Two days ago with dancing
glancing
hair,
With living lips and eyes:
Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;
So pale, yet still so fair.
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Mine, by the grave's repeal
Titled, confirmed, -- delirious
charter!
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The cruel lady, without any show 290
Of sorrow for her tender favourite's woe,
But rather, if her eyes could
brighter
be,
With brighter eyes and slow amenity,
Put her new lips to his, and gave afresh
The life she had so tangled in her mesh:
And as he from one trance was wakening
Into another, she began to sing,
Happy in beauty, life, and love, and every thing,
A song of love, too sweet for earthly lyres,
While, like held breath, the stars drew in their panting
fires.
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Keats |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that
arrogant
display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice threefold array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Let your flute be still and your soul float through
Waves of sound
formless
as waves of the sea,
For here your song lived and it wisely grew
Before it was forced into melody.
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Stephen Crane |
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Ye tender bibbers of the rain and dew,
Young
playmates
of the rose and daffodil,
Be careful, ere ye enter in, to fill
Your baskets high
With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines,
Savory, latter-mint, and columbines,
Cool parsley, basil sweet, and sunny thyme; 580
Yea, every flower and leaf of every clime,
All gather'd in the dewy morning: hie
Away!
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Keats |
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Pope has often been blamed for
stooping
to such
ignoble combat, and in particular for the coarseness of his abuse, and
for his bitter jests upon the poverty of his opponents.
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Alexander Pope |
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"I
intended
to see good white lands
"And bad black lands,
"But the scene is grey.
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Stephen Crane |
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They
perished
in the seamless grass, --
No eye could find the place;
But God on his repealless list
Can summon every face.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Foule whisp'rings are abroad:
vnnaturall
deeds
Do breed vnnaturall troubles: infected mindes
To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets:
More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian:
God, God forgiue vs all.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I tell you this:
whatever
of dust to dust
Goes down, whatever of ashes may return
To its essential self in its own season,
Loveliness such as yours will not be lost,
But, cast in bronze upon his very urn,
Make known him Master, and for what good reason.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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--In this passage the poet is
warning his fellow-citizens not to alienate the goodwill of the allies by
their disdain, but to know how to honour those among them who had
distinguished
themselves
by their talents.
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Aristophanes |
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She lives in peace 320
Upon the spot where she was born and reared;
Without contamination doth she live
In quietness, without anxiety:
Beside the
mountain
chapel, sleeps in earth
Her new-born infant, fearless as a lamb 325
That, thither driven from some unsheltered place,
Rests underneath the little rock-like pile
When storms are raging.
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William Wordsworth |
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He compares his joy on this occasion to
that of a
prisoner
finding the gates of his prison thrown open.
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Petrarch |
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It's woe to bend the
stubborn
back
Above the grinching quern,
It's woe to hear the leg-bar clack
And jingle when I turn!
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
"I am like thee, O, Night, silent and deep; and in the heart of
my
loneliness
lies a Goddess in child-bed; and in him who is being
born Heaven touches Hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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[Illustration]
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES
WHITTINGHAM
AND CO.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Yeats |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Latin - Catullus |
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Comes now the Peace so long
delayed?
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Sidney Lanier |
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She watches the
creeping
stalk and counts.
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Imagists |
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What never was
remarked
or heard
Of Olga he in song averred;
His elegies, which plenteous streamed,
Both natural and truthful seemed.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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With tears I received the
Reminder?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Once a
youthful
pair,
Filled with softest care,
Met in garden bright
Where the holy light
Had just removed the curtains of the night.
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blake-poems |
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As a wind that has run all day
Among the
fragrant
clover,
At evening to a valley comes;
So comes to me my lover.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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He hath beene in
vnusuall
Pleasure,
And sent forth great Largesse to your Offices.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Say that the fates of time and space obscured me,
Led me a
thousand
ways to pain, bemused me,
Wrapped me in ugliness; and like great spiders
Dispatched me at their leisure.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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Yet, when the Libyan nations cross'd the main,
And spread their
thousands
o'er the fields of Spain,
The brave Alonzo drew his awful steel,
And sprung to battle for the proud Castile.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--
There in the middle of the troupe obscene
The proud and
peerless
beauty of my Queen!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But when the order came Po was already dead, having reached
the age of
somewhat
over sixty.
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Li Po |
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And midst the fluttering legion
Of all that ever died
I follow, and before us
Goes the
delightful
guide,
With lips that brim with laughter
But never once respond,
And feet that fly on feathers,
And serpent-circled wand.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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" If Blake hesitated to choose either reading, an editor
hesitates
to reject either.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The person or entity that
provided
you with
the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
refund.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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An lack a land thy sacring rite,
The perfect rule we ne'er shall see
Reach Earth's far bourne; yet such we sight,
Thou willing:--with such Deity
Whoe'er shall dare
compare?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I got this without any hanging on, or mortifying
solicitation; it is immediate bread, and though poor in comparison of
the last eighteen months of my existence, 'tis luxury in comparison
of all my preceding life: besides, the
commissioners
are some of them
my acquaintances, and all of them my firm friends.
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Robert Forst |
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Ay, Regulus and the
Scaurian
name,
And Paullus, who at Cannae gave
His glorious soul, fair record claim,
For all were brave.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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We walk'd
together
on the crown
Of a high mountain which look'd down
Afar from its proud natural towers
Of rock and forest, on the hills--
The dwindled hills!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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The play is
somewhat
Satyric in character.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Your
oriflamme
shall wave--
While man has power to perish and be free--
A golden flame of holiest Liberty,
Proud as the dawn and as the sunset brave.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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See
where he complains of their painting Chimaeras {94} (by the vulgar unaptly
called grotesque) saying that men who were born truly to study and
emulate Nature did nothing but make
monsters
against Nature, which Horace
so laughed at.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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And then on us the world's curse waxes strong
In
righteousness!
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Euripides - Electra |
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By the holy
goddesses!
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Aristophanes |
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"
Then he that wrote laid down his pen and sighed;
And
straightway
came old Scorn and Bitterness,
Like Hunnish kings out of the barbarous land,
And camped upon the transient Italy
That he had dreamed to blossom in his soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Now have they made a
sleepless
winter for us.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Theseus
Oenone is dead: and you wish to die,
Phaedra?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Do you feel the fierce paradise
Like stifled
laughter
that slips
To the unanimous crease's depths
From the corner of your lips?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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--
Say the Saints: Fresh souls
increase
us,
None languish or recede.
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Christina Rossetti |
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For thirty years, he
produced
and distributed Project
Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Surgere iam tempus, iam pingues
linquere
mensas,
Iam veniet virgo, iam dicetur Hymenaeus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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I am just now busy
correcting
a new edition of my poems, and this,
with my ordinary business, finds me in full employment.
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Robert Burns |
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A soul
trembling
to sit by a hearth so bright,
To exist again, it's enough if I borrow from
Your lips the breath of my name you murmur all night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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50 net
"Sleep on, I lie at heaven's high oriels Over the stars that mumur as they go
Lighting
your lattice window (ar b low;
And every star some of the glory spells Whereof I know.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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THEN you are wrong, said she,--most truly so,
For he's a good-for-nothing wretch I know;
You'll
scarcely
credit it, but t'other day,
He had the barefaced impudence to say,
He loved me much, and then his passion pressed:
I'd nearly fallen, I was so distressed.
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La Fontaine |
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But princes, by
hearkening
to cruel
counsels, become in time obnoxious to the authors, their flatterers, and
ministers; and are brought to that, that when they would, they dare not
change them; they must go on and defend cruelty with cruelty; they cannot
alter the habit.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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For the episodes and digressions in a fable are the same that
household stuff and other
furniture
are in a house.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Lanier's latest completed poem, was written
while his sun of life seemed fairly at the setting,
and the hand which first
pencilled
its lines had not strength
to carry nourishment to the lips.
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Sidney Lanier |
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All
attempts
that are new in
this kind, are dangerous, and somewhat hard, before they be softened with
use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Instead of riding to a church or bridal chamber
the
unpleasant
bridegroom resorts to the graveyard and repairs to
his own grave, from which he has recently issued to execute his
errand.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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The_ PEASANT _is
discovered
in front of the hut_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Et ce monde rendait une etrange musique
Comme l'eau courante et le vent,
Ou le grain qu'un vanneur d'un
mouvement
rythmique
Agite et tourne dans son van.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Thus, Woman, Principle of Life, Speaker of the Ideal
Would you see
The dark form of the sun
The contours of life
Or be truly dazzled
By the fire that fuses all
The flame conveyer of modesties
In flesh in gold that fine gesture
Error is as unknown
As the limits of spring
The temptation prodigious
All touches all travels you
At first it was only a thunder of incense
Which you love the more
The fine praise at four
Lovely motionless nude
Violin mute but palpable
I speak to you of seeing
I will speak to you of your eyes
Be faceless if you wish
Of their unwilling colour
Of luminous stones
Colourless
Before the man you conquer
His blind enthusiasm
Reigns naively like a spring
In the desert
Between the sands of night and the waves of day
Between earth and water
No ripple to erase
No road possible
Between your eyes and the images I see there
Is all of which I think
Myself inderacinable
Like a plant which masses itself
Which simulates rock among other rocks
That I carry for certain
You all entire
All that you gaze at
All
This is a boat
That sails a sweet river
It carries playful women
And patient grain
This is a horse descending the hill
Or perhaps a flame rising
A great barefooted laugh in a wretched heart
An autumn height of soothing verdure
A bird that persists in folding its wings in its nest
A morning that scatters the
reddened
light
To waken the fields
This is a parasol
And this the dress
Of a lace-maker more seductive than a bouquet
Of the bell-sounds of the rainbow
This thwarts immensity
This has never enough space
Welcome is always elsewhere
With the lightning and the flood
That accompany it
Of medusas and fires
Marvellously obliging
They destroy the scaffolding
Topped by a sad coloured flag
A bounded star
Whose fingers are paralysed
I speak of seeing you
I know you living
All exists all is visible
There is no fleck of night in your eyes
I see by a light exclusively yours.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then he hid himself in the
refining
fire.
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Troubador Verse |
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The paynim king in armour was arrayed,
And so the paladin, by break of day;
And to the
destined
fount came either lord,
The field of combat for the horse and sword.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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quid non
perficeret
scribentis uoce Serenae
uel genius regni uel pietatis amor?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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It has not been the aim of the present editor to attempt to pronounce
a final
judgement
upon Donne.
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John Donne |
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Partaken, it
relieves
indeed, but proves us
That spices fly
In the receipt.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The wasps
flourish
greenly
Dawn goes by round her neck
A necklace of windows
You are all the solar joys
All the sun of this earth
On the roads of your beauty.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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To learn the transport by the pain,
As blind men learn the sun;
To die of thirst, suspecting
That brooks in meadows run;
To stay the homesick, homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore
Haunted by native lands, the while,
And blue, beloved air --
This is the
sovereign
anguish,
This, the signal woe!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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He
endeavours
to get out by the chimney,
pretending he is "only the smoke"; and all hands rush to clap a cover on
the chimney-top, and a big stone on that.
| Guess: |
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Aristophanes |
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; _virtute
extendere
vires_
Con.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The longe night, whan every creature
Shulde have hir rest in somwhat, as by kinde,
Or elles ne may hir lyf nat long endure,
Hit falleth most in-to my woful minde
How I so fer have broght my-self behinde, 5
That, sauf the deeth, ther may no-thing me lisse,
So
desespaired
I am from alle blisse.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Laughing at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the
fetters?
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| Source: |
Virgil - Eclogues |
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Striking
a bell,
They do it well.
| Guess: |
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Thus policy in love, to anticipate
The ills that were not, grew to faults assur'd,
And brought to medicine a
healthful
state
Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cur'd;
But thence I learn and find the lesson true,
Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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They with unreluctant hand
Shall lead thee on and on, till thou arrive
Just where the ocean-gates show narrowest
On the
Cimmerian
isthmus.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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So let us leave them;
My comrade, let us go and find a flask
Of old Hungarian
overgrown
with mould;
Let's bid my butler open an old bottle,
And in a quiet corner, tete-a-tete,
Let's drain a draught, a stream as thick as fat;
And while we're so engaged, let's think things over.
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Pride, power, love, wealth, and all
Time's
touchstone
shall destroy,
And, like base coin, prove all
Vain substitutes for joy.
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There, in the windless night-time,
The wanderer,
marvelling
why,
Halts on the bridge to hearken
How soft the poplars sigh.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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what was my delight to find that the change of
position
had effected
none in the sense of the writing, even by so much as a single letter!
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It was
a tender and
respectful
declaration of affection, copied word for word
from a German novel.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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sending itself ahead
countless
years to come.
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Sara Teasdale |
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The six legions from
Hostilia
reach Cremona.
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Tacitus |
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Oh give, great God, to Freedom's waves to ride
Sublime o'er Conquest, Avarice, and Pride,
To break, the vales where Death with Famine scow'rs,
And dark Oppression builds her thick-ribb'd tow'rs; 795
Where Machination her fell soul resigns,
Fled panting to the centre of her mines;
Where Persecution decks with ghastly smiles
Her bed, his
mountains
mad Ambition piles;
Where Discord stalks dilating, every hour, 800
And crouching fearful at the feet of Pow'r,
Like Lightnings eager for th' almighty word,
Look up for sign of havoc, Fire, and Sword; [Ll]
--Give them, beneath their breast while Gladness springs,
To brood the nations o'er with Nile-like wings; 805
And grant that every sceptred child of clay,
Who cries, presumptuous, "here their tides shall stay,"
Swept in their anger from th' affrighted shore,
With all his creatures sink--to rise no more.
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A
thousand
miles without the smoke of a chimney.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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In October, the leaves falling, the apples are more
distinct
on the
trees.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The
breaking
of the day
Addeth to my degree;
If any ask me how,
Artist, who drew me so,
Must tell!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Broadly speaking, Russian art and literature may be
described
as
springing from an ethical impulse and as having for their motive power
and _raison d'etre_ the tendency toward socio-political reform, in
contradistinction to the art and literature of Western culture, whose
motives and aims are primarily of an aesthetic nature and seek in art the
reconciliation of the dualism between spirit and matter.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Into the framework of
his romance of
chivalry
he inserted a veiled picture of the struggles and
sufferings of his own people in Ireland.
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Should war's mad blast again be blown,
Permit not thou the tyrant powers
To fight thy mother here alone,
But let thy
broadsides
roar with ours.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Goose, an I had you upon Sarum Plain,
I'ld drive ye
cackling
home to Camelot.
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Shakespeare |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the shivering air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of
impotent
despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
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Wilde - Poems |
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But I
w{i}t{h}stod
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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LIX
" `The reason I departed from thy side,
And next of my return,
explained
shall be.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I
encounter
no troubles like those.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Unto
Gilgamish
king of Erech of the wide places
open, addressing thy speech
as unto a husband.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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