Thus our terrestrial glories fade away,
Our triumphs pass the pageants of a day;
Our fields exchange their lords, our
kingdoms
fall,
And thrones are wrapt in Hades' funeral pall
Yet virtue seldom gains what vice had lost,
And oft the hopes of good desert are cross'd.
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Can I punish the father of
Chimene?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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THE TOMBS IN
WESTMINSTER
ABBEY.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
Then by the rule that made the horse-tail bear,
I pluck out year by year, as hair by hair,
And melt down ancients like a heap of snow:
While you to measure merits, look in Stowe,
And
estimating
authors by the year
Bestow a garland only on a bier.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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THE
NUTCRACKERS
AND THE SUGAR-TONGS.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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But it's the
illigant
big
figgur that I ave, for the rason o' which all the ladies fall in love
wid me.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then might you see the wild things of the wood,
With Fauns in sportive frolic beat the time,
And
stubborn
oaks their branchy summits bow.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"I will equip you as ourang-outangs,"
proceeded
the dwarf; "leave all
that to me.
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Poe - 5 |
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Timely wise accept the terms,
Soften the fall with wary foot;
A little while
Still plan and smile,
And,--fault of novel germs,--
Mature the
unfallen
fruit.
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Emerson - Poems |
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O father, mock not at a public fear,
But tell us, is this pendent hell in heaven
A harm to
England?
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Tennyson |
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Was this, Romans, your harsh destiny,
Or some old sin, with
discordant
mutiny,
Working on you its eternal vengeance?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Thou lyest
abhorred
Tyrant, with my Sword
Ile proue the lye thou speak'st.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Straight yonder, where
Aegisthus
makes his prayer!
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Euripides - Electra |
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) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without
permission
and
without paying copyright royalties.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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(The poem has been wrongly
attributed
to Han W?
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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The Danes themselves were
sometimes
called the "Ring-Danes," =
clad in ringed (or a ring of) armor, or possessing rings.
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Beowulf |
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MEPHISTOPHELES:
Er liegt in Padua begraben
Beim
heiligen
Antonius
An einer wohlgeweihten Statte
Zum ewig kuhlen Ruhebette.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Then shepherds took the badge of royalty,
And the stout labourer the sword did wield:
The Consuls' power was annually revealed,
Till six month terms won greater majesty,
Which, made perpetual, accrued such power
That the
Imperial
Eagle seized the hour:
But Heaven, opposing such aggrandisement,
Handed that power to Peter's successor,
Who, called a shepherd, fated to reign there,
Shows that all returns to its commencement.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
Whereto the
judgment
of my heart is tied?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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IO
For what
wrongdoing
do these pains atone?
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Aeschylus |
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,
_gleaming
like metal_: acc.
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Beowulf |
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The servant bids his master remain
awhile, saying, "I have brought you hither at this time, and now ye are
not far from that noted place that ye have so often
enquired
after.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They tell us you might sue us if there is
something
wrong with
your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from
someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our
fault.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
|
Hart was the originator of the Project
Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be
freely shared with anyone.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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The door is yet ajar;
From
northern
star to southern star,
O ye who count and ye who delve,
Come in--before my clock strikes twelve!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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All you on the numberless islands of the
archipelagoes
of the sea!
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Whitman |
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The question seems too small
For one who holds the _word_ so very cheaply,
Who, far removed from shadows all,
For
substances
alone seeks deeply.
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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It
perseveres
if grief be all its view,
And squanders gems for which no mortal thanks,
And blesses when self as sacrifice it burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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The husband
scarcely
could himself contain,
So anxiously he wished his aim to gain.
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La Fontaine |
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The Thane of Cawdor liues:
Why doe you dresse me in
borrowed
Robes?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_
SHE IS SO FIXED IN HIS HEART THAT AT TIMES HE
BELIEVES
HER STILL ALIVE,
AND IS FORCED TO RECALL THE DATE OF HER DEATH.
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Petrarch |
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He is using the language
of a
slightly
earlier date, of his own youth, when travels and far
countries were much in his imagination.
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John Donne |
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FOLEY
[Sidenote: 1917-1918]
O'Leary, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin' man,
For his father was from Kerry, where the gentle art began:
Sergeant
Dennis P.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The vida claims that Raimbaut spied on
Beatrice
in her shift practising with her husband's sword, after which he called her his Bel Cavalier.
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Troubador Verse |
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Throughout
all Spain great war with me he's had;
I will go seek him now, into Douce France,
I will not cease, while I'm a living man,
Till be slain, or fall between my hands.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The pent-up anguish of the loyal wife,
The sobs of those who, nearest in this life,
Still hold him closely in the life beyond;--
These first, with threnody of
memories
fond.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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--this murder wove and planned;
For me, an infant yet in swaddling bands,
Of the three children youngest, Atreus sent
To banishment by my sad father's side:
But Justice brought me home once more, grown now
To manhood's years; and
stranger
tho' I was,
My right hand reached unto the chieftain's life,
Plotting and planning all that malice bade.
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Aeschylus |
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But yours, for our great Captain Christ,
To know the sweat of agony,
The
darkness
of Gethsemane,
In anguish for these souls unpriced.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Or will he touch me with his searing hand,
And leave a black
memorial
on the sand?
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Keats |
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[1]
_("A quoi bon entendre les
oiseaux?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It
must be, however, in the
miraculous
fusing of the two.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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_All insert_ now
_before_
doth.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Brutus with the knife,
Rienzi with the fasces, throb beneath
Rome's stones,--and more who threw away joy's fife
Like Pallas, that the beauty of their souls
Might ever shine untroubled and entire:
But if it can be true that he who rolls
The Church's thunders will reserve her fire
For only light,--from
eucharistic
bowls
Will pour new life for nations that expire,
And rend the scarlet of his papal vest
To gird the weak loins of his countrymen,--
I hold that he surpasses all the rest
Of Romans, heroes, patriots; and that when
He sat down on the throne, he dispossessed
The first graves of some glory.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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sernede]]
in one ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Lav'd by the Red Sea gulf, Socotra's bowers
There boast the tardy aloe's
beauteous
flowers.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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he darts full in face on Niphaeus' four-horse chariot;
before his long strides [573-608]and
dreadful
cry they turned in terror
and dashed back, throwing out their driver and tearing the chariot down
the beach.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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So Dagon shall be magnifi'd, and God, 440
Besides whom is no God, compar'd with Idols,
Disglorifi'd, blasphem'd, and had in scorn
By th' Idolatrous rout amidst thir wine;
Which to have come to pass by means of thee,
Samson, of all thy
sufferings
think the heaviest,
Of all reproach the most with shame that ever
Could have befall'n thee and thy Fathers house.
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Milton |
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Farewell,
unfalteringly
brave!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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To bed, to bed: there's
knocking
at the gate:
Come, come, come, come, giue me your hand: What's
done, cannot be vndone.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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plus in amore ualet
Mimnermi
uersus Homero:
carmina mansuetus lenia quaerit Amor.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Dear brother Noll, I plead against
thyself!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then said the fat-faced curate, Edward Bull:
"God made the woman for the use of man,
And for the good and
increase
of the world".
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Tennyson |
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* * * *
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so
peacefully!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Being about to return to his
invisibility, he assigned various
departments
to his three sons.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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," read to a society after the President of the Academy had
introduced him as "the most
promising
of our young lyrists.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Such the
ungentle
sport that oft invites
The Spanish maid, and cheers the Spanish swain:
Nurtured in blood betimes, his heart delights
In vengeance, gloating on another's pain.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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]
* * * * *
FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: For the original title of this poem,--as
published
in 'The
Morning Post and Gazetteer',--see the note to the previous poem.
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William Wordsworth |
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This is the end of human beauty:
Shrivelled arms, hands warped like feet:
The
shoulders
hunched up utterly:
Breasts.
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Villon |
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Keats - Lamia |
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) May I be
forgiven
if I've done wrong.
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Kipling - Poems |
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By her glad Lycius sitting, in chief place,
Scarce saw in all the room another face,
Till,
checking
his love trance, a cup he took
Full brimm'd, and opposite sent forth a look
'Cross the broad table, to beseech a glance
From his old teacher's wrinkled countenance,
And pledge him.
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Keats - Lamia |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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HE
ATTEMPTS
TO PAINT HER BEAUTIES, BUT NOT HER VIRTUES.
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Petrarch |
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Now I know--
For all my speculation soareth up,
A bird taking
eternity
for air,--
Now being mixt with thee, in the burning midst
Of Beauty for my sense and mind and soul,--
That life hath highest gone which hath most joy.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Composed near the Mountain track, that leads from Grasmere through
Grisdale Hawes, where it
descends
towards Patterdale.
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William Wordsworth |
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)
Bestows one final
patronising
kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit .
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The tapers slowly fade
Thou
speedest
from these halls,
Now that thy love is dead--
And sound of weeping falls.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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A Single Smile
A single smile disputes
Each star with the
gathering
night
A single smile for us both
And the blue of your joyful eyes
Against the mass of night
Finding its flame in my eyes
I have seen by needing to know
The deep night create the day
With no change in our appearance.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then Hermes thus, the
messenger
of heav'n.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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'
The holidays were fruitful, but must end;
One August evening had a cooler breath;
Into each mind
intruding
duties crept;
Under the cinders burned the fires of home;
Nay, letters found us in our paradise:
So in the gladness of the new event
We struck our camp and left the happy hills.
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Emerson - Poems |
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It beseems us better
friends to avenge than
fruitlessly
mourn them.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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yes, 'twas well done; the
wretches
broke a chest
for me with stones, which held six medimni of corn.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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O friend, whoe'er you are, at last arriving hither to
commence, I feel through every leaf the
pressure
of your hand, which I
return.
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Whitman |
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And though thine in the centre sit,
Yet when my other far does roam,
Thine leans and
hearkens
after it,
And rows erect as mine comes home.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Shot through with lights of stars and dawns,
And shadowed sweet by ferns and fawns,
-- Thus heaven and earth
together
vie
Their shining depths to sanctify.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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The whole
business
is put up from beginning to end.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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l
rossinhols
fai
To the sweet song of the nightingale,
La rossinhols s'esbaudeya
The nightingale sings happily
Can l'erba fresch'e?
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Yet from a true heart drive all weaknesses,
We've but one honour, many
mistresses!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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You too may now
unforbidden spare the nation of Pergama, gods and
goddesses
to
whomsoever Ilium and the great glory of Dardania did wrong.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And it is not irrelevant to add (it
seems to me mere fact), that Milton had the
greatest
motive that has
ever ruled a poet.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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If there's no help for this, and swiftly,
And my fine lady love me, goddamn,
I'll die, by the head of Saint Gregory,
If she'll not kiss me,
wherever
I am!
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Imagists |
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In this garden all the hot noon
I await thy fluttering
footfall
5
Through the twilight.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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For he has a pall, this
wretched
man,
Such as few men can claim:
Deep down below a prison-yard,
Naked for greater shame,
He lies, with fetters on each foot,
Wrapt in a sheet of flame!
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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BUT first a
pettifogger
to him came,
Of whom (aside) Belphegor made a game;
What!
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La Fontaine |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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How light and
laughing
my mind is,
When all the good folk have put out their bed-room candles,
And the city is still!
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Imagists |
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PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION
INCLUDES
BY ANY
SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOAD TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.
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Shakespeare |
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I receiue peyne of fals felonie in
gerdou{n}
of verray
vertue.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LACY True; and,
remembering
how the Band have proved
That Oswald finds small favour in our sight,
Well may we wonder he has gained such power
Over our much-loved Captain.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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THE BOOK OF HOURS
_The Book of A Monk's Life_
I live my life in circles that grow wide
And endlessly unroll,
I may not reach the last, but on I glide
Strong
pinioned
toward my goal.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Then would they try
Ever new modes of tilling their loved crofts,
And mark they would how earth improved the taste
Of the wild fruits by fond and
fostering
care.
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Lucretius |
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And, heeding, it awed me to gather
That Nature herself there
Was
breathing
in aerie accents,
With dirgeful refrain,
Weary plaint that Mankind, in these late days,
Had grieved her by holding
Her ancient high fame of perfection
In doubt and disdain .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What is't that moues your
Highnesse?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Western beams follow flowing water;
Stir a ripple in
wandering
person's mind.
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Li Po |
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