Full of first hope, burning with youthful love,
She, at her will, as plainly now appears,
Has led me many years,
But for one end, my nature best to prove:
Oft showing me her shadow, veil, and dress,
But never her sweet face, till I, who right
Knew not her power to bless,
All my green youth for these,
contented
quite,
So spent, that still the memory is delight:
Since onward yet some glimpse of her is seen,
I now may own, of late,
Such as till then she ne'er for me had been,
She shows herself, shooting through all my heart
An icy cold so great
That save in her dear arms it ne'er can thence depart.
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William Wordsworth |
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A rumour, scarcely yet to be reckoned sound,
But a pulse quicker or slower, then I know
My plea is granted; death
prevails
not yet.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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III Power and beauty and knowledge
IV O Pan of the evergreen forest
V O Aphrodite
VI Peer of the gods he seems
VII The Cyprian came to thy cradle
VIII Aphrodite of the foam
IX Nay, but always and forever
X Let there be garlands, Dica
XI When the Cretan maidens
XII In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born
XIII Sleep thou in the bosom
XIV Hesperus,
bringing
together
XV In the grey olive-grove a small brown bird
XVI In the apple-boughs the coolness
XVII Pale rose-leaves have fallen
XVIII The courtyard of her house is wide
XIX There is a medlar-tree
XX I behold Arcturus going westward
XXI Softly the first step of twilight
XXII Once you lay upon my bosom
XXIII I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago
XXIV I shall be ever maiden
XXV It was summer when I found you
XXVI I recall thy white gown, cinctured
XXVII Lover, art thou of a surety
XXVIII With your head thrown backward
XXIX Ah, what am I but a torrent
XXX Love shakes my soul, like a mountain wind
XXXI Love, let the wind cry
XXXII Heart of mine, if all the altars
XXXIII Never yet, love, in earth's lifetime
XXXIV "Who was Atthis?
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Sappho |
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Its
business
office is located at
809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
business@pglaf.
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Keats - Lamia |
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NEMPi sic
innumero
succrcscunt agmine Hbri,
Sepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari.
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Marvell - Poems |
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WHAT should a husband do whose wife is sought,
With anxious fondness by
another?
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La Fontaine |
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com in Word format,
Mobipocket
Reader
format, eReader format and Acrobat Reader format.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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"
CORYDON
"Ye mossy springs, and grass more soft than sleep,
And arbute green with thin shade sheltering you,
Ward off the
solstice
from my flock, for now
Comes on the burning summer, now the buds
Upon the limber vine-shoot 'gin to swell.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Till when, in such
assurance
live ye may,
Nor fear or wish your dying day.
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Robert Herrick |
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Here defiled and old
I perish through
unnumbered
hours, I swoon,
Hacked with harsh knives to staunch a child's torn hand;
And all my hopes must with my body soon
Be but as crouching dust and wind-blown sand.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The child so taught by the paths,
Resigns her ecstasy
Says the word:
Anastasius!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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My
Shakspeare
rise!
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Thou didst but sleep, bright lady, a brief sleep,
In bliss amid the chosen spirits to wake,
Who gaze upon their God,
distinct
and near:
And if my verse shall any value keep,
Preserved and praised 'mid noble minds to make
Thy name, its memory shall be deathless here.
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Petrarch |
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Exeunt
FALSTAFF
and BARDOLPH
HOSTESS.
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Shakespeare |
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With the increase of his judgment the light
which should make it
apparent
has faded away.
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Poe - 5 |
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Clashing
his cymbals, forth he went,
With a bold and gallant bearing;
Sure for a captain he was meant,
To judge his pride with courage blent,
And the cloth of gold he's wearing.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They enter the cottage together,
but without
shutting
the door.
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Christina Rossetti |
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These are not all of life,
O France, whose sons amid the rolling thunder
Of cannon stand in trenches where the dead
Clog the
ensanguined
ice.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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THE LITTLE BOY FOUND
The little boy lost in the lonely fen,
Led by the
wandering
light,
Began to cry, but God, ever nigh,
Appeared like his father, in white.
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blake-poems |
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desiderantem quod satis est neque
tumultuosum
sollicitat
mare
nec saeuos Arcturi cadentis
impetus aut orientis Haedi,
non uerberatae grandine uineae
fundusque mendax, arbore nunc aquas
culpante, nunc torrentia agros
sidera, nunc hiemes iniquas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Yea,
Holofernes
now can bring no shame
Upon me that Ozias hath not brought.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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I'm a great lady in a
sheltered
bower,
With hands grown white through having nought to do:
Yet sometimes I think of you hour after hour
Till I nigh wish myself a child with you.
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Christina Rossetti |
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XLIII
"Fair Master Guenes," says
Marsilies
the King,
"Such men are mine, fairer than tongue can sing,
Of knights I can four hundred thousand bring
So I may fight with Franks and with their King.
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Chanson de Roland |
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He possessed a wonderful dignity of language, could enliven his
discourse with wit and pleasantry, never descending to vulgar humour;
refined, and polished, without a
tincture
of scurrility.
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Tacitus |
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"Whom do you wish to
present?
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Ambrosia
was the food of the gods.
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Ronsard |
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Haltet
STIMME (oben):
Wer ruft da aus der
Felsenspalte?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Willow,
twinkling
in the sun,
Still your leaves and hear me,
I can answer spring at last,
Love is near me!
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Sara Teasdale |
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Whom
now is laid so far away, not amongst
familiar
tombs nor near the ashes of
his kindred, but obscene Troy, malign Troy, an alien earth, holds thee
entombed in its remote soil.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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How few of the others,
Are men
equipped
with common sense.
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Villon |
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Colui che luce in mezzo per pupilla,
fu il cantor de lo Spirito Santo,
che l'arca traslato di villa in villa:
ora conosce il merto del suo canto,
in quanto effetto fu del suo consiglio,
per lo
remunerar
ch'e altrettanto.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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He could
scarcely
believe his eyes.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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--"O
faultless
is her dainty form,
And luminous her mind;
She is the God-created norm
Of perfect womankind!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY
LANE, LONDON.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Continued
use of this site implies consent to that usage.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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All love, are loved, save only I; their hearts
Beat warm with love and joy, beat full thereof:
They cannot guess, who play the
pleasant
parts,
My heart is breaking for a little love.
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Christina Rossetti |
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--Ulysses, in Homer, is made a
long-thinking man before he speaks; and Epaminondas is
celebrated
by
Pindar to be a man that, though he knew much, yet he spoke but little.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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His first book,
"Nature," which he was meditating while in Europe, was finished here,
and
published
in 1836.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"There, there's the
villain!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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The
lighting
of candles within the
magic circle is mentioned below (note 1.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The
hawthorn
I will pu'
Wi' its locks o' siller gray,
Where, like an aged man,
It stands at break of day.
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| Source: |
Robert Forst |
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Over the pallid margin of dim seas breaking,
Over the thickening in the
darkness
that is land,
They fly.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Verbs of hearing and seeing are often
followed
by acc.
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Beowulf |
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þæt wæs Hrōðgāre
hrēowa tornost þāra þe
lēodfruman
lange begeāte, _the bitterest of the
troubles that for a long time had befallen the people's chief_, 2131.
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Beowulf |
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Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
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Alexander Pope |
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50
Here is the man with three staves, and here the Wheel,
And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card,
Which is blank, is
something
he carries on his back,
Which I am forbidden to see.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Though oak-beams split,
though boats and sea-men flounder,
and the strait grind sand with sand
and cut
boulders
to sand and drift--
your eyes have pardoned our faults,
your hands have touched us--
you have leaned forward a little
and the waves can never thrust us back
from the splendour of your ragged coast.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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- Ihr Ende wurde
Verzweiflung
sein
Nein, kein Ende!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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You were my
playmate
by the sea.
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| Source: |
Imagists |
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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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"
His people
gathered
round the hero, and drew their shining swords.
| Guess: |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Now, in
this contest, by Jove's decree, all the
Olympian
gods were suffered to
take part.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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] When I see a
certificate of character with everybody's name to it, I regard it as a
letter of
introduction
from the Devil.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Li-shih, who thought such a task beneath him, took
revenge by
affecting
to discover in one of Po's poems a veiled attack
on [the Emperor's mistress] Yang Kuei-fei.
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Li Po |
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25) a conversation with Wordsworth, in which he said
of this poem, that "he
purposely
made the narrative as prosaic as
possible, in order that no discredit might be thrown on the truth of the
incident.
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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Page 54
A-gayne xvij wyntersende,
Whane he
schowlde
owte of ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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I roam anew,
Scarce
conscious
of my late distress .
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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The phrase is
possibly
derived
from `hackle', an instrument used in the breaking of flax.
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
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Stage,
displaying
clothes on, 151; stools on, 125.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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701-762
BY ARTHUR WALEY
_A Paper read before the_ CHINA SOCIETY _at the School of Oriental
Studies on
November
21, 1918_
EAST AND WEST, LTD.
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Li Po |
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Redgrave
notes certain minute differences between
these two issues.
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| Question: |
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Byron |
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If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this
agreement
violates the
law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
the applicable state law.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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' She
ended, and
advancing
side by side along the shadowy ways, they pass over
and draw nigh the gates.
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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quo motu tellus atque horrida contremuerunt 205
aequora
concussitque
micantia sidera mundus.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Drink, and keep your thoughts to yourself,*
Father
Varlaam!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the
swinging
and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells--
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
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Poe - 5 |
|
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Emerson - Poems |
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--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which,
snatched
in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sonnets from the Portugese |
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We know
The joy of
sufferings
deep
That blend with a love divine,
And the hidden warmth of the snow!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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, New York
CONTEMPORARY
VERSE
offers a particularly remarkable series of poems for
the year 1917.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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During the Licinian conflict, Appius Claudius Crassus
signalized himself by the ability and
severity
with which he
harangued against the two great agitators.
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| Source: |
Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Max Ernst
In one corner agile incest
Turns round the
virginity
of a little dress
In one corner sky released
leaves balls of white on the spines of storm.
| Guess: |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Masson, who in his excellent edition
argues the point and decides in favour of modern spelling, allows that
there are peculiarities of Milton's
spelling
which are really
significant, and ought therefore to be noted or preserved.
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| Source: |
Milton |
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Contents
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Le Testament: Les Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere
Le Testament: Ballade: 'Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere'
Le Testament: Ballade: A S'amye
Le Testament: Ballade: Pour Robert d'Estouteville
Le Testament: Rondeau
Le Testament: Epitaph et Rondeau
Ballade: Du
Concours
De Blois
Ballade: Epistre
L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
Index of First Lines
Le Testament: Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis
Tell me where, or in what country
Is Flora, the lovely Roman,
Archipiades or Thais,
Who was her nearest cousin,
Echo answering, at clap of hand,
Over the river, and the meadow,
Whose beauty was more than human?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Villon |
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{111a} They
are to be chosen
according
to the persons we make speak, or the things we
speak of.
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| Question: |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTIBILITY
OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
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Stephen Crane |
|
")
"And folk that sup on things like these--"
He muttered, "eggs and bacon--
Lobster--and duck--and toasted cheese--
If they don't get an awful squeeze,
I'm very much
mistaken!
| Guess: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Improvements
but rarely appear such to
those who, after long intervals of time, revisit places they have had
much pleasure in.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Mon canot
toujours
fixe; et sa chaine tiree
Au fond de cet oeil d'eau sans bords--a quelle boue?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
LXV
Once, I knew a fine song,
--It is true, believe me,--
It was all of birds,
And I held them in a basket;
When I opened the wicket,
Heavens!
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
|
5 _confutuere_ a:
_confuture_
(suprascr.
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| Source: |
Latin - Catullus |
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He who regards it directly and
intensely
sees,
it is true, the star, but it is the star without a ray-while he who
surveys it less inquisitively is conscious of all for which the star is
useful to us below-its brilliancy and its beauty.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Ah, yes, to become legendary, too,
On the brink of a
charlatan
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could Frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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blake-poems |
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it's no thy neebor sweet,
The bonnie lark,
companion
meet!
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--for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or blush'd, or on spring-flowered lea
Spread a green kirtle to the minstrelsy:
A virgin purest lipp'd, yet in the lore
Of love deep learned to the red heart's core:
Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain;
Define their pettish limits, and estrange
Their points of contact, and swift counterchange;
Intrigue with the specious chaos, and dispart
Its most
ambiguous
atoms with sure art;
As though in Cupid's college she had spent
Sweet days a lovely graduate, still unshent,
And kept his rosy terms in idle languishment.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring
hands encounter no defence; 240
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
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"He for his sore an evil salve had found,
And, where he should retire, encreased his woes;
Who, with the mention of his wife, that wound
Inflamed
and opened, which he sought to close.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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But we neo-pagans may not after all be
abandoned
entirely:
Yet there is speeding a god mercifully over the earth,
Quick and assiduous.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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[The
gentleman
to whom this imperfect note is addressed was Dr.
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Robert Forst |
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Joachim Du Bellay
The Ruins of Rome
(Les Antiquites de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French
Renaissance
poet 16th century
'Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century'
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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II
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares
Washed
marvellously
with sorrow, swift to mirth.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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_785
NOTE:
_762 thy edition 1822; my
editions
1839.
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I, for friendship's sake,
Watching each wing,
Ere to his haunt, the stagnant marsh,
The
harbinger
of tempest flies,
Will call the raven, croaking harsh,
From eastern skies.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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What peace,
unravished
of our ken,
Annihilate from the world of men?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I was
filled with astonishment at the
extraordinary
connection of events.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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The
authorship
of
these is discussed later.
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'We know not what will come--yet, Laon, dearest, _3640
Cythna shall be the
prophetess
of Love,
Her lips shall rob thee of the grace thou wearest,
To hide thy heart, and clothe the shapes which rove
Within the homeless Future's wintry grove;
For I now, sitting thus beside thee, seem _3645
Even with thy breath and blood to live and move,
And violence and wrong are as a dream
Which rolls from steadfast truth, an unreturning stream.
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