When my eyes are closed
Faces fragile, pale, yet flushed a little, like petals of roses :
If these things have confused my
memories
of her So that I could not draw her face
Even if I had skill and the colours,
Yet because her face is so like these things
They but draw me nearer unto her in my thought
And thoughts of her come upon my mind gently, As dew upon the petals of roses.
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[This blue-eyed lass was Jean Jeffry, daughter to the minister of
Lochmaben: she was then a rosy girl of seventeen, with winning manners
and
laughing
blue eyes.
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Oh 1 why did he sing me that song,
I threw him the ring from my hand
Bitter and
treacherous
wrong
That sought me with fetters to brand.
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250)
When I was young, throughout the hot season
There were no
carriages
driving about the roads.
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For alas,
he had crowded the city so full
that men could not grasp beauty,
beauty was over them,
through them, about them,
no crevice
unpacked
with the honey,
rare, measureless.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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And in the nights it seemed a jar
Cut in the
substance
of a star,
Wherein a wine, that will be poured
Some time for feasting Heaven, was stored.
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Composed when I had reached Fengxiang, and a personal edict from the emperor
released
me to go to Fuzhou?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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But wilt thou hear since last we parted _580
All that has left me broken
hearted?
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has
travelled
everywhere,
And all politeness to the fair.
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Their
simplicity appears beggarly when compared with the quaint forms
and gaudy
coloring
of such artists as Cowley and Gongora.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,
Painting
my age with beauty of thy days.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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To see that virtue should
despised
be
Of such as first were raised for virtue's parts,
And now, broad spreading like an aged tree,
Let none shoot up that nigh them planted be.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and
mastering
it?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When hurricanes its surface fan,
O object of my fond
devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
How richly glows the water's breast
Before us, tinged with evening hues, [1]
While, facing thus the crimson west,
The boat her silent course [2]
pursues!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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His
conversation
was
lively and interesting.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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It is a
strange and daring scene between the three of them; the humbled and
broken-hearted husband; the
triumphant
Heracles, kindly and wise, yet
still touched by the mocking and blustrous atmosphere from which he
sprang; and the silent woman who has seen the other side of the grave.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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--The Wren's Nest
Song--News, Lassies, News
Song--Crowdie Ever Mair
Song--Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
Song--Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
Verses To
Collector
Mitchell
1796
The Dean Of Faculty
Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
Song--A Lass Wi' A Tocher
Song--The Trogger.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Stay awhile,
Poor youth, who
scarcely
dar'st lift up thine eyes!
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Coleridge - Poems |
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Is it Melmoth,(80)
Philanthropist or patriot,
Childe Harold, quaker, devotee,
Or other mask donned
playfully?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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For I have seen the purplest shadows stand Alway with reverent chere that looked on her, Silence himself is grown her worshipper
And ever doth attend her in that land
Wherein she reigneth, wherefore let there stir Naught but the softest voices,
praising
her.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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, reading hǣ nū (for hǣðnū), which he regards as
= Heinir, the
inhabitants
of the Jutish "heaths" (hǣð).
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Beowulf |
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Two monstrous dangers; but the
heedless
one
Babbles and smiles, and bids all care begone--
Likes lively speech--while all the poor she makes
To love her, and the taxes off she takes.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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And when rolls round
The latest heat mixed with the earliest chill--
The time which bears the name of autumn--then
Likewise
fierce cold-spells wrestle with fierce heats.
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Lucretius |
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The hastiest
comparison
of their
poetic work will show that their only common ideal was the worship of an
exotic beauty.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The house
trembles
and creaks.
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Imagists |
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It perhaps grew into use in the
half-democratic
republics
of Italy in the same way and for the same
reasons as with us.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Glory and life
Fulfil their own depletions; and if God
Sighed you far from him, his next breath drew in
A compensative
splendour
up the vast,
Flushing the starry arteries.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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den sollt Ihr noch
verlieren!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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A grave and sombre man, whose
beetling
brow
O'erhangs the rushing current of his speech
As rocks o'er rivers hang.
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Longfellow |
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The well-beloved are
wretched
then.
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Appoloinaire |
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Parents and children and grandchildren all
Memory's
affections
in the lists recall.
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John Clare |
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The Sung writer Hsieh Chung-yung arranged in
chronological
order all
the information about the poet's life that can be gleaned not only from
the T'ang histories, but also from the poems themselves.
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Li Po |
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How
silently
serene a sea of pride!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Covered as it
was--trunk and branch--with "clustering ivy" in 1787, it
survived
till
1808 at any rate.
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William Wordsworth |
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No
disguise
avails!
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Longfellow |
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[_All the_
COUNSELLORS
_seat themselves.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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There our sick ships unrigged in summer lay,
Like
moulting
fowl, a weak and easy prey.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Beard overgrown about the cheek and chin;
With shaggy brow, swoln eyes, and cloudy sight,
A nose close flattened, and a sallow skin;
To this, that I may make my sketch complete,
Succinctly
clad, like courier, goes the cheat.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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"Beneath my palm trees, by the river side,
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no one to ask me why I wept,--
And so I kept
Brimming
the water-lily cups with tears
Cold as my fears.
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Keats |
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No man doth bear his sin,
But many sins
Are
gathered
as a cloud about man's way.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The traveler all alone, the moon all alone,
except for his sympathy,
overcoming
with incessant victory whole
squadrons of clouds above the forests and lakes and hills.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Redistribution
is
subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
redistribution.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Bid that heart stay, and it will stay
To honour thy decree;
Or bid it
languish
quite away,
And't shall do so for thee.
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Robert Herrick |
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I love thee, Mary dearly love--
There's nought so fair on earth I see,
There's nought so dear in heaven above,
As Mary
Bayfield
is to me.
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John Clare |
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Hence it is that
talkative
shallow men do often content the
hearers more than the wise.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But; that they that allow
But one God, should have
religions
enow
For the Queens Masque, and their husbands, far more
Then all the Gentiles knew, or _Atlas_ bore!
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John Donne |
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I send you here a sort of allegory,
(For you will understand it) of a soul, [1]
A sinful soul possess'd of many gifts,
A spacious garden full of flowering weeds,
A
glorious
Devil, large in heart and brain,
That did love Beauty only, (Beauty seen
In all varieties of mould and mind)
And Knowledge for its beauty; or if Good,
Good only for its beauty, seeing not
That beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters
That doat upon each other, friends to man,
Living together under the same roof,
And never can be sunder'd without tears.
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Tennyson |
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It exists
because of the efforts of
hundreds
of volunteers and donations from
people in all walks of life.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Sie, ihren Frieden musst ich
untergraben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"O bed, whereon my
laughing
girlhood's knot
Was severed by this man, for whom I die,
Farewell!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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I wish to escape them both if I may;
If not, it's for
Rodrigue
that I will pray:
Not because foolish passion so decides;
But because I'll be Sanche's if he dies.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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As under this, so
straight
and green ;
Yet now no farther strive to shoot,
Contented, if they fix their root,
Nor to the wind's uncertain gust,
Their prudent heads too far intrust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Nor didst thou onely
consecrate
our teares,
Give a religious tincture to our feares;
But even our joyes had learn'd an innocence,
Thou didst from gladnesse separate offence: 20
All mindes at once suckt grace from thee, as where
(The curse revok'd) the Nations had one eare.
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John Donne |
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The Glory hath departed,
Ichabod!
| Guess: |
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Christina Rossetti |
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Were my day-thoughts,--my nights were miserable;
Through months, through years, long after the last beat
Of those atrocities, the hour of sleep 400
To me came rarely charged with natural gifts,
Such ghastly visions had I of despair
And tyranny, and
implements
of death;
And innocent victims sinking under fear,
And momentary hope, and worn-out prayer, 405
Each in his separate cell, or penned in crowds
For sacrifice, and struggling with fond mirth
And levity in dungeons, where the dust
Was laid with tears.
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William Wordsworth |
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Now the streets are
swarming
with people.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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The
benediction
shall be said
After confession, not before!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Longfellow |
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O would, or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us,
My auld gray head had lien in clay,
Wi' Bruce and loyal
Wallace!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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His own parents;
He that had fathered him, and she that had conceived him in her womb, and
birthed him,
They gave this child more of themselves than that;
They gave him
afterward
every day--they became part of him.
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| Source: |
Whitman |
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Emmanuel,
succeeding to the throne, resolves on continuing the
discoveries
of his
predecessors.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the
straggling
green which hides the wood.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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What change grew in our hearts, seeing one night
That moth-winged ship
drifting
across the bay,
Her broad sail dimly white
On cloudy waters and hills as vague as they?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days
following
each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
returns.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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) can copy and
distribute it in the United States without permission and
without paying
copyright
royalties.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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And I laughed as I drove from the station, but the mirth died out on my lips
As I thought of the fools like Pagett who write of their "Eastern trips,"
And the sneers of the
traveled
idiots who duly misgovern the land,
And I prayed to the Lord to deliver another one into my hand.
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Kipling - Poems |
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We
have taken it into our heads that to write a poem simply for the poem's
sake, and to acknowledge such to have been our design, would be to
confess ourselves radically wanting in the true poetic dignity and
force:--but the simple fact is that would we but permit ourselves to
look into our own souls we should immediately there
discover
that under
the sun there neither exists nor _can _exist any work more thoroughly
dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem, this poem _per se,
_this poem which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely
for the poem's sake.
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Poe - 5 |
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MENALCAS
You shall not balk me now; where'er you bid,
I shall be with you; only let us have
For auditor- or see, to serve our turn,
Yonder
Palaemon
comes!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Lines longer than 78
characters are broken, and the continuation is
indented
two spaces.
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Sara Teasdale |
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Did you so,
_Diuell_?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Forever they shall meet in this rude shock:
These from the tomb with
clenched
grasp shall rise,
Those with close-shaven locks.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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Never the lads wi'
The
bannocks
o' barley.
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Robert Forst |
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let me nestle in well and snore too, if it be
possible
.
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Aristophanes |
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aduersis
sollemne tuis sperare secunda:
exemplo caeli ditia damna subis.
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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See how naively, there, the throng
Among
themselves
are jesting,
You'll hear them, I've no doubt, ere long,
Their good kind hearts protesting.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
VIII
"Some mothers muse sadly, and murmur
Your doings as boys--
Recall the quaint ways
Of your babyhood's
innocent
days.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Quod mare
conceptum
spumantibus expuit undis?
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Catullus - Carmina |
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They dart across my path--but lo, [10]
Each ready with a
plaintive
whine!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Paradiso
?
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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--
Never may this
Pelasgian
earth,
Amid the fire-wrack, shrill the dismal cry
On Ares, ravening lord of fight,
Who in an alien harvest mows down man!
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Aeschylus |
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For
anxiously
they fled the savage beasts,
And peace they sought and their abundant foods,
Obtained with never labours of their own,
Which we secure to them as fit rewards
For their good service.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lucretius |
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When well-form'd taste and
sparkling
wit unite,
With manly lore, or female beauty bright,
(Beauty, where faultless symmetry and grace,
Can only charm as in the second place,)
Witness my heart, how oft with panting fear,
As on this night, I've met these judges here!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Scarce could the straining shoulders of his
servants
Phegeus and Sagaris
carry its heavy folds; yet with it on, Demoleos at [265-302]full speed
would chase the scattered Trojans.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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The joy falters a moment, with closed wings
Wearying in its upward journey, ere
Again it goes on high, bearing its song,
Its delight
breathing
and its vigour beating
The highest height of the air above the world.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Place the whole in a saucepan, and remove it to a sunny place,--say the
roof of the house, if free from
sparrows
or other birds,--and leave it
there for about a week.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Floating clouds obscure the white sun,
The
wandering
one has quite forgotten home.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Faith, oh my faith, what fragrant breath,
What sweet odour from her mouth's excess,
What rubies and what
diamonds
were there.
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Ronsard |
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emperour
seyde ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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But this true course is not
embraced
by many:
By many!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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A grave, on which to rest from
singing?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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And now, perhaps, he's hunting sheep,
A fierce and
dreadful
hunter he!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Ye airy, tender youths, your numbers
Have sung him into sweetest
slumbers!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Why should I yearn
To keep the
relique?
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Coleridge - Poems |
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No trouble she to carry here nor there;
No balls she visits, and requires no care;
The conquest easy, we may talk or not;
The only
difficulty
we have got,
Is how to find one, we may faithful view;
So let us choose a girl, to love quite new.
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La Fontaine |
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