_ The sun, drying up the dew
drop by drop from the sweet-briar is
pictured
as passing beads along a
string, as the Roman Catholics do when they say their prayers.
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CLI
Love is too young to know what
conscience
is,
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
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Hail to thee, chief of Atreus' race,
Returning proud from Troy
subdued!
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Aeschylus |
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is the voice of my
suffering
sped
To the realm of the shades?
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Now comes our
constantly
increased reward.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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I am no fool
To poll
stupidly
into iron.
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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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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Below us, on the rock-edge,
where earth is caught in the fissures
of the jagged cliff,
a small tree stiffens in the gale,
it bends--but its white flowers
are
fragrant
at this height.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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In
consequence
I was on Sunday, Monday, and part
of Tuesday, unable to stir out of bed, with all the miserable effects
of a violent cold.
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They
extinguished
the spirit of
commerce, and the agriculture of the conquered nations.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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O thou field of my delight so fair and
verdant!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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He entered the service of Charles of Anjou, and probably accompanied him (1265) on his Naples expedition; in 1266 he was a
prisoner
in Naples.
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Troubador Verse |
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Does it not seem that
everything
is extravagance in the world,
or rather madness, when you watch the way things go?
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Aristophanes |
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Not vainly yet the
forceful
lance was thrown;
It stretch'd in dust unhappy Lycophron:
An exile long, sustain'd at Ajax' board,
A faithful servant to a foreign lord;
In peace, and war, for ever at his side,
Near his loved master, as he lived, he died.
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Iliad - Pope |
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_To his
peculiar
friend, M.
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Robert Herrick |
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Have you seen fruit under cover
that wanted light--
pears wadded in cloth,
protected
from the frost,
melons, almost ripe,
smothered in straw?
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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She looks into me
The
unknowing
heart
To see if I love
She has confidence she forgets
Under the clouds of her eyelids
Her head falls asleep in my hands
Where are we
Together inseparable
Alive alive
He alive she alive
And my head rolls through her dreams.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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But 'twas infirm and crazy waking, like
As when a
starving
sentry, put to guard
The sleep of a broken soldiery that flees
Through winter of wild hills from hounding foes,
Hath but the pain of frozen wounds, and fear
Feeding on his dark spirit, to watch withal.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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Then unto every God on behalf of thy helpmate, thy sweeting,
Me thou gavest in vow, not without
bloodshed
of bulls,
If he be granted return, and long while nowise delaying, 35
Captive Asia he add unto Egyptian bounds.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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It would have given me greater
pleasure
to have found in the neighbouring hamlet traces of one who
had interested me so much, but that was impossible, as unfortunately I
did not even know her name.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Hath not
attained
its crown.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Copyright laws in most countries are in
a
constant
state of change.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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1180-1220)
Peire Raimon de Tolosa or Toloza was from the
merchant
class of Toulouse.
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Troubador Verse |
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but hope to see
My lovely tyrant forced to love like me,
And, bound in equal chain, assuaged my woe,
As, with an eager eye, I watch'd the coming blow
But virtue, as it ne'er forsakes the soul
That yields obedience to her blest control,
Proves how of her unjustly we complain,
When she
vouchsafes
her gracious aid in vain
In vain the self-abandon'd shift the blame
Upon their stars, or fate's perverted name.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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IV
Yet when within my heart I gaze
Upon my fair beyond the waters, Meseems my soul within me prays
To pass
straightway
beyond the waters.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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The time is approaching when I shall return to my shades; and I am
afraid my numerous Edinburgh friendships are of so tender a
construction, that they will not bear
carriage
with me.
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Robert Burns |
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To the harvest-fields the while,
In long file,
Speed her sisters' lively band,
Like a flock of birds in flight
Streaming
light,
Dancing onward hand in hand.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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6 The brocade robe was a mark of
Zhangsun?
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Du Fu - 5 |
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Repentance wields not now her spell
And gallicisms I love as well
As the sins of my
youthful
days
Or Bogdanovitch's sweet lays.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Those whom last thou sawst
In triumph and
luxurious
wealth, are they
First seen in acts of prowess eminent
And great exploits, but of true vertu void;
Who having spilt much blood, and don much waste
Subduing Nations, and achievd thereby
Fame in the World, high titles, and rich prey,
Shall change thir course to pleasure, ease, and sloth, 790
Surfet, and lust, till wantonness and pride
Raise out of friendship hostil deeds in Peace.
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Milton |
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(160)
With gentle hand the balm he pour'd around,
And heal'd the
immortal
flesh, and closed the wound.
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Iliad - Pope |
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What coral, what lilies, and what roses,
In seeming, my open hand discloses,
Now, with twin caresses
stroking
her.
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Ronsard |
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CHORUS
Ruthless thy craving is--
Craving for kindred and
forbidden
blood
To be outpoured--a sacrifice imbrued
With sin, a bitter fruit of murderous enmities!
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Aeschylus |
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They, where the goal of their way lies nearest, bear through
the
brushwood
in armed array.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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All eyes were
instantly
turned upon the speaker.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Stuff sharp thorns beneath the head
Of them thou
shouldst
have comforted;
For out of woe and out of crime
Draws the heart a lore sublime.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"
At which the gypsy laughed, and
straight
replied:
"No matter how I look; I yet shall ride
In my own chariot, ma'am.
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Longfellow |
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Oh, mourn not, Lalage--
Be
comforted!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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Of cloud which the wild tempest weaves in air,
When the moon over the ocean's line
Is
spreading
the locks of her bright gray hair.
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Shelley |
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May't please your
Highnesse
sit
Macb.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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VII
And Corineus of Mulga, Prusion,
The wealthy monarch of the blessed isles;
Malabuferzo, he who fills the throne
Of Fez, where a perpetual summer smiles;
And other noble lords, and many a one
Well-armed and tried; and others 'mid their files,
Naked, and base, whose hearts in martial fields
Had found no shelter from a
thousand
shields.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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Et, comme des chevaux, en
soufflant
des narines
Nous allions, fiers et forts, et ca nous battait la.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And if all the world now holds -
All those under heaven's power,
Were
gathered
in some sweet bower,
I'd only wish for one I know.
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Troubador Verse |
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80
A wond'rous Bag with both her hands she binds,
Like that where once Ulysses held the winds;
There she
collects
the force of female lungs,
Sighs, sobs, and passions, and the war of tongues.
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Alexander Pope |
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Sweet moans,
dovelike
sighs,
Chase not slumber from thine eyes!
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blake-poems |
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Let them
offer a prize of sixty or a hundred thousand florins to whosoever can
solve their ambitious
problems!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Pipit sate upright in her chair
Some
distance
from where I was sitting;
Views of the Oxford Colleges
Lay on the table, with the knitting.
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T.S. Eliot |
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We stood,
In happy trance-like solitude,
Hearkening a lullay grieved and sweet--
As when on isle uncharted beat
'Gainst coral at the palm-tree's root,
With brine-clear, snow-white foam afloat,
The wailing, not of water or wind--
A husht, far, wild, divine lament,
When
Prospero
his wizardry bent
Winged Ariel to bind.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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My soul in pain and grief that most has been
(How great the power of
constant
habit is!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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And now this spell was snapt: once more
I viewed the ocean green,
And looked far forth, yet little saw
Of what had else been seen--
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows, a
frightful
fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
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Coleridge - Poems |
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An hour behind the fleeting breath,
Later by just an hour than death, --
Oh, lagging
yesterday!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE,
LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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"A
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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BRIDGET _and_ DAME
KITELY _praise the conduct of_ KNOWELL, _whereupon_
KITELY
_conceives
that he must be_ DAME KITELY'S
_lover_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the flattering Foe;
By vain
Prosperity
received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
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Golden Treasury |
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He was probably a bad clerk, but then nobody
was very
exacting
with the nephew of the head of the firm.
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Yeats |
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Highbury
bore me.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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" This draft, now the
editor's property,
consists
of only seventeen lines, and read thus:
I.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope),
And are far up in Heaven--the stars I kneel to
In the sad, silent watches of my night;
While even in the
meridian
glare of day
I see them still--two sweetly scintillant
Venuses, unextinguished by the sun!
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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And sometimes into cities she would send
Her dream, with feast and rioting to blend;
And once, while among mortals dreaming thus,
She saw the young
Corinthian
Lycius
Charioting foremost in the envious race,
Like a young Jove with calm uneager face,
And fell into a swooning love of him.
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Keats |
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The old Bards and Minnesingers
had advantages which we do not possess--and Thomas Moore, singing his
own songs, was, in the most
legitimate
manner, perfecting them as poems.
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Poe - 5 |
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--
But
Sarrazins
are not at all afraid.
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Chanson de Roland |
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The Bellman, who was almost morbidly sensitive about appearances, used to
have the bowsprit unshipped once or twice a week to be revarnished; and it
more than once happened, when the time came for
replacing
it, that no one
on board could remember which end of the ship it belonged to.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Far happier she
In some warm
vineland
by his side
Than ever she was with me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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And even down the deep abysses
Its melancholy
quiverings
throw!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with
cherries
and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!
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blake-poems |
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Who stirs the waves by the women's
seraglio?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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"
Then Hector,
fainting
at the approach of death:
"By thy own soul!
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Iliad - Pope |
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'Think of it: for three dollars a year I buy a season-ticket to this
great Globe Theatre, for which God would write the dramas (only that we
like farces, spectacles, and the
tragedies
of Apollyon better), whose
scene-shifter is Time, and whose curtain is rung down by Death.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Lucan died at an age when most poets have done nothing very
remarkable; that he already had
achieved
a poem like the _Pharsalia_,
would make us think he might have gone to incredible heights, were it
not that the mistake of the _Pharsalia_ seems to belong incurably to his
temperament.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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But what a
nuisance
it will be,
Chained to his bedside night and day
Without a chance to slip away.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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_
The Watching Angel--_Foreign Quarterly Review_
Sunset--_Toru Dutt_
The
Universal
Prayer--_Henry Highton, M.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Now it murmured a delightfully common song that filled the faubourgs with joy, an old, banal tune: why did its words pierce my soul and make me cry, like any
romantic
ballad?
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Is it uniform with my
country?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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id, to 110 Rules derived from the
Practice
of the Ancient Poets.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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Contact the
Foundation
as set forth in Section 3 below.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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--As for
a much more
formidable
class, the knaves, I am at a loss what to do
with them: had I a world, there should not be a knave in it.
| Guess: |
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Robert Forst |
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"
"AT THE GOLDEN GATE"
Before the golden gate she stands,
With
drooping
head, with idle hands
Loose-clasped, and bent beneath the weight
Of unseen woe.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Open your dreams to my love and your heart to my words,
I send you my thoughts-the air between us is laden,
My
thoughts
fly in at your window, a flock of wild birds.
| Guess: |
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Sara Teasdale |
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By what mean hast thou render'd thee so drunken,
To the clay that thou bowest down thy figure,
And the grass and the windel-straws art
grasping?
| Guess: |
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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My waking cares, and
stabbing
frights recede,
And nodding sleep dropped on my drowsy head.
| Guess: |
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Marvell - Poems |
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That now Sweno, the Norwayes King,
Craues composition:
Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men,
Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes ynch,
Ten
thousand
Dollars, to our generall vse
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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'20
guardian
Sylph':
compare ll.
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Alexander Pope |
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not
completely
and for ever, but as well as
most of us learn such lessons.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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To one so humble as myself
It should be matter for some pride
To have such noted fellows here,
Conferring
at my side.
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Sara Teasdale |
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A knave's a knave, to me in every state:
Alike my scorn, if he succeed or fail,
Sporus at Court, or Japhet in a jail,
A
hireling
scribbler, or a hireling peer,
Knight of the post corrupt, or of the shire;
If on a pillory, or near a throne,
He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The fathers' nuptial
counsels
speed,
Those laws that shall on Rome bestow
A plenteous seed!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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His undisguised admiration for Byron doubtless
exposed him to
imputations
similar to those commonly levelled
against that poet.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Then, glancing narrow at the wall,
And narrow at the floor,
For firm conviction of a mouse
Not
exorcised
before,
Peruse how infinite I am
To -- no one that you know!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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EXCURSIONS
A YANKEE IN CANADA
New England is by some
affirmed
to be an island, bounded on the north
with the River Canada (so called from Monsieur Cane).
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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With his
assistance
I succeeded, and this was his _Ode to a
Nightingale_.
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Keats |
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"
Wretched
young fellow, be gone and obey me!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew--
I saw the
solitary
Ringdove there,
And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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" Wherefore speak
Of Scylla, child of Nisus, who, 'tis said,
Her fair white loins with barking
monsters
girt
Vexed the Dulichian ships, and, in the deep
Swift-eddying whirlpool, with her sea-dogs tore
The trembling mariners?
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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