D oubtless, as my heart's lady you'll have being,
E ntirely now, till death
consumes
my age.
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Villon |
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The tides of war had ebb'd away
From Trachis and Thermopylae,
Long centuries had come and gone
Since that fierce day at Marathon;
Freedom was firmly based, and we
Wall'd by our own
encircling
sea;
The ancient passions dead, and men
Battl'd with ledger and with pen.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Every one of you won the war,
You and you and you--
You that carry an
unscathed
head,
You that halt with a broken tread,
And oh, most of all, you Dead, you Dead!
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Study our manuscripts, those Myriades 10
Of letters, which have past twixt thee and mee,
Thence write our Annals, and in them will bee
To all whom loves
subliming
fire invades,
Rule and example found;
There, the faith of any ground 15
No schismatique will dare to wound,
That sees, how Love this grace to us affords,
To make, to keep, to use, to be these his Records.
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John Donne |
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They looked as if they would be
convenient
and proper enough as
long as the coats were new and tidy, but would soon come to have a
beggarly and unsightly look, akin to rags and dust-holes.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced
old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then I saw the morning sky:
Heigho, the tale was all a lie;
The world, it was the old world yet,
I was I, my things were wet,
And nothing now
remained
to do
But begin the game anew.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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[80] Sertorius, who was invited by the
Lusitanians
to defend them
against the Romans.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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XV
You pallid ghost, and you, pale ashen spirit,
Who joyful in the bright light of day
Created all that arrogant display,
Whose dusty ruin now greets our visit:
Speak, spirits (since that shadowy limit
Of Stygian shore that ensures your stay,
Enclosing you in thrice
threefold
array,
Sight of your dark images, may permit),
Tell me, now (since it may be one of you,
Here above, may yet be hid from view)
Do you not feel a greater depth of pain,
When from hour to hour in Roman lands
You contemplate the work of your hands,
Reduced to nothing but a dusty plain?
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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ere to-morrow's dawn be here,
"Send forth my messengers over the sea,
To seek seven beautiful brides for me;
"Radiant of feature and regal of mien,
Seven
handmaids
meet for the Persian Queen.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Drooried
cattes wylle after kynde;
Gentle doves wylle kyss and coe.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy
pregnant
lips for more.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Disputable
questions
as to the date of any
poem are dealt with in the editorial note prefixed or appended to it.
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sez he, "I guess,
John
preaches
wal," sez he;
"But, sermon thru, an' come to _du_,
Why, there's the old J.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Death will come when thou art dead,
Soon, too soon-- _30
Sleep will come when thou art fled;
Of neither would I ask the boon
I ask of thee, beloved Night--
Swift be thine
approaching
flight,
Come soon, soon!
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Shelley |
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of his grieved hed
His gorgeous ryder from her loftie sted
Would have cast downe, and trod in durtie myre, 150
Had not the Gyant soone her succoured;
Who all enrag'd with smart and franticke yre,
Came
hurtling
in full fierce, and forst the knight retyre.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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I will effuse egotism, and show it underlying all--and I will be the bard
of personality;
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the
other;
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present--and can be
none in the future;
And I will show that,
whatever
happens to anybody, it may be turned to
beautiful results--and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful
than death;
And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are
compact,
And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as
profound as any.
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Whitman |
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It is
described
by Baedeker as upwards of
2,000 feet in extent.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Sara Teasdale |
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Where'er he looked a miracle was wrought:
A tree grew from the darkness at a glance;
A hut was thatched; a new chateau was reared
Of stone, as weathered as the church at Caen;
Gray blooms were
coloured
suddenly in red;
A flag was flung across the eastern sky.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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XXXV
No magicke arts hereof had any might,
Nor bloudie wordes of bold
Enchaunters
call;
But all that was not such as seemd in sight,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Daughter
of Jove, relentless power,
Thou tamer of the human breast,
Whose iron scourge and torturing hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
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Golden Treasury |
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[35] Huai-nan is
associated
with laurel-branches, owing to a famous
poem by the King of Huai-nan.
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Li Po |
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Should chant grave unisons of grief and love;
Ye could not mourn with more
melodious
art
Than daily doth yon dim sequestered dove.
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Sidney Lanier |
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When I can scarce breathe beneath a
shameful
yoke!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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"Some say that Yao is
shackled
and hidden away, and that Shun has died
in the fields.
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Li Po |
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(C)
Copyright
2000-2016 A.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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She hath drawn me from mine old ways,
Till men say that I am mad;
But I have seen the sorrow of men, and am glad, For I know that the wailing and
bitterness
are a folly.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Rather onto our heels by horrible deeds the Erinyes
We would allure, even Zeus' punishment sooner we'd dare--
Under that rock, or bound to a tumbling wheel we'd endure it--
Than we'd withdraw our hearts from the
delights
of her cult.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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"
Which
perplexed
that old person of Cassel.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Lear in the
maturity
of sweet desipience, and
will perhaps remain the favorite volume of the four to grown-up readers.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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For while he slept, the Moabitess Ruth
Lay at his feet,
expectant
of his waking.
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Hugo - Poems |
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LIX
Walking in the sky,
A man in strange black garb
Encountered
a radiant form.
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Stephen Crane |
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Housman's
poems, the singularly Grecian Quality of a clean and fragrant mental and
emotional temper, vibrating equally whether the theme dealt with is
ruin or defeat, or some great tragic crisis of spirit, or with moods and
ardours of pure enjoyment and
simplicities
of feeling.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Through his personality; his pathos and
ethology he has furthermore
engendered
a new ideal;
a synthesis of Christian and Pagan feeling which in
this form has not existed before.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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IV
Mute Seminary there,
Filled once with
resonant
hymn and prayer,
How your meek walls and windows shuddered then!
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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zip *******
This and all
associated
files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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_John Drinkwater_
THE DEATH OF PEACE
Now slowly sinks the day-long labouring Sun
Behind the
tranquil
trees and old church-tower;
And we who watch him know our day is done;
For us too comes the evening--and the hour.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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--beauty dashed
To
splendour
by a sudden dread.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Is it uniform with my
country?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of War is Kind, by Stephen Crane
This eBook is for the use of anyone
anywhere
at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Stephen Crane |
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He bends his course to Talon's, where(8)
He knows
Kaverine
will repair.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Did I dream, or did I hear
Politian was a
melancholy
man?
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| Source: |
Poe - 5 |
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Before I got my eye put out,
I liked as well to see
As other
creatures
that have eyes,
And know no other way.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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As pleased as little
children
where these grow
In cobbled pattens and worn gowns they go,
Proud of their wisdom when on gooseberry shoots
They stuck eggshells to fright from coming fruits
The brisk-billed rascals; pausing still to see
Their neighbour owls saunter from tree to tree,
Or in the hushing half-light mouse the lane
Long-winged and lordly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We forest Beasts,--
We Beasts of hill or cave,--
We border-loving
Creatures
of the wave,--
We praise our King with voices deep and grave.
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Christina Rossetti |
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O JEHOVAH our Lord how
wondrous
great
And glorious is thy name through all the earth?
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Milton |
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'T is beggars banquets best define;
'T is thirsting
vitalizes
wine, --
Faith faints to understand.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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In the month of
September
1768 an event of some importance occurred at
Bristol--a new bridge that had been built across the Avon to supersede
a structure dating from the reign of the second Henry being formally
thrown open for traffic.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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According
to them also the Healing
Power of Jesus resided in his Breath.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Many a time I'm so deep in thought,
Ruffians could abduct me, neatly,
And of the
business
I'd know naught.
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Troubador Verse |
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They chose, and the women and children that are
greeting
you here are
those
Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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And full in the midst rose Keenan, tall
In the gloom, like a martyr
awaiting
his fall,
While the circle-stroke of his sabre, swung
'Round his head, like a halo there, luminous hung.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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xv: _succepit_ Statius
106
_cornigeram_
?
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Latin - Catullus |
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XV
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same
sunlight
on our brow and hair.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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LE PANNEAU
UNDER the rose-tree's dancing shade
There stands a little ivory girl,
Pulling the leaves of pink and pearl
With pale green nails of
polished
jade.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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The grasshopper is silent in the grass,
The lizard with his shadow on the stone
Sleeps like a shadow, and the
scarletwinged
[21]
Cicala in the noonday leapeth not
Along the water-rounded granite-rock.
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Tennyson |
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La presente edition de 1895 a ete
corrigee
de la main de Verlaine, sur
des epreuves fournies par l'imprimerie Ch.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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It was April fair on the
Flanders
Fields,
But the dreadest April then
That ever the years, in their fateful flight,
Had brought to this world of men.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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It was but now that I never more
for woes that weighed on me waited help
long as I lived, when, laved in blood,
stood sword-gore-stained this stateliest house, --
widespread woe for wise men all,
who had no hope to hinder ever
foes infernal and
fiendish
sprites
from havoc in hall.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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'
Otho's character was by no means so
effeminate
as his person.
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Tacitus |
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The Dong with a
luminous
Nose!
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Lear - Nonsense |
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These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very
threshold
I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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("The big fish--eat the little fish--
the little fish--eat the shrimps--
and the shrimps--eat mud,"--
said a
cadaverous
man--with a black umbrella--
spotted with white polka dots--with a missing
ear--with a missing foot and arms--
with a missing sheath of muscles
singing to the silver sashes of the sun.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Sempre natura, se fortuna trova
discorde
a se, com' ogne altra semente
fuor di sua region, fa mala prova.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The effect of opium on the normal man is to bring him into
something
like
the state in which Coleridge habitually lived.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor
library;
But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of
an
Illinois
prairie,
With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas
uplands, or Florida's glades,
Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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-- On his shoulder lay
braided breast-mail, barring death,
withstanding
entrance
of edge or blade.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Botte, gyff thou fyghteste mee, thou shalt have mede[93];
Somme odherr I wylle champyonn toe affraie[94];
Perchaunce fromme hemm I maie possess the daie,
Thenn I schalle bee a
foemanne
forr thie spere.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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, _it is painful to an old man to
experience
it, that .
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Beowulf |
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And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city,
Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or
covertly
frown'd amid
all your children,
But now you smile with joy exulting old Mannahatta.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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This plan at length he thought would best succeed,
To execute it
doubtless
he had need
Of ev'ry wily art he could devise,
Surrounded as he was by eagle-eyes.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred
brighter
eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician.
| Guess: |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Benignant stars their bright companionship
Gave to the fortunate side
When came that fair birth on our nether world,
Its sole star since, who, as the laurel leaf,
The worth of honour fresh and fragrant keeps,
Where
lightnings
play not, nor ungrateful winds
Ever o'ersway its head.
| Guess: |
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Petrarch |
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I was
splintered
and torn:
the hill-path mounted
swifter than my feet.
| Guess: |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Her count'nance once and her kind aid secured,
Thou may'st
thenceforth
expect thy friends to see, 90
Thy dwelling, and thy native soil again.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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Not Dante
dreaming
all the infernal state,
Beheld such scenes of envy, sin, and hate.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Pope - Essay on Man |
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Me-azag,
daughter
of Ninkasi, 144.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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The Judge left the Court, looking deeply disgusted:
But the Snark, though a little aghast,
As the lawyer to whom the defence was intrusted,
Went
bellowing
on to the last.
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Deluded by [the] summers heat they sport in
enormous
love
And cast their young out to the [?
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Blake - Zoas |
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[Exit HERBERT
supported
by IDONEA.
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William Wordsworth |
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Je trone dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris;
J'unis un coeur de neige a la
blancheur
des cygnes;
Je hais le mouvement qui deplace les lignes,
Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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_Ploughman Singing_
Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met
Ere yet one
footstep
shows in all the sky,
And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,
Shows not her sleeve of grey to know her bye.
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John Clare |
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Whose life is all
A simpering pretence of
modesty?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Ennius speaks of verses which the
Fauns and the Bards were wont to chant in the old time, when none
had yet studied the graces of speech, when none had yet climbed
the peaks sacred to the
Goddesses
of Grecian song.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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I can repeople with the past--and of
The present there is still for eye and thought,
And
meditation
chastened down, enough;
And more, it may be, than I hoped or sought;
And of the happiest moments which were wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice!
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Byron |
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The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of
chestnuts
in the streets
And female smells in shuttered rooms
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The nations not so blest as thee
Must in their turn to tyrants fall,
Whilst thou shalt
flourish
great and free
The dread and envy of them all.
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Golden Treasury |
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"
The
bloodshed
and the attendant miseries which the unparalleled rapine
and cruelties of the Spaniards spread over the new world, indeed
disgrace human nature.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of
the
Mississippi!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Ravish'd, she lifted her Circean head,
Blush'd a live damask, and swift-lisping said,
"I was a woman, let me have once more
A woman's shape, and
charming
as before.
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Keats - Lamia |
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or how he told
Of the changed limbs of Tereus- what a feast,
What gifts, to him by
Philomel
were given;
How swift she sought the desert, with what wings
Hovered in anguish o'er her ancient home?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'Wouldn't be in your shoes for
anything
that Asia has to offer.
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Kipling - Poems |
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II
No wind fanned the flats of the ocean,
Or promontory sides,
Or the ooze by the strand,
Or the bent-bearded slope of the land,
Whose base took its rest amid
everlong
motion
Of criss-crossing tides.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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One might descry them
shifting
[401-433]their quarters and
pouring out of all the town: even as ants, mindful of winter, plunder a
great heap of wheat and store it in their house; a black column advances
on the plain as they carry home their spoil on a narrow track through
the grass.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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That strange mood seemed to draw a cloud away,
And let her beauty pour through every vein
Sunlight
and life, part of me.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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It grows along thy amber curls, to shine
Brighter
than elsewhere.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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