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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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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sending itself ahead
countless
years to come.
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The six legions from
Hostilia
reach Cremona.
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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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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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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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Allor soffio il tronco forte, e poi
si converti quel vento in cotal voce:
<
risposto
a voi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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They with mighty moan rage indignant round their
mountain
barriers.
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"
The present translator, without losing sight of the fact that "the Mortal"
means Christ, has taken the liberty (constrained by rhyme,--which is
sometimes more than the _rudder_ of verse,) of making the congratulation
include Humanity, as
incarnated
in Christ, "the second Adam.
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the Cruel Cripple slew;
And cowards fled or lent him
trembling
aid,
She fell and died--in all the tale of time
The direst deed e'er done, the most accursed crime.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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With al the haste goodly that they mighte,
They spedde hem fro the souper un-to bedde;
And every wight out at the dore him dighte,
And wher him liste upon his wey him spedde;
But Troilus, that
thoughte
his herte bledde 950
For wo, til that he herde som tydinge,
He seyde, `Freend, shal I now wepe or singe?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Leonardo
thinks
The open air too bright.
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Longfellow |
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Freedom and peace and
goodwill
among Nations,
Love that will bind us with love all our own.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Face unto face, then, say,
Eyes mine own meeting,
Is your heart far away,
Or with mine
beating?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Kilmarnock
lang may grunt an' grane,
An' sigh, an' sob, an' greet her lane,
An' cleed her bairns, man, wife, an wean,
In mourning weed;
To death, she's dearly paid the kane,
Tam Samson's dead!
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Robert Forst |
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But with many moans and tears
Pallas'
comrades
lay him on his shield and bear him away amid their
ranks.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Then enter'd all
The suitors, and began
cleaving
the wood.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Letts_
SONG OF THE RED CROSS
O
gracious
ones, we bless your name
Upon our bended knee;
The voice of love with tongue of flame
Records your charity.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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"
The monarch spoke; the words, with warmth address'd,
To rigid justice steel'd his brother's breast
Fierce from his knees the hapless chief he thrust;
The monarch's javelin stretch'd him in the dust,
Then
pressing
with his foot his panting heart,
Forth from the slain he tugg'd the reeking dart.
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Iliad - Pope |
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175
`Of Ector nedeth it nought for to telle:
In al this world ther nis a bettre knight
Than he, that is of
worthinesse
welle;
And he wel more vertu hath than might.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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O the dismal care
That shakes the
blossoms
of my hoary hair!
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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O wonder now
unfurled!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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XX
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
Lifting earthly vapours through the air,
Forming a bow, and then drinking there
By plunging deep in Tethys' hoary sheen,
Next, climbing again where it has been,
With bellying shadow darkening everywhere,
Till finally it bursts in lightning glare,
And rain, or snow, or hail shrouds the scene:
This city, that was once a shepherd's field,
Rising by degrees, such power did wield,
She made herself the queen of sea and land,
Till
helpless
to sustain that huge excess,
Her power dispersed, so we might understand
That all, one day, must come to nothingness.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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e rochere3 rungen aboute;
1428 Huntere3 hem
hardened
with horne & wyth muthe.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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There is no handsomer
shingling
and paint than this vine, at
present covering a whole side of some houses.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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The Warders
strutted
up and down,
And kept their herd of brutes,
Their uniforms were spick and span,
And they wore their Sunday suits,
But we knew the work they had been at,
By the quicklime on their boots.
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Wilde - Poems |
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(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
Only a few hints, a few
diffused
faint clews and indirections
I seek for my own use to trace out here.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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) "An unworthy monk of the Monastery
Of Chudov, Gregory, of the family of Otrepiev, has fallen
into heresy, taught by the devil, and has dared to vex
the holy
brotherhood
by all kinds of iniquities and acts
of lawlessness.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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It is, nevertheless,
A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain,
And
resembles
sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
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Poe - 5 |
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'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They
stripped
him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
Where many had been burned before;
The weeping parents wept in vain.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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n (779-831) wrote a famous essay
comparing
Li Po with
Tu Fu.
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Li Po |
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From combat cease, upon Baiardo's flight,
Gradasso
and Montalban's cavalier.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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: _timete Galliae, hunc time Britannia_ Haupt: _et
huicne Gallia et metet
Britannia?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
And this all solemn
silentness!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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"See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight,
So abject, mean, and vile,
Who begs a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toil;
And see his lordly fellow-worm
The poor petition spurn,
Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife
And helpless
offspring
mourn.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But in the way to this are maladies
And anguish; and as a perilous bridge
Over the
uncontrolled
demanding world,
Virginity, passionate self-possessing,
Must build itself supreme, unbreakable.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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All ye friends,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Electra |
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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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But others, rising as they see the sail
Increase
upon the sunset, hasten down,
Hands out and eyes elated; for they see
Head over head, crowding from bow to stern,
Repeopling their long loneliness with smiles,
The faces of their friends; and such go forth
Content upon the ebb tide, with safe hearts.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Oft with
studious
mind brought close, enquiring how I might send thee the
poems of Battiades for use, that I might soften thee towards us, nor thou
continually attempt to sting my head with troublesome barbs--this I see now
to have been trouble and labour in vain, O Gellius, nor were our prayers to
this end of any avail.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" KAU}
The heavens were closd & and spirits mournd their bondage night and day
And the Divine Vision appeard in Luvahs robes of blood {This line written over an erased line,
possibly
ending "within.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's
presence
out of sight.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Memory, though slow,
returned
with strength; and thence
Dismissed, again on open day I gazed,
At houses, men, and common light, amazed.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Sat on the
headland
the hero king,
spake words of hail to his hearth-companions,
gold-friend of Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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why this
passionate
despair
For cruel Glycera?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Semiriamis; _rest_
Semiramus
(_as in_ Leg.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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[G]
The Youth of green
savannahs
spake,
And many an endless, endless lake,
With all its fairy crowds
Of islands, that together lie 70
As quietly as spots of sky
Among the evening clouds.
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William Wordsworth |
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The Foundation makes no representations concerning
the
copyright
status of any work in any country outside the United
States.
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Robert Herrick |
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Apollinax rolling under a chair
Or
grinning
over a screen
With seaweed in its hair.
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T.S. Eliot |
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13, 454_; _History
of
Frederick
the Great_, _iv.
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Byron |
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After
breakfast
we proceeded to the fall, which was within half a
mile, and at this distance its rustling sound, like the wind among the
leaves, filled all the air.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Swift as they trace the heav'n's wide
circling
line,
Whirl'd on their proper axles, bright they shine.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And if I were to die, it seemed sweeter
To give my life
fighting
in your honour.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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* * * * *
In _New Poems_ (1907) and _New Poems, Second Part_ (1908) the historical
figure, frequently taken from the Old Testament, has grown beyond the
proportions of life; it is
weightier
with fate and invariably becomes
the means of expressing symbolically an abstract thought or a great
human destiny.
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Rilke - Poems |
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"
His head he raised--there was in sight,
It caught his eye, he saw it plain-- 50
Upon the house-top,
glittering
bright,
A broad and gilded vane.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Chanson de Roland |
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"
(Thus)
Gilgamish
solves (his) dream.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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130
Yonge Egelrede, a knyghte of comelie mien,
Affynd unto the kynge of Dynefarre,
At echone tylte and tourney he was seene,
And lov'd to be amonge the bloudie warre;
He couch'd hys launce, and ran wyth mickle myghte 135
Ageinste
the brest of Sieur de Bonoboe;
He grond and sunken on the place of fyghte,
O Chryste!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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But in my foe's
embraces
spent the night.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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Intelligent readers will gain
hence a clear understanding of the vast imaginative, range of
Poetry;--through what wide
oscillations
the mind and the taste of a
nation may pass;--how many are the roads which Truth and Nature open to
Excellence.
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Golden Treasury |
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His declaration that the _Battle of
Hastings_
I was his own.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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See the
detailed
description below.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Change thy ways,
Change thy ways;
Let the sweaty
laborers
file
A little while,
A little while,
Where Art and Nature sing and smile.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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THAT MIGHTY MONARCH,
Alexander
the Great (B.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Throbbing
THIS
throbbing
shows what we abandoned,
Which through the vacant chamber wells,
Wherein our joys, in parting, beckoned,
No longer hour nor pathway tells 1
How oft in sleep we wander, straying!
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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cm Street Boston
SELECTED POEMS OF
Gustaf Froeding
The greatest poet of a great poetic literature, adequately
introduced
to English readers.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Thrice he assayd, and thrice in spite of scorn,
Tears such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last 620
Words
interwove
with sighs found out their way.
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Milton |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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They give and take no pledge or oath,--
Nature is the bond of both:
No prayer persuades, no
flattery
fawns,--
Their noble meanings are their pawns.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Once, I know, there was a nest,
Held there by the
sideward
thrust
Of those twigs that touch his breast;
Though 'tis gone now.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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is the same, the same,
Perplexed and ruffled by life's
strategy?
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how can I escape the sight of this
Scythian?
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Aristophanes |
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In the wandering transparency
of your noble face
these floating animals are wonderful
I envy their candour their inexperience
Your inexperience on the bed of waters
Finds the road of love without bowing
By the road of ways
and without the
talisman
that reveals
your laughter at the crowd of women
and your tears no one wants.
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Prom
leaflets
that bedeck the ground
Renewed and goodly scents arise,
The coloured volume I expound,
While you repeat the words I prize.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Weary of life, thou liest in silent sleep,
As one who marks the lengthening shadows creep,
Careless
of all the hurrying hours that run,
Mourning some day of glory, for the sun
Of Freedom hath not shewn to thee his face,
And thou hast caught no flambeau in the race.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Nor many stairs were overpass, when now
By fading of the shadow we perceiv'd
The sun behind us couch'd: and ere one face
Of
darkness
o'er its measureless expanse
Involv'd th' horizon, and the night her lot
Held individual, each of us had made
A stair his pallet: not that will, but power,
Had fail'd us, by the nature of that mount
Forbidden further travel.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_ Raleigh and his squadron lost the main fleet
while off the coast of Spain, before they set sail
definitely
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John Donne |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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There amidst Albert's works shall that be read,
Which will give speedy motion to the pen,
When Prague shall mourn her
desolated
realm.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti took Archipiades to be Hipparchia (see Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book VI 96-98) who loved Crates the Theban Cynic philosopher (368/5-288/5BC) and of whom various tales are told suggesting her beauty, and
independence
of mind.
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Villon |
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"Blest and thrice blest the Roman
Who sees Rome's brightest day,
Who sees that long
victorious
pomp
Wind down the Sacred Way,
And through the bellowing Forum,
And round the Suppliant's Grove,
Up to the everlasting gates
Of Capitolian Jove.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Being of a perverse nature, his Derves ruined by abuse of
drink and drugs, the landscapes of his
imagination
were more beautiful
than Nature herself.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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