Never Venus or Apollo,
Pleased a favourite chief to follow
Through
accidents
of peace or war,
In a time of peril threw,
Round the object of his care,
Veil of such celestial hue; 1832.
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William Wordsworth |
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Her face, sad and worn,
was in perfect keeping with the deep
mourning
in which she was dressed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Strange scenes mere shadows are to me,
Vague
impersonifying
things;
I love with my old haunts to be
By quiet woods and gravel springs,
Where little pebbles wear as smooth
As hermits' beads by gentle floods,
Whose noises do my spirits soothe
And warm them into singing moods.
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John Clare |
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Watts-Dunton in his article on Chatterton in Ward's _English
Poets_ speaks of his extraordinary
metrical
inventiveness and of his
ultimate responsibility for such lines as these--
And Christabel saw the lady's eye
And nothing else she saw thereby
Save the boss of the shield of Sir Leoline tall
Which hung in a murky old niche in the wall--
the anapaestic dance of which breaks in upon the normal iambic
movement of the poem with a natural dramatic propriety.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Sones fell Gue into perdition black;
All his sinews were
strained
until they snapped,
And all the limbs were from his body dragged.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Voialtri pochi che
drizzaste
il collo
per tempo al pan de li angeli, del quale
vivesi qui ma non sen vien satollo,
metter potete ben per l'alto sale
vostro navigio, servando mio solco
dinanzi a l'acqua che ritorna equale.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Or, proud all
rivalship
to chase,
Will haunt me with familiar face; 1820.
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William Wordsworth |
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XXXI
Thy bosom is
endeared
with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;
And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought buried.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The sober lav'rock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, Music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir;
The
blackbird
strong, the lintwhite clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive Autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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But a way to the armoury having
been left, the Wooers got arms by aid of a traitor; whom Eumaeus and
Philoetius
smote, and then came to Ulysses and his son.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The persuader Lu
Zhonglian
shot an arrow into the city with a letter.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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er,
296 barlay;
& 3et gif hym respite,
[H] A
twelmonyth
& a day;--
Now hy3e, & let se tite
300 Dar any her-inne o3t say.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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From
Camelot, in Somersetshire, he proceeds through Gloucestershire and the
adjoining counties into Montgomeryshire, and thence through North Wales
to Holyhead, adjoining the Isle of
Anglesea
(ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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--and their wild legion
Cease to thunder at my door;
Fleeting
through night's rayless region,
Hither they return no more.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It
was
necessary
to put women into men's parts owing to the smallness of
our company at that time.
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Yeats |
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Mine eyes no more
Had
knowledge
of her; yet there mov'd from her
A hidden virtue, at whose touch awak'd,
The power of ancient love was strong within me.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Because of this one child thou hast no more of might,
O star-girt Earth, his death yields thee not higher
delight!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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This high-toned and lovely
Madrigal
is quite in the style, and worthy
of, the "pure Simonides.
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Golden Treasury |
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What is your
tidings?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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" Two years ago the
alphabet
determined the
arrangement; this time seniority has been the sole arbiter of
precedence.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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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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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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What groves or lawns
Held you, ye Dryad-maidens, when for love-
Love all
unworthy
of a loss so dear-
Gallus lay dying?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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1520
Its long-drawn out
bellowing
shook the shore.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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" Petrarch replied, "I
certainly have no
assurance
of being free from the attacks of either;
but, if I were attacked by either, I should not think of calling in
physicians.
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Petrarch |
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Though remembrance
brings me shame indeed, I would forget nothing; and even before I
recognised thee, thou ancient monster, thy mysterious cutlery, thy
equivocal phials, and the chain that imprisons thy feet, were symbols
showing clearly enough the
inconvenience
of thy friendship.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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XLIX
Who when these two approaching he aspide,
At their first presence grew
agrieved
sore,
That forst him lay his heavenly thoughts aside; 435
And had he not that Dame respected more,
Whom highly he did reverence and adore,
He would not once have moved for the knight.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Donne, I suppose, was such another
Who found no
substitute
for sense;
To seize and clutch and penetrate,
Expert beyond experience,
He knew the anguish of the marrow
The ague of the skeleton;
No contact possible to flesh
Allayed the fever of the bone.
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T.S. Eliot |
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net/
The Epic of Gilgamish
by
Stephen Langdon
University of Pennsylvania
The University Museum
Publications of the
Babylonian
Section
Vol.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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As when from
separate
stars two beams
Unite to form one tender ray:
As when two sweet but shadowy dreams
Explain each other in the day:
So may these two dear hearts one light
Emit, and each interpret each.
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Sidney Lanier |
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The
Assyrians
are afraid: it is your time.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And
cocktail
smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Thanatos is the servant of Hades, a "priest" or sacrificer, who is sent to
fetch the
appointed
victims.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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FOUNDER OF THE "NEW
SHAKSPERE
SOCIETY,"
THE "CHAUCER SOCIETY," ETC.
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Beowulf |
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Comple_n_
(_by mistake_); _see next
line_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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sacred to the fall of day
Queen of propitious stars, appear,
And early rise, and long delay
When
Caroline
herself is here!
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Golden Treasury |
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Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said,
"Regard that woman
Who
hesitates
toward you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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hindeman
sīðe, _the
last time, for the last time_, 2050, 2518.
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Beowulf |
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Clinging
round his brawny neck, she clasped her fingers white and
small,
And then whispered, "Quick!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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= This
celebrated
gallows stood, it is believed, on
the site of Connaught Place.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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"
Eviradnus
laid down his sword, to loose
The last piece of his armour, and the Pole
Ran at him with a dagger; with one hand
The old man gripped the little king, and shook
The life out of him.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Previous
to
that there had been some desultory discussion, a few essays in the
magazines, and in 1875 a sympathetic paper by Professor James Albert
Harrison of the University of Virginia.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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There Harold gazes on a work divine,
A blending of all beauties; streams and dells,
Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field, mountain, vine,
And chiefless castles
breathing
stern farewells
From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll
smoothly
steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
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Keats |
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45
VI
The
pitteous
maiden carefull comfortlesse,
Does throw out thrilling shriekes, and shrieking cryes,
The last vaine helpe of womens great distresse,
And with loud plaints importuneth the skyes,
That molten starres do drop like weeping eyes; 50
And Phoebus flying so most shameful sight,
His blushing face in foggy cloud implyes,
And hides for shame.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A place where woman never smiled or wept;
There to abide with my Creator, GOD,
And sleep as I in
childhood
sweetly slept:
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie;
The grass below--above the vaulted sky.
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John Clare |
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Why cannot the Ear be closed to its own
destruction?
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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"
LIV
Back darted Spurius Lartius;
Herminius
darted back:
And, as they passed, beneath their feet
They felt the timbers crack.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Their faith the
everlasting
troth;
Their expectation fair;
The needle to the north degree
Wades so, through polar air.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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_
For, as against a snarling sea one steers,
He battled vainly with the surging years;
While ever
Jessamine
must watch and pine,
Her vision bounded by the bleak sea-line.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this
vindicating
grace
To live on still in love, and yet in vain,--
To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Now neere enough:
Your leauy
Skreenes
throw downe,
And shew like those you are: You (worthy Vnkle)
Shall with my Cosin your right Noble Sonne
Leade our first Battell.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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'
Gradually
his voice became a mere murmur.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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(thus his heart he vents)
Once spread the
inviting
banquet in our tents:
Thy sweet society, thy winning care,
Once stay'd Achilles, rushing to the war.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all
time to come, ever strives for
elimination
and selection.
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Rilke - Poems |
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As below the Mall we jingled, through my very heart it tingled--
Did the iterated order of the
threshing
tonga-bar--
"Try your luck--you can't do better!
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Kipling - Poems |
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"Prisoned on watery shore,
Starry
jealousy
does keep my den
Cold and hoar;
Weeping o're,
I hear the father of the ancient men.
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
|
* Fairfax I know, and long ere this
* Have mark'd the youth, and what he is ;
* But can he such a rival seem,
* For whom you heaven should
disesteem
?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marvell - Poems |
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Now at Rome, "not only the insurrection of Treves and of the Aeduans,
but likewise, that
threescore
and four cities of Gaul had revolted; that
the Germans had joined in the revolt, and that Spain fluctuated;" were
reports all believed with the usual aggravations of fame.
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
|
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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locutio_
G:
_locutio_ uel _loquutio_ ACBLa1Dahh2: _iocatio_ Heinsius
122 _domino_ ed.
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Latin - Catullus |
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gret
deuocioun
among,
Of bedes & of chirche song, [folio 25b]
To god ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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[_The Attendant leads_
HERACLES
_into the house_.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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the Muse
despairs
to mount their fame
Above the plaudits of historic Fame.
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Petrarch |
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Ah, but I fear thee, Queen: this dreadful mood
Will break the
pleasantness
of friendship thou
Hast kept for me, as a ship in a gale is broken.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The change in punctuation (see variants), as well as that two lines
below, was first
suggested
by Upton in a note appended to his
_Critical Observations on Shakespeare_.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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240
At pater, ut summa
prospectum
ex arce petebat,
Anxia in adsiduos absumens lumina fletus,
Cum primum infecti conspexit lintea veli,
Praecipitem sese scopulorum e vertice iecit,
Amissum credens inmiti Thesea fato.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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ATHANASIUS
MIKAILOVICH
PUSHKIN, friend of Prince Shuisky.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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XIX
"But thy father loves the clashing
Of
broadsword
and of shield:
He loves to drink the steam that reeks
From the fresh battlefield:
He smiles a smile more dreadful
Than his own dreadful frown,
When he sees the thick black cloud of smoke
Go up from the conquered town.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Who saw thee on that bridal day,
When that deep blush _would_ come o'er thee,
Though
happiness
around thee lay,
The world all love before thee.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Though man's soul pass through
troubled
waters, Strange ways tp him are opened.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Curses, inherited from long ago,
Bring heavy freight of woe:
Rich stores of
merchandise
o'erload the deck,
Near, nearer comes the wreck--
And all is lost, cast out upon the wave,
Floating, with none to save!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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"Within your house will strangers sit,
And wonder how first it came;
They'll talk of their schemes for
improving
it,
And will not mention your name.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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"
"How
pleasant
to know Mr.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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]
The grave
receives
us all:
Ye butterflies and roses gay and sweet
Why do ye linger, say?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Then she rode back cloth'd on with chastity:
And one low churl, [4] compact of
thankless
earth,
The fatal byword of all years to come,
Boring a little auger-hole in fear,
Peep'd--but his eyes, before they had their will,
Were shrivell'd into darkness in his head,
And dropt before him.
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Thou
snatchedst
me from the despairing state
In which my senses, well nigh crazed, were sunken.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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First the 1645 volume of the Minor Poems has been
printed entire; then follow in order the poems added in the reissue of
1673; the Paradise Lost, from the edition of 1667; and the Paradise
Regain'd and Samson
Agonistes
from the edition of 1671.
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Milton |
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He would probably introduce some wise
and holy Pontiff enjoining the
magnificent
ceremonial which,
after a long interval, had at length been adopted.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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" KAU}
For many a window
ornamented
with sweet ornaments
Lookd out into the World of Tharmas, where in ceaseless torrents {Lowercase "world" mended to "World.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Tarentines were
convinced
that their countrymen were
irresistible in war; and this conviction had emboldened them to
treat with the grossest indignity one whom they regarded as the
representative of an inferior race.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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As when the lightning, in a sudden spleen
Unfolded, dashes from the
blinding
eyes
The visive spirits dazzled and bedimm'd;
So, round about me, fulminating streams
Of living radiance play'd, and left me swath'd
And veil'd in dense impenetrable blaze.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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ONE DAY
I will tell you when they met:
In the limpid days of Spring;
Elder boughs were budding yet,
Oaken boughs looked wintry still,
But
primrose
and veined violet
In the mossful turf were set,
While meeting birds made haste to sing
And build with right good will.
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Christina Rossetti |
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- You provide, in accordance with
paragraph
1.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Headlong
I darted; at one eager swirl
Gain'd its bright portal, enter'd, and behold!
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Keats |
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Ye houlets, frae your ivy bow'r
In some auld tree, or eldritch tow'r,
What time the moon, wi' silent glow'r,
Sets up her horn,
Wail thro' the dreary
midnight
hour,
Till waukrife morn!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But this true course is not
embraced
by many:
By many!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thus saying, she offers him a rich ring of red gold "with a shining
stone
standing
aloft," that shone like the beams of the bright sun.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And he
deserves
your favor and a collar,
He, of the students the accomplished scholar.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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The Past hath crusted
cumbrous
shells
That hold the flesh of cold sea-mells
About my soul.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Two
together!
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Whitman |
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You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or
proprietary
form, including any
word processing or hypertext form.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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TO THE SHAH
FROM ENWERI
From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate,
And the
equipoise
of heaven is thy house's equipoise.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Would'st _thou_ such
stricture
close of bands endure
For golden Venus lying at thy side?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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er, myn
honoured
ladye3.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Then having bound the friar hand and foot,
And in another room his lady put,
He sallied forth his hapless lot to tell,
And to the mayor exposed the wily spell;
The
corporation
next; then up and down,
The secret he divulged throughout the town.
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La Fontaine |
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Myrtho
Myrtho, I think of you divine enchantress,
And of proud Posilipo, lit with a
thousand
fires,
Of your brow flooded with Eastern light,
And the black grapes twined in your golden hair.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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net (This book was
produced
from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
project.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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