e went,
Sire
Eufeniens
to calle, 879
And chalenged hym in ?
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No rumor of the foe's advance
Now swells upon the wind;
No troubled thought at midnight haunts
Of loved ones left behind;
No vision of the morrow's strife
The warrior's dream alarms;
No braying horn, nor
screaming
fife,
At dawn shall call to arms.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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The statesman
and the lover must impose for the moment,
disguising
weakness or
inspiring fear in those who descry it.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And oft
decrepid
age his lot bewails,
Whom every ill of lengthen'd life assails.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Certainly,
if this advantage (the object of all political speculation) be in any
degree attainable, it is
attainable
only by a community which holds out
no factitious incentives to the avarice and ambition of the few, and
which is internally organized for the liberty, security, and comfort of
the many.
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Shelley |
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Against him, send brave heart and hand of might,
For the god-lover is man's
fiercest
foe.
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Aeschylus |
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The speeches of Falstaff are as
perfect in their style as the
soliloquies
of Hamlet.
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Yeats |
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Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches
built to please the priest.
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Robert Forst |
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nulla domus tales umquam
contexit
amores,
nullus amor tali coniunxit foedere amantes, 335
qualis adest Thetidi, qualis concordia Peleo.
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Latin - Catullus |
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The brave boys, in their hungry plight, will shoot you and eat your
flesh;
They will pluck from your body those long
feathers
and make them into
arrow-wings!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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But the Pasha's attention is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From
tchebouk
{13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The smitten rock that gushes,
The
trampled
steel that springs;
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Or why was the
substance
not made more sure
That formed the brave fronts of these palaces?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XERXES
I bid ye now be
delicate
in grief!
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Aeschylus |
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--for never sorrow
Shall dawn upon him
desolate!
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Poe - 5 |
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One harvest from thy field
Homeward
brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield,
Which I gather in a song.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Written for the "Martha
Washington
Court Journal".
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O
vapours!
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Whitman |
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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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In the
presence
of justice,
Lo, the walls of the temple
Are visible
Through thy form of sudden shadows.
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at
coyntlych
closed
His thik ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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I always felt we could have taken ship
And crossed the bright green seas
To
dreaming
cities set on sacred streams
And palaces
Of ivory and scarlet.
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Sara Teasdale |
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These triple threads of
threefold
colour first
I twine about thee, and three times withal
Around these altars do thine image bear:
Uneven numbers are the god's delight.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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It plays at ball in old, blue Chinese gardens,
And shakes wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples,
Amid the broken
flutings
of white pillars.
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Imagists |
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Has it
feathers
like a bird?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Numbers of men
decrease
with pains unknown.
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Marvell - Poems |
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FROM OMAR KHAYYAM
Each spot where tulips prank their state
Has drunk the life-blood of the great;
The violets yon field which stain
Are moles of
beauties
Time hath slain.
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Emerson - Poems |
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But ye, call forth your witness and your proof,
Words strong for justice, fortified by oath;
And I, whoe'er are truest in my town,
Them will I chose and bring, and
straitly
charge,
_Look on this cause, discriminating well,
And pledge your oath to utter nought of wrong.
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Aeschylus |
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Methinks
I see the thousand shrines erected to
Hospitality shining afar in all countries, as well Mahometan and
Jewish as Christian, khans and caravansaries and inns, whither all
pilgrims without distinction resort.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Ronsard |
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Oftener, heavily,
When love-lorn hours had left me less a child,
I sat
contemplating
the figures wild
Of o'er-head clouds melting the mirror through.
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Keats |
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XL
A
PERILOUS
path, it proved, he {40a} trod
who heinously hid, that hall within,
wealth under wall!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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365
nam simul ac fessis dederit fors copiam Achiuis
urbis Dardaniae
Neptunia
soluere uincla,
alta Polyxenia madefient caede sepulcra:
quae, uelut ancipiti succumbens uictima ferro,
proiciet truncum summisso poplite corpus.
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| Question: |
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Latin - Catullus |
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_Gather ye
rosebuds
while ye may.
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| Question: |
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Robert Herrick |
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To move wild
laughter
in the throat of death?
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare |
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, quod
defensum
ibat Nake ad Diras p.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thou art--a person of discretion; always
I am glad to commune with thee; and if aught
At any time
disturbs
me, I endure not
To keep it from thee; and, truth to tell, thy mead
And velvet ale today have so untied
My tongue.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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These
were
rejected
by the Moors, who would accept of nothing but Ceuta, to
whose vast importance they were no strangers.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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" Lycius replied,
'Tis
Apollonius
sage, my trusty guide
And good instructor; but to-night he seems
The ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams.
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Keats - Lamia |
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_
[16] See letters on
Chivalry
and Romance.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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O tried and proved, whose record stands
Lettered in blood too deep to fade,
Take
courage!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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My emirs and my cavalry that shook the earth to-day;
My tent, my wide-extending camp, all dazzling to the sight,
Whose watchfires, kindled
numberless
beneath the brow of night,
Seemed oft unto the sentinel that watched the midnight hours,
As heaven along the sombre hill had rained its stars in showers?
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Hugo - Poems |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Found on the sand there, stretched at rest,
their
lifeless
lord, who had lavished rings
of old upon them.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Were you given me to lose my
Chimene?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet know thou canst that, even in objects plain,
If thou
attendest
not, 'tis just the same
As if 'twere all the time removed and far.
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Lucretius |
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Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen--
Just as a nursemaid might,
playfully
up to her bed.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Latin mortal
dreadful
word,
Ibis, Nile's native bird.
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Appoloinaire |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast,
quenching
my fire,
A deity at the gods' ambrosial feast.
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Ronsard |
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" He who believes
that peace is
illusory
and spurious, unless it be based upon justice and
liberty, will be proud to battle, if battle he must, for the sake of
those foundations.
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| Question: |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
From the wood a sound is gliding,
Vapours dense the plain are hiding,
Cries the Dame in anxious measure:
"Stay, I'll wash thy head, my
treasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Where'er he be, on water or on land,
Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold;
One of Christ's own, or of Cythera's band,
Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold;
Citizen, peasant, student, tramp; whate'er
His little brain may be, alive or dead;
Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere,
And peeps, with
trembling
glances, overhead.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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How long does she spend in gadding and
storming?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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But I am
byknowen {and}
confesse
{and} ?
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| Question: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
Thanne
thoughte
he thus, `O blisful lord Cupyde,
Whanne I the proces have in my memorie,
How thou me hast wereyed on every syde,
Men might a book make of it, lyk a storie.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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"
I
satisfied
his curiosity.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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'142'
The
breaking
of the bottle of sorrows, etc.
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Alexander Pope |
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She heaves a sigh and deep intent
On raptures, sorrows not her own,
She murmurs in an undertone
A letter for her hero meant:
That hero, though his merit shone,
Was
certainly
no Grandison.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What shall the foeman deal more cruel to city
becaptured?
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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If
Homer has given us all the fire and hurry of battles, he has also given
us all the uninteresting,
tiresome
detail.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to
himself?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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So must be
fulfilled
the rite
That giveth me the dead year's might;
And at dawn I shall arise
A spirit, though with human eyes,
A human form and human face;
And where'er I go or stay,
There the summer's perished grace
Shall be with me, night and day.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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then his triumph's poor;
I know the tun of
Heidleberg
holds more.
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Robert Herrick |
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Third Self: And what of me, the love-ridden self, the flaming brand
of wild passion and
fantastic
desires?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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XX
Although we know that Eugene had
Long ceased to be a reading man,
Still certain authors, I may add,
He had excepted from the ban:
The bard of Juan and the Giaour,
With it may be a couple more;
Romances three, in which ye scan
Portrayed
contemporary
man
As the reflection of his age,
His immorality of mind
To arid selfishness resigned,
A visionary personage
With his exasperated sense,
His energy and impotence.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The lessons of life we forget,
While a trifle, a trick of color,
In the wonderful web is set,--
Set by some mordant of fancy,
And, spite of the wear and tear
Of time or
distance
or trouble,
Insists on its right to be there.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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-- A greater ne'er saw I
of warriors in world than is one of you, --
yon hero in
harness!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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And if not all alike, at least the most--
But what distinctions by positions
wrought!
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Lucretius |
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_ GORVen
160 _nostras_ O
163
sequitur
160 _in_ O
164 _sed_] _si_ O || _nec quicquam_ GORBC || _conquerar_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Thus on the coffin loud and long
I strike--the murmur sent
Through the grey
chambers
to my song,
Shall be the accompaniment.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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in sweete even-tide,
When ruddy Phoebus gins to welke in west, 200
High on an hill, his flocke to vewen wide,
Markes which do byte their hasty supper best,
A cloud of
combrous
gnattes do him molest,
All striving to infixe their feeble stings,
That from their noyance he no where can rest, 205
But with his clownish hands their tender wings
He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Sedula quin et apis,
niellito
intenta labori,
liorologo, sua pcnsa thymo, signare videtur.
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Marvell - Poems |
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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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]
for no necessite ne
constreyne?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It is a fitting place for the man in green to
'deal here his
devotions
after the devil's manner.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--La graisse sous la peau parait en feuilles plates;
Et les
rondeurs
des reins semblent prendre l'essor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never
remaining
long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court different desires to ease their lack.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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But tell me; in the time of your sweet sighs,
By what, and how love granted, that ye knew
Your yet
uncertain
wishes?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The richest of all lords is Use,
And ruddy Health the
loftiest
Muse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I many times thought peace had come,
When peace was far away;
As wrecked men deem they sight the land
At centre of the sea,
And
struggle
slacker, but to prove,
As hopelessly as I,
How many the fictitious shores
Before the harbor lie.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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We
celebrate
the feast of Ides,
Which April's month, to Venus dear,
In twain divides.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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I will have shown, in the Poem below, more than a sketch, a 'state' which yet does not entirely break with tradition; will have furthered its
presentation
in many ways too, without offending anyone; sufficing to open a few eyes (This applies to the 1897 printing specifically: translator's note).
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My days I sing, and the lands--with
interstice
I knew of
hapless war.
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Whitman |
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But, if perchance thou
thinkest
that the soul,
From outward winding in its way, is wont
To seep and soak along these members ours,
Then all the more 'twill perish, being thus
With body fused--for what will seep and soak
Will be dissolved and will therefore die.
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Lucretius |
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The real you is fierce, of
pitiless
cruelty:
The false you one enjoys, in true intimacy,
I sleep beside your ghost, rest by an illusion:
Nothing's denied me.
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Ronsard |
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at
haluendel
& more,
And was hym-self of hungred sore,
And took it in good entent.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But not so Neptune; he with earnest suit
The
glorious
artist urged to the release
Of Mars, and thus in accents wing'd he said.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The
Foundation
is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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But I will stake,
Seeing you are so mad, what you yourself
Will own more
priceless
far- two beechen cups
By the divine art of Alcimedon
Wrought and embossed, whereon a limber vine,
Wreathed round them by the graver's facile tool,
Twines over clustering ivy-berries pale.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Orlando Furioso, by Lodovico Ariosto
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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How odd the girl's life looks
Behind this soft
eclipse!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Who do from sour faces,
And lungs that would infect me,
For
evermore
protect me.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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For my friend
The
Cardinal
Ippolito.
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Longfellow |
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