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amenusynge
of p{er}fecc{i}ou{n}.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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It was playing in the great alley of poplars whose leaves, even in spring, seem
mournful
to me since Maria passed by them, on her last journey, lying among candles.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Inebriate of air am I,
And
debauchee
of dew,
Reeling, through endless summer days,
From inns of molten blue.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Helas, Lui, comme
Mille anges blancs qui se separent sur la route,
S'eloigne par dela la
montagne!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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How deserved your fame: they speak it
everywhere!
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Ten
thousand
pounds of copper to the man who brings his head.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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III
Had I the ear of wombed souls
Ere their
terrestrial
chart unrolls,
And thou wert free
To cease, or be,
Then would I tell thee all I know,
And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so?
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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JOURNEYING ALONG THE RHONE TO AVIGNON, PETRARCH BIDS THE RIVER KISS
LAURA'S HAND, AS IT WILL ARRIVE AT HER
DWELLING
BEFORE HIM.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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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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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"Hernani" is the
most famous play in the
European
literature of the nineteenth century.
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Doubtfull it stood,
As two spent Swimmers, that doe cling together,
And choake their Art: The
mercilesse
Macdonwald
(Worthie to be a Rebell, for to that
The multiplying Villanies of Nature
Doe swarme vpon him) from the Westerne Isles
Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd,
And Fortune on his damned Quarry smiling,
Shew'd like a Rebells Whore: but all's too weake:
For braue Macbeth (well hee deserues that Name)
Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele,
Which smoak'd with bloody execution
(Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his passage,
Till hee fac'd the Slaue:
Which neu'r shooke hands, nor bad farwell to him,
Till he vnseam'd him from the Naue toth' Chops,
And fix'd his Head vpon our Battlements
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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"
He rapidly learns the customs of men, becomes a
shepherd
and a mighty
hunter.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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She little dreams, her lover is so near,
The
clanking
chains, the rustling straw can hear;
[_He enters_.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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I
never could learn
anything
of its author.
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Robert Forst |
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XCIV
Held on the pommel grappled by his hair,
Brunello on Marphisa's courser lies:
The caitiff weeps, and
shrieking
in despair,
On all in whom he hopes, for succour cries.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Dinanzi a me sen va
piangendo
Ali,
fesso nel volto dal mento al ciuffetto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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The cloister startles at the gleam of arms, 60
And
Blasphemy
the shuddering fane alarms;
Nod the cloud-piercing pines their troubl'd heads,
Spires, rocks, and lawns, a browner night o'erspreads.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp
muttered
in the dark.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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While suffering from "hope deferred" as to its fate,
Poe
presented
a copy of "Annabel Lee" to the editor of the "Southern
Literary Messenger," who published it in the November number of his
periodical, a month after Poe's death.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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If she wants me not, I'd rather
I'd died the day my service
commenced!
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Troubador Verse |
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In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid--troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
That
freshened
from the window, these ascended 90
In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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IF you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As
housewives
do a fly.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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I'll have no
bonfires
on _my_ floor--
And, as for scratching at the door,
I'd like to see you try!
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Lewis Carroll |
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270 The Venedi have drawn much from this source; 271 for they overrun in their
predatory
excursions all the woody and mountainous tracts between the Peucini and Fenni.
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Tacitus |
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O Venus, link this
conquering
pair!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Fortunately for us, however, two small but incomparable odes and a few
scintillating
fragments
have survived, quoted and handed down in the
eulogies of critics and expositors.
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Sappho |
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Cryseyde
al this aspyede wel y-nough, 85
For she was wys, and lovede him never-the-lasse,
Al nere he malapert, or made it tough,
Or was to bold, to singe a fool a masse.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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the Horde has learnt to prize me;
"'Tis the Horde with gold
supplies
me.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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THE
EDUCATION
OF NATURE.
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Golden Treasury |
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' So speaks he, and rises high on his
uplifted
sword; the steel
severs the forehead midway right between the temples, and divides the
beardless cheeks with ghastly wound.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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" And when his hand he had stretch'd forth
To mine, with
pleasant
looks, whence I was cheer'd,
Into that secret place he led me on.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their
innocent
faces clean,
The children walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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]
HECTOR AND AJAX
SEPARATED
BY THE HERALDS.
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Iliad - Pope |
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Today, without
presuming
anything about what will emerge from this in future, nothing, or almost a new art, let us readily accept that the tentative participates, with the unforeseen, in the pursuit, specific and dear to our time, of free verse and the prose poem.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Among her mountaineers, free, poor, and brave,
I ripened into manhood, and, to-morrow,
One blast upon my horn, among her hills,
Would draw three
thousand
of her sons around me.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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enne,
1384 "For by a-corde of
couenaunt
3e craue hit as your awen.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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TO OUR LADY OF
VICARIOUS
ATONEMENT (BALLATA)
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WHOare you that the whole world's song
Is shaken out beneath feet your
Leaving you comfortless, Who, that, as wheat
Is garnered, gather in The blades of man's sin And bear that sheaf?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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is doubtless
right, the 'nice' of the
editions
being repeated from l.
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John Donne |
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Monotonous
domes of bowler-hats
Vibrate in the heat.
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Imagists |
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But ere the circle
homeward
hies
Far, far must it remove:
White in the moon the long road lies
That leads me from my love.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair
Spread out in fiery points
Glowed into words, then would be
savagely
still.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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When the group of people arose at last
And laughed and talked in a merry tone,
As
lingeringly
through the rooms they passed
I saw that she followed alone.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Wherefore
fear the Sin which brings to
another Gain?
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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With many
searchings
of heart I
prayed the woodland nymphs, and lord Gradivus, who rules in the Getic
fields, to make the sight propitious as was meet and lighten the omen.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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After our departure,
the servants will
probably
all go out, or go to sleep.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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On the other
hand, she of whom a coward was born or a worthless man, a bad
trierarch[620] or an
unskilful
pilot, should sit with shaven head, behind
her sister who had borne a brave man.
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Aristophanes |
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There's never a moment's rest allowed:
Now here, now there, the changing breeze
Swings us, as it wishes, ceaselessly,
Beaks
pricking
us more than a cobbler's awl.
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Villon |
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The words of Tomsky made a deep impression upon her, and
she realized how
imprudently
she had acted.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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There is a species of the human genus
that I call _the gin-horse class:_ what
enviable
dogs they are!
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Robert Forst |
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It is all I need
to make my life perfect, for the very 'Spirit of Delight' that
Shelley wrote of dwells in my little home; it is full of the
music of birds in the garden and
children
in the long arched
verandah.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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After it was known that the
seven young Parrots,
and the seven young Storks,
and the seven young Geese,
and the seven young Owls,
and the seven young Guinea Pigs,
and the seven young Cats,
and the seven young Fishes,
were all dead, then the Frog, and the Plum-pudding Flea, and the Mouse, and
the Clangle-Wangle, and the Blue Boss-Woss, all met
together
to rejoice
over their good fortune.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And if my foot returns no more
To Teme nor Corve nor Severn shore,
Luck, my lads, be with you still
By falling stream and standing hill,
By chiming tower and
whispering
tree,
Men that made a man of me.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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And I have
something
to expiate:
A pettiness.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Whatever that
secret is, the charm of it never fails after all these years to keep the
poems preserved with a freshness and vitality, which are the qualities
of
enduring
genius.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Come view all the sooner tomorrow
That which, for centuries now, gods have let you enjoy:
Italy's
shoreline
so long overgrown with moist reeds, elevations
Somberly rising to shades cast by the bushes and trees.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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Then the Liars and
Swearers
are Fools: for there
are Lyars and Swearers enow, to beate the honest men,
and hang vp them
Wife.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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On warm
hillsides
its stems are ripe
by the twenty-third of August.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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But even if
innocent
blood must still be shed,
Your honour, being threatened, demands no less.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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Sometimes the wolves stole little
children from the villages and nursed them like their own cubs, until
finally these children grew up into a race of wolf-men who
molested
the
land worse than the wolves themselves.
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Tennyson |
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Le bras sur un marteau gigantesque, effrayant
D'ivresse et de grandeur, le front vaste, riant
Comme un clairon d'airain, avec toute sa bouche,
Et prenant ce gros-la dans son regard farouche,
Le Forgeron parlait a Louis Seize, un jour
Que le Peuple etait la, se tordant tout autour,
Et sur les lambris d'or
trainant
sa veste sale.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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"
'642 love to praise:'
a love of
praising
men.
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Alexander Pope |
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Than Daunger fil in his entent
For to foryeve his maltalent;
But al his wratthe yit at laste
He hath relesed, I preyde so faste: 3440
Shortly he seide, 'Thy request
Is not to mochel dishonest;
Ne I wol not werne it thee,
For yit no-thing
engreveth
me.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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2 -- Si quantas rapidis
flatibus
incitus 35
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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note to his copy of
_1633_ (now in the Bodleian Library),
suggested
John Hoskins or
Sir Richard Martin.
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John Donne |
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Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean
And him shall heavenly arms enfold,
Among the saints he shall be seen
Performing
on a harp of gold.
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T.S. Eliot |
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ATOSSA
Alas for me and for this ruin,
friends!
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Aeschylus |
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38 _Kymeno
kymeneae
kymenales kymeno kymene?
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Latin - Catullus |
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Yes, answered he, and round her 'gan to play:
Upon her bosom then he put his hand
What now, said she, am I to
understand?
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| Source: |
La Fontaine |
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So falls the hour of
twilight
and of love
With wizardry to loose the hearts of men,
And there is nothing more in this great world
Than thou and I, and the blue dome of dusk.
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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_All insert_ my
_before_
slepe;
_it is not wanted_.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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The praise of nations ready to perish
Fall on him,--crown him in view
Of tyrants caught in the net,
And
statesmen
dizzy with fear and doubt!
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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For, lo,
That ether can flow thus
steadily
on, on,
With one unaltered urge, the Pontus proves--
That sea which floweth forth with fixed tides,
Keeping one onward tenor as it glides.
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Lucretius |
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inges were{n}
i{n}p{re}ntid
in to soules 4832
fro bodies wi?
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Boethius |
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Worse than this thou didst endure
When, uncontroulable by force of man, 20
The Cyclops thy
illustrious
friends devour'd.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Cowper |
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When I speak of her also
You'll quickly judge I care
Seeing my
laughter
grow.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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For I dide hem a tregetry;
But therof yeve I litel tale, 6375
I have the silver and the male;
So have I preched and eek shriven,
So have I take, so have [me] yiven,
Thurgh hir foly, husbond and wyf,
That I lede right a Ioly lyf, 6380
Thurgh
simplesse
of the prelacye;
They know not al my tregetrye.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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Eliot
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no
restrictions
whatsoever.
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T.S. Eliot |
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[517] A
licentious
dance.
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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Hugo - Poems |
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So don't you join our fraternity,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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Why with the animals
wanderest
thou on the plain?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Epic of Gilgamesh |
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"
[Illustration]
There was an old person of Skye,
Who waltz'd with a Bluebottle fly:
They buzz'd a sweet tune, to the light of the moon,
And
entranced
all the people of Skye.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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The attempt to
represent
him as a sort of
provincial Don Juan--though in the precocious licence of a few of his
acknowledged writings he has even given it some colour himself--cannot
be reconciled with the recorded facts of his life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Be with us now or we betray our trust — And say, "There is no wisdom but in death"
—
The changeless regions of our empery,
Where once we moved in
friendship
with the stars.
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And whom will you against me send, the Cossack
Karel or
Mnishek?
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Diegue
To
instruct
by example, courting envy,
Would simply be to read my history.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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And my heart was empty of memory and hope and desire
Till, rousing, I looked afresh on your face as you gazed--
Behind you an old gnarled fruit-tree in one still fire
Of
innumerable
flame in the sun of October blazed,
Scarlet and gold that the first white frost would spill
With eddying flicker and patter of dead leaves falling--
looked on your face, as an outcast from Eden recalling
A vision of Eve as she dallied bewildered and still
By the serpent-encircled tree of knowledge that flamed
With gold and scarlet of good and evil, her eyes
Rapt on the river of life: then bright and untamed
By the labour and sorrow and fear of a world that dies
Your ignorant eyes looked up into mine; and I knew
That never our hearts should be one till your young lips had tasted
The core of the bitter-sweet fruit, and wise and toil-wasted
You should stand at my shoulder an outcast from Eden too.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Some mighty gulph of separation past,
I seemed
transported
to another world:--
A thought resigned with pain, when from the mast
The impatient mariner the sail unfurl'd,
And whistling, called the wind that hardly curled
The silent sea.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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+ Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for
ensuring
that what you are doing is legal.
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Meredith - Poems |
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Lights
When we come home at night and close the door,
Standing
together
in the shadowy room,
Safe in our own love and the gentle gloom,
Glad of familiar wall and chair and floor,
Glad to leave far below the clanging city;
Looking far downward to the glaring street
Gaudy with light, yet tired with many feet,
In both of us wells up a wordless pity;
Men have tried hard to put away the dark;
A million lighted windows brilliantly
Inlay with squares of gold the winter night,
But to us standing here there comes the stark
Sense of the lives behind each yellow light,
And not one wholly joyous, proud, or free.
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Sara Teasdale |
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EJC}
Then I am dead till thou revivest me with thy sweet song
Now taking on Ahanias form & now the form of Enion
I know thee not as once I knew thee in those blessed fields
Where memory wishes to repose among the flocks of Tharmas
Enitharmon answerd
Wherefore
didst thou throw thine arms around
Ahanias Image I decievd thee & will still decieve
Urizen saw thy sin & hid his beams in darkning Clouds
I still keep watch altho I tremble & wither across the heavens
In strong vibrations of fierce jealousy for thou art mine
Created for my will my slave tho strong tho I am weak {This line appears to have been inserted between 2 existing lines.
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Blake - Zoas |
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In consequence of Circe's
instructions, after having spent a complete year in her palace, he
prepares for a voyage to the
infernal
regions.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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But he who hurts a harmless neighbour's peace, 285
Insults fall'n worth, or Beauty in distress,
Who loves a Lie, lame slander helps about,
Who writes a Libel, or who copies out:
That Fop, whose pride affects a patron's name,
Yet absent, wounds an author's honest fame: 290
Who can _your_ merit
_selfishly_
approve.
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Alexander Pope |
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Und das Geflugel
Schlurfet sich Wonne,
Flieget der Sonne,
Flieget den hellen
Inseln entgegen,
Die sich auf Wellen
Gauklend bewegen;
Wo wir in Choren
Jauchzende horen,
Uber den Auen
Tanzende
schauen,
Die sich im Freien
Alle zerstreuen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Is your sole virtue
committing
outrage?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
"They are merely
conventional
signs!
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Lewis Carroll |
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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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Yoking my chariot I urge my
stubborn
horses.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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