Now, a
Dalesman
from beyond
Skipton will forgive an injury when the Strid lets a man live; but a
South Devon man is as soft as a Dartmoor bog.
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Kipling - Poems |
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s most
supportive
patron during his years in Sichuan.
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if his eyes, which now
Have been so long
familiar
with the earth,
No more behold the horizontal sun 1800.
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Sans mors, sans eperons, sans bride,
Partons a cheval sur le vin
Pour un ciel
feerique
et divin!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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"
THYRSIS
"Now may I seem more bitter to your taste
Than herb Sardinian, rougher than the broom,
More
worthless
than strewn sea-weed, if to-day
Hath not a year out-lasted!
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Satan, I know thy strength, and thou knowst mine,
Neither our own but giv'n; what follie then
To boast what Arms can doe, since thine no more
Then Heav'n permits, nor mine, though doubld now
To trample thee as mire: for proof look up, 1010
And read thy Lot in yon
celestial
Sign
Where thou art weigh'd, & shown how light, how weak,
If thou resist.
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Milton |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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I find an apt
remission
in myself;
And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.
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Shakespeare |
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LFS}
Which is the Earth of Eden, he his Emanations propagated
Like Sons & DaughtersFairies of Albion afterwards Gods of the Heathen, Daughter of Beulah Sing
His fall into Division & his
Resurrection
to Unity
His fall into the Generation of Decay & Death & his Regeneration by the Resurrection from the dead*
Begin with Tharmas Parent power.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Baudelaire
was as
conscientious as Gautier.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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I feel it all my members haunting--
The
glorious
Walpurgis night.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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These are the days when skies put on
The old, old
sophistries
of June, --
A blue and gold mistake.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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suggests the son is
continuing
his father?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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'Tis
mountain
wolves', not horses' food!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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illic ipse antris Anien et fonte relicto
nocte sub arcana glaucos exutus amictus
huc illuc fragili prosternit pectora musco,
aut ingens in stagna cadit
uitreasque
natatu
plaudit aquas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
of Replacement or Refund"
described
in paragraph 1.
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Keats - Lamia |
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]
[Sidenote F: It clattered like the
grinding
of a scythe on a grindstone.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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_palpable_, having
material
existence; literally,
touchable.
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Keats |
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But, Queen, such squalid undress none should see,
Those dream-endangering eyewounds no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in
pilgrimage
to thee.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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For the student of English
literature
Pope's work has a threefold value.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sung at The fFeast of Los & Enitharmon
The
Mountain
Ephraim calld out to the mountain Zion: Awake O Brother Mountain
Let us refuse the Plow & Space, the heavy Roller & spiked
Harrow.
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Blake - Zoas |
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The crowd's loud shouts of applause
were in the best style of flattery,
excessive
and insincere.
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Tacitus |
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So glad ne was he never in al his lyve;
And to Pandarus reed gan al assente,
And to
Deiphebus
hous at night he wente.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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[This
singular
letter was sent by Burns, it is believed, to a critic,
who had taken him to task about obscure language, and imperfect
grammar.
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Robert Forst |
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From time to time we met a priest in the streets, for
they are
distinguished
by their dress, like the _civil_ police.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You
know my
favourite
quotation from Young--
---------------"On reason build RESOLVE!
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Robert Burns |
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Nor do I find
my hurried life greatly
inimical
to my correspondence with the muses.
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Robert Burns |
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Coral beneath the ocean-stream,
Whose brink when your
adventurer
slips
Full oft he perisheth on them.
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Golden Treasury |
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O Bethlehem palm-trees That move to the anger
Of winds in their fury,
Tempestuous voices, Make ye no clamour,
Run ye less swiftly,
Sith
sleepeth
the child here Still ye your branches.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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On the morning of the
following
day a travelling
_kibitka_ stood before the hall door.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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For ease, in wide Aegean caught,
The sailor prays, when clouds are hiding
The moon, nor shines of
starlight
aught
For seaman's guiding:
For ease the Mede, with quiver gay:
For ease rude Thrace, in battle cruel:
Can purple buy it, Grosphus?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Eufeniens
ansuered
sone,
As he au?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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A native, if he be
vicious,
deserves
to be a stranger, and cast out of the commonwealth as
an alien.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Yet, yet awhile thy generous ardour stay;
Assured, I meet thee at the dawn of day,
Charged with refulgent arms (a glorious load),
Vulcanian
arms, the labour of a god.
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Iliad - Pope |
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i laste sorwe
eschaufed
a?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Of such high blood, to suffer such
outrage!
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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reported
to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Tennyson |
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Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see
What Heaven can doe, and what any Earth can be:
Since now your beauty shines, now when the Sunne
Growne stale, is to so low a value runne,
That his disshevel'd beames and scattered fires 5
Serve but for Ladies
Periwigs
and Tyres
In lovers Sonnets: you come to repaire
Gods booke of creatures, teaching what is faire.
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John Donne |
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I'm afraid I'm
disturbing
you.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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"
To every
household
altar then she went
And made for each his garland of the green
Boughs of the wind-blown myrtle, and was seen
Praying, without a sob, without a tear.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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These days both court and market have changed, when will the death and
destruction
end?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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For their
captains
he adds special honours; to the winner a scarf
wrought with gold, encircled by a double border of deep Meliboean
purple; woven in it is the kingly boy on leafy Ida, chasing swift stags
with javelin and racing feet, keen and as one panting; him Jove's
swooping armour-bearer hath caught up from Ida in his talons; his aged
guardians stretch their hands vainly upwards, and the barking of hounds
rings fierce into the air.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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M uch better
elsewhere
to search for
A id: it would have been more to my honour:
R etreat I must, and fly with dishonour,
T hough none else then would have cast a lure.
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Villon |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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The well in the Forum at which
they had
alighted
was pointed out.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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_ The
ancients
attributed
winds to the effect of exhalations from the earth.
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John Donne |
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The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe
Such as
eternity
at last transforms into Himself,
The Poet rouses with two-edged naked sword,
His century terrified at having ignored
Death triumphant in so strange a voice!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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So buried in the thoughts wherewith she strove,
Was Bradamant, she heeded nor her road,
Nor took she care where, at the close of light,
To find
befitting
shelter for the night.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Begin, my flute, with me
Maenalian
lays.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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"--When we had reached "the Bridge of Sighs,"[51]
Which I
prepared
to pass with Foscari,
The gloomy guardian of that passage first
Demurred: a messenger was sent back to
"The Ten;"--but as the Court no longer sate,
And no permission had been given in writing,
I was thrust back, with the assurance that 60
Until that high tribunal reassembled
The dungeon walls must still divide us.
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Byron |
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What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with
peaceful
citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
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Keats |
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SAS}
Thy brother Luvah hath smitten me but pity thou his youth
Tho thou hast not pitid my Age O Urizen Prince of Light {According to Erdman, "Blake first wrote and erased a
different
text for 8, ending ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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In France, _meliora probant,
deteriora _sequuntur--the people are too much a race of gadabouts to
maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a
delicate appreciation, or at least the
elements
of a proper sense.
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Poe - 5 |
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And when the doors are shut, what of the girls
Who gave
themselves
away, and still must live?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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How
mightestow
for reuthe me bigyle?
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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What generous Greek,
obedient
to thy word,
Shall form an ambush, or shall lift the sword?
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Iliad - Pope |
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What
concerne
they,
The generall cause, or is it a Fee-griefe
Due to some single brest?
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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CCLXI
In the admiral is much great virtue found;
He strikes Carlun on his steel helm so brown,
Has broken it and rent, above his brow,
Through his thick hair the sword goes
glancing
round,
A great palm's breadth and more of flesh cuts out,
So that all bare the bone is, in that wound.
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Chanson de Roland |
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And as one sees most fearful things
In the crystal of a dream,
We saw the greasy hempen rope
Hooked to the
blackened
beam,
And heard the prayer the hangman's snare
Strangled into a scream.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Now pay ye the heed that is fitting,
Whilst I sing ye the Iran adventure;
The Pasha on sofa was sitting
In his harem's
glorious
centre.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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The sober laverock, warbling wild,
Shall to the skies aspire;
The gowdspink, music's gayest child,
Shall sweetly join the choir:
The blackbird strong, the
lintwhite
clear,
The mavis mild and mellow;
The robin pensive autumn cheer,
In all her locks of yellow.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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To-day the doors and windows
Are hung with
garlands
all,
From Castor in the Forum,
To Mars without the wall.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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He, who guards
The isle of fire by old
Anchises
honour'd
Shall find his avarice there and cowardice;
And better to denote his littleness,
The writing must be letters maim'd, that speak
Much in a narrow space.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Copyright
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Appoloinaire |
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Pole-star of light in Europe's night,
That never
faltered
from the right.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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But he whose blossom buds in guilt
Shall to the ground be cast,
And, like the rootless stubble, tost
Before the
sweeping
blast.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Yet but awhile the slumbering weather flings
Its murky prison round--then winds wake loud;
With sudden stir the
startled
forest sings
Winter's returning song-cloud races cloud.
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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Sache qu'il faut aimer, sans faire la grimace,
Le pauvre, le mechant, le tortu, l'hebete,
Pour que tu puisses faire a Jesus, quand il passe,
Un tapis
triomphal
avec ta charite.
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Paul Eluard - Poems |
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It has been the habit of Europe to idealize love at the expense of
friendship and so to place too heavy a burden on the
relation
of man and
woman.
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Hate not a thing too much, lest you be drawn
Wry from
yourselves
and close to the thing ye hate.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then could we show to the skies
great hosts and a
glorious
name,
And laws that were stable in might;
as towers they guarded our fame!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Aeschylus |
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Having so altered, it has
naturally
lost in significance; but in the
greatest instances of later epic, that for which the device was used has
been as profoundly absorbed into the poet's being as Homer's matter was
into his being.
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
|
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Now, she spoke again
"Certes, 'tis heavy
purchase
of a throne,
To pass the night here utterly alone.
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Wer ruft das Einzelne zur allgemeinen Weihe,
Wo es in
herrlichen
Akkorden schlagt?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Laughing
at their guile,
And crying, "Why tie the fetters?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Why, untamed do you scare
At any
approach
you see?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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L aurel, so sweet, for my cause now fighting,
O live, so noble,
removing
all bitter foliage,
R eason does not wish me unused to owing,
E ven as I'm to agree with this wish, forever,
Duty to you, but rather grow used to serving:
Even for this end are we come together.
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| Source: |
Villon |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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And some that beat up Channel homeward-bound
I watched, and
wondered
what they might have found,
What alien ports enriched their teeming hold
With crates of fruit or bars of unwrought gold?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Alexander Pope |
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Shatter her
beauteous
breast ye may;
The spirit of England none can slay!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Ah, never with a throat that aches with song,
Beneath the white
uncaring
sky of spring,
Shall I go forth to hide awhile from Love
The quiver and the crying of my heart.
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Sara Teasdale |
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'Self-immolated to his friend,
Shrined in world's wonder, Homer's page,
Is this the man, the less than men,
Of this
degenerate
age?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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' The
publisher
returned no answer.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Knows he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At
midnight
and at morn?
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Emerson - Poems |
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Wharton, in whose
altogether
admirable little
volume we find all that is known and the most apposite of all that has been
said up to the present day about
"Love's priestess, mad with pain and joy of song,
Song's priestess, mad with joy and pain of love.
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Sappho |
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For since neither by fate did she perish, nor as one who had
earned her death, but
woefully
before her day, and fired by sudden
madness, not yet had Proserpine taken her lock from the golden head, nor
sentenced her to the Stygian under world.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Surely some
fortunate
hour 5
Phaon will come, and his beauty
Be spent like water to plenish
Need of that beauty!
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Sappho |
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Why speak of the war gathering
from Tyre, and thy brother's
menaces?
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| Question: |
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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'
NURSE'S SONG
When the voices of children are heard on the green,
And
whisperings
are in the dale,
The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind,
My face turns green and pale.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Tell her I am
arrested
in the street,
And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone.
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Shakespeare |
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O save me from her, thou
illustrious
sage!
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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