Hast thou delight to see a wretched man
Do outrage and displeasure to
himself?
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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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then his triumph's poor;
I know the tun of
Heidleberg
holds more.
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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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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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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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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.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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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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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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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The richest of all lords is Use,
And ruddy Health the
loftiest
Muse.
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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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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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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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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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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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Robert Herrick |
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For my friend
The
Cardinal
Ippolito.
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Longfellow |
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The moment was
important in my
poetical
history; for I date from it my consciousness
of the infinite variety of natural appearances which had been
unnoticed by the poets of any age or country, so far as I was
acquainted with them; and I made a resolution to supply in some degree
the deficiency.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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I only knew what hunted thought
Quickened
his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Yet with a head freshly honed and
cunningly
fledged, certain others
Pierce to the marrow, inflame rapidly there our blood.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Whiter she is than Helen was,
The
loveliest
flower of May,
Full of courtesy, sweet lips she has,
And ever true word does say.
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Troubador Verse |
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The Wounded Hare
Delia, An Ode
Song--The Gard'ner Wi' His Paidle
Song--On A Bank Of Flowers
Song--Young Jockie Was The
Blythest
Lad
Song--The Banks Of Nith
Song--Jamie, Come Try Me
Song--I Love My Love In Secret
Song--Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
Song--The Captain's Lady
Song--John Anderson, My Jo
Song--My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
Song--Tam Glen
Song--Carle, An The King Come
Song--The Laddie's Dear Sel'
Song--Whistle O'er The Lave O't
Song--My Eppie Adair
On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm
Sonnet to Robert Graham, Esq.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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We're dead: the souls let no man harry,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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This day thou metes
threescore
eleven,
And I can tell that bounteous Heaven
(The second-sight, ye ken, is given
To ilka Poet)
On thee a tack o' seven times seven
Will yet bestow it.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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More than one death would she consent to die,
If she withal could suffer more than one,
Rather than she in that unhappy strife
Would see her
cherished
consort risk his life.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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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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A canoe with
flashing
paddle,
A girl with soft searching eyes,
A call: "John!
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Stephen Crane |
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O holy pyre, O flame that's
nourished
by
A fire divine, may your fierce heart now burn
My familiar surface so completely, I,
Free and naked, might with a single flight
Rise, beyond the sky, to adore in turn
That other beauty from which your own derives.
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Ronsard |
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Death of thy Soule, those Linnen cheekes of thine
Are
Counsailers
to feare.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But since within this body even of ours
Stands fixed and appears arranged sure
Where soul and mind can each exist and grow,
Deny we must the more that they can have
Duration
and birth, wholly outside the frame.
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Lucretius |
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'T is true that I am gay,
Quite gay, for I have her alone here And no man
troubleth
us.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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He spied in hall the hero-band,
kin and
clansmen
clustered asleep,
hardy liegemen.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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In direful hunger craving
Summers & Winters round revolving in the
frightful
deep.
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Blake - Zoas |
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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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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a
fashionable
square
Cared for by servants to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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They climb over cliffs, where each hill had a hat
and a mist-cloak, until the next morn, when they find
themselves
on a
full high hill covered with snow.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Hutchinson (Dublin)
suggests
that the
W.
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William Wordsworth |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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During these
bewildering
intervals the ship usually sailed backwards.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Index of First Lines
Under the
Mirabeau
flows the Seine
Brushed by the shadows of the dead
The anemone and flower that weeps
The angels the angels in the sky
I've gathered this sprig of heather
The strollers in the plain
My gipsy beau my lover
The gypsy knew in advance
I am bound to the King of the Sign of Autumn
An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
Autumn ill and adored
The room is free
Our story's noble as its tragic
Love is dead within your arms
In the evening light that's faded
You've not surprised my secret yet
Evening falls and in the garden
You descended through the water clear
O my abandoned youth is dead
Admire the vital power
From magic Thrace, O delerium!
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Appoloinaire |
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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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Fabullus
XII, XIII, XXVIII, XLVII.
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Latin - Catullus |
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While Hope, that
ceaseless
leans on Pleasure's urn, 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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He died spellbound by the
sorceress
Vivien
in a hollow oak.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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and printed and given away--you may do
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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trenches
are scraped flat.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look bewildered at lovely things,
Striving to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the
fragrance
we call grief.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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His war
writings
include _The Vale of Shadows, and
Other Verses of the Great War_, and _Italy in Arms, and Other Verses_.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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We will assault Olivier and Rollant,
The dozen peers from death have no warrant,
For these our swords are trusty and trenchant,
In
scalding
blood we'll dye their blades scarlat.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The
mountain
air is fresh at the dusk of day:
The flying birds two by two return.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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)
From Tweed to the Orcades was her domain,
To hunt, or to pasture, or do what she would:
Her heav'nly
relations
there fixed her reign,
And pledg'd her their godheads to warrant it good.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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He smiled no more, he wept no more,
But
passionate
he spake--
"Oh, womanly she prayed in tent,
When none beside did wake!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Your
companions
all on this spot we'll keep,
I tell you news; death shall ye suffer here.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The
Chinese would call the sky "blue," "gray," or "cloudy,"
according
to
circumstances; but never "triumphant" or "terror-scourged.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The landscape's formed of canvasses
A false stream of blood flows down
And under the tree the stars glow fresh
The only passer by's a clown
The glass in the frame has cracked
An air defined uncertainly
Hovers between sound and thought
Between 'to be' and memory
O my abandoned youth is dead
Like a garland faded
Here the season comes again
Of suspicion and disdain
The Bestiary: or Orpheus's Procession
(Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee)
Orpheus
Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals
'Orpheus, Making Music for the Animals'
Adriaen Collaert, 1570 - 1618, The Rijksmuseun
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It's the voice that the light made us
understand
here
That Hermes Trismegistus writes of in Pimander.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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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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Then as a licensed spy, whom nothing can
Silence or hurt, he libels the great man;
Swears every place entailed for years to come,
In sure
succession
to the day of doom;
He names the price for every office paid,
And says our wars thrive ill, because delayed;
Nay hints, 'tis by connivance of the Court,
That Spain robs on, and Dunkirk's still a port.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The
mournful
wood waves round
Its garland on all sides, as round the wood
Spreads the sad foss.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands
of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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Thou canst not ask me with thee here to roam
Over these hills and vales, where no joy is,--
Empty of
immortality
and bliss!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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"He," it began,
"Who turn'd his compass on the world's extreme,
And in that space so variously hath wrought,
Both openly, and in secret, in such wise
Could not through all the universe display
Impression of his glory, that the Word
Of his
omniscience
should not still remain
In infinite excess.
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VII
The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the
footsteps
of thy soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me, as they stole
Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink
Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink,
Was caught up into love, and taught the whole
Of life in a new rhythm.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Stopford Brooke, "at the foot of the Galtees, and bordered
to the north by the wild country, the scenery of which is frequently
painted in the _Faerie Queene_ and in whose woods and savage places such
adventures constantly took place in the service of
Elizabeth
as are
recorded in the _Faerie Queene_, the first three books of that great poem
were finished.
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EXPLICIT
LIBER PRIMUS.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Was itte for thys Norwegia's stubborn sede
Throughe
the black armoure dyd the anlace fele,
And rybbes of solid brasse were made to bleede?
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXXVI
Before the King's face Guenes drawing near
Says to him "Sire,
wherefore
this rage and fear?
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Chanson de Roland |
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Quintilian
has also recorded his prowess.
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Tacitus |
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I just happen to have a
complete
woman's
outfit.
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Aristophanes |
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* * * * *
THE
HIGHLAND
LASSIE O.
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Robert Burns |
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Y
[Illustration]
Y was a yew,
Which
flourished
and grew
By a quiet abode
Near the side of a road.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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The magic hand that
comforts
and annoys
Can hope, and fell despair, and life, and death bestow!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And in this the
expressions of our poet are equally
applicable
to the Ptolemaic and
Copernican systems.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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[760] I want to imitate Cyclops and lead
your troop by
stamping
like this.
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Aristophanes |
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"Envious night-birds open wide
Their round eyes to gaze awhile,
Nymphs that lean their urns beside
From their grottoes softly smile,
"And exclaim, by fancy stirred,
'Hero and Leander they;
We in
listening
for a word
Let our water fall away.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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I
remember
so well the room,
And the lilac bloom
That beat at the dripping pane
In the warm June rain;
And the colour of your gown,
It was amber-brown,
And two yellow satin bows
From your shoulders rose.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Critics have
inclined
to take for granted the supposition that an actual
battle was contemplated by Keats, but I do not believe that such was, at
least, his final intention.
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Keats |
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Say I: scarce
courteous
is he crowned,
The man who shall of Love despair.
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Troubador Verse |
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Now each
partakes
the feast, the wine prepares,
Portions the food, and each his portion shares.
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