These my fond
thoughts
of her shall fade and fail
When foliage ceases on the laurel green;
Nor calm can be my heart, nor check'd these eyes
Until the fire shall freeze, or burns the snow:
Easier upon my head to count each hair
Than, ere that day shall dawn, the parting years.
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could another ever share
This wayward, loveless heart, it would be thine:
But checked by every tie, I may not dare
To cast a
worthless
offering at thy shrine,
Nor ask so dear a breast to feel one pang for mine.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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even as this instant fled,
Was it not thou, O vision bright,
That
glimmered
through the radiant night
And gently hovered o'er my head?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And faire above that
chapelet
565
A rose gerland had she set.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The grass so little has to do, --
A sphere of simple green,
With only butterflies to brood,
And bees to entertain,
And stir all day to pretty tunes
The breezes fetch along,
And hold the
sunshine
in its lap
And bow to everything;
And thread the dews all night, like pearls,
And make itself so fine, --
A duchess were too common
For such a noticing.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thou shalt visit him again
To watch his heart grow cold;
To know the gnawing pain
I knew of old;
To see one much more fair
Fill up the vacant chair,
Fill his heart, his
children
bear:--
While thou and I together
In the outcast weather
Toss and howl and spin.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
From his neck he unclasped the collar of gold,
valorous king, to his vassal gave it
with bright-gold helmet, breastplate, and ring,
to the
youthful
thane: bade him use them in joy.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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[Sidenote A: Bold men
increased
in the Land,]
[Sidenote B: and many marvels happened.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Whether he was combin'd with those of Norway,
Or did lyne the Rebell with hidden helpe,
And vantage; or that with both he labour'd
In his Countreyes wracke, I know not:
But Treasons Capitall, confess'd, and prou'd,
Haue
ouerthrowne
him
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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-- Hengest is the "prince's thane,"
companion
of
Hnaef.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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"
I smile, of course,
And go on
drinking
tea.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Among the beds of lilies I
Have sought it oft where it should lie,
Yet could not, till itself would rise,
Find it,
although
before mine eyes.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"
"I've told you how once not long after we came,
I almost
provoked
poor Loren to mirth
By going to him of all people on earth
To ask if he knew any fruit to be had
For the picking.
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Robert Forst |
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anne stille al vtterly
vnknowable
1632
ne fame ne make?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The
gracious
dew of pulpit eloquence,
And all the well-whipped cream of courtly sense,
That first was H--vy's, F---'s next, and then
The S--te's, and then H--vy's once again.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Steamer, straining at your ropes
Lift your anchor towards an exotic
rawness!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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They're inebriation, confusion, they rob me
All too soon of the joy quiet
reflection
affords.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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It
breathes
no more, its heart has no pulsation;
In the dark places with the dead of old
It lies forever cold!
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Longfellow |
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(Ah, bear in mind this garden was
enchanted!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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In vain I tried to speak,--In vain
My limbs essayed the spot to fly--
At last the thin and shadowy form, _65
With noiseless, trackless
footsteps
came,--
Its light robe floated on the storm,
Its head was bound with lambent flame.
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Shelley |
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Fine, natural verse, and good, I say,
To him who can clearly
understand
it,
If he hopes for joy, the better the fit.
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Troubador Verse |
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There can be no doubt that some
sermons are pitched too high, and I
remember
many struggles with the
drowsy fiend in my youth.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Porter
And on her daughter 200
They wash their feet in soda water
Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la
coupole!
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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10
I almost hear thy
Mitylenean
love-song
In the spring night,
When the still air was odorous with blossoms,
And in the hour
Thy first wild girl's-love trembled into being, 15
Glad, glad and fond.
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Sappho |
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And few
attentive
readers of this play can doubt that he has
found them.
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Euripides - Electra |
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You can get up to date donation
information
online at:
http://www.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Yet cruel one, if you still seek fresh glory
Attack some more
rebellious
enemy.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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<
e
vegnonti
a pregar>>, disse 'l poeta:
<>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I know thy soul
Tempered by trust in God against this ruin;
But not in God, but in mortality
Thy soul stands founded; and death even now
Is digging at thy station in the world;
And as a man with ropes and windlasses
Pulls for new building columns of wreckt halls
Down with a
breaking
fall, so death has rigged
His skill about us, so he will break us down,
Ruin our height and courage; and as stone,
Carved with the beautiful pride of kings, hath made,
Hammer'd to rubble and ground for mortar, walls
Of farms and byres, our kill'd and broken natures,
With all their beauty of passion, yea, and delight
In God, death will shape and grind up to new
Housing for souls not royal as we are,
New flesh and mind for mean souls and dull hearts:
For death is only life destroying life
To roof the coming swarms in mortal shelter
Of flesh and mind experienced in joy.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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some playing, some
slumbering?
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Whitman |
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men
remember
us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my delicate lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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What liberty
A
loosened
spirit brings!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the
viewless
wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Not only thou hast pleasant garden-hours,
Judith, here in Bethulia; the Lord Death
Has bought the city for his garden-close,
And saunters in it
watching
the souls bloom
Out of their buds of flesh, and with delight
Smelling their agony.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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They speak in
scientific
tones,
Professional and low--
One argues for a speedy cure,
The other, sure and slow.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Yet this same air lashes their inner parts,
When
creatures
draw a breath or blow it out.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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I drinke to th'
generall
ioy o'th' whole Table,
And to our deere Friend Banquo, whom we misse:
Would he were heere: to all, and him we thirst,
And all to all
Lords.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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By which means it happens that what they have discredited and
impugned in one week, they have before or after
extolled
the same in
another.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou too one day shalt win proud eminence
'Mid honour'd founts, while I the ilex sing
Crowning the cavern, whence
Thy
babbling
wavelets spring.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Wave, Munich all thy banners wave,
And charge with all thy
chivalry!
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Wordsworth
changed it in the proof
stage.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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'Tis even possible, besides, that heat
From forth the sun's own fire, albeit that fire
Be not a great, may permeate the air
With the fierce hot--if but, perchance, the air
Be of
condition
and so tempered then
As to be kindled, even when beat upon
Only by little particles of heat--
Just as we sometimes see the standing grain
Or stubble straw in conflagration all
From one lone spark.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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to eager Xerxes taught--
Trusting
random counsellors and hare-brained men of nought,
Who said _Darius mighty wealth and fame to us did bring,
But thou art nought, a blunted spear, a palace-keeping king_!
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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it went through my flesh as
thrilling
sound
Must shake a fiddle when the strings are snatcht!
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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With heat, toyle, wounds, armes, smart, and inward fire, 245
That never man such
mischiefes
did torment;
Death better were, death did he oft desire,
But death will never come, when needes require.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Considering that he judged it by the
standards
of
conventional classicism, he could scarcely have arrived at any different
conclusion.
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Euripides - Electra |
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It was one of those
terrific
nights which are only met with once or
twice during a century.
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Poe - 5 |
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Emerson - Poems |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Now- for a breath I tarry
Nor yet
disperse
apart-
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.
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| Source: |
AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The
_Diuell_
loues not Iu?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before combating one of them, the
greatest
enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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By no means casual, it is none the less as yet
uninfected
by
officialism.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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O, how that name
inspires
my style!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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In the dead of the night she heard the
disconsolate
rain fall
Loud on the withered leaves of the sycamore-tree by the window.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Will he tell the whole world of the
disgrace
that
has come upon us, do you think?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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"
So your
chimneys
I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Both
warriors
appear in later books of the _Faerie Queene_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Thou, Death, hast left this world's dark
cheerless
way
Without a sun: Love blind and stripp'd of arms;
Left mirth despoil'd; beauty bereaved of charms;
And me self-wearied, to myself a prey;
Left vanish'd, sunk, whate'er was courteous, gay:
I only weep, yet all must feel alarms:
If beauty's bud the hand of rapine harms
It dies, and not a second views the day!
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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And then some one
Began the stairs, two
footsteps
for each step,
The way a man with one leg and a crutch,
Or little child, comes up.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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e clamberande clyffes hade
clatered
on hepes;
[B] Here he wat3 halawed, when ha?
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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That ought to be sufficient for those
American
Intellectuals who are bemoaning the deca dence of poetry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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I
doubt if there are any more simple and
unsophisticated
Catholics
anywhere.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Begone, you and your fillets and all; I shall know how to
complete the
sacrifice
by myself.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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--
Behold, the torches now
encompass
us.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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MEMORIES
OF A CHILDHOOD
The darkness hung like richness in the room
When like a dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's tinkle stirred the air
Near where a boy sat in the silent gloom.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus,
An of three noted names
greeting
salute he can gain.
| Guess: |
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Hunteres
vnhardeled
bi a holt syde,
Rocheres roungen bi rys, for rurde of her hornes;
[E] Summe fel in ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
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This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Each one salutes me as he goes,
And I my
childish
plumes
Lift, in bereaved acknowledgment
Of their unthinking drums.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Were those
Achaians
silent, thou shouldst hear,
O Queen!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Thou beauteous wreath, with
melancholy
eyes,
Possess whatever bliss thou canst devise,
Telling me only where my nymph is fled,--
Where she doth breathe!
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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But, in 1836, he altered it still further in detail;
and in that state
practically
left it, apparently not caring to revise
it further.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Un soir de demi-brume a Londres
Un voyou qui ressemblait a
Mon amour vint a ma rencontre
Et le regard qu'il me jeta
Me fit baisser les yeux de honte
Je suivis ce mauvais garcon
Qui
sifflotait
mains dans les poches
Nous semblions entre les maisons
Onde ouverte de la Mer Rouge
Lui les Hebreux moi Pharaon
Que tombent ces vagues de briques
Si tu ne fus pas bien aimee
Je suis le souverain d'Egypte
Sa soeur-epouse son armee
Si tu n'es pas l'amour unique
Au tournant d'une rue brulant
De tous les feux de ses facades
Plaies du brouillard sanguinolent
Ou se lamentaient les facades
Une femme lui ressemblant
C'etait son regard d'inhumaine
La cicatrice a son cou nu
Sortit saoule d'une taverne
Au moment ou je reconnus
La faussete de l'amour meme
Lorsqu'il fut de retour enfin
Dans sa patrie le sage Ulysse
Son vieux chien de lui se souvint
Pres d'un tapis de haute lisse
Sa femme attendait qu'il revint
L'epoux royal de Sacontale
Las de vaincre se rejouit
Quand il la retrouva plus pale
D'attente et d'amour yeux palis
Caressant sa gazelle male
J'ai pense a ces rois heureux
Lorsque le faux amour et celle
Dont je suis encore amoureux
Heurtant leurs ombres infideles
Me rendirent si malheureux
Regrets sur quoi l'enfer se fonde
Qu'un ciel d'oubli s'ouvre a mes voeux
Pour son baiser les rois du monde
Seraient morts les pauvres fameux
Pour elle eussent vendu leur ombre
J'ai hiverne dans mon passe
Revienne le soleil de Paques
Pour chauffer un coeur plus glace
Que les quarante de Sebaste
Moins que ma vie martyrises
Mon beau navire o ma memoire
Avons-nous assez navigue
Dans une onde mauvaise a boire
Avons-nous assez divague
De la belle aube au triste soir
Adieu faux amour confondu
Avec la femme qui s'eloigne
Avec celle que j'ai perdue
L'annee derniere en Allemagne
Et que je ne reverrai plus
Voie lactee o soeur lumineuse
Des blancs ruisseaux de Chanaan
Et des corps blancs des amoureuses
Nageurs morts suivrons-nous d'ahan
Ton cours vers d'autres nebuleuses
Je me souviens d'une autre annee
C'etait l'aube d'un jour d'avril
J'ai chante ma joie bien-aimee
Chante l'amour a voix virile
Au moment d'amour de l'annee
Aubade chantee a Laetare l'an passe
C'est le printemps viens-t'en Paquette
Te promener au bois joli
Les poules dans la cour caquetent
L'aube au ciel fait de roses plis
L'amour chemine a ta conquete
Mars et Venus sont revenus
Ils s'embrassent a bouches folles
Devant des sites ingenus
Ou sous les roses qui feuillolent
De beaux dieux roses dansent nus
Viens ma tendresse est la regente
De la floraison qui parait
La nature est belle et touchante
Pan sifflote dans la foret
Les grenouilles humides chantent
Beaucoup de ces dieux.
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[B] He hat3
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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`Ensample
why, see now these wyse clerkes,
That erren aldermost a-yein a lawe,
And ben converted from hir wikked werkes
Thorugh grace of god, that list hem to him drawe, 1005
Than arn they folk that han most god in awe,
And strengest-feythed been, I understonde,
And conne an errour alder-best withstonde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Let dull delay depart from your thoughts,
together haste ye, follow to the Phrygian home of Cybebe, to the Phrygian
woods of the Goddess, where sounds the cymbal's voice, where the tambour
resounds, where the Phrygian flautist pipes deep notes on the curved reed,
where the ivy-clad
Maenades
furiously toss their heads, where they enact
their sacred orgies with shrill-sounding ululations, where that wandering
band of the Goddess is wont to flit about: thither 'tis meet to hasten with
hurried mystic dance.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_ I take _cursu canis_
as
equivalent
to _currente cane_, as in i.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Or ache with tremendous
decisions?
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They interpreted the age to itself--hence
the many phases of thought and style they present:--to sympathise with
each,
fervently
and impartially, without fear and without fancifulness,
is no doubtful step in the higher education of the Soul.
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Golden Treasury |
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Who are you, lying in his place on the bed
And rigid and
indifferent
to me?
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Imagists |
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The third in order,
underneath
her, lo!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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I'm
enchanted
to hear it,'
Cried Apollo aside.
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Time had to be bought;
so
Pleasanton
ordered Major Peter Keenan, commanding the Eighth
Pennsylvania Cavalry (four hundred strong), to charge the advancing
ten thousand of the enemy.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless
bear names that the mosses mar.
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A moment we saw her turret,
A little heel she gave,
And a thin white spray went o'er her,
Like the crest of a
breaking
wave--
In that great iron coffin,
The channel for their grave,
The fort their monument,
(Seen afar in the offing,)
Ten fathom deep lie Craven,
And the bravest of our brave.
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Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here
Soon shall the winter's foil be here;
Soon shall these icy
ligatures
unbind and melt--A little while,
And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and
growth--a thousand forms shall rise
From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
reminiscence
comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The
Portuguese
prince even visited the Kingdoms of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Quintia
formosast
multis, mihi candida, longa,
Rectast.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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"
VIII
"Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
Farewell
to Severn shore.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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received
Petrarch
with the highest respect, offered him his
choice among several vacant bishoprics, and pressed him to receive the
office of pontifical secretary.
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Petrarch |
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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_Would_ the fleet get
through?
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