O lullaby, with your daughter, and the innocence
Of your cold feet, greet a terrible new being:
A voice where harpsichords and viols linger,
Will you press that breast, with your withered finger,
From which Woman flows in
Sibylline
whiteness to
Those lips starved by the air's virgin blue?
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Quem
patronum
rogaturus?
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mortua cui uita est prope iam uiuo atque uidenti,
qui somno partem maiorem
conteris
aeui
et uigilans stertis nec somnia cernere cessas
sollicitamque geris cassa formidine mentem
nec reperire potes tibi quid sit saepe mali, cum
ebrius urgeris multis miser undique curis
atque animi incerto fluitans errore uagaris.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added
feathers
to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Sweet hours have
perished
here;
This is a mighty room;
Within its precincts hopes have played, --
Now shadows in the tomb.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in
paragraph
1.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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*And Valisnerian lotus thither flown
From
struggling
with the waters of the Rhone:
**And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante!
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Poe - 5 |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Its
business
office is located at 809 North 1500 West, Salt
Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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]
[Sidenote B: "'Here are only
beardless
children.
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Rust eats the casques enamoured once so much
Of death and daring--which knew kiss-like touch
Of banner--mistress so august and dear--
But not an arm can stir its hinges here;
Behold how mute are they whose threats were heard
Like savage roar--whose
gnashing
teeth and word
Deadened the clarion's tones; the helmets dread
Have not a sound, and all the armor spread,
The hauberks, that strong breathing seemed to sway,
Are stranded now in helplessness alway
To see the shadows, still prolonged, that seem
To take at night the image of a dream.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Belzebuth
enrage racle ses violons!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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At Venice the
distinction
was merely
civil.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I fitted to the latch
My hand, with
trembling
care,
Lest back the awful door should spring,
And leave me standing there.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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)
A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
CHINESE POEMS
TRANSLATED BY
ARTHUR WALEY
[Illustration]
LONDON
CONSTABLE
AND COMPANY LTD.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So learn to look for
partners
meet,
Shun lofty things, nor raise your aims
Above your fortune.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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[99] 12 Thomas
Gilthead
G
[100] 15 His wife] om.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_ So let it be;
For then you cannot
separate
me from you.
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Byron |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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How
fragrant
the perfume breathed forth in your words.
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Aristophanes |
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That glorious
victory was principally owing to the
judicious
conduct and
intrepid valour of the gallant laird of Craigie, who died of
his wounds after the action.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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But since on me your bright glance ever shines,
E'en as a sunbeam through
transparent
glass,
Suffice then the desire without the lines.
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Petrarch |
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How the
hemlocks
are tipped in tinsel
By the wizard sun!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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No, no,
intrigues
are forbidden; we believe in good faith.
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Aristophanes |
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I am quite charmed with
Dumfries
folks--Mr.
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Robert Forst |
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With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some
superior
tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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For the first time now
with his leader-lord the
liegeman
young
was bidden to share the shock of battle.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'Twas sunset: when the sun will part
There comes a
sullenness
of heart
To him who still would look upon
The glory of the summer sun.
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Poe - 5 |
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Then through the wild Aegean roar
The breezes and the
Brethren
Twain
Shall waft my little boat ashore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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O God of the night,
What great sorrow
Cometh unto us,
That thou thus
repayest
us
Before the time of its coming?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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I wonder it so long
delights
you?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And I would turn and answer
Among the
springing
thyme,
"Oh, peal upon our wedding,
And we will hear the chime,
And come to church in time.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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He could not
understand
it.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"Is she more
delicate
than me?
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La Fontaine |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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(Exit,
followed
by Politian.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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NIGHT
The sun
descending
in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Should Prussian power enslave the world and
arrogance
prevail,
Let chaos come, let Moloch rule, and Christ give place to Baal.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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'
A great part of the poems and stories in Lady Gregory's book were made
or
gathered
between Burren and Cruachmaa.
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Yeats |
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That knowing no cause of quarrel or of feud
Between the Earl
Politian
and himself.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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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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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
DAMOETAS
"Prithee, Iollas, for my
birthday
guest
Send me your Phyllis; when for the young crops
I slay my heifer, you yourself shall come.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Withouten
wordes mo, right than, 6135
Fals-Semblant his sermon bigan,
And seide hem thus in audience:--
Barouns, tak hede of my sentence!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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For a time the altar stood safe and apart in the midst of its white
light; the eyes of the
troopers
turned upon it.
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Yeats |
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Beowulf |
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glorious is the Church, I ween, but Meekness
dwelleth
here;
Less do I love the lofty oak than mossy nest it bear;
More dear is meadow breath than stormy wind:
And when my mind for meditation's meant,
The seaweed is preferred to the shore's extent,--
The swallow to the main it leaves behind.
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Hugo - Poems |
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"Project Gutenberg" is a
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trademark.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Lat it stil on the roser sit,
And growe til it amended be, 3125
And
parfitly
come to beaute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Through all our
literature
your way you took
With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore,
Smiling, with most affection in your look,
On the ripe ancient and the curious nook.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Lie still, my son, the mother said,
Tis but a little space
And half an hour has
scarcely
passed
Since she did pass this place.
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John Clare |
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On this hint Burns
wrote the Elegy: when Tam heard o' this he waited on the poet, caused
him to recite it, and
expressed
displeasure at being numbered with the
dead: the author, whose wit was as ready as his rhymes, added the Per
Contra in a moment, much to the delight of his friend.
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| Question: |
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Robert Burns |
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But to the
pleasant
world when thou return'st,
Of me make mention, I entreat thee, there.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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]
See the note to the
previous
poem.
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William Wordsworth |
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Note: The ballade was written for Robert to present to his wife
Ambroise
de Lore, as though composed by him.
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Villon |
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Ronsard's Cassandra, was
Cassandra
Salviati, the daughter of an Italian banker.
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Ronsard |
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War
One night a feast was held in the palace, and there came a man and
prostrated himself before the prince, and all the
feasters
looked
upon him; and they saw that one of his eyes was out and that
the empty socket bled.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Then, further, also winds,
Sweeping the level waters, can bear off
A mighty part of wet, since we behold
Oft in a single night the
highways
dried
By winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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Either as honest to grant, or modest as never to promise, 5
Aufilena!
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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Into thy vigorous substance thou hast wrought
Whate'er the hand of
Circumstance
hath brought;
Yea, into cool solacing green hast spun
White radiance hot from out the sun.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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In things a
moderation
keep:
_Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep_.
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Robert Herrick |
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This is, of course, only a passing mood, as
the
extempore
character of the poetry indicates.
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Keats |
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And still within a summer's night
A something so transporting bright,
I clap my hands to see;
Then veil my too
inspecting
face,
Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Refuse of Time ripe for
Eternity!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But we,
We have bewept thee with
insatiate
woe,
Standing beside whilst on the awful pyre
Thou wert made ashes; and no day shall take
For us the eternal sorrow from the breast.
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Lucretius |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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& not
As Garments woven
subservient
to her hands but having a will
Of its own perverse & wayward Enion lovd & wept*
{written vertically up the right margin LFS}
Nine days she labourd at her work.
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| Question: |
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Blake - Zoas |
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What a thin
membrane
of honour
that is!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Court, General, farmers
sometimes
attain seats in.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
It was on a Sunday evening, and before the noon of Monday,
With two sons, and Captain Stephens, fifteen privates--black
and white,
Captain Brown,
Osawatomie Brown,
Marched across the bridged Potomac, and knocked the sentry down;
Took the guarded armory-building, and the muskets and the cannon;
Captured all the county majors and the colonels, one by one;
Scared to death each gallant scion of
Virginia
they ran on,
And before the noon of Monday, I say, the deed was done.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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fill'd all things with himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First nam'd these notes a melancholy strain;
And many a poet echoes the conceit,
Poet, who hath been building up the rhyme
When he had better far have stretch'd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonlight, to the influxes
Of shapes and sounds and
shifting
elements
Surrendering his whole spirit, of his song
And of his fame forgetful!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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I have heard the
mermaids
singing, each to each.
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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'
Thereon Allecto, steeped in Gorgonian venom, first seeks Latium and the
high house of the
Laurentine
monarch, and silently sits down before
Amata's doors, whom a woman's distress and anger heated to frenzy over
the Teucrians' coming and the marriage of Turnus.
| Guess: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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55
In white and glowing blossomy
undulation
57
Stars ascend up there 58
Par from the harbour's noise 59
My child came home 60
Love calls not worthy him whoe'er renounced 61
Behold the crossways 62
Windows where I gazed with you 63
Whene'er I stand upon your bridge 64
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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he sees
Like a strange, fated bride as yet unknown,
His timid future
shrinking
there alone,
Beneath her marriage-veil of mysteries.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Come, friends, none but
husbandmen
on the rope.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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ed, Gwenore bisyde
[C] &
Agrauayn
a la dure mayn on ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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They sing:--
We have seen, we have written--behold it, the proof of our
manifold
toil!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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Un punto solo m'e maggior letargo
che
venticinque
secoli a la 'mpresa
che fe Nettuno ammirar l'ombra d'Argo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,
Upon a wintry height;
It sleeps: around it snows have thrown
A
covering
of white.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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editions
will replace the previous one--the old editions
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| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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And have I left these
beauteous
shores behind,
And have I dar'd the rage of ev'ry wind,
That now breath'd fire, and now came wing'd with frost,
Lur'd by the plunder of an unknown coast?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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What make you, master,
fumbling
at the oar?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Emerson - Poems |
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I took leave of the pope and of Akoulina Pamphilovna, recommending
warmly to them her whom I already
regarded
as my wife.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Retorning in hir soule ay up and doun
The wordes of this sodein Diomede,
His greet estat, and peril of the toun, 1025
And that she was allone and hadde nede
Of
freendes
help; and thus bigan to brede
The cause why, the sothe for to telle,
That she tok fully purpos for to dwelle.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Come hither, beauteous boy; for you the Nymphs
Bring baskets, see, with lilies brimmed; for you,
Plucking pale violets and poppy-heads,
Now the fair Naiad, of narcissus flower
And fragrant fennel, doth one posy twine-
With cassia then, and other scented herbs,
Blends them, and sets the tender
hyacinth
off
With yellow marigold.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Soft-curling tendrils,
Swim
backwards
from our image:
We are a red bulk,
Projecting the angular city, in shadows, at our feet.
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Imagists |
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Their misty minds but harbor rottenness
Loathsome
and fetid, and all barrenness--
Their deeds to ashes turn, and, hydra-bred,
The mystic skeleton is theirs to dread.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Yes, we did wrong, but forgive us, for our mind was then
entirely
absorbed
in leather.
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Aristophanes |
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XI
When the Cretan maidens
Dancing up the full moon
Round some fair new altar,
Trample the soft
blossoms
of fine grass,
There is mirth among them.
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Sappho |
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Over the tombs the ploughshare will be driven
And
peasants
will have their fields and orchards there.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Must I see the Count debase my name,
Die without
vengeance
now, or live in shame?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The skies that turned to
darkness
with thy pain
Make now a summer's day;
And on my changed ear that sabbath bell
Records how CHRIST IS RISEN.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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