed my own naked face and my soul was
inflamed
with love for
the sun, and I wanted my masks no more.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yet mark their mirth--ere lenten days begin,
That penance which their holy rites prepare
To shrive from man his weight of mortal sin,
By daily abstinence and nightly prayer;
But ere his sackcloth garb Repentance wear,
Some days of
joyaunce
are decreed to all,
To take of pleasaunce each his secret share,
In motley robe to dance at masking ball,
And join the mimic train of merry Carnival.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Accordingly the senate decided that a
commission
must be sent to the
army in Germany.
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Tacitus |
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cum penitus maestas exedit cura
medullas!
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Latin - Catullus |
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CANTO XXV
If e'er the sacred poem that hath made
Both heav'n and earth copartners in its toil,
And with lean abstinence, through many a year,
Faded my brow, be destin'd to prevail
Over the cruelty, which bars me forth
Of the fair sheep-fold, where a sleeping lamb
The wolves set on and fain had worried me,
With other voice and fleece of other grain
I shall forthwith return, and, standing up
At my baptismal font, shall claim the wreath
Due to the poet's temples: for I there
First enter'd on the faith which maketh souls
Acceptable to God: and, for its sake,
Peter had then circled my
forehead
thus.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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[Illustration:
Minspysia
Deliciosa.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Translators
have obviously used Zottoli as a text.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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' the genius, of John Sheffield (1649-1720), Duke of Buckingham
(not to be
confounded
with Dryden's enemy).
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Alexander Pope |
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You who
consoled
me in funereal night,
Bring me Posilipo, the sea of Italy,
The flower that pleased my grieving heart,
And the trellis where the vine entwines the rose.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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What evil flame stifled in my heart
appears?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Howsoe'er,
I let my
business
wait upon their sport.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Why be angered if the door
Repulses fifty suing maids
Who vainly there
implore?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320
Consider
Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Tao and Tang were the fiefs of Yao, hence
referring
to that sage-king.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Or if he left his arrows sharp
And came a
minstrel
weary,
I'd never tell him by his harp
Nor know him for my dearie.
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Sara Teasdale |
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In
about two years it becomes
necessary
to shred the branches of the
pines, to give light and air to the oaks, and in about two or three
more years to begin gradually to remove the pines altogether, taking
out a certain number each year, so that, at the end of twenty or
twenty-five years, not a single Scotch pine shall be left; although,
for the first ten or twelve years, the plantation may have appeared to
contain nothing else but pine.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But far within
And in thir own dimensions like themselves
The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim
In close recess and secret conclave sat
A thousand Demy-Gods on golden seat's,
Frequent
and full.
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Milton |
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_Au
departir
la porte baise_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Naroumov invited Herman
to accompany him to the club, and the young man
accepted
the invitation
only too willingly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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's poem is
presumably
by him also.
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John Donne |
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Calcine ces
lambeaux
qu'ont epargnes les betes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Unauthenticated
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Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM 342 ?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Messire Belzebuth tire par la cravate
Ses petits pantins noirs
grimacant
sur le ciel,
Et, leur claquant au front un revers de savate,
Les fait danser, danser aux sons d'un vieux Noel!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with
barnacles
on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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or entity
providing
it to you may choose to give you a second
opportunity to receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.
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Wilde - Poems |
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" said she, "we ne'er can be
Made happy by
compulsion!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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So the Morning flung her cloak
Through the hanging pall of smoke--
Trimmed with red, it was, and
dripping
with a deep and angry stain!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Stephen Crane |
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[35] Huai-nan is
associated
with laurel-branches, owing to a famous
poem by the King of Huai-nan.
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Li Po |
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The sultan lord knew not her name;
But to the door that fair shape came:
The hour had struck, the way was right,
Traced by her lamp's pale,
flickering
light.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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I touch this flower of silken leaf,
Which once our
childhood
knew;
Its soft leaves wound me with a grief
Whose balsam never grew.
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Emerson - Poems |
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