[55]
Where oaks o'erhang the road the
radiance
shoots
On tawny earth, wild weeds, and twisted roots;
The druid-stones a brightened ring unfold; [56]
And all the babbling brooks are liquid gold; 190
Sunk to a curve, the day-star lessens still,
Gives one bright glance, and drops [57] behind the hill.
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Such in the many-tinted bower
Of rich man's garden passing gay
Upstands
the hyacinthine flower.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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The Past hath crusted
cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
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If he picked himself and said, "I am ready to die,"
if he gave his name and said, "My country, take me,"
then the baskets of roses to-day are for the Boy,
the flowers, the songs, the
steamboat
whistles,
the proclamations of the honorable orators,
they are all for the Boy--that's him.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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See, Lovers, how I'm treated, in what ways
I die of cold through summer's
scorching
days:
Of heat, in the depths of icy weather.
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Ronsard |
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Under
these
circumstances
a wise man will look with great suspicion on
the legend which has come down to us.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales
[Greek text inserted here]
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to
maculate
giraffe.
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T.S. Eliot |
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In these wild scenes, men
stand about in the scenery, or move
deliberately
and heavily, having
sacrificed the sprightliness and vivacity of towns to the dumb
sobriety of nature.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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All things that you should use to do me wrong
Deny their office; only you do lack
That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,
Creatures
of note for mercy-lacking uses.
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Shakespeare |
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The supper is over--the fire on the ground burns low;
The wearied
emigrants
sleep, wrapped in their blankets;
I walk by myself--I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never
realised before.
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Whitman |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What means death in this rude
assault?
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Shakespeare |
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The Foundation makes no
representations
concerning
the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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So now the daughter
beguiles
the naive and bedazzles the foolish,
Teases you while you're asleep; when you awaken, she's flown.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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and blamest my faint heart,
Coward, who hast let a woman play thy part
And die to save her pretty
soldier!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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_Accursed ground
Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore,
O
hyacinthine
isle!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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As children bid the guest good-night,
And then reluctant turn,
My flowers raise their pretty lips,
Then put their
nightgowns
on.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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But many years before
Lucilius was born, Naevius had been flung into a dungeon, and
guarded there with
circumstances
of unusual rigor, on account of
the bitter lines in which he had attacked the great Caecilian
family.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Thus vainly
thinking
that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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FAUST [_with a bunch of keys and a lamp, before an iron door_]
A long
unwonted
chill comes o'er me,
I feel the whole great load of human woe.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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No lights are over the mesa,
The wind is hard and wild,
I stand at the
darkened
window
And cry like a child.
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Sara Teasdale |
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,
surnamed
the Brave, ascended the
throne of Portugal in the vigour of his age.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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thy will is here,
That I the tenour of my creed unfold;
And thou the cause of it hast
likewise
ask'd.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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In the _Seven
Champions_
the witch Kalyb steals away St.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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280
`Wher-fore, er I wol ferther goon a pas,
Yet eft I thee biseche and fully seye,
That
privetee
go with us in this cas;
That is to seye, that thou us never wreye;
And be nought wrooth, though I thee ofte preye 285
To holden secree swich an heigh matere;
For skilful is, thow wost wel, my preyere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Far about,
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies
Most ravishingly run, so smooth of curve
That I but seem to see the fluent plain
Rise toward a rain of clover-blooms, as lakes
Pout gentle mounds of
plashment
up to meet
Big shower-drops.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, 50
And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew,
Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites,
Or
hurtfull
Worm with canker'd venom bites.
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Milton |
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You had not yet achieved my tender age,
When many a tyrant, and many a savage
Monster had felt the full force of your strength:
Already, the triumphant scourge of insolence, 940
You'd secured the shores of the two seas:
Fearing no
violence
the traveller felt free.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whereat some one of the
loquacious
Lot--
I think a Sufi pipkin--waxing hot--
"All this of Pot and Potter--Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Barons of France may not
forgetful
be
Whence comes the ensign "Monjoie," they cry at need;
Wherefore no race against them can succeed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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There rushes in at the hall-door a knight of gigantic
stature--the
greatest
on earth--in measure high.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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This foe, at least, by thee
Arcadian
styled,
Is faced by one who bears no braggart sign,
But his hand sees to smite, where blows avail--
Actor, own brother to Hyperbius!
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Aeschylus |
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The Rabbit
Rabbits
'Rabbits'
Frederick Bloemaert, Abraham Bloemaert, Nicolaes
Visscher
(I), after 1635 - 1670, The Rijksmuseun
There's another cony I remember
That I'd so like to take alive.
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Appoloinaire |
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The much-moved pathos of her voice,
Her almost tearful eyes, her cheek
Grown pale,
confessed
the strength of love
Which only made her speak: 160
For mild she was, of few soft words,
Most gentle, easy to be led,
Content to listen when I spoke
And reverence what I said;
I elder sister by six years;
Not half so glad, or wise, or good:
Her words rebuked my secret self
And shamed me where I stood.
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Christina Rossetti |
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We
scarcely
see the laurel-tree,
The crowd about us is all we see,
And there's no room in it for you and me.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Bereitung
braucht es nicht voran,
Beisammen sind wir, fanget an!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Nun komm herab,
kristallne
reine Schale!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Observations
on poetry and human life
1784.
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Robert Forst |
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I am truly happy to hear that the "little floweret" is blooming so
fresh and fair, and that the "mother plant" is rather
recovering
her
drooping head.
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Robert Burns |
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O thou whose breast all Helicon inflam'd,[386]
Whose birth seven
vaunting
cities proudly claim'd;
And thou whose mellow lute and rural song,[387]
In softest flow, led Mincio's waves along,
Whose warlike numbers, as a storm impell'd,
And Tiber's surges o'er his borders swell'd;
Let all Parnassus lend creative fire,
And all the Nine[388] with all their warmth inspire;
Your demigods conduct through every scene
Cold fear can paint, or wildest fancy feign;
The Syren's guileful lay, dire Circe's spell,[389]
And all the horrors of the Cyclop's cell;[390]
Bid Scylla's barking waves their mates o'erwhelm
And hurl the guardian pilot from the helm,[391]
Give sails and oars to fly the purple shore,
Where love of absent friend awakes no more;[392]
In all their charms display Calypso's smiles,
Her flow'ry arbours and her am'rous wiles;
In skins confin'd the blust'ring winds control,[393]
Or, o'er the feast bid loathsome harpies[394] prowl;
And lead your heroes through the dread abodes
Of tortur'd spectres and infernal[395] gods;
Give ev'ry flow'r that decks Aonia's hill
To grace your fables with divinest skill;
Beneath the wonders of my tale they fall,
Where truth, all unadorn'd and pure, exceeds them all.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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;
driven from their lands by the successive
Lacedaemonian
invasions, the
people throughout the country had been compelled to seek shelter behind
the walls of Athens.
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Aristophanes |
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The
fortunes
of the
Knight reach their lowest ebb and begin to turn.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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All happiness thou holdest, happy night,
For such as lie awake and feel dissolved
The peaceful spice of darkness and the cool
Breath hither blown from the
ethereal
flowers
That mist thy fields!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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3
The singer ceas'd,
One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd faces,
Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal,
seam'd and beauteous faces,
Then rising, passing back along the narrow aisle between them,
While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence,
She vanish'd with her
children
in the dusk.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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and, in thy scale of sense,
Weigh thy opinion against providence;
Call
imperfection
what thou fanciest such,
Say, here He gives too little, there too much;
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust;
If man alone engross not Heaven's high care,
Alone made perfect here, immortal there:
Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod,
Re-judge His justice, be the God of God.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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to think God hates the worthy mind,
The lover and the love of human kind,
Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear,
Because he wants a
thousand
pounds a year.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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I should perhaps
apologize
for wasting so much space on a mere legend of a so-calld saint's life.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Much use for years
Had gradually worn it an oblate
Spheroid that kicked and
struggled
in its gait,
Appearing to return me hate for hate.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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It has just enough meaning to
give it bodily existence; otherwise it would be
disembodied
music.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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And Sigurd the Bishop said,
"The old gods are not dead,
For the great Thor still reigns,
And among the Jarls and Thanes
The old
witchcraft
still is spread.
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Longfellow |
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Let him smile in triumph gay,
True heart, victorious over lavish hand,
By the Alban lake that day
'Neath citron roof all marble shalt thou stand:
Incense there and
fragrant
spice
With odorous fumes thy nostrils shall salute;
Blended notes thine ear entice,
The lyre, the pipe, the Berecyntine flute:
Graceful youths and maidens bright
Shall twice a day thy tuneful praise resound,
While their feet, so fair and white,
In Salian measure three times beat the ground.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Up from my pillow I
suddenly
sprang out of bed,
And threw you my clothes, all topsy-turvy.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Down Aulus springs to slay him,
With eyes like coals of fire;
But faster Titus hath sprung down,
And hath
bestrode
his sire.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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It is an
accustomed
action with her, to seem thus
washing her hands.
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Shakespeare |
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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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Nearly all the
individual
works in the
collection are in the public domain in the United States.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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'
XCII
"Unless she heard he thither made repair,
He prayed that she would dwell not in the town;
But would a farm of his inhabit, where
She might with all
convenience
live alone.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Stephen Crane |
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--ye look amazed,
Not knowing they were lost as soon as given--
Slid from my hands, when I was leaning out
Above the river--that unhappy child
Past in her barge: but rosier luck will go
With these rich jewels, seeing that they came
Not from the
skeleton
of a brother-slayer,
But the sweet body of a maiden babe.
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Tennyson |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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There is also a suggestion of
the perilous
position
of the English in Ireland.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As yellow morn
Runs on the
slippery
waves of the spread sea,
Thy feet are on the griefs and joys of men
That sheen to be thy causey.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Where is that wise girl Eloise,
For whom was gelded, to his great shame,
Peter Abelard, at Saint Denis,
For love of her enduring pain,
And where now is that queen again,
Who
commanded
them to throw
Buridan in a sack, in the Seine?
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Villon |
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_ There is a general
resemblance
in
this poem to the latter part of Hor.
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Robert Herrick |
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" repeated he, while his eyes still
Relented
not, nor mov'd; "from every ill
Of life have I preserv'd thee to this day,
And shall I see thee made a serpent's prey?
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Keats - Lamia |
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But the speech
would certainly be preserved in the
archives
of the Fabian
nobles.
| Guess: |
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Sunk on his knees, and
staggering
with his pains,
His falling bulk his bended arm sustains;
Lost in a dizzy mist the warrior lies;
A sudden cloud comes swimming o'er his eyes.
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Iliad - Pope |
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)
Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students,
born of thee,
Thee in thy democratic fetes en-masse, thy high
original
festivals,
operas, lecturers, preachers,
Thee in thy ultimate, (the preparations only now completed, the
edifice on sure foundations tied,)
Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational
joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy
sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,
These!
| Guess: |
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
prehistoric
Sumerian dynasties were all transformed into the realm
of myth and legend.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"You are right, lady; I only arrived
yesterday
from the country.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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| Source: |
Li Bai - Chinese |
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The willow leaves
Silverly stir on the breath of moving water,
Birch-leaves, beyond them, twinkle, and there on the hill,
And the hills beyond again, and the highest hill,
Serrated
pines, in the dusk, grow almost black.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
|
[21]
_istanamma_
> _istilamma_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Weep not, nor grudge then, to have lost her sight, 35
Taught thus, our after stay's but a short night:
But by all soules not by
corruption
choaked
Let in high rais'd notes that power be invoked.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
Larkyn was a
frivolous
lady,
and called the Colonel's Wife "old cat.
| Guess: |
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Kipling - Poems |
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'Thus shalt thou morne and eek compleyn,
And gete
enchesoun
to goon ageyn
Unto thy walk, or to thy place, 2505
Where thou biheld hir fleshly face.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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'Apart, ah keep apart, O
ye
unsanctified!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Fair fall the
freighted
boats which gold and stone
And spices bear to sea:
Slim, gleaming maidens swell their mellow notes,
Love-promising, entreating-- 10
Ah!
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Christina Rossetti |
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[50] Another most
beautiful
stroke of nature.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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HOLY SATYR
Most holy Satyr,
like a goat,
with horns and hooves
to match thy coat
of russet brown,
I make leaf-circlets
and a crown of honey-flowers
for thy throat;
where the amber petals
drip to ivory,
I cut and slip
each stiffened petal
in the rift
of carven petal:
honey horn
has wed the bright
virgin petal of the white
flower cluster: lip to lip
let them whisper,
let them lilt, quivering:
Most holy Satyr,
like a goat,
hear this our song,
accept our leaves,
love-offering,
return our hymn;
like echo fling
a sweet song,
answering
note for note.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Then the
crowding
madness,
Wild and keen and tender,
Trembles with the burden
Of great joy.
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Sappho |
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A fog follows--antiques of the same come limping,
Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear
bandaged
and bloodless.
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Whitman |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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But yet it was not long before
There opened in the sky a narrow door,
Made with pearl lintel and pearl sill;
And the earth's night seem'd
pressing
there,--
All as a beggar on some festival would peer,--
To gaze into a room of light beyond,
The hidden silver splendour of the moon.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I have no care what place the grains may fall,
Nor of my songs, if Time shall blow them back,
As land-wind breaks the lines of dying foam
Along the bright wet beaches, scattering
The flakes once more against the
laboring
sea,
Into oblivion.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And far away across the lengthening wold,
Across the willowy flats and thickets brown,
Magdalen's tall tower tipped with
tremulous
gold
Marks the long High Street of the little town,
And warns me to return; I must not wait,
Hark!
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Wilde - Poems |
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sed quicumque deus, quicumque
uocaberis
heros,
sit soror et mater, sit puer incolumis.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Might he know
How conscious
consciousness
could grow,
Till love that was, and love too blest to be,
Meet -- and the junction be Eternity?
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Reft of the Neri first Pistoia pines,
Then Florence changeth
citizens
and laws.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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You must die because no souls have passed over the
threshold
of Heaven
since you came into this country.
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Yeats |
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Which high expression was grounded on divine reason; for a lying
mouth is a stinking pit, and murders with the
contagion
it venteth.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Having thus
arranged
the box, I marked, numbered, and addressed it
as already told; and then writing a letter in the name of the wine
merchants with whom Mr.
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Poe - 5 |
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Eumaeus at his sylvan lodge he sought,
A
faithful
servant, and without a fault.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or promontory sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid
everlong
motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
DAMOETAS
"You, picking flowers and
strawberries
that grow
So near the ground, fly hence, boys, get you gone!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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