XCIII
Him in the flank Gradasso too had gored;
(Nor this was
laughing
matter) so had scanned
His vantage that redoubted paynim lord,
He found a place wherein to plant his brand;
He broke the warrior's shield, his left arm bored,
And touched him slightly in the better hand.
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Thou shalt not ease the
Criticks
of next age
So much, at once their hunger to asswage:
Nor shall wit-pirats hope to finde thee lye 65
All in one bottome, in one Librarie.
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John Donne |
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As soon as his approach the hero knew,
The splendid mantle round him first he threw,
Then o'er his ample
shoulders
whirl'd the cloak,
Respectful met the monarch, and bespoke:
"Hail, great Atrides, favour'd of high Jove!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Our whipper-in, wee, blasted wonner,
Poor,
worthless
elf, it eats a dinner,
Better than ony tenant-man
His Honour has in a' the lan':
An' what poor cot-folk pit their painch in,
I own it's past my comprehension.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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" With such fiery question burned his glance,
That to quiet him in haste I answered,
"All that you have said is
doubtless
so;
"But, pray, calm yourself, my dear, good fellow, Let it be, and let it go at that.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Thucydides, who mark'd distinct and clear
The tardy round of many a bloody year,
And, with a master's graphic skill, pourtray'd
The fields, "whose summer dust with blood was laid;"
And near Herodotus his
ninefold
roll display'd,
Father of history; and Euclid's vest
The heaven-taught symbols of that art express'd
That measures matter, form, and empty space,
And calculates the planets' heavenly race;
And Porphyry, whose proud obdurate heart
Was proof to mighty Truth's celestial dart;
With sophistry assail'd the cause of God,
And stood in arms against the heavenly code.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Gaze once more on the fast closed eyes;
Mark once the mouth that never speaks;
Think of the man and his quiet manner:
Weep if you will; then go your way;
But
remember
his face as it looks to the skies,
And the dumb appeal wherewith it seeks
To lead us on, as one should say, "Arise--
Go forth to meet your country's noblest day!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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would I afford thee hire,
A
labourer
at my farm?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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His belly and his palate
Would be
compounded
with for rea?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering
lunar incantations
Disolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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VII
--Yet, voices haunting us, daunting us,
taunting
us,
Hint in the night-time when life beats are low
Other and graver things .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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net/2/4/6/8/24689
An alternative method of
locating
eBooks:
http://www.
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Sappho |
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Through so many streams with joy
My soul is fill'd, that
gladness
wells from it;
So that it bears the mighty tide, and bursts not
Say then, my honour'd stem!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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_The Book of Pilgrimage_
By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep and
brooding
stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has struck, to close again.
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Rilke - Poems |
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CLXVII
The count Rollant sees the
Archbishop
lie dead,
Sees the bowels out of his body shed,
And sees the brains that surge from his forehead;
Between his two arm-pits, upon his breast,
Crossways he folds those hands so white and fair.
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Chanson de Roland |
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nat in to
outerest
foreine
?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is
delicate
and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!
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Wilde - Poems |
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Hath the Count all this
intelligence?
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Shakespeare |
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You
masquerader!
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Imagists |
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'
Therwith
al rosy hewed tho wex she,
And gan to humme, and seyde, `So I trowe.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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faith in fallen things--be thou my crown,
My force, my joy, my prop on which I lean:
Yes, whilst _he's_ there, or
struggle
some or fall,
O France, dear France, for whom I weep in vain.
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Hugo - Poems |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their
banquets
been dreaded,
Yelling with brassiest voice orders to great and to small.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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His opinion, for example, of Sir Henry Wotton's "Verses on
the Queen of Bohemia"-that "there are few finer things in our language,"
is
untenable
and absurd.
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Poe - 5 |
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"
He sprang aloof as springald from detested school,
Or ocean-rover from
protected
port.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He saw the foe's
uncovered
side, and opened
there a wound.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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CCXXXVIII
Great is that plain, and wide is that country;
Their helmets shine with golden jewellery,
Also their sarks
embroidered
and their shields,
And the ensigns fixed on all their burnished spears.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I hear the Florentine, who from his palace
Wheels out his battle-bell with dreadful din,
And Aztec priests upon their teocallis
Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin;
The tumult of each sacked and burning village;
The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns;
The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage;
The wail of famine in beleaguered towns;
The bursting shell, the gateway
wrenched
asunder,
The rattling musketry, the clashing blade;
And ever and anon, in tones of thunder,
The diapason of the cannonade.
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Longfellow |
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Yet say (for the
Immortals
all things know) 570
What God detains me, and my course forbids
Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep?
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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In short 'twas
difficult
to say,
What charity was shown from day to day.
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La Fontaine |
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The figure of a nut
Presents upon a tree,
Equally plausibly;
But meat within is requisite,
To
squirrels
and to me.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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at Volusi annales Paduam
morientur
ad ipsam
et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas.
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Latin - Catullus |
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I turn my body and gaze
longingly
towards the West.
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Li Po |
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Oft to the heroes Hrothgar's daughter,
to earls in turn, the ale-cup tendered, --
she whom I heard these hall-companions
Freawaru name, when fretted gold
she
proffered
the warriors.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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This is the alchemical fusion of male and female
principles
which produces gold, a process sacred to Hermes Trismegistos.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Would the gods my heart were
innocent
as well!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Some of them, as if
conscious
where their weakness lay, had, when
filling the highest magistracies, taken internal administration
as their department of public business, and left the military
command to their colleagues.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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The Earl of Essex, noble and high; and Sir Walter Raleigh,
not to be contemned, either for
judgment
or style.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Be Lyon metled, proud, and take no care:
Who chafes, who frets, or where
Conspirers
are:
Macbeth shall neuer vanquish'd be, vntill
Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill
Shall come against him.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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org),
you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of
obtaining
a copy upon
request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
form.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Be pleased to admire
My
juvenile
choir!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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quae
postquam
uitae iam mille peregerit annos
ac si reddiderint tempora longa grauem,
ut reparet lapsum spatiis uergentibus aeuum,
adsuetum nemoris dulce cubile fugit;
cumque renascendi studio loca sancta reliquit,
tunc petit hunc orbem, mors ubi regna tenet.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thee, bold
Longinus!
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Alexander Pope |
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LFS}
Sometimes I think thou art fruit
breaking
from its bud
In dreadful dolor & pain & I am like an atom
A Nothing left in darkness yet I am an identity
I wish & feel & weep & groan Ah terrible terrible
PAGE 5 In Beulah Eden,Females sleep the winter in soft silken veils*
{First 8 lines inserted over a deleted strata LFS} Woven by their own hands to hide them in the darksom grave
But Males immortal live renewd by female deaths.
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Blake - Zoas |
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200
Anon, appears a brave, a
gorgeous
show
Of horsemen-shadows moving to and fro; [60]
At intervals imperial banners stream, [61]
And now the van reflects the solar beam; [62]
The rear through iron brown betrays a sullen gleam.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The
Princess
in the Tower
I
The Princess sings:
I am the princess up in the tower
And I dream the whole day thro'
Of a knight who shall come with a silver spear
And a waving plume of blue.
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Sara Teasdale |
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rēðes and-hāttres
(_fierce,
penetrating
heat_), 2524.
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Beowulf |
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XVI
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
Mountains of water now set in motion,
A thousand
breakers
of cliff-jarring ocean,
Striking the reef, driven in the wind's maw:
View now a fierce northerly, with emotion,
Stirring the storm to its loud-whistling core,
Then folding in air its vaster wing once more
Suddenly weary, as if at some new notion:
As we see a flame, spread in a hundred places,
Gather, in one flare, towards heaven's spaces,
Then powerless fade and die: so, in its day,
This Empire passed, and overwhelming all
Like wave, or wind, or flame, along its way,
Halted at last by Fate, sank here, in fall.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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HELVETII, a people in the
neighbourhood
of the Allobroges, situate on
the south-west side of the Rhine, and separated from Gaul by the
Rhodanus and Lacus Lemanus.
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Tacitus |
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And why it
scatters
its bright beauty thro the humid air.
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blake-poems |
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The morning planet told the approach of light;
And, fast behind, Aurora's warmer ray
O'er the broad ocean pour'd the golden day:
Then sank the blaze, the pile no longer burn'd,
And to their caves the
whistling
winds return'd:
Across the Thracian seas their course they bore;
The ruffled seas beneath their passage roar.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Oh what a
multitude
they seemed, these flowers of London town!
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blake-poems |
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Distress
I don't come to conquer your flesh tonight, O beast
In whom are the sins of the race, nor to stir
In your foul tresses a mournful tempest
Beneath the fatal boredom my kisses pour:
A heavy sleep without those dreams that creep
Under curtains alien to remorse, I ask of your bed,
Sleep you can savour after your dark deceits,
You who know more of
Nothingness
than the dead.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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From finest
sweetest
place I see
No messenger, no word for me,
So my heart can't laugh or rest,
And I don't dare try my hand,
Until I know, and can attest,
That all things are as I demand.
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Troubador Verse |
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que vous etes bien dans le beau cimetiere
Vous
mendiants
morts saouls de biere
Vous les aveugles comme le destin
Et vous petits enfants morts en priere
Ah!
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Imagination flowers and vanishes, swiftly, following the flow of the writing, round the fragmentary stations of a capitalised phrase introduced by and
extended
from the title.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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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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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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The
obsession
of impermanence has often been sublimated into great
mystic poetry.
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Li Po |
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Circling
bloom
Crowned the loose-lifted tresses there.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But,
Menelaus
dear to Jove!
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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darkning
in the West
Lost!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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"
"AT THE GOLDEN GATE"
Before the golden gate she stands,
With
drooping
head, with idle hands
Loose-clasped, and bent beneath the weight
Of unseen woe.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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6 _disertum_ G
10 _petit_ G
11
_incommoda_
Dap: _com(m)oda_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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AELLA, the wardenne of thys[66] castell[67] stede,
Whylest Saxons dyd the
Englysche
sceptre swaie,
Who made whole troopes of Dacyan men to blede, 10
Then seel'd[68] hys eyne, and seeled hys eyne for aie,
Wee rowze hym uppe before the judgment daie,
To saie what he, as clergyond[69], can kenne,
And howe hee sojourned in the vale of men.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Would that those persons could know how much I despise
them, and how much I prefer my mediocrity to the vain
grandeur
which
renders them so proud!
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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--Published 1807 [A]
When I have borne in memory what has tamed
Great Nations, how ennobling
thoughts
depart
When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country!
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William Wordsworth |
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Yeats' free
adaptation
is the well-known poem 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep' (In 'The Rose').
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Ronsard |
|
Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
concept of a library of
electronic
works that could be freely shared
with anyone.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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It is very much more
difficult
to talk about a thing than to do it.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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" 240
And nowe the officers came ynne
To brynge Syr CHARLES awaie,
Whoe turnedd toe his lovynge wyfe,
And thus toe her dydd saie:
"I goe to lyfe, and nott to dethe; 245
Truste thou ynne Godde above,
And teache thye sonnes to feare the Lorde,
And ynne theyre hertes hym love:
"Teache them to runne the nobile race
Thatt I theyre fader runne: 250
FLORENCE!
| Guess: |
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it
therefore
the less _gone_?
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Poe - 5 |
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As a boy he had always dabbled in colors for his own amusement,
and had been given to poring over the
ordinary
boys' books upon natural
history.
| Guess: |
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Lear - Nonsense |
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He needs something
which everyone knows about, something which indisputably, and
admittedly, _has been_ a human experience; and even Grendel, the fiend
of the marshes, was, we can clearly see, for the poet of _Beowulf_ a
figure profoundly and
generally
accepted as not only true but real;
what, indeed, can be more real for poetry than a devouring fiend which
lives in pestilent fens?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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30
And shall this prize, th' inestimable prize,
Exposed through crystal to the gazing eyes,
And
heightened
by the diamond's circling rays,
On that rapacious hand for ever blaze?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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After a year I came again to the place--
The hunted
hurrying
people were still the same.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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150
Then I'll know who to thank, she said, and give me a
straight
look.
| Guess: |
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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It is alleged that I have praised Brutus
and Cassius; men whose lives and actions have been
compiled
by a cloud
of writers, and their memory treated by none but with honour.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tacitus |
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On the
bleakness
of my lot
Bloom I strove to raise.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Father, thy word is past, man shall find grace;
And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
The
speediest
of thy winged messengers,
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Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought,
Happie for man, so coming; be her aide
Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost;
Attonement for himself or offering meet,
Indebted and undon, hath none to bring:
Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life
I offer, on mee let thine anger fall;
Account mee man; I for his sake will leave
Thy bosom, and this glorie next to thee
Freely put off, and for him lastly die 240
Well pleas'd, on me let Death wreck all his rage;
Under his gloomie power I shall not long
Lie vanquisht; thou hast givn me to possess
Life in my self for ever, by thee I live,
Though now to Death I yeild, and am his due
All that of me can die, yet that debt paid,
Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave
His prey, nor suffer my unspotted Soule
For ever with corruption there to dwell;
But I shall rise Victorious, and subdue 250
My Vanquisher, spoild of his vanted spoile;
Death his deaths wound shall then receive, & stoop
Inglorious, of his mortall sting disarm'd.
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Milton |
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ETEOCLES
Let men with
sacrifice
and augury
Approach the gods, when comes the tug of war;
Maids must be silent and abide within.
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Aeschylus |
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The
thundering
line of battle stands,
And in the air Death moans and sings;
But Day shall clasp him with strong hands,
And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thus Juno pleaded; and all the heavenly people murmured in diverse
consent; even as rising gusts murmur when caught in the forests, and
eddy in blind moanings,
betraying
to sailors the gale's approach.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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III
In Debtors' Yard the stones are hard,
And the
dripping
wall is high,
So it was there he took the air
Beneath the leaden sky,
And by each side a warder walked,
For fear the man might die.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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tunc inter uarios animam
commendat
odores,
depositi tanti nec timet illa fidem.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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And then the lie of lies that dimmed thy brow,
Vaunting that by thy gold, thy chattels, Thou
Wert Something; which
themselves
are nothingness.
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Euripides - Electra |
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The brook was thrown
Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid
darkness
still to live and run--
And all for nothing it had ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Galahad's
armor flashed and
darkened
again every instant with quick, thick
lightnings which struck the dead old tree trunks on every side until at
last they blazed into a fire.
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Tennyson |
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Liue you, or are you aught
That man may
question?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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[Sidenote A: Then was Gawayne glad,]
[Sidenote B: and
consents
to tarry awhile at the castle.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
LIABILITY, BREACH OF
WARRANTY
OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.
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Sara Teasdale |
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XXX
As the sown field its fresh
greenness
shows,
From that greenness the green shoot is born,
From the shoot there flowers an ear of corn,
From the ear, yellow grain, sun-ripened glows:
And as, in due season, the farmer mows
The waving locks, from the gold furrow shorn
Lays them in lines, and to the light of dawn
On the bare field, a thousand sheaves he shows:
So the Roman Empire grew by degrees,
Till barbarous power brought it to its knees,
Leaving only these ancient ruins behind,
That all and sundry pillage: as those who glean,
Following step by step, the leavings find,
That after the farmer's passage may be seen.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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The
portrait
of Atticus, on the other hand, was, as we know,
the work of years.
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Alexander Pope |
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More
grim within sits the
monstrous
Hydra with her fifty black yawning
throats: and Tartarus' self gapes sheer and strikes into the gloom
through twice the space that one looks upward to Olympus and the skyey
heaven.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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TO this harangue the wary youth replied
In truth, fair lady, I could ne'er decide,
To
criticise
what others round may do.
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La Fontaine |
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Press down through the leaves of the
jasmine,
Dig through the
interlaced
roots--nevermore will you find me;
I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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What shall we do
tomorrow?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Already
thousands
attack his vulnerability:
You alone can protect him from his enemies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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for I would be the boldest and
truest being of the universe,
And who
benevolent?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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