- To the Azure that October stirred, pale, pure,
That in the vast pools mirrors
infinite
languor,
And over dead water, where the leaves wander
The wind, in russet throes, dig their cold furrow,
Allows a long ray of yellow light to flow.
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Young maiden, true love is a pool all mirroring clear,
Where coquettish girls come to linger in long delight,
For it banishes afar from the face all the clouds that besmear
The soul truly bright;
But tempts you to ruffle its surface; drawing your foot
To
subtilest
sinking!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Glancing
at him haughtily, I said to
him--
"I am your master; you are my servant.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Withouten stroke it mot be take
Of
trepeget
or mangonel;
Without displaying of pensel.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I
verified
the name next morning: Toffile;
The rural letter-box said Toffile Lajway.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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In the End
All that could never be said,
All that could never be done,
Wait for us at last
Somewhere
back of the sun;
All the heart broke to forego
Shall be ours without pain,
We shall take them as lightly as girls
Pluck flowers after rain.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Stand forth, ye wrestlers, who these
pastimes
grace!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Again, whatever jaundiced people view
Becomes wan-yellow, since from out their bodies
Flow many seeds wan-yellow forth to meet
The films of things, and many too are mixed
Within their eye, which by
contagion
paint
All things with sallowness.
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Or
quenched
the fires lit by their breath?
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Therefore
come, or recreant be
called.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Let him depart; I promise he shall meet
A guerdon worthy of his
treacherous
feat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Oh, word of pain, oh, sharper ache
Than any death of mine had
brought!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Du bist doch sonst so
ziemlich
eingeteufelt.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Naroumov invited Herman
to
accompany
him to the club, and the young man accepted the invitation
only too willingly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Into the earth for
safekeeping
the servant must bury the story,
Easing in this way the king: earth must conceal the tale.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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They made themselves a fearful
monument!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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She'll make an
exhibition
of you as I've made of
him; and people will laugh at you.
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Kipling - Poems |
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"
All cursed the Doer for an evil
Called here,
enlarging
on the Devil,--
There, monkeying the Lord!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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He said that the gut of the gnat was narrow, and that, in
passing through this tiny passage, the air is driven with force towards
the breech; then after this slender channel, it
encountered
the rump,
which was distended like a trumpet, and there it resounded sonorously.
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Aristophanes |
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Here Agamemnonian Halaesus, foe of the Trojan name, yokes his chariot
horses, and draws a thousand warlike peoples to Turnus; those who turn
with spades the Massic soil that is glad with wine; whom the elders of
Aurunca sent from their high hills, and the Sidicine low country
[728-761]hard by; and those who leave Cales, and the dweller by the
shallows of
Volturnus
river, and side by side the rough Saticulan and
the Oscan bands.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A terrific combat between these
heroes ensues, [10] in which Enkidu conquers, and in a magnanimous
speech he reminds
Gilgamish
of his higher destiny.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Her deck, once red with heroes' blood,
Where knelt the vanquished foe,
When winds were hurrying o'er the flood
And waves were white below,
No more shall feel the victor's tread,
Or know the
conquered
knee;--
The harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle of the sea!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Whether it
was owing to the wisdom of leading individuals, or to the justling
of parties, I cannot pretend to determine; but likewise happily for
us, the kingly power was shifted into another branch of the family,
who, as they owed the throne solely to the call of a free people,
could claim nothing inconsistent with the
covenanted
terms which
placed them there.
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Robert Forst |
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Thou art the issue of my dear offence,
Which was so
strongly
urg'd past my defence.
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Shakespeare |
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Next artful Phereclus
untimely
fell;
Bold Merion sent him to the realms of hell.
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Iliad - Pope |
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When I flew to Blackmoor Vale,
Whence the green-gowned faeries hail,
Roosting
near them I could hear them
Speak of queenly Nature's ways,
Means, and moods,--well known to fays.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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My blood was thine, and justly, tho' it springs
Amongst the best and noblest names of France;
But to pretend to spare these poor gray locks,
And yet to trample on a weeping woman,
Was basely done; the father was thine own,
But not the
daughter!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Here then,
likewise
seeking an answer, lord Latinus paid
fit sacrifice of an hundred woolly ewes, and [94-127]lay couched on the
strewn fleeces they had worn.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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_Sugh_, the
continued
rushing noise of wind or water.
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Robert Burns |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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_Wherein_,
BY OCCASION OF
_the
Religious
death of Mistris_
ELIZABETH DRVRY,
the incommodities of the Soule
_in this life, and her exaltation in_
the next, are Contem-
_plated_.
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John Donne |
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--
Since she herself begat the human race,
And at one well-nigh fixed time brought forth
Each breast that ranges raving round about
Upon the mighty
mountains
and all birds
Aerial with many a varied shape.
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Lucretius |
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He had
scarcely
arrived
there when he fell ill, and died on the 26th of August in the same year.
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Petrarch |
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Then they
repair their
strength
with food, and lying along the grass take their
fill of old wine and fat venison.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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or is it without reference to
universal
needs?
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Whitman |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Since leisure was together spent,
Meals, secrets,
occupations
shared?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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XXII
Once I saw
Mountains
angry,
And ranged in battle-front.
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Stephen Crane |
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When Vitellius left Lugdunum, Cluvius Rufus[366] relinquished his 65
Spanish province and
followed
him.
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Tacitus |
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XXXVII
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Of all that strong
divineness
which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Note: The third verse
suggests
a summer sky in northern latitudes, say late July, when Arcturus sets in the north-west at dawn.
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Troubador Verse |
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have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
against accepting unsolicited
donations
from donors in such states who
approach us with offers to donate.
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Hugo - Poems |
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I
was convinced that you could see objects
distinctly
there much
farther than here.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beautiful ministers,
We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or withhold
yourselves
from us,
We use you, and do not cast you aside--we plant you permanently within us,
We fathom you not--we love you--there is perfection in you also,
You furnish your parts toward eternity,
Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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But he did show them to close friends,
one of whom was the
wonderful
dramatist Friedrich Schiller.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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you only see me,
In your
thoughts
of loving man,
Smiling soft perhaps and dreamy
Through the wavings of my fan;
And unweeting
Go repeating,
In your reverie serene,
"Sweetest eyes were ever seen----"
VII.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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[Sidenote A: Scarcely had he blessed himself thrice]
[Sidenote B: when he saw a dwelling in the wood, set on a hill,]
[Sidenote C: the
comeliest
castle that knight ever owned.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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THE TROLL'S NOSEGAY
A simple
nosegay!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Was heute nicht geschieht, ist morgen nicht getan,
Und keinen Tag soll man verpassen,
Das Mogliche soll der Entschluss
Beherzt
sogleich
beim Schopfe fassen,
Er will es dann nicht fahren lassen
Und wirket weiter, weil er muss.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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All things that pass
Are wisdom's looking-glass;
Being full of hope and fear, and still
Brimful of good or ill,
According
to our work and will;
For there is nothing new beneath the sun;
Our doings have been done,
And that which shall be was.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"May Days" and "Days and Nights in Concord," which were printed in the
Riverside Edition, are now omitted as consisting merely of extracts
from Thoreau's Journal and
therefore
superseded by the publication of
the latter in its complete form.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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XII
That Emperour, beneath a pine he sits,
Calls his barons, his council to begin:
Oger the Duke, that
Archbishop
Turpin,
Richard the old, and his nephew Henry,
From Gascony the proof Count Acolin,
Tedbald of Reims and Milun his cousin:
With him there were Gerers, also Gerin,
And among them the Count Rollant came in,
And Oliver, so proof and so gentil.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The fisherman, taking sight
over the calm surface,
discovers
its snout projecting above the water,
at the distance of many rods, and easily secures his prey through its
unwillingness to disturb the water by swimming hastily away, for,
gradually drawing its head under, it remains resting on some limb or
clump of grass.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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"Oh, Pray, sir, "the lady " spake all
laughter
riven,
"What means this?
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In recent years there has arisen a great body of
literature
upon the
subject of Sappho, most of it the abstruse work of scholars writing for
scholars.
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Sappho |
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him beo, 465
he fel in
swounyng
on ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thou diddest deem it suffice: so great is thy
pleasure
in every
Crime wherein may be found somewhat enormous of guilt.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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" The Frenchman has said
that it would be
impossible
for a critic to become a poet; and it is
impossible for a poet not to contain a critic.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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He was
standing
near his wigwam,
On the margin of the water,
And he called to old Nokomis,
Called and beckoned to Nokomis,
Pointed to the sturgeon, Nahma,
Lying lifeless on the pebbles,
With the sea-gulls feeding on him.
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Longfellow |
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They have taken thy brother and sister dear,
They have made them unfit for thee; _10
They have
withered
the smile and dried the tear
Which should have been sacred to me.
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Shelley |
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His imagination required no wings, but rather
fetters; and it is evident that opium was more often a
sedative
than a spur
to his senses.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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My waking cares, and
stabbing
frights recede,
And nodding sleep dropped on my drowsy head.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Mournful
and still it was at day's decline,
The day we entered there;
As in a loveless heart, at the lone shrine,
The fires extinguished were.
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Hugo - Poems |
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Magnificent
The morning rose, in memorable pomp,
Glorious as e'er I had beheld--in front, 325
The sea lay laughing at a distance; near,
The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds,
Grain-tinctured, drenched in
empyrean
light;
And in the meadows and the lower grounds
Was all the sweetness of a common dawn--330
Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, [S]
And labourers going forth to till the fields.
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William Wordsworth |
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But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refreshed,
singing,
inhaling
the ripe breath of autumn,
When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning
light,
When I wandered alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with
the cool waters, and saw the sunrise,
And when I thought how my dear friend, my lover, was on his way coming, O
then I was happy;
O then each breath tasted sweeter--and all that day my food nourished me
more--and the beautiful day passed well,
And the next came with equal joy--and with the next, at evening, came my
friend;
And that night, while all was still, I heard the waters roll slowly
continually up the shores,
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands, as directed to me,
whispering, to congratulate me;
For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool
night,
In the stillness, in the autumn moonbeams, his face was inclined toward me,
And his arm lay lightly around my breast--and that night I was happy.
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Whitman |
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During the
consulship
of Sylla, A.
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Tacitus |
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FOR once, good reader, I should wish thee wife;
Or otherwise, thou never can'st in life,
Conceive
the lengths a woman oft will go,
Whose breast is filled with wrath and secret woe.
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La Fontaine |
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produced
from scanned
images of public domain material from the Google Print
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Strength
of limb I still possess to seek the rivers and hills;
Still my heart has spirit enough to listen to flutes and strings.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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A cruel god
destroys
your race.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Oft as her angel face compassion wore,
With tears whose eloquence scarce fails to move,
With bland and
courteous
speech, I boldly strove
To soothe my foe, and in meek guise implore:
But soon her eyes inspire vain hopes no more;
For all my fortune, all my fate in love,
My life, my death, the good, the ills I prove,
To her are trusted by one sovereign power.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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at,
And
hardiliche
held hir gate
Al ?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Look once more e're we leave this specular Mount
Westward, much nearer by Southwest, behold
Where on the Aegean shore a City stands
Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil,
Athens the eye of Greece, Mother of Arts 240
And Eloquence, native to famous wits
Or hospitable, in her sweet recess,
City or Suburban, studious walks and shades;
See there the Olive Grove of Academe,
Plato's retirement, where the Attic Bird
Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long,
There flowrie hill Hymettus with the sound
Of Bees industrious murmur oft invites
To studious musing; there Ilissus rouls
His whispering stream; within the walls then view 250
The schools of antient Sages; his who bred
Great
Alexander
to subdue the world,
Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next:
There thou shalt hear and learn the secret power
Of harmony in tones and numbers hit
By voice or hand, and various-measur'd verse,
Aeolian charms and Dorian Lyric Odes,
And his who gave them breath, but higher sung,
Blind Melesigenes thence Homer call'd,
Whose Poem Phoebus challeng'd for his own.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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And the King bids me say, Rise from thy feast;
For thou must be to-night thyself a feast:
The vision of thy
loveliness
must now
Feed with astonishment my vassals' hearts.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Irish and Welsh and Scot,
Coldstream
and Grenadiers.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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They had
obtained from the Government permission for his return; and he was
absolved from the sentence of
banishment
in which he had been included
with his father.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Petrarch |
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ON GRONING BEARE, on a bier with
groaning
friends around.
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| Source: |
Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Yes, all "await the inevitable hour;"
The
downward
journey all one day must tread.
| Guess: |
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Such fables
Florence
in her pulpit hears,
Bandied about more frequent, than the names
Of Bindi and of Lapi in her streets.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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But in these Cases,
We still haue
iudgement
heere, that we but teach
Bloody Instructions, which being taught, returne
To plague th' Inuenter, this euen-handed Iustice
Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice
To our owne lips.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Indeed, I selected this wood because I thought it the
least likely to contain
anything
else.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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'
Quod Shame; 'thou dost us
vilanye!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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He
would have subscribed to Swinburne's generous pronouncement: "I have
never been able to see what should attract man to the
profession
of
criticism but the noble pleasure of praising.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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farre
besprenged
alle oure troopes are spreade, 700
Yette I wylle synglie dare the bloddie fraie.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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And nature forced the men,
Before the woman kind, to work the wool:
For all the male kind far excels in skill,
And
cleverer
is by much--until at last
The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,
And so were eager soon to give them o'er
To women's hands, and in more hardy toil
To harden arms and hands.
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Lucretius |
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" The
derivation
of German is Wehr mann, a warrior, or man of war.
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Tacitus |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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J'ai vu des
archipels
sideraux!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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Before his seat a polish'd table shines,
And a full goblet foams with
generous
wines;
His food a herald bore; and now they fed;
And now the rage of craving hunger fled.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Stephen Crane |
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Pale grew her immortality, for woe
Of all these lovers, and she grieved so
I took
compassion
on her, bade her steep
Her hair in weird syrops, that would keep
Her loveliness invisible, yet free
To wander as she loves, in liberty.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Howe'er that thou may'st profit by thy shame
For errors past, and that henceforth more strength
May arm thee, when thou hear'st the Siren-voice,
Lay thou aside the motive to this grief,
And lend
attentive
ear, while I unfold
How opposite a way my buried flesh
Should have impell'd thee.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Orchids all in bloom:
chrysanthemums
smell sweet.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Besides, we observe ten vessels
Of our old enemies,
flaunting
their banners;
They have dared to approach the river-course.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Les richesses
jaillissant
a chaque demarche!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It exists
because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and
donations
from
people in all walks of life.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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XI
Four gigantic men in triumph
Brought along the
slaughtered
Bear.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning
striding
behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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