"
True--and unless hard food and moisture soft
Recruited man, his frame would waste away,
And life dissolve from out his thews and bones;
For out of doubt
recruited
and fed are we
By certain things, as other things by others.
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O that like thine were the tenor of my
life, like thine the tenor of my
conversation!
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Robert Burns |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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There stands the
Inspector
at thy door:
Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Ah
Harolde!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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A pair of
spectacles
ajar just stir --
An almanac's aware.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For all that's left of winter
Is
moisture
in the ground.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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You tapped the window when the preacher
preached
his sermon,
And ran along the road beside the boy going to school.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sell no honours, nor give them hastily, but bestow them with
counsel and for reward; if he do,
acknowledge
it (though late), and mend
it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The pile o'erlook'd the town, and drew the sight,
Surprised, at once, with
reverence
and delight.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Thy soul was
generous
and
mild, like the hour of the setting sun.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare
Blaspheme
the twisted tendril as a Snare?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Both were executed in a
barbarous
manner.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Next morn, as the sun rose over the bay,
Still floated our flag at the
mainmast
head.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And this proud sign, wrought on his shield, he bears--
The vault of heaven, inlaid with blazing stars;
And, for the boss, the bright moon glows at full,
The eye of night, the first and
lordliest
star.
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Aeschylus |
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Its technique was exact, complex, extremely elaborate,
minutely regulated; yet the
essential
fires of sincerity, spontaneity,
imagination and passion were flaming with undiminished heat behind the
fixed forms and restricted measures.
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Sappho |
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"
And--"A blind
understanding!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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I love the south-west wind, or low or loud,
And not the less when sudden drops of rain
Moisten my pallid cheek from ebon cloud,
Threatening
soft showers again,
That over lands new ploughed and meadow grounds,
Summer's sweet breath unchain,
And wake harmonious sounds.
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John Clare |
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No fairies in the
Mayflower
came,
And, lightsome as I sparkle here,
For Mother Bay State, busy dame,
I've toiled and drudged this many a year,
Throbbed in her engines' iron veins,
Twirled myriad spindles for her gains.
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James Russell Lowell |
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aemula Baiano tolluntur culmina cono
parque
coturnato
uertice fulget apex.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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What good is this to England and
himself!
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Shakespeare |
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The same blue waters where the
dolphins
swim
Suggest the tritons.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But deeper than that abyss was thy deep
love which taught [thy husband] to bear his lady's
forceful
yoke.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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They only perish of winter 10
Whom Love,
audacious
and tender,
Never hath visited.
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Sappho |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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God and all His saints that I will never say that ever ye
attempted
to
flee from any man.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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<>,
rispuose il duca mio, <
che le Muse lattar piu ch'altri mai,
nel primo cinghio del carcere cieco;
spesse fiate
ragioniam
del monte
che sempre ha le nutrice nostre seco.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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There is no night
Where
Holofernes
sleeps, as thou couldst tell.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Note: Ronsard's Marie was an
unidentified
country girl from Anjou.
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Ronsard |
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All is hot and fierce and passionate, ardent and
unashamed in its exulting and
importunate
desire for life and
love.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Now frantic Diomed, at her command,
Against the immortals lifts his raging hand:
The
heavenly
Venus first his fury found,
Me next encountering, me he dared to wound;
Vanquish'd I fled; even I, the god of fight,
From mortal madness scarce was saved by flight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Joy to Admetus, Lord of
Thessaly!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
For th'
Ingredience
of our Cawdron
All.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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shall I to him make known
As yet my change, and give him to partake
Full happiness with mee, or rather not,
But keep the odds of Knowledge in my power 820
Without
Copartner?
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Milton |
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I
overheard
it all quite fully.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"The King of Plagues, the Chosen of Sinai,
Is he that, o'er the rushing waters driven,
A
vigorous
hand hath rescued for the sky;
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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XXVIII
My
letters!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
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Ronsard |
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' There's a real one
knocking
about here, and it might
lead to trouble.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Here is worse
treachery
than the seamew suffered,
For she but died and mixed into the dust
Of her dear comrade, but I am to live
And lie in the one bed with him I hate.
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Yeats |
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I love them, O my dear Elvine,(14)
Beneath the table-cloth of white,
In winter on the fender bright,
In
springtime
on the meadows green,
Upon the ball-room's glassy floor
Or by the ocean's rocky shore.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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All human virtue, to its latest breath,
Finds envy never
conquered
but by death.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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It quickned next a toyfull Ape, and so
Gamesome it was, that it might freely goe
From tent to tent, and with the
children
play.
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John Donne |
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[incidentally] is
discoursed
of the Duke of Drounland: the King
desired him to conceal it'.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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A patriot of the world, how could I glide
Into communion with her sylvan shades,
Erewhile
my tuneful haunt?
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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"What are you
thinking
of?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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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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The oak-crown'd Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen,
Satyrs and Sylvan Boys, were seen
Peeping from forth their alleys green:
Brown Exercise
rejoiced
to hear;
And Sport leap'd up, and seized his beechen spear.
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Golden Treasury |
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Nor even two different shades of the same,
Though like as was ever twin brother to brother,
Possessing
the one shall imply you've the other.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Never was
midnight
dream
So full of error as to us his hate!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine, --
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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blake-poems |
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From thence sailing hastily
through the Cyclades, and taking the shortest course, he overtook
Germanicus at Rhodes, but was there driven by a sudden tempest upon
the rocks: and Germanicus, who was not
ignorant
with what malignity and
invectives he was pursued, yet acted with so much humanity, that when
he might have left him to perish, and to casualty have referred the
destruction of his enemy; he despatched galleys to rescue him from the
wreck.
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Tacitus |
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Stephen Crane |
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Oh, naught--I sew'd, I watch'd, I was afraid,
The waves were loud as
thunders
from the sky;
But it is over.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I possessed a curiosity, zeal,
and
intrepid
dexterity that recommended me as a proper second on these
occasions; and I dare say, I felt as much pleasure in being in the
secret of half the loves of the parish of Tarbolton, as ever did
statesman in knowing the intrigues of half the courts of Europe.
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Robert Forst |
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nam splendor ab alto
defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae
monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis
gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris:
expauere
gradus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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Keats - Lamia |
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As Zourine's detachment was to leave the town that same day, and it was
no longer
possible
to hesitate, I parted with Marya after entrusting her
to Saveliitch, and giving him a letter for my parents.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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QUITE terrified, poor lad, he
scarcely
knew;
Her fury was so great, what best to do;
If he allowed that he had acted wrong,
'Twould wound his conscience and defile his tongue.
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La Fontaine |
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)
an coeat mundus,
duplicisque
extrema cauernae
conueniant caelique oras et segmina iungant,
perque ipsos fiat nexus manifesta cicatrix
fusuram faciens mundi, stipatus et orbis
aeriam in nebulam clara compagine uersus
in cuneos alto cogat fundamina caeli?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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What could I do, unaided and
unblest?
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Clad in refulgent steel, on either hand,
The
dreadful
chiefs amid the circle stand;
Louring they meet, tremendous to the sight;
Each Argive bosom beats with fierce delight.
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Iliad - Pope |
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sweet is the
moonbeam
that sleeps on yon fountain,
And sweet the mild rush of the soft-sighing breeze,
And sweet is the glimpse of yon dimly-seen mountain,
'Neath the verdant arcades of yon shadowy trees.
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Shelley |
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I know the King finds relish in thy looks,
Wench, and I have no care to grudge thy pride;
But when thy face is named
throughout
the world
For wonder, I will bear thy impudence.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But Troilus, thou mayst now, est or west,
Pype in an ivy leef, if that thee lest;
Thus gooth the world; god shilde us fro mischaunce,
And every wight that meneth trouthe
avaunce!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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There, two
gleaming
rubies stand erectly,
Whose crimson rays set off that ivory,
Smoothed so uniformly on every side:
There all grace abounds, and every worth,
And beauty, if there's any on this earth,
Flies to rest there in that sweet paradise.
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Ronsard |
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My soul, that, uncontroll'd,
And scathless from love's fire till now had pass'd,
Carelessly
left at last
Near the cold fair for whom I ceaseless sigh,
Was kindled instantly:
Like martyrdom, ne'er known by day or night,
A heart of marble had to mercy shamed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Ever the hard unsunk ground,
Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and
downward
sun, ever
the air and the ceaseless tides,
Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that
breath of itches and thirsts,
Ever the vexer's hoot!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Keats - Lamia |
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But that's little use to me,
She holds me in
suspense
I vow
Like a ship upon the sea.
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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And Jack knew what was going on, for the
princess
had told him about
it, and had asked would he help her, but he said he would not.
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Yeats |
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from thy shady brow,
Thou small, but
favoured
spot of holy ground!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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--
Strange that I should have grown so
suddenly
blind.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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In what
attention
wrapt she paused to hear
My life's sad course, of which she bade me speak!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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iluGilgamish
su-na-tam i-pa-sar
iluEn-ki-[du w]a?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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additional
contact information:
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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It stops a moment on
the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again,
slipping
and
trickling over his stone cloak.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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He
knew what he could not do: a rare and
invaluable
gift.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Yea, have heart
To tear the
darkness
of sin apart;
And find, beyond, our comforted sight
Flash full of a glee of fiery light,--
The gods the heathen know through sin,
The gods who give them the world to win!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Richmond
and Kew
Undid me.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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BUT some good Triton-god had ruth, and bare
The boy's drowned body back to Grecian land,
And mermaids combed his dank and dripping hair
And
smoothed
his brow, and loosed his clenching hand;
Some brought sweet spices from far Araby,
And others bade the halcyon sing her softest lullaby.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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'Too short a century of dreams,
One day of work
sufficient
length:
Why should not you, why should not I
Attain heroic strength?
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_ The name is
probably
suggested by its meaning "soul".
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Robert Herrick |
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Enter
Malcolme
and Seyward.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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Keats |
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XLV
"Oneguine, all this sumptuousness,
The gilding of life's vanities,
In the world's vortex my success,
My
splendid
house and gaieties--
What are they?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Not always actions show the man: we find
Who does a kindness, is not therefore kind;
Perhaps prosperity
becalmed
his breast,
Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east:
Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat,
Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great:
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave,
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave:
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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And you, then, of my sufferings
Come
spectator?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Why had not I in those good times my birth,
Ere coxcomb pies or
coxcombs
were on earth?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Justice, most
gracious
Duke; O, grant me justice!
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Shakespeare |
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Did fate allow me to guide my life by mine own government, and
calm my sorrows as I would, my first duty were to the Trojan city and
the dear remnant of my kindred; the high house of Priam should abide,
and my hand had set up Troy towers anew for a
conquered
people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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e buske3, & bede hym vp ryse,
& he
vnsoundyly
out so3t segge3 ouer-?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Its repression
of individuality, its insistence upon the necessity of
following
in the
footsteps of the classic poets, and of checking the outbursts of
imagination by the rules of common sense, simply incapacitated the poets
of the period from producing works of the highest order.
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Alexander Pope |
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