his heart beats warm,
But, like the prince
enchanted
to the waist,
He sits in stone and hardens by a charm
Into the marble of his throne high-placed.
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Fiddling
for ocean liners, while the dance
Sweeps through the decks, your brown tribes all will go!
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Soon wilt thou
know how windy
boasting
brings one to harm.
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1173)
Raimbaut, Lord of Orange, Corethezon and other lands in Provence and Languedoc, was the first troubadour
originating
from Provence proper.
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Close keep your lips, if that you mean
To be
accounted
inside clean:
For if you cleave them we shall see
There in your teeth much leprosy.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Behold and see
What a great heap of grief lay hid in me,
And how the red wild
sparkles
dimly burn
Through the ashen greyness.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We to ourselves have said, that when God took
The fierce
beginning
of the unwrought world
From out his fiery passion, and, breathing cool,
Tamed the wild molten being, with his hands
Fashion'd and workt the hot clay into world,
Then with green mercy quieted the land
And claspt it with the summer of blue seas,
With brooches of white spray along the shores,--
It was to be an equal dwelling-place
For humans that he did it, into sex
Unknowably dividing human kind.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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- What have you done, O you there
Who
endlessly
cry,
Say: what have you done, there
With youth gone by?
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Li Po |
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Cowan; but
any order of yours will be
answered
at Creech's shop.
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Robert Burns |
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LFS}
Spreading them out before the Sun like Stalks of flax to dry
The infant joy is beautiful but its anatomy
Horrible Ghast & Deadly nought shalt thou find in it
But Death Despair & Everlasting brooding Melancholy
Thou wilt go mad with horror if thou dost Examine thus * {added on center right margin, 90 degrees rotated LFS}
Every moment of my secret hours Yea I know
That I have sinnd & that my Emanations are become harlots
I am already distracted at their deeds & if I look
Upon them more Despair will bring self murder on my soul
O Enion thou art thyself a root growing in hell
Tho thus heavenly beautiful to draw me to
destruction
Sometimes I think thou art a flower expanding *{This and the following four lines are added evidently in light pencil in the top margin.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Keats |
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Call to thy dark armd hosts, for all the sons of Men muster together
To
desolate
their cities!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"Haste, my brother flood;
And check this mortal that
controls
a god;
Our bravest heroes else shall quit the fight,
And Ilion tumble from her towery height.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Keats - Lamia |
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The Guinea Pigs toddled about the gardens, and ate
lettuces
and Cheshire
cheese.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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'4
THE GOOSE GIRL'S SONG By Laura Benet
Last morn as I was
bleaching
the queen's linen On the moor-grass sere and dry,
A breath of summer breeze it blew my apron To the four parts of the sky;
And as I started up tiptoe with wonder And gazed towards the town,
A little round well opened to my footsteps With water clear and brown.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In his arms he bore
Her, armed with sorrow sore;
Till before their way
A
couching
lion lay.
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blake-poems |
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XXII
And plainly and more plainly,
Above that
glimmering
line,
Now might ye see the banners
Of twelve fair cities shine;
But the banner of proud Clusium
Was highest of them all,
The terror of the Umbrian,
The terror of the Gaul.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Away, thou
plunderer
accurst!
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Aeschylus |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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or a fine
Sad memory, with thy songs to
interfuse?
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Sire, thus these hairs
whitened
in harness,
This blood of mine poured out in such excess,
This arm once dreaded by your enemies,
Would have perished, lost to infamy,
If I had not produced a worthy son,
Worthy of his land, and of your person.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Thus brave and
confident
may Nature bee,
Death cannot give her such another blow, 35
Because shee cannot such another show.
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John Donne |
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Like
stranger
gods; by twos and twos
Their red eyes gleam.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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The "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" was
conceived
during his voyage round
the lake with Lord Byron.
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Shelley |
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Are you
persecuting
her, my lord, indeed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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I'm right,
nathless!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I saw a spectre with a million heads
Come frantic downward through the universe,
And all the mouths of it were
uttering
cries,
Wherein was a sharp agony, and yet
The cries were much like laughs: as if Pain laughed.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Did we make
Only a show for dead love's sake,
It being so
piteous?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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So Margaret sang her sisters home 210
In their
marriage
mirth;
Sang free birds out of the sky,
Beasts along the earth,
Sang up fishes of the deep--
All breathing things that move
Sang from far and sang from near
To her lovely love;
Sang together friend and foe;
Sang a golden-bearded king
Straightway to her feet, 220
Sang him silent where he knelt
In eager anguish sweet.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Hast thou no vers, no hymn, or solemn strein,
To welcom him to this his new abode,
Now while the Heav'n by the Suns team untrod,
Hath took no print of the approching light, 20
And all the spangled host keep watch in
squadrons
bright?
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Milton |
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Brave Peter Fischer there in Nuremberg,
Moulding Saint Sebald's miracles in bronze, 490
Put saint and stander-by in that quaint garb
Familiar to him in his daily walk,
Not doubting God could grant a miracle
Then and in Nuremberg, if so He would;
But never artist for three hundred years
Hath dared the
contradiction
ludicrous
Of supernatural in modern clothes.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Kay, 1, Welbeck Street,
Cavendish
Square_.
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Byron |
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He had the
evidence
of
his own senses against the legend; but he seems to have
distrusted even the evidence of his own senses.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
Among the windings of the violins
And the ariettes
Of cracked cornets
Inside my brain a dull tom-tom begins
Absurdly
hammering a prelude of its own,
Capricious monotone
That is at least one definite "false note.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Even now
I see some
bondmaid
there, her death-shorn brow
Bending beneath its freight of well-water.
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Euripides - Electra |
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e
blisfulnesse
of mortel ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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and bear away
Whatever
thou canst call thine own!
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Longfellow |
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La concreata e
perpetua
sete
del deiforme regno cen portava
veloci quasi come 'l ciel vedete.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given
admiring
praise.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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If we have fallen,
It is that we have sinned,--we: God is just;
And, since his curse doth
comprehend
us both,
It must be that his balance holds the weights
Of first and last sin on a level.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But to me
My songs are less than sea-sand that the wind
Drives
stinging
over me and bears away.
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Sara Teasdale |
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And this reviving Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean--
Ah, lean upon it
lightly!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Knopf 1916
Plays for Poem-Mimes The Others Press 1918
Plays for Merry Andrews The Sunwise Turn 1920
Blood of Things
Nicholas
L.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much impressed me as the
one which he
entitles
"June.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Then shalt thou thread the starry skies,
And, taught by nature in her walks,
The spirit's might shall o'er thee rise,
As ghost to ghost
familiar
talks.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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_ Froehlich
75
_adauris_
O: _ad aures_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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'26 the maze of schools:'
the labyrinth of conflicting systems of thought,
especially
of criticism.
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Alexander Pope |
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Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o
Hymenaee!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Who gave you such a
charming
fair?
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La Fontaine |
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--Yes, a
stranger
verily!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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dumu-anna,
daughter
of heaven, title of Bau, 179, 5; 181, 28; 184, 28.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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XVII
"In guerdon for this present, I request
That thou to me upon thy faith wilt swear,
Thou never wilt my
chastity
molest
In word or deed.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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No settled senses of the world can match
The
pleasure
of that madness.
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Shakespeare |
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All Nature
carefully
the law reveres,
That gratitude and fealty endears.
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La Fontaine |
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Nay, I rather thrilled,
Distrusting
every light that seemed to gild
The onward path, and feared to overlean
A finger even.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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XL
Herminius
smote down Aruns:
Lartius laid Ocnus low:
Right to the heart of Lausulus
Horatius sent a blow.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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"
"Permit" (he cries) "no
stranger
to your fame
To crave your sentiment, if ----'s your name.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Thou shalt enjoy the
daintiest
savor,
Then feast thy taste on richest flavor,
Then thy charmed heart shall melt away.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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And while, as one critic
has said, she may exhibit toward God "an
Emersonian
self-possession,"
it was because she looked upon all life with a candor as unprejudiced
as it is rare.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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You descended through the water clear
I drowned my self so in your glance
The soldier passes she leans down
Turns and breaks away a branch
You float on
nocturnal
waves
The flame is my own heart reversed
Coloured as that comb's tortoiseshell
The wave that bathes you mirrors well
?
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Appoloinaire |
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XCVII
When the early soft spring wind comes blowing
Over Rhodes and Samos and Miletus,
From the seven mouths of Nile to Lesbos,
Freighted with sea-odours and gold sunshine,
What news spreads among the island people 5
In the market-place of Mitylene,
Lending that unwonted stir of gladness
To the busy streets and
thronging
doorways?
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Sappho |
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Sad, alas, the man who dreamt of
Fairies!
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| Source: |
Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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O wild as my
heart, and
powerful!
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly--
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible
Wo!
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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I could say more,
But
reverence
to your calling makes me modest.
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Shakespeare |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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But, when arrived upon the summit, they
Issued upon a mead of vast extent;
And a more pleasant palace on that green
Beheld, and
brighter
than was ever seen.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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From Maximin
IN sorrow, day and night the
disciple
watched
Upon the mount where from the Lord ascended:
"Thus leaveth thou thy faithful to despair?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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nilo mundius hoc, niloque
immundius
illud,
uerum etiam culus mundior et melior:
nam sine dentibus hic: dentis os sesquipedalis, 5
gingiuas uero ploxeni habet ueteris,
praeterea rictum qualem diffissus in aestu
meientis mulae cunnus habere solet.
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Latin - Catullus |
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20
Nay, but
something
of thy love,
Passion, tenderness, and joy,
Some strange magic of thy beauty,
Some sweet pathos of thy tears,
Must imperishably cling 25
To the cadence of the words,
Like a spell of lost enchantments
Laid upon the hearts of men.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Then Mark was half in heart to hurl his cup
Straight
at the speaker, but forbore: he rose
To leave the hall, and, Vivien following him,
Turned to her: 'Here are snakes within the grass;
And you methinks, O Vivien, save ye fear
The monkish manhood, and the mask of pure
Worn by this court, can stir them till they sting.
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Tennyson |
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But his
Christianity
is only skin-deep.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I hold it cowardice
To rest
mistrustful
where a noble heart
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love;
Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,
Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings.
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Shakespeare |
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My riches a's my penny-fee,
An' I maun guide it cannie, O;
But warl's gear ne'er
troubles
me,
My thoughts are a' my Nannie, O.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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"The chimes will ring on
Christmas
Day, The chimes will ring on Christmas Day, And rich and poor will kneel and pray.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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But I have
scribbled
on 'till I hear the
clock has intimated the near approach of
That hour, o' night's black arch the key-stane.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look, whom she best endow'd, she gave thee more;
Which bounteous gift thou
shouldst
in bounty cherish:
She carv'd thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The willow leaves
Silverly stir on the breath of moving water,
Birch-leaves, beyond them, twinkle, and there on the hill,
And the hills beyond again, and the highest hill,
Serrated
pines, in the dusk, grow almost black.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
American Poetry - 1922 |
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_Sudden Shower_
Black grows the
southern
sky, betokening rain,
And humming hive-bees homeward hurry bye:
They feel the change; so let us shun the grain,
And take the broad road while our feet are dry.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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CLIMBING THE TERRACE OF KUAN-YIN AND LOOKING AT THE CITY
Hundreds of houses,
thousands
of houses,--like a chess-board.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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So high towards death I am gone,
listless
I gaze
Where on the earth beneath me, into the fires
Of that Assyrian strength, our siege of fate,
Judith, the dream of my desire of beauty,
Goes daring forth, to shape herself therein,
Seeking to fashion in its turbulence
Some deed that will be likeness of herself.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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And other
withered
stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room enclosed.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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then a barren waste sunk down
Conglobing in the dark confusion, Mean time Los was born
And Thou O
Enitharmon!
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Blake - Zoas |
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Ah, ah,
Cytherea!
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Quand tout le bois frissonnant saigne
Muet d'amour
De chaque branche, gouttes vertes,
Des
bourgeons
clairs,
On sent dans les choses ouvertes
Fremir des chairs;
Tu plongerais dans la luzerne
Ton long peignoir,
Divine avec ce bleu qui cerne
Ton grand oeil noir,
Amoureuse de la campagne,
Semant partout,
Comme une mousse de champagne,
Ton rire fou!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The rage of hunger quell'd, they all advance
And form to measured airs the mazy dance;
To Phemius was consign'd the chorded lyre,
Whose hand
reluctant
touch'd the warbling wire;
Phemius, whose voice divine could sweetest sing
High strains responsive to the vocal string.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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(beorhtre bōte) wēnan (_to expect, count
on, a
brilliant_
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Beowulf |
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blaunner
ful bry3t, & his hod bo?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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FRANK PREWETT
TO MY MOTHER IN CANADA, FROM SICK-BED IN ITALY
Dear mother, from the sure sun and warm seas
Of Italy, I, sick,
remember
now
What sometimes is forgot in times of ease,
Our love, the always felt but unspoken vow.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Lycius, perplex'd at words so blind and blank,
Made close inquiry; from whose touch she shrank,
Feigning a sleep; and he to the dull shade
Of deep sleep in a moment was betray'd
It was the custom then to bring away
The bride from home at
blushing
shut of day,
Veil'd, in a chariot, heralded along
By strewn flowers, torches, and a marriage song,
With other pageants: but this fair unknown
Had not a friend.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Sprightly in old age, his powers of labour were
prolonged
until past
three-score and ten.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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For me, dark, dark,
And painful vile oblivion seals my eyes:
I strive to search
wherefore
I am so sad,
Until a melancholy numbs my limbs;
And then upon the grass I sit, and moan, 90
Like one who once had wings.
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Keats |
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Petrarch
walked in the midst of
them; after him came the senator, accompanied by the first men of the
council.
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Petrarch |
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