I issue out on the
sloping height of the ridge, whence wretched
Teucrian
hands were hurling
their ineffectual weapons.
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
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_ Palmer
7-10 qui in
codicibus
post LXXVIII.
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_All and some_,
anything
and everything.
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Robert Herrick |
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This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand:
It was a
heavenly
sight:
They stood as signals to the land,
Each one a lovely light:
This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand,
No voice did they impart--
No voice; but O!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Robert Forst |
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Homer's
singularity
in this
respect is overwhelming; but it is frequently forgotten, and especially
by those who think to help in the Homeric question by comparing him with
other "authentic" epics.
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Meredith - Poems |
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On his head a crown,
On his
shoulders
down
Flowed his golden hair.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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]
A little, upright, pert, tart,
tripping
wight,
And still his precious self his dear delight;
Who loves his own smart shadow in the streets
Better than e'er the fairest she he meets:
A man of fashion, too, he made his tour,
Learn'd vive la bagatelle, et vive l'amour:
So travell'd monkeys their grimace improve,
Polish their grin, nay, sigh for ladies' love.
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for the great triumph
That
stretches
many a mile.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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AT CHIANG-HSIA, PARTING FROM SUNG CHIH-T'I
Clear as the sky the waters of Hupeh
Far away will join with the Blue Sea;
We whom a
thousand
miles will soon part
Can mend our grief only with a cup of wine.
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Li Po |
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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I can, at any
unseasonable
instant of the night, appoint her
to look out at her lady's chamber window.
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Shakespeare |
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Those who have never known a lover's sin
Let them not read my ditty, it will be
To their dull ears so
musicless
and thin
That they will have no joy of it, but ye
To whose wan cheeks now creeps the lingering smile,
Ye who have learned who Eros is,--O listen yet awhile.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"
[Sidenote A: "Good morrow", says the lady, "ye are a
careless
sleeper to
let one enter thus.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
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Sappho |
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The
mistakes
cherished by society respecting the connection of the
sexes, whence the misery and diseases of unsatisfied celibacy,
unenjoying prostitution, and the premature arrival of puberty,
necessarily spring; the putrid atmosphere of crowded cities; the
exhalations of chemical processes; the muffling of our bodies in
superfluous apparel; the absurd treatment of infants:--all these and
innumerable other causes contribute their mite to the mass of human
evil.
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Shelley |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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>>
Mais Hippolyte alors, levant sa jeune tete:
--<< Je ne suis point ingrate et ne me repens pas,
Ma Delphine, je souffre et je suis inquiete,
Comme apres un nocturne et
terrible
repas.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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at
neuermore
schal blinne.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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an, the
soldiers
lit his navel; he was so fat that the fire burned for several days.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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--a similar tale
Told of a
beauteous
dame beyond the sea!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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A
COMPLEINT
TO HIS LADY.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Shall I not see that hour before I die,
When I shall cull the flower of her springtime
Who makes my being
languish
in the dark?
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Ronsard |
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I drink your lips,
I eat the
whiteness
of your hands and feet.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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For I have
followed
the white folk of the forest.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now even the cattle court the cooling shade
And the green lizard hides him in the thorn:
Now for tired mowers, with the fierce heat spent,
Pounds
Thestilis
her mess of savoury herbs,
Wild thyme and garlic.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Von dorther sendet er, fliehend, nur
Ohnmachtige Schauer kornigen Eises
In
Streifen
uber die grunende Flur;
Aber die Sonne duldet kein Weisses,
Uberall regt sich Bildung und Streben,
Alles will sie mit Farben beleben;
Doch an Blumen fehlt's im Revier
Sie nimmt geputzte Menschen dafur.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is
dressing
old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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180
Twelve ships attended me, and ev'ry ship
Nine goats received by lot; myself alone
Selected
ten.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Calcine ces lambeaux qu'ont
epargnes
les betes!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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If thy foot in scorn
Could tread them out to
darkness
utterly,
It might be well perhaps.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged man, wise
guardians
of the poor.
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blake-poems |
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Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's
appointed
bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Comes triumph to the eastern bow,
Or hath the lance-point
conquered
now?
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Aeschylus |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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;
hwæðre
swā þēah, _however, notwithstanding_,
2443; hwæðere, 574, 578, 971, 1719--2) conj.
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Beowulf |
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Roaming hill or wood
He looked a wolf was
striving
to do good.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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If creative minds preoccupy themselves with incidents
from the
political
history of Ireland, so much the better, but we
must not enforce them to select those incidents.
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Yeats |
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And sith so sore he doth me greve,
Yit, if my lust he wolde acheve 4600
To
Bialacoil
goodly to be,
I yeve no force what felle on me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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His Bible is Vergil, his
books of
devotion
are Horace and Ovid and Statius.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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'Or if him lust not for to spare,
But suffrith forth, as nought ne ware,
Atte last it hapneth, as it may,
Right unto his laste day, 5640
And taketh the world as it wolde be;
For ever in herte
thenkith
he,
The soner that [the] deeth him slo,
To paradys the soner go
He shal, there for to live in blisse, 5645
Where that he shal no good misse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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MUCH praise Aminta from the dame received;
Who
promised
that the conduct, which aggrieved;
To Cleon she would mention, as desired,
And reprimand him, as the fault required:
So well would scold him, that she might be sure,
From him in future she would be secure.
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La Fontaine |
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"Son," thus spake the courteous guide,
"Those, who die subject to the wrath of God,
All here
together
come from every clime,
And to o'erpass the river are not loth:
For so heaven's justice goads them on, that fear
Is turn'd into desire.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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'
Such were his words; and Hymen now prepares
To light his torch, and give me up to cares;
The afflictive hand of wrathful Jove to bear:
A wretch the most
complete
that breathes the air!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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si-iz-ba sa[na-ma-]as-[te]-e
i-te- en- ni- ik
ka-ia-na i-na [libbi] Uruk-(ki) kak-ki-a-tum [46]
id-lu-tum u-te-el-li- lu
sa-ki-in ip-sa- nu [47]
a-na idli sa i-tu-ru zi-mu-su
a-na iluGilgamis ki-ma i-li-im
sa-ki-is-sum [48] me-ih-rum
a-na ilatIs-ha-ra ma-ia-lum
na- [di]-i- ma
iluGilgamish
id-[ ]na-an(?
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The
lonesome
Spirit from the south-pole carries on the ship as far as the
Line, in obedience to the angelic troop, but still requireth vengeance.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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If we leave Homer out, and consider poetic greatness only (the
only
important
thing to consider), there is no "authentic" epic which
can stand against _Paradise Lost_ or the _Aeneid_.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Many small donations
($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to
maintaining
tax exempt
status with the IRS.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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1811
THE
VISIONARY
HOPE
Sad lot, to have no Hope!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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O the
trembling
fear!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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My beauty as a branding now will mark me;
And shame will run before me, and await
My coming,
wheresoever
I would lodge.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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But me mad love of the stern war-god holds
Armed amid weapons and
opposing
foes.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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So that these mornings you come as his sweetheart, awakening me at
His festive altar again, where I must
celebrate
him?
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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`And over al this, your fader shal despyse
Us alle, and seyn this citee nis but lorn;
And that
thassege
never shal aryse, 1480
For-why the Grekes han it alle sworn
Til we be slayn, and doun our walles torn.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Soon must I view thee as a pleasant dream
Droop faintly, and so sicken for thine end,
As sad the winds sink low
In dirges for their queen;
While in the moment of their weary pause,
To cheer thy
bankrupt
pomp, the willing lark
Starts from his shielding clod,
Snatching sweet scraps of song.
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John Clare |
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]
[SCENE--A
desolate
Moor]
[OSWALD (alone)]
OSWALD Carry him to the Camp!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Thaw your glue-pot,--
Blow up your ash-heap to a flame, and brew,
With a dull fire, in your stew-pot,
Of other men's
leavings
a ragout!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Yet
stranger
that the high sweet fire,
In hearts nigh foreign to desire,
Could burn, sigh, weep, and burn again
As oh, it never has since then!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
|
EROS
The sense of the world is short,--
Long and various the report,--
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not
outlearned
it;
And, how oft soe'er they've turned it,
Not to be improved.
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Emerson - Poems |
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The smallest housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the lawn,
And
somebody
has lost the face
That made existence home!
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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CH'ANG-KAN
Soon after I wore my hair
covering
my forehead
I was plucking flowers and playing in front of the gate,
When _you_ came by, walking on bamboo-stilts
Along the trellis,[23] playing with the green plums.
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Li Po |
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Your son my Lord, ha's paid a
souldiers
debt,
He onely liu'd but till he was a man,
The which no sooner had his Prowesse confirm'd
In the vnshrinking station where he fought,
But like a man he dy'de
Sey.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If merely to come in, sir, they go out,
The way they take is
strangely
round about.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Copyright
infringement
liability can be quite severe.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Keats - Lamia |
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`And ther thou seyst, thou shalt as faire finde
As she, lat be, make no comparisoun 450
To
creature
y-formed here by kinde.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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His period of mental
production
was not brief nor barren.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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To say that he has equally
excelled in all would be untrue, though
striking
examples of each might easily be selected from
his writings.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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I love thee--in thy sight
I stand transfigured,
glorified
aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed
Out of my face toward thine.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Li Po |
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Now hostile fleets must waft those infants o'er
(Those wives must wait them) to a foreign shore:
Thou too, my son, to barbarous climes shall go,
The sad companion of thy mother's woe;
Driven hence a slave before the victor's sword
Condemn'd to toil for some inhuman lord:
Or else some Greek whose father press'd the plain,
Or son, or brother, by great Hector slain,
In Hector's blood his vengeance shall enjoy,
And hurl thee
headlong
from the towers of Troy.
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
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But why
Stands Macbeth thus
amazedly?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Poi che di
riguardar
pasciuto fui,
tutto m'offersi pronto al suo servigio
con l'affermar che fa credere altrui.
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Yet in the
indulgence
of a propensity so truly classical, it
is not to be supposed that the restaurateur would lose sight of that
intuitive discrimination which was wont to characterize, at one and the
same time, his essais and his omelettes.
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Poe - 5 |
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Meantime the radiant sun to mortal sight
Descending
swift, roll'd down the rapid light:
Then to their starry domes the gods depart,
The shining monuments of Vulcan's art:
Jove on his couch reclined his awful head,
And Juno slumber'd on the golden bed.
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Iliad - Pope |
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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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_ A
shortened
form of the asseveration _by this light_,
or _by God's light_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Meredith - Poems |
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' However, Blake seems to indicate a re-sequencing of the
material
to the order shown here, indicating the insertion of these 3 lines with a letter X at their head and a corresponding X at the end of the preceding section [ending '.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Debtors have been
let out of the workhouses on condition of voting against the men
of the people; clients have been posted to hiss and interrupt the
favorite candidates; Appius Claudius Crassus has spoken with more
than his usual
eloquence
and asperity: all has been in vain,
Licinius and Sextius have a fifth time carried all the tribes:
work is suspended; the booths are closed; the Plebeians bear on
their shoulders the two champions of liberty through the Forum.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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cloyster
wyth-inne,
To herber in ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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She would have smiled, if the flower
That never bloomed, to please,
Could open to the coolest hour
Of passing and
forgetful
breeze.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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, _bite_,
figuratively
of the cut of the sword: acc.
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Beowulf |
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Or an Eye of gifts & graces
showring
fruits & coined gold!
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blake-poems |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It tells the tale of Erec, one of Arthur's knights, and the conflict between love and knighthood he experiences in his
marriage
to Enide.
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Troubador Verse |
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When thou dost hear I am as I have been,
Approach
me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots.
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Shakespeare |
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And driven the
Hamadryad
from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
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Poe - 5 |
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Then from our side swelled up the mingled din
Of Persian tongues, and time brooked no delay--
Ship into ship drave hard its brazen beak
With speed of thought, a
shattering
blow!
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Aeschylus |
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a
terrible
space recovring in winter dire
Its wasted strength.
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Blake - Zoas |
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O Hymen
Hymenaee
io, 145
O Hymen Hymenaee.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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[55] The voyage of Gama has been called merely a coasting one, and
therefore regarded as much less dangerous and
heroical
than that of
Columbus, or of Magalhaens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Unto the hero whose
countenance
was turned away,
unto Gilgamish like a god
he became for him a fellow.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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