And then I thought there grew
Still waters on my sight,
unshored
and blue.
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e be; treccherie & falshede, 266
Batailes & litel loue;
sekenesse
& haterede;
& ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Fifth Self: Nay, it is I, the
thinking
self, the fanciful self,
the self of hunger and thirst, the one doomed to wander without
rest in search of unknown things and things not yet created; it is
I, not you, who would rebel.
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Who fill'd thy
countenance
with rosy light?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Then warm moist hours steal in,
Such as can draw the year's
First
fragrance
from the sap of cherry wood
Or from the leaves of budless violets;
And travellers in lanes
Catch the hot tawny smell
Reynard's damp fur left as he sneakt marauding
Across from gap to gap:
And in the larch woods on the highest boughs
The long-eared owls like grey cats sitting still
Peer down to quiz the passengers below.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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It reads: "In the
beginning
was the _thought_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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Ronsard |
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I fear lest hasty action
followed
your threat.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Thence comes my sadness, though I grant your charms:
Ye are the outbursting
Of the soul in bloom, steeped in the draughts
Of nature's
boundless
spring.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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5
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
Listening to others, considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with
undeniable
will, divesting myself of the holds that
would hold me.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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nunc tibi commendo
communia
pignora natos:
haec cura et cineri spirat inusta meo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Right towards the lamb she looked; and from a shady place [2]
I unobserved could see the
workings
of her face:
If Nature to her tongue could measured numbers bring,
Thus, thought I, to her lamb that little Maid might sing: 20
"What ails thee, young One?
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William Wordsworth |
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Now, where the quick Rhone thus hath cleft his way,
The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en his stand;
For here, not one, but many, make their play,
And fling their thunderbolts from hand to hand,
Flashing and cast around: of all the band,
The
brightest
through these parted hills hath forked
His lightnings, as if he did understand
That in such gaps as desolation worked,
There the hot shaft should blast whatever therein lurked.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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To
reverse that process, to
transform
some portions of early Roman
history back into the poetry out of which they were made, is the
object of this work.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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90
V
'Tis a
woodland
enchanted!
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James Russell Lowell |
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TITYRUS
The city, Meliboeus, they call Rome,
I, simpleton, deemed like this town of ours,
Whereto we
shepherds
oft are wont to drive
The younglings of the flock: so too I knew
Whelps to resemble dogs, and kids their dams,
Comparing small with great; but this as far
Above all other cities rears her head
As cypress above pliant osier towers.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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772)
composed
a poem on the dawn court gathering in the newly restored court.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Huc refero quod est in
Achillis
Tatii Isagoge ad
Arati Phaenom.
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Latin - Catullus |
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It waited nearly a hundred years for the poet who
understood
exactly
what was to be done and exactly how to do it.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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FAUST:
O war ich nie
geboren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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I, smiling, ask'd them what they did,
Fair
Destinies
all three?
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Robert Herrick |
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A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old
nocturnal
smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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You'd do well, while you're in flow,
To make Rhyme a
fraction
wiser.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Ill fits the
stranger
and the poor to wound.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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To mask my
departure
I'll stay here a moment.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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such I ween
But they have
vanished
long, alas!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in
paragraphs
1.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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To-morrow he repairs the golden flood
And warms the nations with
redoubled
ray.
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Golden Treasury |
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Contents
Translator's note:
The Ruins Of Rome
Divine spirits, whose powdery ashes lie
The Babylonian praises his high wall,
Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,
She, who with her head the stars surpassed,
He who would see the vast power of Nature,
As in her chariot the Phrygian goddess rode,
You sacred ruins, and you holy shores,
With arms and vassals Rome the world subdued,
You cruel stars, inhuman deities,
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Mars, now ashamed to have granted power
As once we saw the children of the Earth
Not the raging fire's furious reign,
As we pass the summer stream without danger
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
As we gaze from afar on the waves roar
So long as Jove's great eagle was in flight,
These great heaps of stone, these walls you see,
All perfection Heaven showers on us,
Exactly as the rain-filled cloud is seen
She whom both Pyrrhus and Libyan Mars
When this brave city, honouring the Latin name,
Oh how wise that man was, in his caution,
If that blind fury that engenders wars,
Would that I might possess the Thracian lyre,
Who would
demonstrate
Rome's true grandeur,
You, by Rome astonished, who gaze here
He who has seen a great oak dry and dead,
All that the Egyptians once devised,
As the sown field its fresh greenness shows,
That we see nothing but an empty waste
Do you have hopes that posterity
Translator's note:
The text used is from the 1588 edition of Les Antiquites de Rome.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Cloth of bodkin or tissue must be embroidered; as if no
face were fair that were not
powdered
or painted!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Then will I swear beauty herself is black,
And all they foul that thy
complexion
lack.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I never hear of prisons broad
By
soldiers
battered down,
But I tug childish at my bars, --
Only to fail again!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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IF GOD HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE
UNIVERSE NOT
CONVINCED?
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| Source: |
Shelley |
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Some knelt in prayer, believing still,
Resigned unto a
righteous
will,
Bowing beneath the chastening rod,
Lost to the world, but found of God.
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| Source: |
Christina Rossetti |
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Sages their solemn een may steek,
An' raise a
philosophic
reek,
An' physically causes seek,
In clime an' season;
But tell me whisky's name in Greek
I'll tell the reason.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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_ RVen) GORVen: _tum
prospectans_
h
251 _parte_ AC: _pater_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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She
spawneth
men as mallows fresh,
Hero and maiden, flesh of her flesh;
She drugs her water and her wheat
With the flavors she finds meet,
And gives them what to drink and eat;
And having thus their bread and growth,
They do her bidding, nothing loath.
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Emerson - Poems |
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Right in we went, with soul intent
On Death and Dread and Doom:
The hangman, with his little bag,
Went
shuffling
through the gloom:
And each man trembled as he crept
Into his numbered tomb.
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Wilde - Poems |
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Burns as
marriage
could make her.
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Robert Burns |
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*9
LAND OF THE FREE By Gertrude
Cornwell
Hopkins
There is a man within a grimy window-square; —
I do not know how long it is he has been there
Three years of working-days I've passed on trains high in the air, And always he was there.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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zip *****
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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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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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The
Chaplain
would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
That Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whom Christ came down to save.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Unfortunately
no one either here or in China can
appreciate
the music of his verse,
for we do not know how Chinese was pronounced in the eighth century.
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Li Po |
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Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
Solovetsky
to perpetual penance.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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]
XIII
My friends, what means this odd
digression?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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ou]
makedest
460
me lyke to god.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Polyclitus was
sent to inquire into
Suetonius
Paulinus' administration of
Britain after the revolt of Boadicea in A.
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Tacitus |
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Enter the Ghost of Banquo, and sits in
Macbeths
place.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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That old man climbed; the day grew dim;
Two swans came flying up to him,
Linked by a gold chain each to each,
And with low murmuring
laughing
speech
Alighted on the windy grass.
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Yeats |
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It was a pretty picture, full of grace,--
The slender form, the delicate, thin face;
The swaying motion, as she hurried by;
The shining feet, the
laughter
in her eye,
That o'er her face in ripples gleamed and glanced,
As in her pail the shifting sunbeam danced:
And with uncommon feelings of delight
The Earl of Halifax beheld the sight.
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Cloud another lord awaited,
Or that in scenes Le Notre's art created
For princely sport and ease,
Crimean steeds,
trampling
the velvet glade,
Should browse the bark beneath the stately shade
Of the great Louis' trees?
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Hugo - Poems |
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Thou art a queen, fair Lesley,
Thy
subjects
we, before thee;
Thou art divine, fair Lesley,
The hearts o' men adore thee.
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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His
garments
breathed a spicy scent
Of cinnamon and sandal blent,
Like the soft aromatic gales
That meet the mariner, who sails
Through the Moluccas, and the seas
That wash the shores of Celebes.
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Longfellow |
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Other than this sweet nothing shown by their lip, the kiss
That softly gives assurance of treachery,
My breast, virgin of proof, reveals the mystery
Of the bite from some
illustrious
tooth planted;
Let that go!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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It was
produced
in the year 405 B.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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I lay in the ether recesses,
I ate of the heavenly bread,
Ye sang of
celestial
journeys,
Ye sang of the glorious dead.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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They, for a fell destroyer is hidden in the
silent woodland, are there before her expectation, one armed with a
stake
hardened
in the fire, one with a heavy knotted trunk; what each
one searches and finds, wrath turns into a weapon.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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A
pleasant
walk with my young friend Douglas Ainslie, a sweet, modest,
clever young fellow.
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Nay; it was sure, and was wrought
Under
inscrutable
powers:
Bravely the two armies fought
And left the land, that was greater than they, still theirs and ours!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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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.
| Guess: |
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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So within that green-veiled air,
Within that white-walled quiet, where
Innocent water thought aloud,--
Childish prattle that must make
The wise
sunlight
with laughter shake
On the leafage overbowed,--
Often the King and his love-lass
Let the delicious hours pass.
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Saveliitch
exclaimed, joy painted on his face--
"He is coming to himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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If you
do not charge
anything
for copies of this eBook, complying with the
rules is very easy.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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Hee dy'de,
As one that had beene studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,
As 'twere a
carelesse
Trifle
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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From Otis Yeere's lips Mrs Hauksbee, before long,
learned everything that she wished to know about the subject of her
experiment; learned what manner of life he had led in what she vaguely
called "those awful cholera districts"; learned too, but this knowledge
came later, what manner of life he had
purposed
to lead and what dreams
he had dreamed in the year of grace '77, before the reality had knocked
the heart out of him.
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Kipling - Poems |
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' he cried,
Descended, and
disjointed
it at a blow:
To whom the woodman uttered wonderingly
'Lord, thou couldst lay the Devil of these woods
If arm of flesh could lay him.
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Tennyson |
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]
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses--lo, the little lovers--
That kiss the buds and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and privet, of white wings
That go and come, and fly, and peep, and hide
With muffled music,
murmured
far and wide!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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The earth, they imagined, was a
great plain, of which their country was the midst; and so
ignorant
were
they of the cause of eclipses, that they believed the sun and moon were
assaulted, and in danger of being devoured by a huge dragon.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Walker, quod
cum sequentibus coniungebat
5
_inspiranti_
O: _inspirati_ Bod.
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Latin - Catullus |
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And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the
woodlands
I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
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| Question: |
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But
sometimes
when he dreams at night
Of fragrant forests green and dim,
It may be that my love crept out
And brought the dream to him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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So she stood arrayed
Before the Hearth-Fire of her home, and prayed:
"Mother, since I must vanish from the day,
This last, last time I kneel to thee and pray;
Be mother to my two
children!
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| Source: |
Euripides - Alcestis |
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Why dost thou lift those tender eyes
With so much sorrow and
surprise?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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Wilde - Poems |
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In one corner there stood a dresser with
crockery
on it.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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What combat, siege, ambush could not farther
Nor Aragon indeed, nor Grenada,
Neither your foes, nor yet the envious,
The Count has
perpetrated
on us,
Hating your choice, proud of the advantage
Granted him by my weakness at my age.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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There are many chimaeras that exist today, and before
combating
one of them, the greatest enemies of poetry, it is necessary to bridle Pegasus and even yoke him.
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Appoloinaire |
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And now I summon and
challenge
my rivals.
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Aristophanes |
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Conditional clauses of doubt or future
contingency
take gif
or būton with subj.
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Visits his brother in the Carthusian monastery of
Monte Rivo--writes his treatise "De Otio
Religiosorum"--returns to Italy--takes up his
abode with the Visconti--is sent by the Archbishop
Visconti to Venice, to
negotiate
a peace between the
Venetians and Genoese.
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" Van Winkle was a bud
From the ancient tree of Stuyvesant and had it in his blood;
"Don Miguel de
Colombo!
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Her hair is a
sinister
black,
Her skin, tanned by the devil.
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, first printed in
_Sibylline
Leaves_.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Poor Betty now has lost all hope,
Her
thoughts
are bent on deadly sin;
A green-grown pond she just has pass'd,
And from the brink she hurries fast,
Lest she should drown herself therein.
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LXXV
But, as Melissa counselled him, he wore
His wonted semblance for a time, till he
Was with his armour, many days before
Laid by, again
accoutred
cap-a-pee.
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XXXVI
And by degrees upon him grew
A lethargy of sense, a trance,
And soon
imagination
threw
Before him her wild game of chance.
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[_He breaks into
inarticulate
weeping_
CHORUS.
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O while I live to be the ruler of life, not a slave,
To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
No fumes, no ennui, no more complaints or scornful criticisms,
To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving
my
interior
soul impregnable,
And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
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Much madness is
divinest
sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
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But some had
opportunity
to squeal.
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For, as
Aristotle
says rightly, the moving of laughter is
a fault in comedy, a kind of turpitude that depraves some part of a man's
nature without a disease.
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HYMN
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
[Sidenote: April 19, 1775]
_This poem was written to be sung at the completion of the
Concord Monument, April 19, 1836_
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the
embattled
farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
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" But here, in a
letter from Hyderabad, bidding one "share a March morning" with
her, there is, at the mere contact of the sun, this outburst:
"Come and share my
exquisite
March morning with me: this
sumptuous blaze of gold and sapphire sky; these scarlet lilies
that adorn the sunshine; the voluptuous scents of neem and
champak and serisha that beat upon the languid air with their
implacable sweetness; the thousand little gold and blue and
silver breasted birds bursting with the shrill ecstasy of life in
nesting time.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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When the breeze of a joyful dawn blew free
In the silken sail of infancy,
The tide of time flow'd back with me,
The forward-flowing tide of time;
And many a sheeny summer-morn,
Adown the Tigris I was borne,
By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold,
High-walled gardens green and old;
True
Mussulman
was I and sworn,
For it was in the golden prime [1]
Of good Haroun Alraschid.
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