I HAVE, and feel convinced they do you wrong,
Who think no virtue can to such belong;
White crows and
phoenixes
do not abound;
But lucky lovers still are sometimes found;
And though, as these famed birds, not quite so rare,
The numbers are not great that favours share;
I own my works a diff'rent sense express,
But these are tales:--mere tales in easy dress.
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heedless
how the weak are strong,
Say, was it just,
In thee to frame, in me to trust,
Thou to the Syrian couldst belong?
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Thus, we do not necessarily
keep eBooks in
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Encressen
eek the causes of my care;
So wel-a-wey, why nil myn herte breste?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Go to bed, and care not when
Cheerful
day shall spring again.
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Robert Herrick |
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Eftsoons
hys mornynge tournd to gloomie nyghte;
Hys dame, hys seconde selfe, gyve upp her brethe,
Seekeynge for eterne lyfe and endless lyghte, 135
And sleed good Canynge; sad mystake of dethe!
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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"
"The
slaughter
and great havoc," I replied,
"That colour'd Arbia's flood with crimson stain--
To these impute, that in our hallow'd dome
Such orisons ascend.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Sound, ruddy men, frolic and innocent,
In winter, lumberers; in summer, guides;
Their sinewy arms pull at the oar untired
Three times ten
thousand
strokes, from morn to eve.
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Emerson - Poems |
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So swift to cavil and deny,
Then parley with
concessions
shy,
Dear eyes, that make their youth be mine
And through my inmost shadows shine,
Oh, tell me more or tell me less!
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Moi, je cours avec eux assommer les mouchards:
Et je vais dans Paris, noir, marteau sur l'epaule,
Farouche, a chaque coin
balayant
quelque drole,
Et, si tu me riais au nez, je te tuerais!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And she was simple as dowve on tree,
Ful
debonaire
of herte was she.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And
wondered
if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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After their attempts have
proved ineffectual, Ulysses, taking Eumaeus and Philaetius apart,
discovers himself to them; then returning, desires leave to try
his strength at the bow, which, though refused with
indignation
by
the suitors, Penelope and Telemachus cause it to be delivered to
his hands.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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And
marvellous
and weighty the combat:
Before nor since was never such attack.
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Chanson de Roland |
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And, if the rest had not
Already one with other used words,
Whence was
implanted
in the teacher, then,
Fore-knowledge of their use, and whence was given
To him alone primordial faculty
To know and see in mind what 'twas he willed?
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Lucretius |
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HERALD OF AEGYPTUS
Shrill ye and shriek unto what gods ye may,
Ye shall not leap from out Aegyptus' bark,
How
bitterly
soe'er ye wail your woe.
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Aeschylus |
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Six years later this order was renewed, the "Kings of
Bantam, Macassar, Barbary, Siam, Achine, Fez, and Sus" being added to
the
previous
list, and Norgate being now designated as a Clerk of the
Signet Extraordinary.
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Robert Herrick |
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My soul lies bare before you; ye have seen
With what
humility
and fear I took
This mighty power upon me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Please note: neither this list nor its
contents
are final till
midnight of the last day of the month of any such announcement.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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'It was given', Walton says, 'to his dearest friend
and Executor D^r King, who caused him to be thus carved in one entire
piece of white Marble, as it now stands in the
Cathedral
Church of St.
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John Donne |
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Who, who away would be
From Cynthia's wedding and
festivity?
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Keats |
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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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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sythence you wylle notte lette mie suyte avele,
Mie love wylle have yttes joie, altho wythe guylte;
Youre lymbes shall bende,
albeytte
strynge as stele;
The merkye seesonne wylle your bloshes hylte[115].
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Signior Hortensio, I have often heard
Of your entire
affection
to Bianca;
And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,
I will with you, if you be so contented,
Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.
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Shakespeare |
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Wise laws are form'd, and
constitutions
weigh'd,
And the deep-rooted base of Empire laid.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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But over it all a pleasure went
Of carven
delicate
ornament,
Wreathing up like ravishment,
Mentioning in sculptures twined
The blitheness Love hath in his mind;
And like delighted senses were
The windows, and the columns there
Made the following sight to ache
As the heart that did them make.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Therein lay a certain
renunciation
of life but
in just this renunciation lay his triumph--for Life entered into his
work.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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Lear's works to
have been the prevalent characteristics of the
inhabitants
of
Gretna, Prague, Thermopylae, Wick, and Hong Kong?
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Into the cups already sped
By Olga's hand distributed
The
fragrant
tea in darkling stream,
And a boy handed round the cream.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Speak,
stubborn
earth, and tell me where, O where
Hast thou a symbol of her golden hair?
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Keats |
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Then from the deep and
overflowing
spring _70
Of his eternal ever-moving grief
There rose to Heaven a sound of angry song.
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Shelley |
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For thou, to keep thy body to thy soul,
Must swing a censer, wear a holy stole,
And chaunt Te Deums with
unbelief
between.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Will there really be a
morning?
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The hoot of the
steamers
on the Thames is plain.
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Imagists |
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The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow;
The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear;
Mountains
above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below;
Death in the front, Destruction in the rear!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Already the venom flows towards my heart,
An
unaccustomed
chill pierces my dying heart: 1640
Already I see as if through a clouded sky,
Heaven, and a husband my presence horrifies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Keats |
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Say not those smiles that we shall meet again
Within that bright
pavilion
which their beams _125
Shall build o'er the waste world?
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Shelley |
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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In
leaving that city,
Petrarch
passed the tomb traditionally said to be
that of Virgil.
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Petrarch |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Him, proud in triumph, glittering from afar,
The god whose thunder rends the
troubled
air
Beheld with pity; as apart he sat,
And, conscious, look'd through all the scene of fate.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Gods who are
sovereign
over souls!
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Up till that hour I had
sympathized
with Mr.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Its step
funereal
lingers like the swing
Of passing bell--'tis death, or else the king.
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Hugo - Poems |
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1040
No more be mention'd then of violence
Against our selves, and wilful barrenness,
That cuts us off from hope, and savours onely
Rancor and pride,
impatience
and despite,
Reluctance against God and his just yoke
Laid on our Necks.
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Milton |
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And gleams, through the pallor,
A mouth with a
conquering
smile;
Red chilli, a scarlet flower,
Hearts'-blood gives it fire.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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25
Hespere, qui caelo lucet
iocundior
ignis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Baudelaire's preoccupation with
pictorial
themes may be noted in his
verse.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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She is
approaching
her lover.
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Keats |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Translated by H.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_Sigurd the Volsung_ is a kind of set
exercise
in epic poetry.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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By birthright higher than myself,
Tho' nestling of the self-same nest:
No fault of hers, no fault of mine,
But
stubborn
to digest.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XVIII
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
Were once
enclosures
of the open field:
And these brave palaces that to Time must yield,
Were shepherd's huts in some past century.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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There are invisible bars I cannot break;
There are invisible doors that shut me in,
And keep me ever
steadfast
to my purpose.
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Longfellow |
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unless a
copyright
notice is included.
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Alexander Pope |
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XV
That Emperour he sits with
lowering
front,
He clasps his chin, his beard his fingers tug,
Good word nor bad, his nephew not one.
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Chanson de Roland |
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She remained in England,
with an interval of travel in Italy, till 1898,
studying
first at
King's College, London, then, till her health again broke down,
at Girton.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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rat hym at ones,
al graye;
[L] He
blenched
a3ayn bilyue,
1716 & stifly start onstray,
With alle ?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Descending from the well-bench'd bark ashore,
They lifted forth Ulysses first, with all
His
splendid
couch complete, then, lay'd him down
Still wrapt in balmy slumber on the sands.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Liberty
On my notebooks from school
On my desk and the trees
On the sand on the snow
I write your name
On every page read
On all the white sheets
Stone blood paper or ash
I write your name
On the golden images
On the soldier's weapons
On the crowns of kings
I write your name
On the jungle the desert
The nests and the bushes
On the echo of childhood
I write your name
On the wonder of nights
On the white bread of days
On the seasons engaged
I write your name
On all my blue rags
On the pond
mildewed
sun
On the lake living moon
I write your name
On the fields the horizon
The wings of the birds
On the windmill of shadows
I write your name
On each breath of the dawn
On the ships on the sea
On the mountain demented
I write your name
On the foam of the clouds
On the sweat of the storm
On dark insipid rain
I write your name
On the glittering forms
On the bells of colour
On physical truth
I write your name
On the wakened paths
On the opened ways
On the scattered places
I write your name
On the lamp that gives light
On the lamp that is drowned
On my house reunited
I write your name
On the bisected fruit
Of my mirror and room
On my bed's empty shell
I write your name
On my dog greedy tender
On his listening ears
On his awkward paws
I write your name
On the sill of my door
On familiar things
On the fire's sacred stream
I write your name
On all flesh that's in tune
On the brows of my friends
On each hand that extends
I write your name
On the glass of surprises
On lips that attend
High over the silence
I write your name
On my ravaged refuges
On my fallen lighthouses
On the walls of my boredom
I write your name
On passionless absence
On naked solitude
On the marches of death
I write your name
On health that's regained
On danger that's past
On hope without memories
I write your name
By the power of the word
I regain my life
I was born to know you
And to name you
LIBERTY
Ring Of Peace
I have passed the doors of coldness
The doors of my bitterness
To come and kiss your lips
City reduced to a room
Where the absurd tide of evil
leaves a reassuring foam
Ring of peace I have only you
You teach me again what it is
To be human when I renounce
Knowing whether I have fellow creatures
Ecstasy
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a child in front of the fire
Smiling vaguely with tears in my eyes
In front of this land where all moves in me
Where mirrors mist where mirrors clear
Reflecting two nude bodies season on season
I've so many reasons to lose myself
On this road-less earth under horizon-less skies
Good reasons I ignored yesterday
And I'll never ever forget
Good keys of gazes keys their own daughters
in front of this land where nature is mine
In front of the fire the first fire
Good mistress reason
Identified star
On earth under sky in and out of my heart
Second bud first green leaf
That the sea covers with sails
And the sun finally coming to us
I am in front of this feminine land
Like a branch in the fire.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Byron/
Tradotti
dall' originale inglese/ Da/ Pietro
Isola/ Socio corrispondente/ della R.
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Byron |
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Be quick, my
sisters!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Un orchestre guerrier, au milieu du jardin,
Balance ses schakos dans la Valse des fifres:
On voit, aux premiers rangs, parader le gandin,
Les notaires montrent leurs breloques a chiffres:
Des rentiers a lorgnons soulignent tous les couacs;
Les gros bureaux bouffis trainent leurs grosses dames,
Aupres desquelles vont,
officieux
cornacs,
Celles dont les volants ont des airs de reclames;
Sur les bancs verts, des clubs d'epiciers retraites
Qui tisonnent le sable avec leur canne a pomme,
Fort serieusement discutent des traites,
Puis prisent en argent, mieux que monsieur Prud'homme!
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
Everyone knows the song, "Gather ye
rosebuds
while ye may"; few, I
fear, by comparison, know the yet sweeter and better song, "Ye have been
fresh and green".
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all
mysteries
by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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The ploughman hears its humming rage begin,
And hies for shelter from his naked toil;
Buttoning
his doublet closer to his chin,
He bends and scampers oer the elting soil,
While clouds above him in wild fury boil,
And winds drive heavily the beating rain;
He turns his back to catch his breath awhile,
Then ekes his speed and faces it again,
To seek the shepherd's hut beside the rushy plain.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
|
And it may be, some
Christmas
night,
When angels walk, they'll say:
"'O strange interment!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'TIS he the force of
scattered
time contracts.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Full on the quarry point their view,
Full on the base
usurping
crew,
The tools of faction, and the nation's curse!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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aureaque Hesperidum seruans fulgentia mala,
asper, acerba tuens, immani corpore serpens
arboris amplexus stirpem quid denique obesset
propter Atlanteum litus
pelageque
sonora,
quo neque noster adit quisquam nec barbarus audet?
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Take the
vengeance
deferred; this the
Ithacan would desire, and the sons of Atreus buy at a great ransom.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Where's the Arch high enough,
Lads, to receive you,
Where's the eye dry enough,
Dears, to
perceive
you,
When at last and at last in your glory you come,
Tramping home?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Nisus cries:
'Lend the gods this fervour to the soul,
Euryalus?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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' The ancients, he says, called souls
not only Naiads but bees, 'as the efficient cause of sweetness'; but
not all souls 'proceeding into generation' are called bees, 'but those
who will live in it justly and who after having
performed
such things
as are acceptable to the gods will again return (to their kindred
stars).
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Yeats |
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When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell--even then
thou callest to me across the
unbridgeable
gulf, "My companion, my
comrade," and I call back to thee, "My comrade, my companion"--for
I would not have thee see my Hell.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Unfortunate
at best
In the midst of such woe to talk of rest!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Leslie Nelson
Jennings
makes his home in California.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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And many a moon and sun will see
The lingering wistful
children
wait
To climb upon their father's knee;
And in each house made desolate
Pale women who have lost their lord
Will kiss the relics of the slain--
Some tarnished epaulette--some sword--
Poor toys to soothe such anguished pain.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Just then, at speed on the Foe,
With her bow all weathered and brown,
The great
Lackawanna
came down,
Full tilt, for another blow;
We were forging ahead,
She reversed--but, for all our pains,
Rammed the old Hartford instead,
Just for'ard the mizzen-chains!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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A
something
in a summer's day,
As sIow her flambeaux burn away,
Which solemnizes me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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The
strangers!
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Euripides - Electra |
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They were both
denied any
opportunity
of a hearing or defence--and might as well have
been innocent.
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Tacitus |
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LXIII
A
beautiful
child is mine,
Formed like a golden flower,
Cleis the loved one.
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Sappho |
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"
Thus I
pacified
Psyche and kissed her,
And tempted her out of her gloom--
And conquered her scruples and gloom;
And we passed to the end of the vista--
But were stopped by the door of a tomb--
By the door of a legended tomb:--
And I said--"What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?
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Poe - 5 |
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With slow steps I
traversed
the field paths, the smoke of hearths, far and faint in the gloom.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Electric signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And
trolleys
jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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V
Do not, beloved, regret that you yielded to me so quickly:
I entertain no base,
insolent
thoughts about you.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the King hath slept, we will
To-morrow crave his presence, and will stand
In humble troop before him,
thanking
him
For that his virtue hath this wicked woman
Purged from among us, saved us from infection.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every
wandering
cloud that trailed
Its ravelled fleeces by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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