Hop-Frog also laughed
although
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If
you want a
different
shade or tint of a particular color, you have
only to look farther within or without the tree or the wood.
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Poscia che m'ebbe ragionato questo,
li occhi lucenti
lagrimando
volse,
per che mi fece del venir piu presto.
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Even time exists not of itself; but sense
Reads out of things what happened long ago,
What presses now, and what shall follow after:
No man, we must admit, feels time itself,
Disjoined
from motion and repose of things.
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The illustrious marquis and his sister are
Boniface
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Li Po |
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O Love, O Wife, thine eyes are they,
-- My springs from out whose shining gray
Issue the sweet
celestial
streams
That feed my life's bright Lake of Dreams.
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SOLNESS: Hardly a fair
question!
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And farewell thou, my gloomy friend,
Thou also, my ideal true,
And thou,
persistent
to the end,
My little book.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"I saw thee seek the
sounding
shore,
Delighted with the dashing roar;
Or when the north his fleecy store
Drove through the sky,
I saw grim Nature's visage hoar
Struck thy young eye.
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Robert Forst |
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So sped from stage to stage,
fulfilled
in turn,
Flame after flame, along the course ordained,
And lo!
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Their
practice
this,
their heathen hope; 'twas Hell they thought of
in mood of their mind.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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The
pleasures
of those times shall never again be met with.
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Li Po |
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As usual with such kind of Oriental
Verse, the
Rubaiyat
follow one another according to Alphabetic
Rhyme--a strange succession of Grave and Gay.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE TSAR
The TSAR, the
PATRIARCH
and Boyars
TSAR.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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You with your bright
clustering
hair,
Your beauty, Telephus, like evening's sky,
Rhoda loves, as young, as fair;
I for my Glycera slowly, slowly die.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Meredith - Poems |
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With the key of the secret he marches faster,
From strength to strength, and for night brings day;
While classes or tribes, too weak to master
The flowing
conditions
of life, give way.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Drawn to high plans,
Thou lift'st more stature than a mortal man's,
Yet ever piercest downward in the mould
And keepest hold
Upon the reverend and steadfast earth
That gave thee birth;
Yea, standest smiling in thy future grave,
Serene and brave,
With unremitting breath
Inhaling
life from death,
Thine epitaph writ fair in fruitage eloquent,
Thyself thy monument.
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And shall a promise hold,
unbroken?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The [Greek:
semnotês]
which Pliny
notes as the characteristic of his oratory, never lets him sparkle to
no purpose.
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Tacitus |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He is, as was shown
by his later history, a man subject to overpowering
impulses
and to fits
of will-less brooding.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The_ SERVANT
_watches
a moment and goes back into the hall.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Evidently
Blake tried it as Night the Third and as Night the First at least twice.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet in the city of my love
High noon burns all the heavens bare--
For him the
happiness
of light,
For me a delicate despair.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The Consul, clad in his
military
garb, stands in the
vestibule of his house, marshalling his clan, three hundred and
six fighting men, all of the same proud patrician blood, all
worthy to be attended by the fasces, and to command the legions.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Land of those
sweet-aired interminable
plateaus!
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Whitman |
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Aelius, of Lamus' ancient name
(For since from that high parentage
The
prehistoric
Lamias came
And all who fill the storied page,
No doubt you trace your line from him,
Who stretch'd his sway o'er Formiae,
And Liris, whose still waters swim
Where green Marica skirts the sea,
Lord of broad realms), an eastern gale
Will blow to-morrow, and bestrew
The shore with weeds, with leaves the vale,
If rain's old prophet tell me true,
The raven.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Look well at us, and you will see that we have all the
character
and
habits of the wasp.
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Aristophanes |
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Hold my heart, my brain will take fire of you
As flax ignites from a lit fire-brand--
And flame will sweep in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing
currents
of my blood.
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Rilke - Poems |
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She visits
Serenely
down the busy stream
the Boot-maker.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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--I do hear them say often some men are not witty,
because they are not
everywhere
witty; than which nothing is more
foolish.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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--If all the poets and all the lovers of poetry should
be asked to name the most precious of the priceless things which time has
wrung in tribute from the
triumphs
of human genius, the answer which would
rush to every tongue would be "The Lost Poems of Sappho.
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Sappho |
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Do you
remember
Pater's phrase about
Leonardo da Vinci, 'curiosity and the desire of beauty'?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now Crueltee hath cast to sleen us alle,
In ydel hope, folk
redelees
of peyne--
Sith she is deed--to whom shul we compleyne?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Hane
Englonde
thenne a tongue, butte notte a stynge?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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No yachtsman
believed
in them
or thought them at all like the sea, he said.
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Yeats |
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One warm, flush'd moment, hovering, it might seem
Dash'd by the wood-nymph's beauty, so he burn'd;
Then, lighting on the printless verdure, turn'd
To the swoon'd serpent, and with languid arm,
Delicate, put to proof the lythe
Caducean
charm.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Da tutte parti saettava il giorno
lo sol, ch'avea con le saette conte
di mezzo 'l ciel cacciato Capricorno,
quando la nova gente alzo la fronte
ver' noi, dicendo a noi: <
mostratene
la via di gire al monte>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The priest-like father reads the sacred page,
How Abram was the friend of God on high;
Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage
With Amalek's ungracious progeny;
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie
Beneath the stroke of Heaven's
avenging
ire;
Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry;
Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;
Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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O, Oft with me in troublous time
Involved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,
Who gives you back to your own clime
And your own gods, a man of peace,
Pompey, the earliest friend I knew,
With whom I oft cut short the hours
With wine, my hair bright bathed in dew
Of Syrian oils, and wreathed with
flowers?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Was na Robin bauld,
Tho' I was a cotter,
Play'd me sic a trick,
And me the eller's
dochter?
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Robert Forst |
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I saw one day a herd of a
dozen bullocks and cows running about and
frisking
in unwieldy sport,
like huge rats, even like kittens.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
Delighted
to have changed her mortal state,
She ranks amid the purest of her kind;
And ever and anon she looks behind,
To mark my progress and my coming wait;
Now my whole thought, my wish to heaven I cast;
'Tis Laura's voice I hear, and hence she bids me haste.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Many a time ere now
The sons have for the sire's
transgression
wail'd;
Nor let him trust the fond belief, that heav'n
Will truck its armour for his lilied shield.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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--
Love, hardly conquer'd, long repined in vain,
When Justice link'd the adamantine chain;
And cruel
Friendship
o'er the conquer'd ground
Raised with strong hand th' insuperable mound.
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Petrarch |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the
ploughman
in darkness plough?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Such was Oneguine's sainted life,
And such
unconsciously
he led,
Nor marked how summer's prime had fled
In aimless ease and far from strife,
The curse of commonplace delight.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
The God on half-shut
feathers
sank serene,
She breath'd upon his eyes, and swift was seen
Of both the guarded nymph near-smiling on the green.
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Keats - Lamia |
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"
So till the break of day:
Then died away
That voice, in silence as of sorrow;
Then footsteps echoing like a sigh
Passed me by,
Lingering
footsteps slow to pass.
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Christina Rossetti |
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I, Madame, but
returnes
againe to Night
Lady.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Shuttleworthy's nephew, a young man of very
dissipated
habits,
and otherwise of rather bad character.
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Poe - 5 |
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The old gardner's most
dissolute
crow has
Left on this day unscathed nice little garden and niece.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Sages their solemn een may steek,
An' raise a philosophic reek,
An'
physically
causes seek,
In clime an' season;
But tell me whisky's name in Greek
I'll tell the reason.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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So their wan limbs no more might come between
The moon and the moon's reflex in the night;
Nor blot with
floating
shades the solar light.
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Tennyson |
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*****
And now for thee
barbaric
robes, and gleam
Of Meliboean purple, touched with dye
Of the Thessalian shell.
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Lucretius |
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Perche
recalcitrate
a quella voglia
a cui non puote il fin mai esser mozzo,
e che piu volte v'ha cresciuta doglia?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--Star-shell
bursting
over camp at Berbera.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Thou scene of all my
happiness
and pleasure!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Sweet moan, sweeter smile,
All the
dovelike
moans beguile.
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blake-poems |
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If he be old enough, what needs your Grace
To be
Protector
of his Excellence?
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Thus
rendering
thanks that he is lowly bred,
Because from such none look for valorous deeds.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Footsteps
shuffled
on the stair.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal
propagates
a fear.
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T.S. Eliot |
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good-humour can prevail,
When airs, and flights, and screams, and
scolding
fail.
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Alexander Pope |
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Scēotend
swǣfon,
705 þā þæt horn-reced healdan scoldon,
ealle būton ānum.
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Beowulf |
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O
righteous
gods!
| Guess: |
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Odyssey - Pope |
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e to
co{m}prehenden
?
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Is wealth thy
restless
game?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
CCLXXXIV
Then said Tierri "Bold art thou, Pinabel,
Thou'rt great and strong, with body finely bred;
For
vassalage
thy peers esteem thee well:
Of this battle let us now make an end!
| Guess: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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O how
charmingly
Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers blooming and luxuriant.
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But can
Achilles
be so soon forgot?
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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I like not the
seditious
race of Pushkins,
Nor must I trust in Shuisky, obsequious,
But bold and wily--
(Enter SHUISKY.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The Woman remains
in the
background
while_ HERACLES _comes forward.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Don't listen to those cursed birds
But
Paradisial
Angels' words.
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Appoloinaire |
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Meredith - Poems |
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My young
remembrance
cannot paralell
A fellow to it.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[The lines are
numbered
as in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Two we were, with one heart blessed:
If heart's dead, yes, then I foresee,
I'll die, or I must
lifeless
be,
Like those statues made of lead.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Dorcas (Pilcox),
an
invariable
rule of,
her profile,
tribute to.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Then fret not lest the state should ail;
A private man such
thoughts
may spare;
Enjoy the present hour's regale,
And banish care.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A fragment of the text is amongst
the
Boscombe
manuscripts.
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Some news is
brought?
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Euripides - Electra |
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After much country seen, a forest gray
She reached, where, sorely wounded in mid breast,
Between two dead companions on the ground,
The royal maid a
bleeding
stripling found.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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I've
wandered
twenty years, in distant lands,
With sore heart forced to stay:
Why fell the blow Fate only understands!
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Now, in the
desolate
dawn,
Crying of blue jays.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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