No dagger here, but blood has some time stained it;
No cup, that has not held some hot and
poisonous
juice,
And stung to death the throat that drained it;
No trinket, but did once a maid seduce;
No sword, but hath some tie of sacred honor riven,
Or haply from behind through foeman's neck been driven.
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_ I will anatomize the world for
the benefit of those who still, by the influence of her virtue, lead a
kind of
glimmering
life.
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John Donne |
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The peer,
delighted
at the man's distress,
The garlick made him bite, and chew, and press,
Then gulp it down as if delicious fare;
The first he passed; the second made him swear;
The third he found was every whit as sad,
He wished the devil had it, 'twas so bad.
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La Fontaine |
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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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Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the
moonlight
chill?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Would then my noble master please
To grant my highest wishes,
He'll shade my banks wi' tow'ring trees,
And bonnie
spreading
bushes.
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Robert Burns |
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O, so
unnatural
Nature,
You whose ephemeral flower
Lasts only from dawn to dusk!
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Ronsard |
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formd the lovely limbs of Enitharmon XXX & to
lamentation
of Enion ?
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Blake - Zoas |
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They put arsenic in his meat
And stared aghast to watch him eat;
They poured
strychnine
in his cup
And shook to see him drink it up:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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His early work, 'The Shepherd's
Week', was planned as a parody on the 'Pastorals' of Pope's rival,
Ambrose Philips, and Pope
assisted
him in the composition of his
luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'.
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Alexander Pope |
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"
Under the stars the air was light
But dark below the boughs,
The still air of the
speechless
night,
When lovers crown their vows.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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But of
themselves
those parts can never feel,
For all the sense in every member back
To something else refers--a severed hand,
Or any other member of our frame,
Itself alone cannot support sensation.
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Lucretius |
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At best more
watchful
this, but that more strong.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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SAS}
Luvah was cast into the Furnaces of affliction & sealed
And Vala fed in cruel delight, the furnaces with fire
Stern Urizen beheld urg'd by necessity to keep
The evil day afar, & if perchance with iron power
He might avert his own despair; in woe & fear he saw
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Vala incircle round the furnaces where Luvah was clos'd
In joy she heard his howlings, & forgot he was her Luvah
With whom she walkd in bliss, in times of innocence & youth
Hear ye the voice of Luvah from the furnaces of Urizen
If I indeed am Valas King [Luvahs Lord] & ye O sons of Men
The workmanship of Luvahs hands; in times of Everlasting
When I calld forth the Earth-worm from the cold & dark obscure
I nurturd her I fed her with my rains & dews, she grew
A scaled Serpent, yet I fed her tho' she hated me
Day after day she fed upon the
mountains
in Luvahs sight
I brought her thro' the Wilderness, a dry & thirsty land
And I commanded springs to rise for her in the black desart
Till she became a Dragon winged bright & poisonous {Erdman notes that a revision was made to this line while it was still wet mending "fordemon" to "Dragon".
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Blake - Zoas |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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Thus much, Sir, I have briefly-over-run to direct your
understanding
to the
wel-head of the History, that from thence gathering the whole intention of
the conceit, ye may as in a handfull gripe all the discourse, which
otherwise may happely seem tedious and confused.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Whom will Venus seat
Chairman
of cups?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Gareth sprang upon three and stilled them with his doughty blows, but
three scurried away through the trees; then Gareth
loosened
the stone
from the gentleman and set him on his feet.
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Tennyson |
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But were I fasten'd there with strongest keys,
That mirror should not make you, at my cost,
Severe and proud
yourself
alone to please.
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Petrarch |
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Inde pater divom sancta cum coniuge natisque
Advenit caelo, te solum, Phoebe, relinquens
Vnigenamque simul cultricem montibus Idri: 300
Pelea nam tecum pariter soror aspernatast
Nec Thetidis taedas voluit celebrare iugalis,
Qui postquam niveis
flexerunt
sedibus artus,
Large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae,
Cum interea infirmo quatientes corpora motu 305
Veridicos Parcae coeperunt edere cantus.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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There's one hope, still--
Those
batteries
parked on the hill!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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"
Universal
nature has a rebuke for the coward that is afraid to die.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Gather the north flowers to
complete
the south,
And catch the early love up in the late.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Wilmot, the
inspirer
of
"She walks in beauty like the night;" with Mrs.
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Byron |
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The Poet's Progress
A Poem In Embryo
Thou, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice
maternal
I complain.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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The opinion of those who suppose that the armies met near
Cornufelle, between Frascati and the Monte Porzio, is at least
plausible, and has been
followed
in the poem.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Revere the remnants nations once revered;
So may our country's name be undisgraced,
So mayst thou prosper where thy youth was reared,
By every honest joy of love and life
endeared!
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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e
co{m}mune
errour moeue?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So, whensoever thou thy
gladsome
ray,
O my fair sun, from me dost turn aside,
A thousand, and all evil, dreads, make drear
Winter within me many times a year.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Mallowe with an
unfathomable
smile.
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Kipling - Poems |
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2
Thee nor carketh [2] care nor slander;
Nothing but the small cold worm
Fretteth
thine enshrouded form.
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Tennyson |
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Thence Beowulf fled
through
strength
of himself and his swimming power,
though alone, and his arms were laden with thirty
coats of mail, when he came to the sea!
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Wherefore the more are they borne
wandering
on
By blindfold reason.
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Lucretius |
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Bid the lyre and cittern play;
Enkindle
incense, shed the victim's gore;
Heaven has watch'd o'er Numida,
And brings him safe from far Hispania's shore.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I have
forgotten
you long, long ago.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Here was
the
machinery
he was looking for made to his hand.
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Alexander Pope |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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ou were neuer
anguissous
or sory in ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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Bēowulf
is mīn nama, 343; wæs þǣm hæft-mēce
Hrunting nama, 1458; acc.
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Beowulf |
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Of the dead, Michael Angelo
appealed
chiefly to him there;
Landor among the living.
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Emerson - Poems |
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How is the
unchangeableness of truth
illustrated
in this story?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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So harmony grows full from many springs,
And happy
accident
turns holy art.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I will lead thee
into the midst of Erech of the wide places,
even unto the holy house,
dwelling
place of Anu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Five score
thousand
Franks swooned on the earth and fell.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Per lor
maladizion
si non si perde,
che non possa tornar, l'etterno amore,
mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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) Then, to
encourage him further, I said that, if there was any jadoo afoot, I had
not the least objection to giving it my
countenance
and sanction, and to
seeing that it was clean jadoo--white magic, as distinguished from
the unclean jadoo which kills folk.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Meredith - Poems |
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Though stern I
sometimes
be,
To thee, thou know'st, I was not so.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Would the sycophants of him
Now so deaf to duty's prayer,[nw]
Were his borrowed glories dim,
In his native
darkness
share?
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Byron |
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were just doing nothing at all _30
But settling some dress or
arranging
some ball,
But the Devil saw deeper there.
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Shelley |
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continuo sublime uolans ad moenia Gallis
condita, lanigeri suis
ostentantia
pellem,
peruenit.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The Project
Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation ("the
Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection
of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Heavy art thou, crown of
Monomakh!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--Qu'ils sont la, tous,
Collant leurs petits museaux roses
Au grillage,
chantant
des choses,
Entre les trous,
Mais bien bas,--comme une priere.
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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, the
Redcross
Knight does not
yield to the temptation of the flesh, but overcomes it.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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No
habitation
can be seen; but they
Who journey thither find themselves alone [2] 10
With a few sheep, with rocks and stones, and kites
That overhead are sailing in the sky.
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William Wordsworth |
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CCLXXX
For battle, now, ready you might them see,
They're well confessed, absolved, from sin set free;
Masses they've heard, Communion received,
Rich
offerings
to those minsters they leave.
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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The goddess Minerva
commands
Telemachus in a vision to return to
Ithaca.
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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[A dance]
The iron tongue of
midnight
hath told twelve.
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
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As soon as he perceived us he came up, said a few
pleasant
words to me,
and went back to the drill.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But most I'll choose that subtler dusk that comes
Into the mind--into the heart, you say--
When, as we look
bewildered
at lovely things,
Striving to give their loveliness a name,
They are forgotten; and other things, remembered,
Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief.
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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apparent
printer's errors and variable spellings retained.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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I loved: you know it; to avenge my father,
I was willing to condemn my lover:
Your Majesty, Sire, yourself could see
How my love was
sacrificed
to duty.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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The mystic helmet[151] on his head he wore,
And in his hand the fatal rod[152] he bore;
That rod of power[153] to wake the silent dead,
Or o'er the lids of care soft
slumbers
shed.
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| Source: |
Camoes - Lusiades |
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When the footing,
And other great festivity, of song,
And radiance, light with light accordant, each
Jocund and blythe, had at their pleasure still'd
(E'en as the eyes by quick
volition
mov'd,
Are shut and rais'd together), from the heart
Of one amongst the new lights mov'd a voice,
That made me seem like needle to the star,
In turning to its whereabout, and thus
Began: "The love, that makes me beautiful,
Prompts me to tell of th' other guide, for whom
Such good of mine is spoken.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"
The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens,
And ink in unfailing supplies:
While strange creepy
creatures
came out of their dens,
And watched them with wondering eyes.
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
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The breathing
pestilence
that rose like smoke!
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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"Mines
reported
in the fairway,
Warn all traffic and detain.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Watching
over him with Love & Care
End of the First Night
PAGE 23
Night the [Second]
{We assume this is Night the Second by virtue of its ending on p 36, though it is not in the title.
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Blake - Zoas |
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I think just how my lips will weigh
With shapeless,
quivering
prayer
That you, so late, consider me,
The sparrow of your care.
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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_hu_ reduced to the
breathing
_'u_; read _i-ni-'u_.
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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For that that som men blamen ever yit, 760
Lo, other maner folk
commenden
it.
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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And he had nothing to say, nothing easy--
He
mentioned
ten million men, mentioned them as having gone west,
mentioned them as shoving up the daisies.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Here sways Rebekah
accompanied
by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright romances and musk.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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He perceives it in the songs of birds--in the
harp of Bolos--in the sighing of the night-wind--in the repining voice
of the forest--in the surf that complains to the shore--in the fresh
breath of the woods--in the scent of the violet--in the voluptuous
perfume of the hyacinth--in the suggestive odour that comes to him
at
eventide
from far distant undiscovered islands, over dim oceans,
illimitable and unexplored.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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May is a full light wind of lilac
From Canada to
Narragansett
Bay.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Her fingers fumbled at her work, --
Her needle would not go;
What ailed so smart a little maid
It puzzled me to know,
Till
opposite
I spied a cheek
That bore another rose;
Just opposite, another speech
That like the drunkard goes;
A vest that, like the bodice, danced
To the immortal tune, --
Till those two troubled little clocks
Ticked softly into one.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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And as to trees the willows wear
Lopped heads as high as bushes are;
Some taller things the
distance
shrouds
That may be trees or stacks or clouds
Or may be nothing; still they wear
A semblance where there's nought to spare.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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or in womanly
housework?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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The
copyright
laws of the place where you are located also govern
what you can do with this work.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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'
Pierrot's Speech
A lunar
reveller
simply
Making circles in ponds,
I've no designs beyond
Becoming legendary.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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They shout and catch it and then off they start
And chase for
cowslips
merry as before,
And each one seems so anxious at the heart
As they would even get them all and more.
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The sight whereof so throughly him dismaid,
That nought but death before his eyes he saw,
And ever burning wrath before him laid,
By righteous
sentence
of th' Almighties law.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Their
Presidents
shall not be their common referee so much as
their poets shall.
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QUOD
MU{N}DUS
STABILI FIDE.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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In one corner the car of summer's greenery
gloriously
motionless
forever.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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in the brimming bath,
The heavy plash--the dying cry--
Hark--in the laver--hark, he falls by
treachery!
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Aeschylus |
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Lift thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn
threshold
fall,
Lift thine eyes slowly to the great dark tree
That stands against heaven, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its meanings rise
Like words that in the silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will to know
Gently withdraw thine eyes--
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
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Rilke - Poems |
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THE HARLOT'S HOUSE
WE caught the tread of dancing feet,
We
loitered
down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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_Teethless bawtie_,
toothless
cur.
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Robert Burns |
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He's taken Guenes by his right finger-ends,
And through the orchard
straight
to the King they wend.
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1590
Ci sourt as gens novele rage,
Ici se changent li corage;
Ci n'a mestier sens, ne mesure,
Ci est d'amer volente pure;
Ci ne se set
conseiller
nus;
Car Cupido, li fils Venus,
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So cercleth it the welle aboute.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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If any
disclaimer
or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Thus, by these subtle trains,
Do several
passions
invade the mind,
And strike our reason blind:
Of which usurping rank, some have thought love
The first: as prone to move
Most frequent tumults, horrors, and unrests,
In our inflamed breasts:
But this doth from the cloud of error grow,
Which thus we over-blow.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe himself,
He shall surely be question'd
beforehand
by me with many and stern questions.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Something
o' that, I said.
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The
likeness
of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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