O I could sing such
grandeurs
and glories about you!
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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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Seize vpon Fife; giue to th' edge o'th' Sword
His Wife, his Babes, and all
vnfortunate
Soules
That trace him in his Line.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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All workers of iniquity
Thou wilt destroy that speak a ly
The bloodi' and
guileful
man God doth detest.
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Milton |
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Then
suddenly
horns began to blow;
And we heard a shout, and a heavy tramp,
And our horses snorted in the damp
Night-air of the meadows green and wide,
And in a moment, side by side,
So close, they must have seemed but one,
The shadows across the moonlight run,
And another came, and swept behind,
Like the shadow of clouds before the wind!
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Longfellow |
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She never found fault with you, never implied
Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side
Grew nobler, girls purer, as through the whole town
The
children
were gladder that pulled at her gown--
My Kate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But enough of these have already
appeared
in the notes.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Who would have then divined that dead would lie
Like swaths of grain beneath the harvest moon
Upon these lands the ancient Belgae held,
From
Normandy
beyond renowned Liege!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Time was her tresses by the breathing air
Were wreathed to many a ringlet golden bright,
Time was her eyes diffused unmeasured light,
Though now their lovely beams are waxing rare,
Her face
methought
that in its blushes show'd
Compassion, her angelic shape and walk,
Her voice that seem'd with Heaven's own speech to talk;
At these, what wonder that my bosom glow'd!
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Petrarch |
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At sight of him the people with a shout 1620
Rifted the Air
clamouring
thir god with praise,
Who had made thir dreadful enemy thir thrall.
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Milton |
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Walpole, for example, who cared nothing for poetry, spent large
sums in retaining writers to defend him in the journals and
pamphlets
of
the day.
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Alexander Pope |
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[D]
X "This little Child, while in the school he sate 65
His Primer conning with an earnest cheer, [E]
The whilst the rest their anthem-book repeat
The _Alma
Redemptoris_
did he hear;
And as he durst he drew him near and near,
And hearkened to the words and to the note, 70
Till the first verse he learned it all by rote.
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William Wordsworth |
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You ask again, do the healing days close up
The open
darkness
which then drew us in,
The dark that swallows all, and nought throws up.
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Imagists |
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She is in
mourning
garb,
and carries a large pitcher on her head.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I saw myself alone, unlit for the
struggle
of life,
shrinking at every rising cloud in the chance-directed atmosphere of
fortune, while all defenceless I looked about in vain for a cover.
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Robert Forst |
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I go without my clothes now,
One thin shirt for me,
For noble love
protects
now
From the chilly breeze.
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Troubador Verse |
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Your rights alone inspire this
boldness
in me.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Wander aloof do I,
Lean over gates and sigh,
Making friends with the bee and the
butterfly?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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"--think some:
Others--"How blest the
Paradise
to come!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Strike us they will with lances and with spears:
Battle with them we'll have,
prolonged
and keen;
Never has man beheld such armies meet.
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Chanson de Roland |
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dole meator, quisquis hoc legis carmen,
et ut meretur, anima,
lacrimam
accommoda.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Nay, he it was who
besought
and enjoined me to seek thy grace and
draw nigh thy courts.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When kind, they're ev'ry blessing found below:
When
otherwise
a curse we often know.
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La Fontaine |
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If you
received
it electronically, such person may
choose to alternatively give you a second opportunity to
receive it electronically.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron;
I, ecstatic, O
partners!
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Whitman |
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Venulus too is sent to the town of mighty Diomede to seek
succour, to instruct him that
Teucrians
set foot in Latium; that Aeneas
in his fleet invades them with the vanquished gods of his home, and
proclaims himself the King summoned of fate; that many tribes join the
Dardanian, and his name swells high in Latium.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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Prim Creed, with
categoric
point, forbear
To feature me my Lord by rule and line.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Such thou art, as when
The woodman winding
westward
up the glen
At wintry dawn, where o'er the sheep-track's maze
The viewless snow-mist weaves a glist'ning haze,
Sees full before him, gliding without tread,
An image with a glory round its head;
The enamoured rustic worships its fair hues,
Nor knows he _makes_ the shadow, he pursues!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Sara Teasdale |
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How like the billow I desired
To kiss the feet which I
admired!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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How
beautiful
this is, my dearest Praxagora, how clever!
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Aristophanes |
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Oppose the
arrogant
and prove your courage:
Only blood may redeem this outrage;
Kill, or die.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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You bewitched the rivers, flowers and woods,
With your lyre, in vain but beguilingly,
Yet not what your soul felt, the beauty
That dealt what was
festering
in your blood.
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Ronsard |
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All the
power of the
Patricians
has been exerted to throw out the two
great champions of the Commons.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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ou hem
chastise
& lere; 41
Wite ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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what are Body and Soul without
satisfaction?
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Whitman |
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The rule was that after three tragedies proper there came a play, still in
tragic diction, with a
traditional
saga plot and heroic characters, in
which the Chorus was formed by these Satyrs.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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[Illustration]
The Hasty
Higgeldipiggledy
Hen,
who went to market in a Blue Bonnet and Shawl,
and bought a Fish for her Supper.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Upon the
mountain
did they feed; 1798.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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There, when new wonders ceas'd to float before,
And
thoughts
of self came on, how crude and sore
The journey homeward to habitual self!
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Keats |
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A weight
Of pitiable weakness thou must bear
And move as it were thine own strength; tell my heart
How not to sicken in abomination,
Show me the way to loathe this vile man's rage,
Now close to seize me into the use of his pleasure,
With the
loathing
that is terrible delight.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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No, no,
kindness
is lost upon the people;
Act well--it thanks you not at all; extort
And execute--'twill be no worse for you.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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High passion
throbbing
in a sphere
That Art hath wrought of diamond clear,
-- A great heart beating in a tear.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a daughter of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand
rejoiced
to grant me life again.
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Note: Jupiter,
disguised
as a shower of gold, raped Danae, and as a white bull carried off Europa.
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Ronsard |
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On the front
Of this whole Song is written that my heart 740
Must, in such Temple, needs have offered up
A
different
worship.
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William Wordsworth |
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* * * * *
WALTER DE LA MARE
THE MOTH
Isled in the midnight air,
Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
Out into
glooming
and secret haunts
The flame cries, 'Come!
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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How many summers lived
The
murdered
boy?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Johann
Gottfried
von Herder, b.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Protect me always from like excess,
Virgin, who bore, without a cry,
Christ whom we
celebrate
at Mass.
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Villon |
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]
[Sidenote F: They
afterwards
rip the four limbs and rend off the hide.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Chvabrine said he should
accompany
me.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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A
touching
scene, a noble farewell, and all the dreadful trouble
solved--so conveniently solved!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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This would make her an exact or close contemporary of Thais, beautiful Athenian
courtesan
and mistress of Alexander the Great (356-323BC).
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Villon |
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What rumour without is there
breeding?
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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= The
interest
in Greenland must have been
at its height in 1616.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Then stand with vs:
The West yet glimmers with some
streakes
of Day.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Wren,
Being free from modern scepticism,
A bottle for her rheumatism;
Also some
peppermints
to take
In case of wind; an oval cake
Of scented soap; a penny square
Of pungent naphthaline to scare
The moth.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Therefore
thou must
Come with me to the kings of all the nations;
For the whole earth must know of thee.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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There lay the king, and all the rest supine;
All, but the careful master of the swine:
Forth hasted he to tend his bristly care;
Well arm'd, and fenced against nocturnal air:
His weighty falchion o'er his
shoulder
tied:
His shaggy cloak a mountain goat supplied:
With his broad spear the dread of dogs and men,
He seeks his lodging in the rocky den.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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The quiet
nonchalance
of death
No daybreak can bestir;
The slow archangel's syllables
Must awaken her.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Never sadder tale was heard
By a man of woman born:
The
Marineres
all return'd to work
As silent as beforne.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is
supposed
that this Thomas was the father of Thomas Heyrick, who in
1668 resided at Market Harborough and issued a trader's token there, and
grandfather to the Thomas who was curate of Harborough and published
some sermons and poems.
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Robert Herrick |
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Stephen Crane |
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Rilke - Poems |
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My friend
Maternus
will
not dispute the point.
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Tacitus |
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The dying need but little, dear, --
A glass of water's all,
A flower's
unobtrusive
face
To punctuate the wall,
A fan, perhaps, a friend's regret,
And certainly that one
No color in the rainbow
Perceives when you are gone.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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He took a roll of bank-bills from his pocket
and counted out the
required
sum.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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I would not, if I could,
Know what the
sapphire
fellows do,
In your new-fashioned world!
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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The flight of Cranes is most famously
mentioned
in Homer's Iliad.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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If your fair hand had not made a sign to me then,
White hand that makes you a
daughter
of the swan,
I'd have died, Helen, of the rays from your eyes:
But that gesture towards me saved a soul in pain:
Your eye was pleased to carry away the prize,
Yet your hand rejoiced to grant me life again.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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"
She, proudly,
thinning
in the gloom:
"Though, since troth-plight began,
I've ever stood as bride to groom,
I wed no mortal man!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Why, conquering
May prove as lordly and
complete
a thing
In lifting upward, as in crushing low!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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'At Dawn I Love You'
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
All night I have gazed at you
I've all to divine I am certain of shadows
They give me the power
To envelop you
To stir your desire to live
At my
motionless
core
The power to reveal you
To free you to lose you
Invisible flame in the day.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Lastly, the flying race, the dappled birds,
Hawks, ospreys, sea-gulls, searching food and life
Amid the ocean billows in the brine,
Utter at other times far other cries
Than when they fight for food, or with their prey
Struggle
and strain.
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Lucretius |
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Rilke - Poems |
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_Angelic
Voices.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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--How shall I name thee what thou art,
Woman, thou dream of man's desire that God
Caught out of man's first sleep and
fashioned
real?
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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LET us
surround
the silent pool
Wherein the water ways commingle,
You seek my chary soul to kindle:
A breeze o'erwafts us chaste and cool.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set
forth in Section 3.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
An' Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England's
province
stands--
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!
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| Source: |
Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Diegue
To
instruct
by example, courting envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
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| Source: |
Corneille - Le Cid |
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I reached him, called:
stretching
out his hand to me
He opened his dying eyes: and closed them suddenly.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Racine - Phaedra |
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how much more doth beauty
beauteous
seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His conversation seldom,
His
laughter
like the breeze
That dies away in dimples
Among the pensive trees.
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[7] The French
translator
gives us so fine a description of the person
of Camoens, that it seems borrowed from the Fairy Tales.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The earth does not exhibit itself, nor refuse to exhibit itself--possesses
still underneath;
Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of
slaves,
Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young
people, accents of bargainers,
Underneath these,
possessing
the words that never fail.
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Whitman |
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And I must borrow every
changing
shape
To find expression.
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T.S. Eliot |
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[Sidenote F: The first course is served with
cracking
of trumpets.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Why with
thoughts
too deep
O'ertask a mind of mortal frame?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Somehow, a stubble-field
looks warm--in the same way that some
pictures
look warm.
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Keats |
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--Out of it we
Had like
imaginations
stept to be
Beauty and golden wonder; and for the lovely fear
Of coming perfect joy, had changed
The terror that dreamt there!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For, lo,
First came together the earthy particles
(As being heavy and
intertangled)
there
In the mid-region, and all began to take
The lowest abodes; and ever the more they got
One with another intertangled, the more
They pressed from out their mass those particles
Which were to form the sea, the stars, the sun,
And moon, and ramparts of the mighty world--
For these consist of seeds more smooth and round
And of much smaller elements than earth.
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Lucretius |
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