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Milk-white wine-flushed among the vines,
Up and down leaping, to and fro,
Most glad, most full, made strong with wines,
Blooming as peaches pearled with dew,
Their golden windy hair afloat,
Love-music
warbling
in their throat,
Young men and women come and go.
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for whom I
grateful
bless
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And he upon whom it was
conferred
honoured it evermore after.
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The sonnets of Les Antiquites provide a fascinating comment on the
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Von Hammer (according to
Sprenger's Oriental Catalogue) speaks of Omar as "a Free-thinker, and
a great opponent of Sufism;" perhaps because, while holding much of
their Doctrine, he would not pretend to any inconsistent
severity
of
morals.
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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HEPHAESTUS
O Strength and Force, for you the best of Zeus
Stands all achieved, and nothing bars your will:
But I--I dare not bind to storm-vext cleft
One of our race,
immortal
as are we.
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" Count Guenes
answered
him;
On mouth and cheek then each the other kissed.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Americans, of all nations at any time upon the earth, have
probably
the
fullest poetical Nature.
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So Jove decrees,
resistless
lord of all!
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Iliad - Pope |
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NIGHT of grief and gloom 1
Black velvet
covering
veils
Footsteps in the room
Wherein thy love travails.
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_Quel sol che mi
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The scents of red roses and
sandalwood
flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical serpents
the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet;
Their glittering garments of purple are burning
like tremulous dawns in the quivering air,
And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle
and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
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Long time lay Susan lost in thought; [33]
And many dreadful fears beset her,
Both for her
Messenger
and Nurse;
And, as her mind grew worse and worse, 415
Her body--it grew better.
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Hast thou no passion nor pity
For thy deserted
companions?
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Like mighty footlights burned the red
At bases of the trees, --
The far
theatricals
of day
Exhibiting to these.
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Le Monde vibrera comme une immense lyre
Dans le
fremissement
d'un immense baiser:
--Le Monde a soif d'amour: tu viendras l'apaiser.
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Ye are at peace in the
troubled
stream;
Ho!
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She, introducing them, conducted each
To a bright throne, then gave them
Pramnian
wine,
With grated cheese, pure meal, and honey new, 290
But medicated with her pois'nous drugs
Their food, that in oblivion they might lose
The wish of home.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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Latin - Catullus |
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A buxom country maid,
Who served the wine, with due attention
Lent patient ear to each invention,
And pressed her hands against her side
Her bursting
merriment
to hide.
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La Fontaine |
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of verray
blysfulnesse
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nat now ?
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outen lettynge
Goddes
sergeaunt
to chirche brynge
wi?
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Long stood I there
And wondered, of all men what man had gone
In
mourning
to that grave.
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Most
honourable
in thee: but scarcely wise!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Midst every herd of cattle on the hills,
Dull Grief shall lie, the
herdsman
of the drove.
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Always Florida's green
peninsula!
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Whitman |
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Once I lov'd a bonie lass,
Ay, and I love her still;
And whilst that virtue warms my breast,
I'll love my
handsome
Nell.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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) is both the weather and the
spiritual
force of the season.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the
best
counsellors
(which are books), for they neither flatter us nor hide
from us?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who will say that he saw, as
midnight
struck
Its tremulous golden twelve, a light in the window,
And first heard music, as of an old piano,
Music remote, as if it came from the earth,
Far down; and then, in the quiet, eager voices?
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quo postquam delapsus Amor longasque peregit
penna uias, alacer
passuque
superbior intrat.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Or darest thou
Contend that never hath it come to pass
That divers strokes have
happened
at one time?
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of
volunteers
and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Thou shalt tell me now
Why thou
refusest
the life given thee.
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"--
"Why, as God
ordered!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Well know I that the hope to paint in verse
Her praises would but tire
The
worthiest
hand that e'er put forth its pen:
Who, in all Memory's richest cells, e'er saw
Such angel virtue so rare beauty shrined,
As in those eyes, twin symbols of all worth,
Sweet keys of my gone heart?
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy loveliness must now
Feed with
astonishment
my vassals' hearts.
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no: this my Hand will rather
The
multitudinous
Seas incarnardine,
Making the Greene one, Red.
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' As if these vast and fertile
regions would
naturally
be the place of meeting and common country of
all the inhabitants of the globe.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past
doubtings
all,
Waits in unhope.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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I must say that I, for one, never wholly
believed
in the Mysticism of
Hafiz.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Niebuhr observes that "the words for a house, a field, a plow,
plowing, wine, oil, milk, sheep, apples, and others
relating
to
agriculture and the gentler way of life, agree in Latin and Greek,
while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase
are utterly alien from the Greek.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"
`But tel me now, sin that thee
thinketh
so light
To chaungen so in love, ay to and fro, 485
Why hastow not don bisily thy might
To chaungen hir that doth thee al thy wo?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The faintest restless
rustling
ran all through them.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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And, what's more, when sorrow's beating
Down on me, through Fate's
incessant
rage,
Your sweet glance its malice is assuaging,
Nor more or less than wind blows smoke away.
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Villon |
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"And our father," added he, "will decide whether you are to be hung at
once or if we are to wait for God's
sunshine!
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The latter
interpolates
a mark of interrogation after 'Gibraltare',
putting 'Anyan, and Magellan and Gibraltare' on a level with the
Pacific, the 'eastern riches' and Jerusalem, i.
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John Donne |
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I always felt we could have taken ship
And crossed the bright green seas
To
dreaming
cities set on sacred streams
And palaces
Of ivory and scarlet.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Heated with wine, to rinse our mouths and hands
In those cold waters was a joy beyond
compare!
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A light
returned
to my gaunt wife?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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And
blossoms
fall upon an open sea.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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But,
whatever
sentiments he might have cherished
respecting him, he was now doomed to hear of his tragic fall.
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Petrarch |
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9 1 The souls of those killed in the
rebellion
will not forgive the rebels.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her
numerous
charge among the verdant grass.
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blake-poems |
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I brondeous[99] wulde hem slee[100];
Tare owte theyre sable harte bie
ryghtefulle
breme[101];
Theyre deathe a meanes untoe mie lyfe shulde bee, 70
Mie spryte shulde revelle yn theyr harte-blodde streme.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
--
Crystals
clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst --
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.
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Sidney Lanier |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Cupid is a casuist,
A mystic and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And
interpret
your device.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Botte halfe the tythes of Danyshe menne remayne;
AElla commaundes 'heie shoulde the sleetre staie, 800
Botte bynde 'hem
prysonners
on the bloddie playne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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starlike
1870; starry 1862.
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Shelley |
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But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of
a deepening
interest
in the real issues of life distracted men's
attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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You loitered on the road too long,
You trifled at the gate:
The enchanted dove upon her branch
Died without a mate;
The enchanted
princess
in her tower
Slept, died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while
You made it wait.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Cupid is a casuist,
A mystic and a cabalist,--
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And
interpret
your device.
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Emerson - Poems |
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You loitered on the road too long,
You trifled at the gate:
The enchanted dove upon her branch
Died without a mate;
The enchanted
princess
in her tower
Slept, died, behind the grate;
Her heart was starving all this while
You made it wait.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Botte halfe the tythes of Danyshe menne remayne;
AElla commaundes 'heie shoulde the sleetre staie, 800
Botte bynde 'hem
prysonners
on the bloddie playne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But as the eighteenth century grew slowly to its work, signs of
a deepening
interest
in the real issues of life distracted men's
attention from the culture of the snuff-box and the fan.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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We two
We two take each other by the hand
We believe everywhere in our house
Under the soft tree under the black sky
Beneath the roofs at the edge of the fire
In the empty street in broad daylight
In the wandering eyes of the crowd
By the side of the foolish and wise
Among the grown-ups and children
Love's not mysterious at all
We are the
evidence
ourselves
In our house lovers believe.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_116
starlike
1870; starry 1862.
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Shelley |
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So do these forestall
In thee such o'erheaped sweetnesses as pall
Too swiftly, and the taster
tasteless
leave.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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She married Pons VI of
Montlaur
in 1226.
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Troubador Verse |
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FOOTNOTES:
[9] Probably those who owned one million sesterces, the
property qualification for
admission
to the senate.
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Tacitus |
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"
He could not answer yea or nay:
He
faltered
"Gifts may pass away.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"
They
stretched
their limbs and argued it out where they sat.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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When winds go round and round in bands,
And thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead,
To bear them orchestra,
I crave him grace, of summer boughs,
If such an outcast be,
He never heard that
fleshless
chant
Rise solemn in the tree,
As if some caravan of sound
On deserts, in the sky,
Had broken rank,
Then knit, and passed
In seamless company.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music
or orations or
recitations
are not independent, but dependent.
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Whitman |
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Here's a Farmer, that hang'd
himselfe on th'
expectation
of Plentie: Come in time, haue
Napkins enow about you, here you'le sweat for't.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
--
Crystals
clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst --
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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It is the food of men's natures;
the diet of the times;
gallants
cannot sleep else.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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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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Villon |
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I will stay here in Rome,
Where all is old and crumbling, like myself,
To
hopeless
ruin.
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Longfellow |
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I have the Count's
commands
to follow thee.
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Tennyson |
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Seated in her room, still in her ball-dress,
Lisaveta
gave herself up to
her reflections.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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XXXVIII
The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have
breathed
them there;
Warm with the blood of lads I know
Comes east the sighing air.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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and the cry
Of Light and Truth, of Love and Liberty,
Is heard in lordly Genoa, and where
The marble spires of Milan wound the air,
Rings from the Alps to the
Sicilian
shore,
And Dante's dream is now a dream no more.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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(75)
[Note 75: The first line refers to the
prevailing
shape of the
cast-iron handles which adorn the _porte cocheres_.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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lēod-bealo longsum =
_eternal
hell-torment_ (B.
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Beowulf |
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The book was
written upon vellum, and in
beautiful
clear letters, interspersed
with symbolical pictures and illuminations, after the manner of the
_Splendor Solis_.
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Yeats |
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Man walks in a vain shadow; he
Disquieteth
himself in vain.
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Christina Rossetti |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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I say more--you have forgotten yourself in
neglecting
Italy.
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Petrarch |
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