To
reverse that process, to
transform
some portions of early Roman
history back into the poetry out of which they were made, is the
object of this work.
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drench with your splendor me, or the
men and women
generations
after me!
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Ah, my
darling!
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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X
Yet, love, mere love, is
beautiful
indeed
And worthy of acceptation.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Rest on,
embalmed
and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footstep here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
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Osceola
When his hour for death had come,
He slowly rais'd himself from the bed on the floor,
Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around
his waist,
Call'd for
vermilion
paint (his looking-glass was held before him,)
Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.
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VIII
Cruel King Rodomont, when from his side
He had removed the prating eremite,
With visage less disturbed, again applied
To that sad lady,
heartless
with affright;
And, in the language used by lovers, cried,
She was his very heart, his life, his light,
She was his comfort, and his dearest hope;
With all such words as have that common scope.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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[354] The Canephori were young maidens, chosen from the first
families
of
the city, who carried baskets wreathed with myrtle at the feast of
Athene, while at those of Bacchus and Demeter they appeared with gilded
baskets.
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Aristophanes |
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He was
condemned
to a fine of three hundred
francs, a fine which was never paid, as the objectionable poems were
removed.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Am I always to see you renouncing life entire,
Making funereal
preparations
for your death?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Oh Peggy's gown was chocolate and full of
cherries
white;
I keep a bit on't for her sake and love her day and night.
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John Clare |
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'
And 'Drive we not free
O'er the
terrible
sea,
I and thou?
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Shelley |
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THE
SUCCESSION
OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS.
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Robert Herrick |
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The trees were a little
separated
from each other, and at the foot of
one of them, a beautiful poplar, was a hillock of moss, such as the
poet of Grasmere has described in the motto to our chapter.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Cupid
sagaciously
led past those palazzos so fine.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Pleasure
is nature's test, her
sign of approval.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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For
certeynly
no suche [a] beeste
To be loved is not worthy,
Or bere the name of druery.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,--
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe
outstretched
beneath the tree.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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He was
not
unnaturally
offended at the picture drawn of him in this poem.
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Alexander Pope |
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In einem hochgewolbten, engen
gotischen
Zimmer Faust,
unruhig auf seinem Sessel am Pulte.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Without pursuing the theme, it is sufficient for the moment to
recall that in the fashion of the day Spenser's sonnets were addressed
to Lady Carey, not to his wife; that it was to Idea or to Anne Goodere
that Drayton wrote so
passionate
a poem as
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part;
and that we know very little of what really lies behind Shakespeare's
profound and plangent sonnets, weave what web of fancy we will.
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John Donne |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Since it is
profitable
that one who is wise
Should seem not wise at all.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Justice
Coleridge
virtually
decides the question of the identity of the two persons referred to, in
his record of a conversation with the poet.
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William Wordsworth |
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Happy, happy, happy they
Whose living love,
untroubled
by all strife,
Binds them till the last sad day,
Nor parts asunder but with parting life!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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I remember when
Threegan
married Miss Derwent--daughter of old Hooky
Derwent--but that was before your time.
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Kipling - Poems |
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or what venomed thing,
Sea-snake or adder, had more power than she
To poison with a touch the flesh
unscarred?
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Aeschylus |
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SEND DONATIONS or
determine
the status of compliance for any
particular state visit http://www.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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No Orphic rune, no Thracian scroll,
Hath magic to avert the morrow;
No healing all those
medicines
brave
Apollo to the Asclepiad gave;
Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl
Of man's wide sorrow.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Engles is
Boniface
Marquess of Montferrat (c1150-1207), leader of the Fourth Crusade, called here Engles, the 'Englishman', for some unknown reason.
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Troubador Verse |
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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320
VI
He fell as doth the tempter ever fall,
Even in the gaining of his
loathsome
end;
God doth not work as man works, but makes all
The crooked paths of ill to goodness tend;
Let Him judge Margaret!
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
--Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride
Of the first Edward scatter'd wild dismay,
As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side
He wound with toilsome march his long array:--
Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in
speechless
trance;
"To arms!
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Golden Treasury |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like
harmonious
thunderings the seats of heaven among:
Beneath them sit the aged men, wise guardians of the poor.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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):
Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold
And
spangled
garters worth a copyhold.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Then suddenly Lord Raoul rose up in selle
And thrust his dagger
straight
upon the breast
Of Gris Grillon, to pin him to the wall;
But ere steel-point met flesh, tall Jacques Grillon
Had leapt straight upward from the earth, and in
The self-same act had whirled his bow by end
With mighty whirr about his head, and struck
The dagger with so featly stroke and full
That blade flew up and hilt flew down, and left
Lord Raoul unfriended of his weapon.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Ponds were
dragged, wells were plumbed,
telegrams
were dispatched down the lines
of railways and to the nearest seaport town--1,200 miles away--but Imray
was not at the end of the drag-ropes nor the telegrams.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Can he contain the horror he's
displayed?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The reading, in the edition of 1793,
In these lone vales, if aught of faith may claim,
Thin silver hairs, and ancient hamlet fame;
When up the hills, as now, retreats the light,
Strange
apparitions
mock the village sight,
is better than that finally adopted,
In these secluded vales, if village fame,
Confirmed by hoary hairs, belief may claim;
When up the hills, as now, retired the light,
Strange apparitions mocked the shepherd's sight.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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ipsa uenas atque mentem permeanti spiritu
intus occultis gubernat procreatrix uiribus,
perque caelum perque terras perque pontum subditum
praeuium sui teporem seminali tramite
inbuit iussitque mundum nosse
nascendi
uias.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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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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wherefore
did you blind
Yourself from his quick eyes?
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Keats - Lamia |
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CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character'd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date; even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to raz'd
oblivion
yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.
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| Question: |
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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"I fear thee, ancyent
Marinere!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men--
A
cluttered
incoherency that says at the
stars;
"O God, save us!
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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]
[Footnote 4: The Rashness of the Words, according to D'Herbelot,
consisted
in
being so opposed to those in the Koran: "No Man knows where he shall
die.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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The lily it is pure,
And the lily it is fair,
And in her lovely bosom
I'll place the lily there;
The daisy's for simplicity,
And
unaffected
air--
And a' to be a posie
To my ain dear May.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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Thus, when Louis the
Fourteenth instituted a new order of chivalry for the rewarding
of military merit, he commended it to the favor of his own
glorified ancestor and patron, and decreed that all the members
of the
fraternity
should meet at the royal palace on the feast of
St.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Though death may lurk in any tree or hill,
His brave young spirit is their stay,
Trusting
in that they'll follow where he will.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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This is the lamentable tale wherewith
My
chronicle
doth end; since then I little
Have dipped in worldly business.
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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O
blinding
hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized!
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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All perished--all, in one remorseless year,
Husband and
children!
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| Question: |
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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According
to one old tradition, an infant child was left behind in
the hurried flight and perished in the flames; but this has been shown to
be but one of the wild rumors repeated to exaggerate the horror of the
uprising.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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]
[Footnote 4: The Rashness of the Words, according to D'Herbelot,
consisted
in
being so opposed to those in the Koran: "No Man knows where he shall
die.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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Then "mid the gray there peeps a glimmer soon,
A new light rises 'neath the evening star,
A grass-plot
stretches
o'er a crag afar.
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| Source: |
Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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That Archbishop spurs on by vassalage,
He will not pause ere Abisme he assail;
So strikes that shield, is
wonderfully
arrayed,
Whereon are stones, amethyst and topaze,
Esterminals and carbuncles that blaze;
A devil's gift it was, in Val Metase,
Who handed it to the admiral Galafes;
So Turpin strikes, spares him not anyway;
After that blow, he's worth no penny wage;
The carcass he's sliced, rib from rib away,
So flings him down dead in an empty place.
| Guess: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Picture is the
invention
of heaven, the most
ancient and most akin to Nature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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We might just see how
horrible
they are.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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--Yet
sometimes
my heart was trammelled
With fear, evader!
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Imagists |
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Tennyson |
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Let Tragedy's stern muse be mute
Awhile; and when your order'd page
Has told Rome's tale, that buskin'd foot
Again shall mount the Attic stage,
Pollio, the pale defendant's shield,
In deep debate the senate's stay,
The hero of
Dalmatic
field
By Triumph crown'd with deathless bay.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Yeats |
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To enjoy
a thing exclusively is
commonly
to exclude yourself from the true
enjoyment of it.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But a cup of wine levels life and death
And a thousand things
obstinately
hard to prove.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Li Po |
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I lost six brothers in the flower of their youth,
And the hopes of an
illustrious
house in truth!
| Guess: |
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ma ficca li occhi a valle, che s'approccia
la riviera del sangue in la qual bolle
qual che per
violenza
in altrui noccia>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Pero disse 'l maestro: <
qualche
fraschetta
d'una d'este piante,
li pensier c'hai si faran tutti monchi>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,
And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:
So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,
When
sparkling
stars twire not thou gild'st the even.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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As when to warn proud Cities warr appears
Wag'd in the troubl'd Skie, and Armies rush
To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van
Pric forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir spears
Till
thickest
Legions close; with feats of Arms
From either end of Heav'n the welkin burns.
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Milton |
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For me, for years, here,
Forever, your
dazzling
smile prolongs
The one rose with its perfect summer gone
Into times past, yet then on into the future.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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diua quibus
retinens
in summis urbibus arces,
ipsa leui fecit uolitantem flamine currum,
pinea coniungens inflexae texta carinae.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Keats |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic
solitude!
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Poe - 5 |
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Three youths of ours, ere yet he climbed the steep,
He are alive, or rather
swallowed
clean;
Then moved the stone, which closed that cavern deep,
And lodged us there.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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America,
superiorities
of, 220-224.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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An of a goat-stink damned from armpits fusty one suffer,
Or if a
crippling
gout worthily any one rack,
'Tis that rival o' thine who lief in loves of you meddles,
And, by a wondrous fate, gains him the twain of such ills.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Is it not
strange?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Arias
Bend your pride to the king's authority:
He takes an interest, and his irritation
Will be
displayed
in no uncertain fashion.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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But thou thyself, looking upon them,
Didst weaken the
Assyrians
mortally.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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816 the poet Po
Chu-i wrote as follows (he is discussing Tu Fu as well as Li Po): "The
world
acclaims
Li Po as its master poet.
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Li Po |
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XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a
beauteous
day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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His brother,
slipping
down from the
chariot, pitiably outstretched helpless hands: 'Ah, by the parents who
gave thee birth, great Trojan, spare this life and pity my prayer.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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And you are stupid enough not to
understand
the meaning of such an
answer?
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Aristophanes |
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Till even the little dark men of the south,
Who feared neither God nor man,
Those fierce, wild fighters of Afric's steppes,
Broke their
battalions
and ran:--
Ran as they never had run before,
Gasping, and fainting for breath;
For they knew 't was no human foe that slew;
And that hideous smoke meant death.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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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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19th Century French Poetry |
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How can I say
If there were poets in the paths of
Atlantis?
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Philosophy
will clip an Angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine--
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
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Keats - Lamia |
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'
'Dermott's
daughter
will not come to you, for her father has set women
to watch her, but she bid me tell you that this day sennight will be
the eve of St.
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Yeats |
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faces
Aureas
quatiunt
comas:
prodeas noua nupta.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Bayes," under
which name the Duke of Buckingham had ridi-
culed Dryden in the well-known play of the
Rehearsal ; from the title of which Marvell de-
signated his book, The
Rehearsal
Transprosed.
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Marvell - Poems |
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"What cheer, Ben
Bunting?
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Byron |
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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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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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With these appear the
Salaminian
bands,
Whom the gigantic Telamon commands;
In twelve black ships to Troy they steer their course,
And with the great Athenians join their force.
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Iliad - Pope |
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In the lair (the form) of the female hare superfetation (second
conception
during gestation) is possible.
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Appoloinaire |
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I began to dream of Provence and
the Troubadours, and of places and things which have no
existence
on
the earth.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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