Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre
Pour chanter le secret de ses vierges en fleur,
Et je fus des l'enfance admis au noir mystere
Des rires
effrenes
meles au sombre pleur;,
Car Lesbos entre tous m'a choisi sur la terre,
Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate,
Comme une sentinelle, a l'oeil percant et sur,
Qui guette nuit et jour brick, tartane ou fregate,
Dont les formes au loin frissonnent dans l'azur,
--Et depuis lors je veille au sommet de Leucate
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne,
Et parmi les sanglots dont le roc retentit
Un soir ramenera vers Lesbos qui pardonne
Le cadavre adore de Sapho qui partit
Pour savoir si la mer est indulgente et bonne!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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For some it may radiate from the Shropshire life he so finely
etches; for others, in the vivid artistic
simplicity
and unity of
values, through which Shropshire lads and landscapes are presented.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Didst thou not seek me for thine own
content?
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Shelley |
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To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Through the swoon, heavy and motionless
Stifling with heat the cool morning's struggles
No water, but that which my flute pours, murmurs
To the grove
sprinkled
with melodies: and the sole breeze
Out of the twin pipes, quick to breathe
Before it scatters the sound in an arid rain,
Is unstirred by any wrinkle of the horizon,
The visible breath, artificial and serene,
Of inspiration returning to heights unseen.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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V
It was not
chastity
that made me cold nor fear,
only I knew that you, like myself, were sick
of the puny race that crawls and quibbles and lisps
of love and love and lovers and love's deceit.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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A
delicate
odour is borne on the wings of the morning breeze,
The odour of deep wet grass, and of brown new-furrowed earth,
The birds are singing for joy of the Spring's glad birth,
Hopping from branch to branch on the rocking trees.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Many
familiar
verses will hence be met with; many also which should be
familiar:--the Editor will regard as his fittest readers those who love
Poetry so well, that he can offer them nothing not already known and
valued.
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Golden Treasury |
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e
resou{n}
of god ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened
in a leaf?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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]
[Sidenote G: Another I aimed at thee because thou
kissedst
my wife.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And I saw it was filled with graves,
And
tombstones
where flowers should be;
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.
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blake-poems |
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He tells what
strumpet
places sells for life,
What 'squire his lands, what citizen his wife:
And last (which proves him wiser still than all)
What lady's face is not a whited wall.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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A fig for those by law
protected!
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Robert Forst |
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Mesmer- ism
FAMAM
LIBROSQUE
CANO songs?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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it was an evil time; 85
God cursed me in my sore distress;
I prayed, yet every day I thought
I loved my
children
less;
And every week, and every day,
My flock it seemed to melt away.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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) (To
GREGORY)
Why don't you join
in the song?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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A crystal
fountain
in that very grove
Gush'd from a rock, whose waters fresh and clear
Shed coolness round and softly murmur'd love;
Never that leafy screen and mossy seat
Drew browsing flock or whistling rustic near
But nymphs and muses danced to music sweet.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And the host rubbed his hands and smiled at his wife; for his guests
were
spending
freely.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Compare those old
discoveries
divine
Of others: lo, according to the tale,
Ceres established for mortality
The grain, and Bacchus juice of vine-born grape,
Though life might yet without these things abide,
Even as report saith now some peoples live.
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Lucretius |
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So many nights
you have
distracted
me from terror.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Peace, thy olive wand extend,
And bid wild War his ravage end,
Man with brother Man to meet,
And as a brother kindly greet;
Then may heav'n with
prosperous
gales,
Fill my sailor's welcome sails;
To my arms their charge convey,
My dear lad that's far away.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Two lovers murmur and are still In mutual oblivion
Of any soul that
saunters
by
Or smiles and blesses and is gone.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Here he
provides
me with ev'rything, sees that I get what I call for;
Each day that passes he spreads freshly plucked roses for me.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Li T'ai-po was, I am afraid,
a bit of a Bohemian (laughter), and his
Bacchanalian
experiences have
been repeated in later days even with the great poets.
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Li Po |
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Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole,
The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit,
And Passion's host, that never brooked control:
Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ,
People this lonely tower, this
tenement
refit?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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A _little
learning_
is a dang'rous thing; 215
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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Alexander Pope |
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"Svetlana" has been
translated
by Sir John Bowring.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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when crafty eyes thy reason
With sorceries sudden seek to move,
And when in Night's
mysterious
season
Lips cling to thine, but not in love--
From proving then, dear youth, a booty
To those who falsely would trepan
From new heart wounds, and lapse from duty,
Protect thee shall my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Is not enough, that thrust from heaven dew
Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, 375
But that redoubled crime with
vengeance
new
Thou biddest me to eeke?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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232
A Wise
prophete
was in ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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"I flow in man's heart as
ambrosia
flows;
The grain the eternal Sower casts in the sod--
From our first loves the first fair verse arose,
Flower-like aspiring to the heavens and God!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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th
stedfast
of lijf;
His werkes shullen ben made rijf
Ouer al fer & neere.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired,
wandering
singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Much more
affliction
then already felt
They cannot well impose, nor I sustain;
If they intend advantage of my labours
The work of many hands, which earns my keeping 1260
With no small profit daily to my owners.
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Milton |
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) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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This having heard, strait I again revolv'd
The Law and Prophets, searching what was writ 260
Concerning
the Messiah, to our Scribes
Known partly, and soon found of whom they spake
I am; this chiefly, that my way must lie
Through many a hard assay even to the death,
E're I the promis'd Kingdom can attain,
Or work redemption for mankind, whose sins
Full weight must be transferr'd upon my head.
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Milton |
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The old man's name is Philocleon,[29]
'tis the best name he could have, and the son is called Bdelycleon,[30]
for he is a man very fit to cure an
insolent
fellow of his boasting.
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Aristophanes |
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XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear respose for limbs with travel tir'd;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my
drooping
eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
Which, like a jewel (hung in ghastly night,
Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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For though there is no name or fame in a woman's punishment, nor
honour in the victory, yet shall I have praise in
quenching
a guilty
life and exacting a just recompense; and it will be good to fill my soul
with the flame of vengeance, and satisfy the ashes of my people.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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how shall you look for
wit from him whose leisure and head, assisted with the examination of his
eyes, yield you no life or
sharpness
in his writing?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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and life and death
are
altogether
for it!
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Whitman |
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contends
that fore here = de, _concerning, about_ (Ebert's
_Jahrb.
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Beowulf |
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]
[dq] {517}
_Covered
with gore and glory--those good times_.
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Byron |
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Who would sign himself a candidate for my
affections?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Now on the moth-time of that evening dim
He would return that way, as well she knew,
To Corinth from the shore; for freshly blew
The eastern soft wind, and his galley now
Grated the quaystones with her brazen prow
In port Cenchreas, from Egina isle
Fresh anchor'd; whither he had been awhile
To
sacrifice
to Jove, whose temple there
Waits with high marble doors for blood and incense rare.
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Keats - Lamia |
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20
Ah, but what burden of sorrow
Tinges their slow stately chorus,
Though spring
revisits
the glad earth?
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Rising from unrest,
The
trembling
woman presse
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
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blake-poems |
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It was made from the shell of a tortoise, stuck round with leather, with two horns and a
sounding
board and strings made from sheep's gut.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
|
Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the
original
volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you.
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Meredith - Poems |
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DESIGN
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted
characters
of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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When absent, I consume in raging fire;
But, in her
presence
check'd, the flames expire,
Repress'd by sacred awe.
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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This parting now makes me rue
The
Seigneury
of Poitou!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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Now, ere decay my bloom devour
Or thin the
richness
of my blood,
Fain would I fall in youth's first flower,
The tigers' food.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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"
Þā gīt him eorla hlēo inne gesealde,
mago Healfdenes
māðmas
twelfe,
hēt hine mid þǣm lācum lēode swǣse
1870 sēcean on gesyntum, snūde eft cuman.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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Where Urizen & all his Hosts hang their
immortal
lamps
Thou neer shalt leave this cold expanse where watry Tharmas mourns
So spoke Los.
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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--therefore be content
To minister with voluntary grace
And
melancholy
pardon, every rite
And function in you, to the human hand!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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You were always afraid of a shower,
Just like a flower:
I
remember
you started and ran
When the rain began.
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Wilde - Poems |
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feorum gumena, 73;
frēonda
fēorum,
1307.
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| Source: |
Beowulf |
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A tongue that can cheat widows, cancel scores,
Make Scots speak treason, cozen subtlest w***es,
With royal favourites in
flattery
vie,
And Oldmixon and Burnet both outlie.
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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No hint of mine may hence
To theeward fly: to thy locked sense
Explain none can
Life's pending plan:
Thou wilt thy
ignorant
entry make
Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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sez he, 'I guess,
Though physic's good,' sez he,
'It doesn't foller thet he can swaller
Prescriptions
signed "J.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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silent years
Tell seemingly no
doubtful
tale;
And yet they leave it short, and fears 10
And hopes are strong and will prevail.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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In the second series of poems published, a facsimile of her
handwritten poem which her editors titled "Renunciation" is given,
and I here
transcribe
that manuscript as faithfully as I can,
showing _underlined_ words thus.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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our time
Asks
thriftier
using.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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One sea-gull, paired with a shadow, wheels, wheels;
Circles the lonely ship by wave and trough;
Lets down his feet, strikes at the
breaking
water,
Draws up his golden feet, beats wings, and rises
Over the mast.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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My heath lay farther off, where lizards lived
In strange
metallic
mail, just spied and gone; 30
Like darted lightnings here and there perceived
But nowhere dwelt upon.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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The Tibetan Goat
Hilly
Landscape
with Two Goats
'Hilly Landscape with Two Goats'
Reinier van Persijn, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Nicolaes Visscher (I), 1641, The Rijksmuseun
The fleece of this goat and even
That gold one which cost such pain
To Jason's not worth a sou towards
The tresses with which I'm taken.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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You
bewitched
the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was festering in your blood.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du
_nouveau!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that
accursed
Jew--
O Portia!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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A chosen company issue from the
gates while the morning star is high; they pour forth with meshed nets,
toils, broad-headed hunting spears, Massylian
horsemen
and sinewy
sleuth-hounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Virgil - Aeneid |
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Is she not supple and strong
For hurried
passion?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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I
intended
to show you the way to a secret staircase,
while the Countess was asleep, as we would have to cross her chamber.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I've
gathered
flowers all as I came along,
At every step a flower
Fed by your last bright shower,--
[She divides an armful of all sorts of flowers with April, who
strolls away through the garden.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Wide sea, that one
continuous
murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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And O dear what shall I do,
When nobody
whispers
to marry me--
Nobody cometh to woo?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Themselves unmoved, the
stoutest
hearts that e'er
To Love were rebels; from those feet so fair,
From her whole form, for Eden only meet,
My spirit took its life--now these delight
The King of Heaven and his angelic train,
While, blind and naked, I am left in night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch - Poems |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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You may still wander through
old
orchards
of native fruit of great extent, which for the most part
went to the cider-mill, now all gone to decay.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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His heart in me keeps him and me in one,
My heart in him his
thoughts
and senses guides:
He loves my heart, for once it was his own,
I cherish his because in me it bides:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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Laurentiani
51 _nam_] _non_ G || _anatunsia_ D
52 _torruerit_ Turnebus: _corpuerit_ Markland
54
_eetheis_
G: _oethis_ BLa1RVen: _cetheis_ O || _malia_ a:
_maulia_ GORVen: _manlia_ Dp
55 _pupula_ scripsi, cf.
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Have you marked but the fall o' the snow
Before the soil hath
smutched
it?
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, _father's
brother_
in comp.
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Light in the eyes again,
Strength in the hand,
A spirit dares, dies, forgives,
And can
understand!
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THE TRAVELLING BEAR
Grass-blades push up between the cobblestones
And catch the sun on their flat sides
Shooting
it back,
Gold and emerald,
Into the eyes of passers-by.
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Skye,
Who waltz'd with a
Bluebottle
fly:
They buzz'd a sweet tune, to the light of the moon,
And entranced all the people of Skye.
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking monsters girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The
trembling
mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Last eve in dreams, I saw thee stand,
Like queenly nymphs from Fairy-land--
Enchantress of the flowery wand,
Most
beauteous
Isadore!
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Poe - 5 |
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He still visits the
hospitals
on Sundays, and often
on other days as well.
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Whitman |
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Copyright laws in most
countries
are in
a constant state of change.
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must at least have suspected it, for in a letter dated 5th
September, 1884, she wrote:--
MY DEAR FRIEND,-- What
portfolios
full of verses
you must have!
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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM At the Pond and Terrace of Consort Zheng, Happy to Meet
Instructor
Zheng 283 At the end of my rope, I see how a real friend behaves, the age is blocked, I grieve at the hard ways.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Allume le desir dans les regards des
rustres!
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_an_) R sed _an_
pallidiore
atramento
9 _agis_ a
11 _tunicam_ om.
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Latin - Catullus |
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to see her stoop to please;
A beauty so
renowned
for charms and pride,
'Twould take a week, to note each trait described;
No other fault than paleness he could trace,
Which gave her (causes known) still higher grace.
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Thrice to its pitch his lofty voice he rears;
The well-known voice thrice
Menelaus
hears:
Alarm'd, to Ajax Telamon he cried,
Who shares his labours, and defends his side:
"O friend!
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XXVI
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
But that I hope some good conceit of thine
In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:
Till
whatsoever
star that guides my moving,
Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.
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Some of Petrarch's biographers date his commencement of
the study of Greek from the period of Barlaamo's first visit to Avignon;
but I am
inclined
to postpone it to 1342, when Barlaamo returned to the
west and settled at Avignon.
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