On the wind of January
Down flits the snow,
Travelling
from the frozen North
As cold as it can blow.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Whether the all-cheering sun be free to shed
His beams around thee, or thou rest thy head
Pillowed
in some dark dungeon's noisome den, 1815.
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William Wordsworth |
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Canto XV
Benigna volontade in che si liqua
sempre l'amor che drittamente spira,
come cupidita fa ne la iniqua,
silenzio
puose a quella dolce lira,
e fece quietar le sante corde
che la destra del cielo allenta e tira.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He feels with emotion what a
beautiful
act it
would have been for his old father.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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But thou, say
wherefore
to such perils past
Return'st thou?
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_Graip_, a pronged instrument for
cleaning
cowhouses.
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Robert Forst |
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How else dispose of an
immortal
force
No longer needed?
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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XCVII
How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the
fleeting
year!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"
O, what a shout there went
From the black
regiment!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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"If I myself upon a looser Creed
Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good deed,
Let this one thing for my
Atonement
plead:
That One for Two I never did misread.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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It then goes out an act,
Or is
entombed
so still
That only to the ear of God
Its doom is audible.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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12),
Parisinum
7989, Harleianos
duo, quorum alter 2574 (_h_) saepe consentit cum Oxoniensi (_O_), alter
(4094) post Tibullum Propertiumque habet Catulli LXI, LXII, II, X, V-IX,
XI-XVII 14, duo Phillippicos, alterum 9591, scriptum anno 1453 (nunc
Bodl.
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Latin - Catullus |
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For heaven's sake dry your tears, nor by such woe
-- An evil omen for my arms -- offend;
And learn, 'tis Honour pricks me to the field,
And not an argent bird and
blazoned
shield.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oenone
I've explained, my Lord, all that
happened
then.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Whether
we drink them or not, as yet, before their strength is drawn, these
leaves, dried on great Nature's coppers, are of such various pure and
delicate tints as might make the fame of
Oriental
teas.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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this chill wind across the
mountain
rushing
Will drive me wild!
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Hugo - Poems |
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O
kindness
so ill repaid!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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but with an angel's air,
Astonished, eager, unaware,
Or elfin's, wandering with a grace
Foreign to any
fireside
race,
And with a gaiety unknown
In the light feet and hair backblown,
And with a sadness yet more strange,
In meagre cheeks which knew to change
Or faint or fired more swift than sight,
And forlorn hands and lips pressed white,
And fragile voice, and head downcast,
Hiding tears, lifted at the last
To speed with one pale smile the wise
Glance of the grey immortal eyes.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high
deserts?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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What state above, what
symmetry
below,
Lines have, or should have, thou the best can'st show.
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Robert Herrick |
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In the treatment of Fitzdottrel and
Merecraft
among the
chief persons, and of Plutarchus Guilthead among the lesser, this
play belongs to Jonson's character-drama.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Unto a heart filled with
funereal
things
That since old days hoar frosts have gathered on,
Naught is more sweet, O pallid, queenly springs,
Than the long pageant of your shadows wan,
Unless it be on moonless eves to weep
On some chance bed and rock our griefs to sleep.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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CXXIV
Marphisa
has king Mandricardo prest
Meanwhile, and makes him sweat breast, front, and face;
And he Marphisa has as sore distrest:
But such good plates each valiant bosom case,
Impassable is either iron vest;
And both have hitherto maintained their place.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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`For trewely, myn owene lady dere, 1450
Tho
sleightes
yet that I have herd yow stere
Ful shaply been to failen alle y-fere.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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e
parchemyn
I hym bou?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But, if at the Church they would give us some ale,
And a
pleasant
fire our souls to regale,
We'd sing and we'd pray all the livelong day,
Nor ever once wish from the Church to stray.
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blake-poems |
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Johnson has well remarked that
"to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of
the definer"--which shall exclude all gnomic and satiric verse, and so
debar the claims of Hesiod, Juvenal, and Boileau, it is
impossible
to
deny that Pope is a true poet.
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Alexander Pope |
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She is dead who never lived,
She who made
pretence
of being:
From her hands the book has slipped
In which her eyes read nothing.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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But in these weeks of the
awakening
Spring
Something within me has been freed--something
That in the past dark years unconscious lay,
Which rises now within me and commands
And gives my poor warm life into your hands
Who know not what I was that Yesterday.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Wīglāf
maðelode, Wēohstānes sunu,
secg sārig-ferð seah on unlēofe:
2865 "Þæt lā mæg secgan, sē þe wyle sōð sprecan,
"þæt se mon-dryhten, se ēow þā māðmas geaf,
"ēored-geatwe, þē gē þǣr on standað,
"þonne hē on ealu-bence oft gesealde
"heal-sittendum helm and byrnan,
2870 "þēoden his þegnum, swylce hē þrȳðlīcost
"ōhwǣr feor oððe nēah findan meahte,
"þæt hē gēnunga gūð-gewǣdu
"wrāðe forwurpe.
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Beowulf |
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Flesh painted with marrow
Contributes a coverlet,
A
coverlet
for his contented slumber.
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
THE MOTHER MOURNS
WHEN mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time,
And sedges were horny,
And summer's green
wonderwork
faltered
On leaze and in lane,
I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly
Came wheeling around me
Those phantoms obscure and insistent
That shadows unchain.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Lewis Carroll |
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Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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670
And thou conceal not,
artfully
reserv'd,
What I shall ask, far better plain declared
Than smother'd close; who art thou?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The fastidious care with which each poem is built
out of the simplest of technical elements, the precise tone and color of
language
employed
to articulate impulse and mood, and the reproduction
of objective substances for a clear visualization of character and
scene, all tend by a sure and unfaltering composition, to present a
lyric art unique in English poetry of the last twenty-five years.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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The huge
targets, the enormous spears, of the Barbarians could never be wielded
amongst thickets and trunks of trees like Roman swords and javelins,
and armour adjusted to the shape and size of their bodies, so that with
these tractable arms they might thicken their blows, and strike with
certainty at the naked faces of the enemy, since the Germans were
neither furnished with headpiece nor coat of mail, nor were their
bucklers bound with leather or fortified with iron, but all bare
basket-work or painted boards; and though their first ranks were armed
with pikes, the rest had only stakes burnt at the end, or short and
contemptible darts; for their persons, as they were terrible to sight
and violent in the onset, so they were utterly
impatient
of wounds,
unaffected with their own disgrace, unconcerned for the honour of their
general, whom they ever deserted and fled; in distress cowards, in
prosperity despisers of all divine, of all human laws.
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Tacitus |
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nec non exanimem amplectens Briseis Achillen
candida uesana uerberat ora manu;
et dominum lauit macrens captiua cruentum,
appositum
flauis in Simoente uadis,
foedauitque comas, et tanti corpus Achilli
maximaque in parua sustulit ossa manu;
cui tum nec Peleus aderat nec caerula mater,
Scyria nec uiduo Deidamia toro.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Let me obtain
forgiveness
of thee, Samson,
Afford me place to shew what recompence 910
Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone,
Misguided: only what remains past cure
Bear not too sensibly, nor still insist
To afflict thy self in vain: though sight be lost,
Life yet hath many solaces, enjoy'd
Where other senses want not their delights
At home in leisure and domestic ease,
Exempt from many a care and chance to which
Eye-sight exposes daily men abroad.
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Milton |
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Canzon: Spear
Or might my
troubled
heart be fed UpOn the frail clear light there shed>
Then were my pain at last allay'd.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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ADMETUS (_in a
comparatively
light tone_).
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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140
He dy'd and leffed wyfe and chyldren tweine,
Whom he wyth cheryshment did dearlie love;
In England's court, in goode Kynge Edwarde's regne,
He wonne the tylte, and ware her crymson glove;
And thence unto the place where he was borne, 145
Together with hys welthe & better wyfe,
To
Normandie
he dyd perdie returne,
In peace and quietnesse to lead his lyfe;
And now with sovrayn Wyllyam he came,
To die in battel, or get welthe and fame.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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" men shall ask
XXXV When the great pink mallow
XXXVI When I pass thy door at night
XXXVII Well I found you in the twilit garden
XXXVIII Will not men remember us
XXXIX I grow weary of the foreign cities
XL Ah, what detains thee, Phaon
XLI Phaon, O my lover
XLII O heart of insatiable longing
XLIII Surely somehow, in some measure
XLIV O but my
delicate
lover
XLV Softer than the hill-fog to the forest
XLVI I seek and desire
XLVII Like torn sea-kelp in the drift
XLVIII Fine woven purple linen
XLIX When I am home from travel
L When I behold the pharos shine
LI Is the day long
LII Lo, on the distance a dark blue ravine
LIII Art thou the topmost apple
LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over
LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?
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Sappho |
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Oh, with love and love's best care
Thy large godly
freightage
bear --
Godly Hearts that, Grails of gold,
Still the blood of Faith do hold.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Above the
playthings
by the little bed
The lion put his shaggy, massive head,
Dreadful with savage might and lordly scorn,
More dreadful with that princely prey so borne;
Which she, quick spying, "Brother, brother!
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Hugo - Poems |
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I have not followed original spacing exactly, except where it
genuinely
appears to add impact to the verse.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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enne Eufemian with-stod,
and
grantede
wi?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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He knew that
Hop-Frog was not fond of wine, for it excited the poor cripple almost to
madness; and madness is no
comfortable
feeling.
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Poe - 5 |
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He speaks,
The
Minister
of State.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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95
Is my humiliation the gods
concern?
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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For those ashamed of him Cupid
reserves
the bitterest passions,
Mingling for hypocrites their pleasure in vice and remorse.
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CLYTEMNESTRA
Was it fear made this
meekness
to the gods?
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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The Estampida, a
medieval
dance and musical form called the estampie in French, and istampitta (also istanpitta or stampita) in Italian was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Troubador Verse |
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The god Priapus saw I, as I wente,
Within the temple, in soverayn place stonde,
In swich aray as whan the asse him shente 255
With crye by night, and with his ceptre in honde;
Ful besily men gunne assaye and fonde
Upon his hede to sette, of sondry hewe,
Garlondes
ful of fresshe floures newe.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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From its green urn the rose unfolding grand,
Weighs down the
exquisite
smallness of her hand.
| Guess: |
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"
V
Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds
Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim;
Against the ice-white wall of light in the west
Skeleton
trees bow down in a stream of air.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Then he runs to his horse, the bridle
he catches, steps into his
stirrups
and strides aloft.
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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[12] This scene not
improbably
illustrates the
effort of Enkidu to rescue his friend from the goddess.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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And while they wept,
they looked out into the
distance
and saw the deep mountain of Tsang-wu.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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According to her vida, she was married to Guillem or Guilhem de Poitiers, Count of Viennois, but was in love with and sang about
Raimbaut
of Orange, 1146-1173.
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Troubador Verse |
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and they meant the word,
Not as with us 'tis heard,
Not a mere party shout:
They gave their spirits out;
Trusted the end to God,
And on the gory sod
Rolled in
triumphant
blood.
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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not to know a queen
Could
raillery
not bear on such a scene.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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There was a bridge, and we
resolved
to
cross it.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Easy
Easy and beautiful under
your eyelids
As the meeting of pleasure
Dance and the rest
I spoke the fever
The best reason for fire
That you might be pale and luminous
A thousand fruitful poses
A thousand ravaged embraces
Repeated move to erase themselves
You grow dark you unveil yourself
A mask you
control it
It deeply resembles you
And you seem nothing but lovelier naked
Naked in shadow and dazzlingly naked
Like a sky shivering with flashes of lightning
You reveal
yourself
to you
To reveal yourself to others
Talking of Power and Love
Between all my torments between death and self
Between my despair and the reason for living
There is injustice and this evil of men
That I cannot accept there is my anger
There are the blood-coloured fighters of Spain
There are the sky-coloured fighters of Greece
The bread the blood the sky and the right to hope
For all the innocents who hate evil
The light is always close to dying
Life always ready to become earth
But spring is reborn that is never done with
A bud lifts from dark and the warmth settles
And the warmth will have the right of the selfish
Their atrophied senses will not resist
I hear the fire talk lightly of coolness
I hear a man speak what he has not known
You who were my flesh's sensitive conscience
You I love forever you who made me
You will not tolerate oppression or injury
You'll sing in dream of earthly happiness
You'll dream of freedom and I'll continue you
The Beloved
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is wound in mine,
She has the form of my hands,
She has the colour of my eyes,
She is swallowed by my shadow
Like a stone against the sky.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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e frendes ne
shollen nat ben
rekkened
among ?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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'
When the shadow with fatal law menaced me
A certain old dream, sick desire of my spine,
Beneath funereal ceilings
afflicted
by dying
Folded its indubitable wing there within me.
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
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Outside the day was one of green and blue,
With touches of a
luminous
glowing red,
Across the quiet pond the small waves sped.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rilke - Poems |
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How like a poet was my chum
When, sitting by his fire alone
Whilst cheerily the embers shone,
He "Benedetta" used to hum,
Or "Idol mio," and in the grate
Would lose his
slippers
or gazette.
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Sur le
plancher
frissonnaient d'aise
Ses petits pieds si fins, si fins.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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YESTERDAY
This Day's Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink!
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| Source: |
Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And who is this Masha to whom you declare
your tender
sentiments
and your ardent flame?
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
"The
contrary
of what I covet most,"
Said he, "thou tender'st: hence; nor vex me more.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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those
lustrous
eyes,
Which tearfully beheld the cruel prints
In the fair limbs of thy beloved Son,
Ah!
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Petrarch |
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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 drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Whose saintly visage is too bright
To hit the sense of human sight,
And
therefore
to our weaker view
O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue;
Black, but such as in esteem
Prince Memnon's sister might beseem.
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Golden Treasury |
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1O88
No more 'twixt
conscience
staggering and the Pope
Soon shall I now before my God appear,
By him to be acquitted, as I hope;
By him to be condemned, as I fear.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Phaedra
You
Heavens!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"
And I felt such a precious tear
Pall on my
withered
cheek,
And darn it!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They with mighty moan rage indignant round their
mountain
barriers.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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they for joy did grin,
And all at once their breath drew in,
As they were
drinking
all.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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How can a child, when fears annoy,
But droop his tender wing,
And forget his
youthful
spring?
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blake-poems |
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Yet was displayed amid the mournful gloom
Some copper vessels, and some
crockery
ware.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
inhabitants
came out of their
houses, offering bread and salt.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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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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DOTH still before thee rise the beauteous image
Of him who high the cliff for roses scales,
Who nigh forgets the day amidst the scrimmage,
Who fullest honey from the bunch
inhales?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And thus his will and hardy wisdom won;
And forward thus he fared afar, beyond
The flaming
ramparts
of the world, until
He wandered the unmeasurable All.
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Lucretius |
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How
beautiful
thou art!
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Keats |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'196 the Turk':
it was
formerly
the practice for a Turkish monarch when succeeding to
the throne to have all his brothers murdered so as to do away with
possible rivals.
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Alexander Pope |
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Dear Lord, the bad are
miserable
all,
Be not Thou deaf, like them, unto my prayer,
It is for them I call.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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XXII
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Bounded on the Danube, in Africa,
Among the tribes along the Thames' shore,
And where the rising sun ascends in flame,
Her own nurslings stirred, in mutinous game
Against her very self, the spoils of war,
So dearly won from all the world before,
That same world's spoil suddenly became:
So when the Great Year its course has run,
And twenty six thousand years are done,
The
elements
freed from Nature's accord,
Those seeds that are the source of everything,
Will return in Time to their first discord,
Chaos' eternal womb their presence hiding.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[Note 37: It is thus that I am
compelled
to render a female
garment not known, so far as I am aware, to Western Europe.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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This school has been widely discussed by those
interested
in new
movements in the arts, and has already become a household word.
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Imagists |
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And having determined how
you'll say it,
you had next best
ascertain
whom
it is that you say it to.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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You may use this eBook
for nearly any purpose such as
creation
of derivative works, reports,
performances and research.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal
belief that the pupils of the Imam
Mowaffak
will attain to fortune.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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