Steel did the labour of the gods destroy,
And strike to dust th'
aspiring
tow'rs of Troy;
Steel could the works of mortal pride confound,
And hew triumphal arches to the ground.
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Over the mounds stood the nettles in pride,
And, where no fine flowers, there kind weeds dared to wave;
It seemed but as
yesterday
she lay by my side,
And now my dog ate of the grass on her grave.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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ou
pleynest
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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O
congenerate
hearts,
Octogenarian Eves o'er whom is stretched
God's awful claw, where will you be to-morrow?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Hutchinson
called the attention of Professor Dowden to the same
resemblance between the two pictures.
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William Wordsworth |
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God grant him now His
Benediction!
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Chanson de Roland |
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The moss upon the forest bark
Was pole-star when the night was dark;
The purple berries in the wood
Supplied me
necessary
food;
For Nature ever faithful is
To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Emerson - Poems |
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why nil ye me socoure,
The Ioye, I trowe, that I
langoure?
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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qua_ Ven
10 _seruom_]
_seruum_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Meredith - Poems |
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, _sword-hilt_, with the gold chains
fastened
to it: acc.
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Beowulf |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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_ Then remember, O nymphs, what I tell you before,
Nor, when pierced by the arrows that Ate will throw you,
Cast blame on your fate and declare evermore
That Zeus thrust you on anguish he did not
foreshow
you.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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unto the mighty
presence
of the shepherd,
unto the place of the .
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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at ye set you most
soverainly
my suster to gete.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And Susan she begins to fear
Of sad
mischances
not a few,
That Johnny may perhaps be drown'd,
Or lost perhaps, and never found;
Which they must both for ever rue.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--that light
bequeathed
5
To Beings else forlorn and blind!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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If their
friend consent not to their vices, though he do not contradict them, he
is
nevertheless
an enemy.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His flashing eyes, his
floating
hair!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Of the
magnitude
and compass of any fable, epic or dramatic.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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I see plenteous waters;
I see mountain-peaks--I see the sierras of Andes and Alleghanies, where
they range;
I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts;
I see the Rocky Mountains, and the Peak of Winds;
I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps;
I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians--and to the north the Dofrafields,
and off at sea Mount Hecla;
I see Vesuvius and Etna--I see the Anahuacs;
I see the Mountains of the Moon, and the Snow Mountains, and the Red
Mountains of Madagascar;
I see the Vermont hills, and the long string of Cordilleras;
I see the vast deserts of Western America;
I see the Libyan, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts;
I see huge dreadful Arctic and Anarctic icebergs;
I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones--the Atlantic and Pacific,
the sea of Mexico, the
Brazilian
sea, and the sea of Peru,
The Japan waters, those of Hindostan, the China Sea, and the Gulf of
Guinea,
The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the Bay
of Biscay,
The clear-sunned Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America,
The White Sea, and the sea around Greenland.
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Whitman |
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I am settled, and bend vp
Each
corporall
Agent to this terrible Feat.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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' too,
And into the grassy ditch's tomb
Fall great and small to their doom,
Seeing the corpses twice run through
By lances on which
pennants
loom.
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Troubador Verse |
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The fine slender shoulder-blades:
The long arms, with tapering hands:
My small breasts: the hips well made
Full and firm, and sweetly planned,
All Love's
tournaments
to withstand:
The broad flanks: the nest of hair,
With plump thighs firmly spanned,
Inside its little garden there?
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Villon |
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[Footnote 23: The original means
literally
_sea-cat_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Musa gloriam Coronat,
gloriaque
musam.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The original Rubaiyat (as,
missing an Arabic Guttural, these Tetrastichs are more musically
called) are
independent
Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of
equal, though varied, Prosody; sometimes all rhyming, but oftener (as
here imitated) the third line a blank.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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E'en now, a
helpless
wrack,
You drift, despoil'd of oars;
The Afric gale has dealt your mast a wound;
Your sailyards groan, nor can your keel sustain,
Till lash'd with cables round,
A more imperious main.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I make no
reservation
of your being well-married: you have so much
sense, and knowledge of human nature, that though you may not realize
perhaps the ideas of romance, yet you will never be ill-married.
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Robert Forst |
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Receive, for this thy praise, our tears;
Receive this
offering
of our hairs;
Receive these crystal vials, fill'd
With tears, distill'd
From teeming eyes; to these we bring,
Each maid, her silver filleting,
To gild thy tomb; besides, these cauls,
These laces, ribbons, and these falls,
These veils, wherewith we use to hide
The bashful bride,
When we conduct her to her groom;
All, all we lay upon thy tomb.
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Robert Herrick |
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But over all its waves, once more
The
searchlights
move, from shore to shore.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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searching
of thy wound,
I have by hard adventure found mine own.
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Shakespeare |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
The Bellman
indignantly
said.
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Lewis Carroll |
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For
that which happens to the eyes when we behold a body, the same happens to
the memory when we
contemplate
an action.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Ouvrez votre narine aux
superbes
nausees!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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A mortal sovereign holds her
dangerous
throne,
And thou mayst find a new Calypso there.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The next in
succession
I'll give you's the King!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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CHARTimiMO FILIO) KDMUMDO TROTTIO,
FOSUIMUS
PATER ET
MATER, FRU8TRA 8UPER8TITE8.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Him in this strange
disguise
she from the cell
Crawling (for such was her command) did guide,
Where, prisoned by a stone, in her retreat,
Was hid his beauteous lady's visage sweet.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Meredith - Poems |
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ha
6
_peruoluit_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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[_The
Attendants
depart;_ CLYTEMNESTRA, _left alone, proceeds to enter the
house_.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"An unseen tomb-torch flickers on thy path,
Whilst, as from vial full, thy spare-naught wrath
Splashes
this trembling race:
These are thy grass as thou their trenchant scythes
Cleaving their neck as 'twere a willow withe--
Their blood none can efface.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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"Þǣr wearð Ongenþīo ecgum sweorda,
"blonden-fexa on bīd wrecen,
"þæt se þēod-cyning þafian sceolde
2965 "Eofores ānne dōm: hyne yrringa
"Wulf
Wonrēding
wǣpne gerǣhte,
"þæt him for swenge swāt ǣdrum sprong
"forð under fexe.
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Beowulf |
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William Wordsworth |
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Upon this occasion Caecina Severus proposed, "that no
magistrate
should
go into any province accompanied by his wife.
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Tacitus |
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Though wide, and various, o'er the sculptur'd stone[406]
The feats of gods, and godlike heroes shone;
On speed the vengeful demon views no more:
Forward he rushes through the golden door,
Where ocean's king, enclos'd with nymphs divine,
In regal state receives the king of wine:[407]
"O
Neptune!
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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"
Then I: "But she, my only choice,
Is now at
Kingsbere
Grove?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And as you left, suspired
confused
and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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And if within your breast
My image hath not disappeared,
Know that your sarcasm ill-suppressed,
Your
conversation
cold and hard,
If the choice in my power were,
To lawless love I should prefer--
And to these letters and these tears.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"--
"I met him at this daybreak,
Scarce the east was red:
Lest the
creaking
gate should anger you,
I packed him home to bed.
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Christina Rossetti |
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To create new rhythms--as the
expression
of new moods--and not to copy
old rhythms, which merely echo old moods.
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Imagists |
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VII
Rome
Oh for the rising moon
Over the roofs of Rome,
And swallows in the dusk
Circling a
darkened
dome!
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Sara Teasdale |
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8 Lord God of Hoasts hear now my praier
O Jacobs God give ear, 30
9 Thou God our shield look on the face
Of thy
anointed
dear.
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Milton |
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THE FOUR ZOAS
VALA *
The torments of Love &
Jealousy
in
The Death and
Judgement
of Albion the Ancient Man
a Dream
of Nine Night
by William Blake 1797
PAGE 2
Rest before Labour
PAGE 3
[Greek text] [For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
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Blake - Zoas |
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O a word to clear one's path ahead
endlessly!
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Whitman |
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835
Your tears
prevailed
then over my deep regret.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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For if Criseyde hadde erst
compleyned
sore, 825
Tho gan she pleyne a thousand tymes more.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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To gain these fruits that have been earned,
To hold these fields that have been won,
Our arms have strained, our backs have burned,
Bent bare beneath a
ruthless
sun.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs,
And when all life and all the souls of men and women are
discharged
from
any part of the earth,
Then only shall Liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
And the infidel and the tyrant come into possession.
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Whitman |
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Could she not wait to catch their
answering
breath?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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_The Anatomie of the World_ was composed in 1611, _Of
the Progresse of the Soule_ in France in 1612, at some time prior to
the 14th of April, when he refers to his
_Anniversaries_
in a letter
to George Gerrard.
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John Donne |
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thou only, if I guess aright,
Liftest the
feathers
of the robin's breast,
That swells its little breast, so full of song,
Singing above me, on the mountain-ash.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Living, and weeping, late I've learn'd to say
That here below--Oh,
knowledge
dearly bought!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Thus disencumber'd from the heavier weight,
The lesser may aside be easier laid,
And the freed pilgrim win the crystal gate;
So
teaching
us, since all things that are made
Hasten to death, how light must be his soul
Who treads the perilous pass, unscathed and whole!
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Petrarch |
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I do
not think it has been
collated
before.
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Robert Herrick |
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SELECTED
POEMS
OF OSCAR WILDE
INCLUDING
THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL
* * * * *
METHUEN & CO.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Flourish
the trumpet!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Smoothed
by long fingers,
Asleep .
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T.S. Eliot |
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These now unglue
from thy nails and return, lest the stinging scourge shall shamefully score
thy downy flanks and delicate hands, and thou unwonted heave and toss like
a tiny boat
surprised
on the vasty sea by a raging storm.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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He tried to run back to his house, but in vain,
For scores of fat Pigs came again and again:
They rushed out of stables and hovels and doors;
They tore off his stockings, his shoes, and his drawers;
And now from the housetops with screechings descend
Striped, spotted, white, black, and gray Cats without end:
They jumped on his shoulders and knocked off his hat,
When Crows, Ducks, and Hens made a
mincemeat
of that;
They speedily flew at his sleeves in a trice,
And utterly tore up his Shirt of dead Mice;
They swallowed the last of his Shirt with a squall,--
Whereon he ran home with no clothes on at all.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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WE shall not be observed, the first replied;
These ills thy fancy forms: haste, let's decide,
And seize the moment while 'tis in our reach,
Without regard to what old dotards teach,
Or what may happen at a future hour;
Here's no one near: 'tis fully in our pow'r;
The time and place so thoroughly agree,
'Twill be
impossible
our freaks to see;
But 'twill be right that one should watch with care;
While t'other with the lad seeks joys to share,
And irksome gloom endeavours to dispel:
He's dumb, you know, and tales can never tell.
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La Fontaine |
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And now 'tis done: more durable than brass
My
monument
shall be, and raise its head
O'er royal pyramids: it shall not dread
Corroding rain or angry Boreas,
Nor the long lapse of immemorial time.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O
troubled
reflection in the sea!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The gross products of the plains and valleys are for such
as dwell therein; but it seemed to us that the juices of this berry
had
relation
to the thin air of the mountain-tops.
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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He
promised
'a new start'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Then the initiates must
aimlessly
wander about through the eerie
Circles of figures as if pilgriming through their own dreams.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Fly
The Fable of the Ant and the Fly
'The Fable of the Ant and the Fly'
Aegidius Sadeler, Marcus
Gheeraerts
(I), Marcus Gheeraerts (I), 1608, The Rijksmuseun
The songs that our flies know
Were taught to them in Norway
By flies who are they say
Divinities of snow.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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Of every thing that she may see 4225
Drede is aferd, wher-so she be;
For with a puff of litel winde
Drede is
astonied
in hir minde.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
in
paragraph
1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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From the Prelude ix
SEEK not to know which song or saying yields
The palm of praise or garland at the feast,
What yester tempest blew through arid fields,
Now lies 'mid laurels in the
hallowed
Bast.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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I think no virtue goes with size;
The reason of all cowardice
Is, that men are overgrown,
And, to be valiant, must come down
To the
titmouse
dimension.
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Emerson - Poems |
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_B_
Bridgewater
MS.
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John Donne |
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Since to the right way brought by God's decree,
Lifting my hands to heaven with pious heart,
I thank Him for his love and grace, for He
The soul-prayer of the just will never thwart:
And if, returning to the amorous strife,
Its fair desire to teach us to deny,
Hollows and
hillocks
in thy path abound,
'Tis but to prove to us with thorns how rife
The narrow way, the ascent how hard and high,
Where with true virtue man at last is crown'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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For there is not a poet throughout the whole land but
will
purchase
a copy or two out of hand, in the fond expectation of
being amused in it, by seeing his betters cut up and abused in it.
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James Russell Lowell |
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(So people far from the asphalt footing of Pennsylvania
Avenue look, wonder, mumble--the riding white-jaw
phantoms ride hi-eeee, hi-eeee, hi-yi, hi-yi, hi-eeee--
the
proclamations
of the honorable orators mix with the
top-sergeants whistling the roll call.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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I
composed
this song pretty early in life, and sent it to a young
girl, a very particular acquaintance of mine, who was at that time
under a cloud.
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Robert Burns |
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Aussi la
_Comedie
en trois baisers:_
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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a nymph of Dian's,
Weaving a coronal of tender scions
For very
idleness?
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Keats |
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LOVE, HOPE, AND
PATIENCE
IN EDUCATION
O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule,
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces,
And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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For whatsoe'er thou seest
Grow big with glad increase, and step by step
Climb upward to ripe age, these to themselves
Take in more bodies than they send from selves,
Whilst still the food is easily infused
Through all the veins, and whilst the things are not
So far
expanded
that they cast away
Such numerous atoms as to cause a waste
Greater than nutriment whereby they wax.
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Lucretius |
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PREFACE
THESE trifles are collected and
republished
chiefly with a view to their
redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected
while going at random the "rounds of the press.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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it back returns upon a nether course
Till fired with ardour fresh
recruited
in its humble spring season
It rises up on high all summer till its wearied course
Turns into autumn.
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Blake - Zoas |
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List to me, O
Madelaine!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Permit me; is it worth the trouble
For your instruction here to tell
What I by relatives
conceive?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Full oft for less have I largess showered,
my
precious
hoard, on a punier man,
less stout in struggle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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