But now he half-raises his deep-sunken eye,
And the motion
unsettles
a tear;
The silence of sorrow it seems to supply,
And asks of me why I am here.
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Could all our care elude the gloomy grave,
Which claims no less the fearful and the brave,
For lust of fame I should not vainly dare
In
fighting
fields, nor urge thy soul to war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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TEMPORE
SENECTUTIS
OR we are old
And the earth passion dieth;
We have watched him die a thousand times, When he wanes an old wind crieth,
For we are old
And passion hath died for us a thousand times
But we grew never weary.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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But soon their trailing purple was not free
Of this world's dust, their lutes did silent grow,
And I myself grew faint and blind below
Their
vanishing
eyes.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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), though that was not the verdict
of�the
court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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XXVI
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
In all her vast dimensions, all her might,
Her length and breadth, and all her depth and height
Needs no line or lead, compass or measure:
He only need draw a circle, at his leisure,
Round all that Ocean in his arms holds tight,
Be it where Sirius scorches with his light,
Or where the northerlies blow cold forever.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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_Song_
Mary, leave thy lowly cot
When thy thickest jobs are done;
When thy friends will miss thee not,
Mary, to the
pastures
run.
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John Clare |
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In all your music, our
pathetic
minor
Your ears shall cross;
And all good gifts shall mind you of diviner,
With sense of loss.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A
CONFIDANT
WITHOUT KNOWING IT;
OR
THE STRATAGEM
NO master sage, nor orator I know,
Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;
His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles,
Engaging looks, soft tears, and winning wiles.
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La Fontaine |
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I have seen thy heart to-day,
Never open to the crowd,
While to love me aye and aye
Was the vow as it was vowed
By thine eyes of
steadfast
grey.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Under the
penitential
gates
Sustained by staring Seraphim
Where the souls of the devout
Burn invisible and dim.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Let us stay
Rather on earth, Beloved,--where the unfit
Contrarious
moods of men recoil away
And isolate pure spirits, and permit
A place to stand and love in for a day,
With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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(beorhtre bōte) wēnan (_to expect, count
on, a
brilliant_
[?
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Beowulf |
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Quite
suddenly
there showed across the door,
Three heads which all a festive aspect wore.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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For like great wings forcefully smiting air
And driving it along in rushing rivers,
Desire of joy beats mightily pulsing forward
The world's one nature, and all the loose lives therein,
Carried and greatly streaming on a gale
Of craving, swept fiercely along in beauty;--
Like a great weather of wind and shining sun,
When the airs pick up whole huge waves of sea,
Crumble them in their grasp and high aloft
Sow them glittering, a white watery dust,
To company with light: so we are driven
Onward and upward in a wind of beauty,
Until man's race be wielded by its joy
Into some high
incomparable
day,
Where perfectly delight may know itself,--
No longer need a strife to know itself,
Only by its prevailing over pain.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Vladimir Lenski was his name,
From Gottingen inspired he came,
A worshipper of Kant, a bard,
A young and
handsome
galliard.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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LIX
O
wretched
maids!
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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)
Glockenklang
und Chorgesang.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I showed my letter to Marya Ivanofna, who found it so
convincing and touching that she had no doubt of success, and gave
herself up to the feelings of her heart with all the
confidence
of youth
and love.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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They hang us now in Shrewsbury jail:
The
whistles
blow forlorn,
And trains all night groan on the rail
To men that die at morn.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The following
additional
facts are based on statements in the poet's
own works.
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Li Po |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And while thy willing soul
transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"
LXXIII
The sun on the tide, the peach on the bough,
The blue smoke over the hill,
And the shadows
trailing
the valley-side,
Make up the autumn day.
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Sappho |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Ynn the treed forreste doe the
knyghtes
appere;
Wyllyamm wythe myghte hys bowe enyronn'd[52] plies[53]; 50
Loude dynns[54] the arrowe ynn the wolfynn's eare;
Hee ryseth battent[55] roares, he panctes, hee dyes.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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He
welcomed
us as night?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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In a sweat he arose; and the storm
shrieked
shrill,
And smote as in savage joy;
While High-Stoy trees twanged to Bubb-Down Hill,
And Bubb-Down to High-Stoy.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Lucretius |
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ORESTES
Brief my command: I bid my sister pass
In silence to the house, and all I bid
This my design with
wariness
conceal,
That they who did by craft a chieftain slay
May by like craft and in like noose be ta'en
Dying the death which Loxias foretold--
Apollo, king and prophet undisproved.
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Aeschylus |
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It's
beautiful
eyes hidden by veils,
It's broad day quivering at noon,
It's the blue disorder of clear stars
In an autumn, cool, with no moon!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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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 pleasure grows, then comes a sudden jangling,
Then rapture, then
distress
an arrow plants,
And ere one dreams of it, lo!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"Young Trade is dead,
And swart Work sullen sits in the
hillside
fern
And folds his arms that find no bread to earn,
And bows his head.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Tchekalinsky
frowned for a second only,
then his smile returned.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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similar
language
about the dragon at l.
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Beowulf |
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And now Telemachus, the first of all,
Observed Eumaeus
entering
in the hall;
Distant he saw, across the shady dome;
Then gave a sign, and beckon'd him to come:
There stood an empty seat, where late was placed,
In order due, the steward of the feast,
(Who now was busied carving round the board,)
Eumaeus took, and placed it near his lord.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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But we were
strangers
.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Black fate impends, and this the
avenging
hour!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Chvabrine is
obliging
her to become his wife.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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CXXI
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be receives reproach of being;
And the just
pleasure
lost, which is so deem'd
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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He draws,
however, a frightful
contrast
to its rural picture in the horrors of war
which here prevailed.
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Petrarch |
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At last drunkenness
overcame
the guests; Pugatchef fell asleep in his
place, and his companions rose, making me a sign to leave him.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The poem styled "Romance," constituted
the Preface of the 1829 volume, but with the addition of the following
lines:
Succeeding
years, too wild for song,
Then rolled like tropic storms along,
Where, through the garish lights that fly
Dying along the troubled sky,
Lay bare, through vistas thunder-riven,
The blackness of the general Heaven,
That very blackness yet doth Ring
Light on the lightning's silver wing.
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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A more
legitimate
curb arrests my boldness:
I cede to you, rather I return a title no less,
A sceptre your ancestors long ago received 495
From that famous mortal whom the earth conceived.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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5 The Cave of the Moon was
supposed
to be in the far west.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Rura colit nemo, mollescunt colla iuvencis,
Non humilis curvis purgatur vinea rastris,
Non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram, 41
Non glaebam prono convellit vomere taurus, 40
Squalida
desertis
rubigo infertur aratris.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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For a
thousand
reasons.
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Aristophanes |
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There, to silence the Foe,
Moving grimly and slow,
They loomed in that deadly wreath,
Where the darkest
batteries
frowned
Death in the air all round,
And the black torpedoes beneath!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Yet I feared this time that I had hurt him, Such
offended
silence long he kept:
On his hand I laid my hand in pity, Penitent, —and softly he began,
"Ah that night in May, do you remember?
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Come back then,
children!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Not yet; but your old Traitors of the Tower--
Why, when you put
Northumberland
to death,
The sentence having past upon them all,
Spared you the Duke of Suffolk, Guildford Dudley,
Ev'n that young girl who dared to wear your crown?
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Tennyson |
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He says:
"`Under the hack' is a well-known phrase among the country-people,
and is applied,
generally
in a humorous sense, to those who have been cowed
by any accident.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Red is the fire's common tint;
But when the vivid ore
Has sated flame's conditions,
Its
quivering
substance plays
Without a color but the light
Of unanointed blaze.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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And to be sure that is not false I swear,
A thousand groans, but
thinking
on thy face,
One on another's neck, do witness bear
Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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By
prolonging
the feast let us keep our hearts gay,
And leave no room for sadness to creep in.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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AUTUMN
The leaves fall, fall as from far,
Like distant gardens withered in the heavens;
They fall with slow and
lingering
descent.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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Ellison
and the PG Online Distributed
Proofreading
Team.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The fell Harpy-raven took wing from the north,
The scourge of the seas, and the dread of the shore;
The wild
Scandinavian
boar issued forth
To wanton in carnage and wallow in gore:
O'er countries and kingdoms their fury prevail'd,
No arts could appease them, no arms could repel;
But brave Caledonia in vain they assail'd,
As Largs well can witness, and Loncartie tell.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" KAU}
And Enitharmon joyd
Plotting
to rend the secret cloud
To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania
But For infinitely beautiful the wondrous work arose {Erdman notes that the word "For" has been deleted in Blake.
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Blake - Zoas |
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your
gypsying
soul
Is caught and held fast in the pipes of Pan's flute.
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Rilke - Poems |
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So, when by hollow shores the fisher-train
Sweep with their arching nets the roaring main,
And scarce the meshy toils the copious draught contain,
All naked of their element, and bare,
The fishes pant, and gasp in thinner air;
Wide o'er the sands are spread the
stiffening
prey,
Till the warm sun exhales their soul away.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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There is peace
In
homeward
waters, where at last the weary
Shall find rebirth, and their long struggle cease.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Villon
presumably
means that they were 'near cousins' in spirit.
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Villon |
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The usual attempts at stricter definition of epic than anything this
chapter contains, are either, in spite of what they try for, so vague
that they would admit almost any long stretch of narrative poetry; or
else they are based on the
accidents
or devices of epic art; and in that
case they are apt to exclude work which is essentially epic because
something inessential is lacking.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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The most remote
Most wild
untrodden
path, in all the tract
'Twixt Lerice and Turbia were to this
A ladder easy' and open of access.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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680
Thus long
succeeding
Critics justly reign'd,
Licence repress'd, and useful laws ordain'd.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and
compelled
to the chaste.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Album Leaf
All at once, as if in play,
Mademoiselle, she who moots
A wish to hear how it sounds today
The wood of my several flutes
It seems to me that this foray
Tried out here in a country place
Was better when I put them away
To look more closely at your face
Yes this vain
whistling
I suppress
In so far as I can create
Given my fingers pure distress
It lacks the means to imitate
Your very natural and clear
Childlike laughter that charms the air.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Though the fields around us wither,
There are ampler realms and spaces,
Where no foot has left its traces:
Let us turn and wander
thither!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Then, as they both had been of burning wax,
Each melted into other,
mingling
hues,
That which was either now was seen no more.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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equipment
or
software or other items, please contact Michael Hart at:
hart@pobox.
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Whitman |
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O
kindness
so ill repaid!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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Soft went the music the soft air along,
While fluent Greek a vowel'd undersong
Kept up among the guests discoursing low
At first, for scarcely was the wine at flow;
But when the happy vintage touch'd their brains,
Louder they talk, and louder come the strains
Of powerful instruments--the gorgeous dyes,
The space, the splendour of the draperies,
The roof of awful richness, nectarous cheer,
Beautiful slaves, and Lamia's self, appear,
Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human
trammels
freed,
No more so strange; for merry wine, sweet wine,
Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine.
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Keats - Lamia |
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A recluse by temperament and habit,
literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the
doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly
limited to her father's grounds, she
habitually
concealed her mind,
like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with
great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her
lifetime, three or four poems.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The Etudes
Critiques
of Edmond Scherer were collected in 1863.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Just so man's boasted strength and power
Shall fade before death's lightest stroke,
Laid lower than the meanest flower,
Whose pride oer-topt the oak;
And he who, like a blighting blast,
Dispeopled worlds with war's alarms
Shall be himself
destroyed
at last
By poor despised worms.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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She does not know
She is a
Christian
born.
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I never take care, yet I've taken great pain
To acquire some goods, but have none by me:
Who's nice to me is one I hate: it's plain,
And who speaks truth deals with me most falsely:
He's my friend who can make me believe
A white swan is the blackest crow I've known:
Who thinks he's power to help me, does me harm:
Lies, truth, to me are all one under the sun:
I
remember
all, have the wisdom of a stone,
Welcomed gladly, and spurned by everyone.
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Colorado men are we,
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
Pioneers!
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Whitman |
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Morn is supposed to be,
By people of degree,
The
breaking
of the day.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Since the lecturer has raised the
question
whether Li T'ai-po or Tu
Fu is the greater poet, I would say that the Chinese of the present
day consider Tu Fu to be the greater.
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In that fair city, round whose verdant meads
The
branching
river of Mondego[232] spreads,
Long worn with warlike toils, and bent with years,
The king reposed, when Sancho's fate he hears.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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MESSENGER
The captains of the ships that still survived
Fled in disorder, scudding down the wind,
The while our land-force on
Boeotian
soil
Fell into ruin, some beside the springs
Dropping before they drank, and some outworn,
Pursued, and panting all their life away.
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Aeschylus |
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Or if, by Jove's and thy
auxiliar
aid,
They're doom'd to bleed; O say, celestial maid!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The artisans
gathered
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Making thy waves a blessing as they flow
Through banks whose beauty would endure for ever,
Could man but leave thy bright
creation
so,
Nor its fair promise from the surface mow
With the sharp scythe of conflict,--then to see
Thy valley of sweet waters, were to know
Earth paved like Heaven; and to seem such to me
Even now what wants thy stream?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
So the
coachman
drove homeward as fast as he could,
Perceiving their anger with pain;
But they put on the kettle, and little by little
They all became happy again.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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I am he myself, arrived
After long suff'rings in the
twentieth
year!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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{and}
hys nekke is
p{re}ssid
wi?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The Seven Selves
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven
selves sat together and thus
conversed
in whisper:
First Self: Here, in this madman, I have dwelt all these years,
with naught to do but renew his pain by day and recreate his sorrow
by night.
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
compliance
with any particular paper edition.
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The
momentary
shift of my eyes had broken the clear current.
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Kipling - Poems |
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What epic
quality,
detached
from epic proper, do these poems possess, then, apart
from the mere fact that they take up a great many pages?
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Only Rome could mighty Rome resemble,
Only Rome force sacred Rome to tremble:
So Fate's command issued its decree,
No other power, however bold or wise,
Could boast of
matching
her who matched we see,
Her power with earth's, her courage with the sky's.
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To know the world, for all its grasping hands,
For all its heat to utter its pent nature
Into the souls that must go faring through it,
Availing nothing against purity,
Made always like
rebellion
trodden under,--
By this was life a noble labour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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5900
For-why me
thenketh
that, in no wyse,
It may ben cleped but marchandise.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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