--
Let
constancy
and truth exalt the name
Of her, the lovely candidate for fame,
Who saved her spouse!
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Hrothgar
will set aside this feud by giving his daughter as
"peace-weaver" and wife to the young king Ingeld, son of the slain
Froda.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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If your officer's dead and the
sergeants
look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Your powers
Are sovereign, Mother, but past
histories
live
In hearts as young as ours.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such themes are always felt by the
Chinese to be in part allegorical, the deserted lady symbolizing the
minister whose
counsels
a wicked monarch will not heed.
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Li Po |
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Whoever wanders
somewhere
in the world
Wanders in vain in the world
Wanders to me.
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Rilke - Poems |
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surely thy resolve
Is
altogether
fixt to perish there,
If thou indeed hast purposed with that throng
To mix, whose riot and outrageous acts 400
Of violence echo through the vault of heav'n.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Is it not
something
that has been better told or done before?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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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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So might we talk of the old
familiar
faces,
How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
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Golden Treasury |
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Esteem a man that has me in
disdain?
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"
—Sioux
City, Iowa, Daily Tribune
"Has in it finer stuff than we've seen in many another more pre tentious journal.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Bacche, ueni, dulcisque tuis e
cornibus
uua
pendeat; et spicis tempora cinge, Ceres.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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"
That hour accurst how did the fiends rejoice
And hell, thro' all her confines, raise the
exulting
voice,
That hour which saw the generous English name
Linkt with such damned deeds of everlasting shame!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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illic indocto primum se
exercuit
arcu:
ei mihi, quam doctas nunc habet ille manus!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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She, that had heard the noise of it before,
But
sorrowing
Lancelot should have stooped so low,
Marred her friend's aim with pale tranquillity.
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Tennyson |
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You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and
stallions
feeding!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face a face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des
eternels
regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Esperance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passe
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
LA CHANSON DU MAL-AIME
A Paul Leautaud
Et je chantais cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour a la semblance
Du beau Phenix s'il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Consider
the silent influence which
flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in
the bower.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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La terre, demi-nue,
heureuse
de revivre,
A des frissons de joie aux baisers du soleil.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for
the chateau, and while every village here
contains
at least several
gentlemen or "squires," _there_ there is but one to a seigniory.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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our young affections run to waste,
Or water but the desert: whence arise
But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste,
Rank at the core, though
tempting
to the eyes,
Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies,
And trees whose gums are poison; such the plants
Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies
O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants
For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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"
I was
approaching
my destination.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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's turn for laziness,
And it gives you a brain cool, quite frictionless, quiet,
Whose
internal
police nips the buds of all riot,--
A brain like a permanent strait-jacket put on
The heart that strives vainly to burst off a button,--
A brain which, without being slow or mechanic,
Does more than a larger less drilled, more volcanic; 860
He's a Cowper condensed, with no craziness bitten,
And the advantage that Wordsworth before him had written.
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James Russell Lowell |
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'166 the small pillow':
a richly
decorated
pillow which fashionable ladies used to prop them up
in bed when they received morning visits from gentlemen.
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Alexander Pope |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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"Maisie, darling, doesn't it make any
difference?
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Kipling - Poems |
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IO
I know not how I should
mistrust
your prayer;
Therefore the whole that ye desire of me
Ye now shall learn in one straightforward tale.
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Aeschylus |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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'
But the shouts of
laughter
that rose up drowned the priest's voice, for
they thought he was only trying them for argument.
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Yeats |
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Flirt, the keeper of a Virginia
ordinary, calls herself the daughter of a baronet, 'undone in the late
rebellion,'--her father having in truth been a tailor,--and three of the
Council, assuming to themselves an equal splendor of origin, are shown
to have been, one 'a broken exciseman who came over a poor servant,'
another a tinker
transported
for theft, and the third 'a common
pickpocket often flogged at the cart's tail.
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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`And hardily, ne dredeth no poverte, 1520
For I have kin and
freendes
elles-where
That, though we comen in oure bare sherte,
Us sholde neither lakke gold ne gere,
But been honured whyl we dwelten there.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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I must
certainly
see you before I
leave the country.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Now is she high [20] upon the down,
Alone amid a
prospect
wide;
There's neither Johnny nor his Horse
Among the fern or in the gorse; 220
There's neither Doctor nor his Guide.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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--In the difference of wits I have
observed there are many notes; and it is a little maistry to know them,
to discern what every nature, every
disposition
will bear; for before we
sow our land we should plough it.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Latin tragedies are bad
copies of the
masterpieces
of Sophocles and Euripides.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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MARGARETE (aufmerksam):
Das war des
Freundes
Stimme!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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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 1.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Housman's poems, is
the
encounter
his spirit constantly endures with life.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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CXXX
Gryphon is brought with shame into the square,
When it is fully thronged with gazing wight,
Whom they of cuirass and of helmet bare,
And leave in simple cassock, meanly dight;
And, as to slaughter he conducted were,
Place on a wain, conspicuous to the sight;
Harnessed
to which two sluggish cows are seen,
Weary and weak, and with long hunger lean.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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till i' your quality,
acquaint
you
With ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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si forma uelit aspici,
cedent Aesonio duci
proles fulminis improbi
aptat qui iuga tigribus,
nec non, qui tripodas mouet,
frater uirginis asperae,
cedet Castore cum suo
Pollux
caestibus
aptior.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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nor let me walk 50
Within the sound of Emma's voice, nor [4] know
Such
happiness
as I have known to-day.
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William Wordsworth |
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My long thread
trembles
almost at the knife;
The breeze, that takes you, lifts me up alive,
And I'll follow those I loved, I the exile.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Pindar, like torrent from the steep
Which, swollen with rain, its banks o'erflows,
With mouth
unfathomably
deep,
Foams, thunders, glows,
All worthy of Apollo's bay,
Whether in dithyrambic roll
Pouring new words he burst away
Beyond control,
Or gods and god-born heroes tell,
Whose arm with righteous death could tame
Grim Centaurs, tame Chimaeras fell,
Out-breathing flame,
Or bid the boxer or the steed
In deathless pride of victory live,
And dower them with a nobler meed
Than sculptors give,
Or mourn the bridegroom early torn
From his young bride, and set on high
Strength, courage, virtue's golden morn,
Too good to die.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Chisel, file, and ream
That you may lock
Vague dream
In the
resistant
block!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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is due:
This, ev'n Belinda may
vouchsafe
to view:
Slight is the subject, but not so the praise, 5
If she inspire, and he approve my lays.
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Alexander Pope |
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381
he
ansuerede
redely
& seyde: lordingges, sikerly,
Of swich ne wot I non.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Pope, of course, is laughing at the easy-going lovers of his day who in
spite of their troubles sleep very
comfortably
till noon.
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Alexander Pope |
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" "Those free-thinkers," Petrarch tells
us, "had a great
contempt
for Christ and his Apostles, as well as for
all those who did not bow the knee to the Stagirite.
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Petrarch |
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And while in peace cows eat, and chew their cuds,
Moozing cool sheltered neath the skirting woods,
To double uses they the hours convert,
Turning the toils of labour into sport;
Till morn's long streaking shadows lose their tails,
And cooling winds swoon into
faultering
gales;
And searching sunbeams warm and sultry creep,
Waking the teazing insects from their sleep;
And dreaded gadflies with their drowsy hum
On the burnt wings of mid-day zephyrs come,--
Urging each lown to leave his sports in fear,
To stop his starting cows that dread the fly;
Droning unwelcome tidings on his ear,
That the sweet peace of rural morn's gone by.
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John Clare |
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" he paused;
And, after short
exchange
of village news, 25
He with grave looks demanded, for what cause,
Reviving obsolete idolatry,
I, like a Runic Priest, in characters
Of formidable size had chiselled out
Some uncouth name upon the native rock, 30
Above the Rotha, by the forest-side.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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Perhaps the Gaelic people shall
by his like bring back again the ancient
simplicity
and amplitude of
imagination.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Yeats |
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I Said It To You
I said it to you for the clouds
I said it to you for the tree of the sea
For each wave for the birds in the leaves
For the pebbles of sound
For familiar hands
For the eye that becomes landscape or face
And sleep returns it the heaven of its colour
For all that night drank
For the network of roads
For the open window for a bare forehead
I said it to you for your
thoughts
for your words
Every caress every trust survives.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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The lady
listened
with deep attention.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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I sported in my tender mother's arms,
And rode a-horseback on best father's knee;
Alike were sorrows, passions and alarms,
And gold, and Greek, and love, unknown to me,
Then seemed to me this world far less in size,
Likewise
it seemed to me less wicked far;
Like points in heaven, I saw the stars arise,
And longed for wings that I might catch a star.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Like ape or clown, in monstrous garb
With crooked arrows starred,
Silently
we went round and round
The slippery asphalte yard;
Silently we went round and round,
And no man spoke a word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Wilde - Poems |
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To
MY MOTHER
In all
reverence
and love
I inscribe this book
CONTENTS
GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS, 1862
Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream Land
At Home
A Triad
Love from the North
Winter Rain
Cousin Kate
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song ('Oh roses for the flush of youth')
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song ('Two doves upon the selfsame branch')
Maude Clare
Echo
My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
'No, Thank you, John'
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song ('She sat and sang alway')
Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')
Dead before Death
Bitter for Sweet
Sister Maude
Rest
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Up-hill
DEVOTIONAL PIECES
'The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge'
'A Bruised Reed shall He not Break'
A Better Resurrection
Advent
The Three Enemies
The One Certainty
Christian and Jew
Sweet Death
Symbols
'Consider the Lilies of the Field'
The World
A Testimony
Sleep at Sea
From House to Home
Old and New Year Ditties: No.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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III
THUS seethed
unceasing
the son of Healfdene
with the woe of these days; not wisest men
assuaged his sorrow; too sore the anguish,
loathly and long, that lay on his folk,
most baneful of burdens and bales of the night.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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As feathers and hairs and
bristles
are begot
The first on members of the four-foot breeds
And on the bodies of the strong-y-winged,
Thus then the new Earth first of all put forth
Grasses and shrubs, and afterward begat
The mortal generations, there upsprung--
Innumerable in modes innumerable--
After diverging fashions.
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Lucretius |
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The_ SERVANT
_watches
a moment and goes back into the hall.
| Guess: |
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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whose savage ear
The Lapland drum delights to hear,
When Frenzy with her
bloodshot
eye
Implores thy dreadful deity--
Archangel!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Compare the
situation
of these lovers with that of
Romeo and Juliet.
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Keats |
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Yit wol I sey thee more, in fay;
For I am redy, at the leste,
To
accomplisshe
thy requeste, 5190
But I not wher it wol avayle;
In veyne, perauntre, I shal travayle.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
So the hand of the child, automatic,
Slipped out and
pocketed
a toy that was running along
the quay.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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God's own mother was less dear to me,
And less dear the
Cytheraean
rising like an
argent lily from the sea.
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Wilde - Poems |
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At, 81 vera fides, mandi melioris ab ortu,
Saecula
Christinae
nulla tulere parem ;
Ipsa licet redeat (nostri decas orbis) Eliza,
Qualis nostra tamen quantaque Eliza fbit.
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The
portrait
of Mr.
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CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this
flattery?
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And those signs,
So clear to all and witnessed out of hand,
Do not refute this dictum nor oppose;
But rather
themselves
do lead us by the hand,
Compelling belief that living things are born
Of elements insensate, as I say.
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'
[Argument of the 12 Books of Statius' "Thebais"]
Associat
profugum
Tideo primus Polimitem;
Tidea legatum docet insidiasque secundus;
Tercius Hemoniden canit et vates latitantes;
Quartus habet reges ineuntes prelia septem;
Mox furie Lenne quinto narratur et anguis;
Archimori bustum sexto ludique leguntur;
Dat Graios Thebes et vatem septimus vmbria;
Octauo cecidit Tideus, spes, vita Pelasgia;
Ypomedon nono moritur cum Parthonopeo;
Fulmine percussus, decimo Capaneus superatur;
Vndecimo sese perimunt per vulnera fratres;
Argiuam flentem narrat duodenus et igneum.
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" " by
Benjamin
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
of ours.
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Poe - 5 |
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You like not that his will should heap the world
About him in a fumbled den of toil;
And set the strength of his spirit, not to joy,
But to
laborious
money; so you stand forth
And think with spoken wind to make such stir
And rumble in the inwards of man's life,
That he in a noble colic will leap up
Out of his cave of work and breathe sweet air.
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The rhyme-scheme follows Du Bellay, unlike Edmund Spenser's fine Elizabethan
translation
which offers a simpler scheme, more suited to the lack of rhymes in English!
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Golden Treasury |
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" He claimed, and
rightly, as his invention, a "science of reasoning and judging concerning
the productions of literature, the characters and measures of public men,
and the events of nations, by a
systematic
subsumption of them, under
principles deduced from the nature of man," which, as he says, was unknown
before the year 1795.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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our country's hope and glory,
I'll tell thee all the truth, without a falsehood:
Thou must know that I had comrades, four in number;
Of my comrades four the first was gloomy midnight;
The second was a steely dudgeon dagger;
The third it was a swift and speedy courser;
The fourth of my companions was a bent bow;
My
messengers
were furnace-harden'd arrows.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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To Beowulf then the bale was told
quickly and truly: the king's own home,
of
buildings
the best, in brand-waves melted,
that gift-throne of Geats.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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For forty years, he
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"No, ('tis reply'd) the first Almighty Cause 145
Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws;
Th'
exceptions
few; some change since all began:
And what created perfect?
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Alexander Pope |
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I deemed our doom afar
In lap of time; but, if a king push forward to his fate,
The god himself allures to death that man
infatuate!
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Aeschylus |
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For
frequent
tears have run
The colours from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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When to the point we came,
Whereat my guide was pleas'd that I should see
The
creature
eminent in beauty once,
He from before me stepp'd and made me pause.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise, ornament this hill,
The
sepulchre
where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--
As the leaves that were
withering
and sere--
And I cried--"It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed--I journeyed down here!
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Poe - 5 |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Ours to mould our weakling sons
To nobler sentiment and manlier deed:
Now the noble's first-born shuns
The perilous chase, nor learns to sit his steed:
Set him to the
unlawful
dice,
Or Grecian hoop, how skilfully he plays!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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He was emotionally and artistically unable to forge a
finished
work from them.
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But waxing time and growth betrays
The blood-thirst of the lion-race,
And, for the house's fostering care,
Unbidden all, it revels there,
And bloody recompense repays--
Rent flesh of tine, its talons tare:
A mighty beast, that slays and slays,
And mars with blood the
household
fair,
A God-sent pest invincible,
A minister of fate and hell.
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