He gaz'd into her eyes, and not a jot
Own'd they the
lovelorn
piteous appeal:
More, more he gaz'd: his human senses reel:
Some hungry spell that loveliness absorbs;
There was no recognition in those orbs.
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Sweet, sumptuous fables of Baghdad
The
splendours
of your court recall,
The torches of a Thousand Nights
Blaze through a single festival;
And Saki-singers down the streets,
Pour for us, in a stream divine,
From goblets of your love-ghazals
The rapture of your Sufi wine.
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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The Season of Loves
By the road of ways
In the three-part shadow of
troubled
sleep
I come to you the double the multiple
as like you as the era of deltas.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Gray Death saw the
wretched
house
And even he passed by--
"They have never lived," he said,
"They can wait to die.
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Your glance entered my heart and blood, just like
A flash of
lightning
through the clouds.
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Ronsard |
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For since they wander through the void inane,
All the
primordial
germs of things must needs
Be borne along, either by weight their own,
Or haply by another's blow without.
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whose
formidable
floods
Glide through the shades, and bind the attesting gods!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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If I said so, may Love upon my heart
Expend his golden shafts, on her the leaden dart;
Be heaven and earth, and God and man my foe,
And she still more severe if I said so:
If I said so, may he whose blind lights lead
Me
straightway
to my grave,
Trample yet worse his slave,
Nor she behave
Gentle and kind to me in look, or word, or deed.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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2135, 2277), and
which was introduced by him into the
mythical
tale to give it a local
color.
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Beowulf |
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The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,
And round and round it flew:
The Ice did split with a Thunder-fit;
The
Helmsman
steer'd us thro'.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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But take it: if the smack is sour,
The better for the
embittered
hour;
It should do good to heart and head
When your soul is in my soul's stead;
And I will friend you, if I may,
In the dark and cloudy day.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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Thus Rilke's monograph on Auguste Rodin will
remain the poet's
testament
on Life and Art.
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Rilke - Poems |
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It was doubtless in
order to relieve this saccharine and "mellisonant" monotony that he
thought fit to intersperse these
interminable
droppings of natural or
artificial perfume with others of the rankest and most intolerable
odour: but a diet of alternate sweetmeats and emetics is for the average
of eaters and drinkers no less unpalatable than unwholesome.
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I asked what was the name of the
usurping
tyrant.
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Poe - 5 |
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I, I who stand and thus exult to see
This man lie wound in robes the Furies wove,
Slain in
requital
of his father's craft.
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Aeschylus |
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or speak I to
unheeding
ears?
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Aeschylus |
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" SAS}
Rattling the adamantine chains & hooks heave up the ore
In mountainous masses, plung'd in furnaces, & they shut & seald
The furnaces a time & times; all the while blew the North
His cloudy bellows & the South & East & dismal West
And all the while the plow of iron cut the dreadful furrows
In Ulro beneath Beulah where the Dead wail Night & Day {Again, Blake's rendering of this line is distinctly different from the surrounding text in form, though no
indication
of why is apparent.
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Blake - Zoas |
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But of its one desire my vision reft,
As dreamingly, soon oped itself a way,
Which closed, its bliss imperfect had been left:
My soul between those rival glories lay,
Fill'd with a heavenly and new delight,
Whose strange
surpassing
sweets engross'd it quite.
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To her sweet but burdened soul
All that here she may control--
What of bitter memories,
What of coming fate's surmise,
Paris' passion, distant din
Of the war now
drifting
in
To her quiet--idle seems;
Idle as the lazy gleams
Of some stilly water's reach,
Seen from where broad vine-leaves pleach
A heavy arch; and, looking through,
Far away the doubtful blue
Glimmers, on a drowsy day,
Crowded with the sun's rich gray;--
As she stands within her room,
Weaving, weaving at the loom.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Puossi far forza ne la deitade,
col cor negando e
bestemmiando
quella,
e spregiando natura e sua bontade;
e pero lo minor giron suggella
del segno suo e Soddoma e Caorsa
e chi, spregiando Dio col cor, favella.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame
sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza,
e molte genti fe gia viver grame,
questa mi porse tanto di gravezza
con la paura ch'uscia di sua vista,
ch'io perdei la
speranza
de l'altezza.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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TO THE GOD OF PAIN
Unwilling priestess in thy cruel fane,
Long hast thou held me,
pitiless
god of Pain,
Bound to thy worship by reluctant vows,
My tired breast girt with suffering, and my brows
Anointed with perpetual weariness.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Innocence still loves
A brow
unclouded
and an azure eye.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Ile Deuill-Porter it no further:
I had thought to haue let in some of all Professions, that
goe the Primrose way to th'
euerlasting
Bonfire.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Electric
signs flash on and out,
And gold-eyed motors dart about,
And trolleys jangle,
And crowds untangle,
And still they stand on their icy beat,
And still the tambourines repeat,
"God looks down from His judgment seat,
'Good will on earth' is His message sweet.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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In a full analysis that I have made of Donne's syntax in
the poems I have found over ninety examples of the subjunctive against
seven of the indicative in
concessive
adverbial clauses.
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John Donne |
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"
I explain the
silvered
passing of a ship
at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,
The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving,
The little cry of a man to a man,
A shadow falling across the greyer night,
And the sinking of the small star;
Then the waste, the far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness.
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Stephen Crane |
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{3d} Or: Not thus openly ever came
warriors
hither; yet.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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Lovely And Lifelike
A face at the end of the day
A cradle in day's dead leaves
A bouquet of naked rain
Every ray of sun hidden
Every fount of founts in the depths of the water
Every mirror of mirrors broken
A face in the scales of silence
A pebble among other pebbles
For the leaves last glimmers of day
A face like all the
forgotten
faces.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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From pest on land, or death on ocean,
When
hurricanes
its surface fan,
O object of my fond devotion!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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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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LXV
"Barred every comfort labour could procure,
Suffering what no endurance could assuage,
I was
compelled
to seek my father's door,
Though loth to be a burthen on his age.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Long since
A stranger reach'd my house in my own land,
Whom I with
hospitality
receiv'd,
Nor ever sojourn'd foreigner with me
Whom I lov'd more.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Perchance before our inland seas of gold
Are
garnered
by the reapers into sheaves,
Perchance before I see the Autumn leaves,
I may behold thy city; and lay down
Low at thy feet the poet's laurel crown.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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is a set phrase for
obviousness
or ease.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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This long and sure-set liking,
This
boundless
will to please,
-Oh, you should live for ever
If there were help in these.
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AE Housman - A Shropshire Lad |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Perhaps a squirrel may remain,
My
sentiments
to share.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Perhaps a squirrel may remain,
My
sentiments
to share.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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Adam and Eve were
expelled
from the garden lest
they should eat and live forever.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Is that
trembling
cry a song?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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"Nor less I deem that there are powers,
"Which of
themselves
our minds impress,
"That we can feed this mind of ours,
"In a wise passiveness.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It was
excellently
said
of Plutarch, poetry was a speaking picture, and picture a mute poesy.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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t as
i{n}telligence
is oonly ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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' She told me how she and her
neighbours
used
to be sitting over the fire when she was a girl, talking of the war
that was coming, and now she was afraid it was coming again, for she
had dreamed that all the bay was 'stranded and covered with seaweed.
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Yeats |
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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The victory of the foreign taste was decisive; and indeed we can
hardly blame the Romans for turning away with contempt from the
rude lays which had delighted their fathers, and giving their
whole admiration to the immortal
productions
of Greece.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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[85] We have already seen that the
Athenians
sometimes kept their small
money in their mouth.
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Aristophanes |
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Torquains nigh, a sterner spectre stood,
His fasces all besmear'd with filial blood:
He
childless
to the shades resolved to go,
Rather than Rome a moment should forego
That dreadful discipline, whose rigid lore
Had spread their triumphs round from shore to shore.
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Petrarch |
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Age does not make us childish, as they say,
But we are still true
children
when it finds us.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Speed the
garment!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Thy life is waning now, and silence tries
To mourn, but meets no
sympathy
in sounds.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Clare |
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--
When utter beauty must come closer to thee
Than even anger or fear could be;
When thou, like metal in a kiln, must lie
Seized by beauty's
mightily
able flame;
Enjoyed by beauty as by the ruthless glee
Of an unescapable power;
Obeying beauty as air obeys a cry;
Yea, one thing made of beauty and thee,
As steel and a white heat are made the same!
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What irksome hand, weaving these knots around,
Has
gathered
my hair with such care on my brow?
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Racine - Phaedra |
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She showed me mine, too, in a glass,
Right soldierlike, with daring
comrades
round him.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Though him the Maker with might endowed,
delights of power, and
uplifted
high
above all men, yet blood-fierce his mind,
his breast-hoard, grew, no bracelets gave he
to Danes as was due; he endured all joyless
strain of struggle and stress of woe,
long feud with his folk.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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But what have
nightingales
to do
In gloomy England, called the free .
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But thou speakest unto me
Too free and unworn;
And a terror strikes through me
And festers my soul
And I fear, in the roll
Of the storm, for thy fate
In the ship far from shore:
Since the son of
Saturnus
is hard in his hate
And unmoved in his heart evermore.
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Oh might I through these tears
But glimpse some hill my Georgia high uprears,
Where white the quartz and pink the pebble shine,
The hickory
heavenward
strives, the muscadine
Swings o'er the slope, the oak's far-falling shade
Darkens the dogwood in the bottom glade,
And down the hollow from a ferny nook
Bright leaps a living brook!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to
unseeing
eyes thy shade shines so!
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Suddenly he struggled upward laughing,
Tears of joy were
streaming
down his face:
In my breast the pang of some departure Seized me, and I wept, I know not why.
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| Source: |
Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Enter
Macduffes
Wife, her Son, and Rosse.
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| Source: |
shakespeare-macbeth |
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Enough of that; but tell me the
shortest
road, that is neither
too hot nor too cold, to get down to Pluto.
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Aristophanes |
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* * * * *
THE POEM
The little
hedgerow
birds,
That peck along the road, regard him not.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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how much
Hath Phoebus wooed in vain to spoil her cheek
Which glows yet
smoother
from his amorous clutch!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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If
monarchs
by the gods are plunged in woe,
To what abyss are we foredoom'd to go!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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Triton got drunk with it,
and fell into a
profound
sleep, in which condition the Tanagrians
beheaded him, and afterwards, with great propriety, hung up his body in
the temple of Bacchus; where, says Pausanias, it continued a long time.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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je n'ai trouve debout
Qu'un gibet
symbolique
ou pendait mon image.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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" KAU}
The heavens were closd & and spirits mournd their bondage night and day
And the Divine Vision appeard in Luvahs robes of blood {This line written over an erased line,
possibly
ending "within.
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Blake - Zoas |
|
]
It was an April morning: fresh and clear
The Rivulet,
delighting
in its strength,
Ran with a young man's speed; and yet the voice
Of waters which the winter had supplied
Was softened down into a vernal tone.
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
William Wordsworth |
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er
weppenes
to welde, I wene wel als,
Bot for I wolde no were, my wede3 ar softer.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Judith, our fates are closer to one another's
Than one might think, seeing my face and yours:
The whole divine abyss is present in your eyes,
And I feel the starry gulf within my soul;
We are both
neighbours
of the silent skies.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
19th Century French Poetry |
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The stage how loosely does Astraea tread,
Who fairly puts all
characters
to bed!
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And, _Wipe this blood_, and _Men, come on_,
And _Neighbor, do but lift my head_,
And _Who is
wounded?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Let honour, as the Gods have honour,
Be hers, till men shall bow the head,
And strangers,
climbing
from the city
Her slanting path, shall muse and say:
"This woman died to save her lover,
And liveth blest, the stars above her:
Hail, Holy One, and grant thy pity!
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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O we live, O we live--
And this life that we receive
Is a warm thing and a new,
Which we softly bud into
From the heart and from the brain,--
Something
strange that overmuch is
Of the sound and of the sight,
Flowing round in trickling touches,
With a sorrow and delight,--
Yet is it all in vain?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Her bosom heaved--she stepp'd aside,
As conscious of my look she stept--
Then suddenly, with
timorous
eye
She fled to me and wept.
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Golden Treasury |
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[Footnote 28: It was a
superstitious
belief that the presence of buried
treasure was indicated by a blue flame.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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e last with
trawayle
borne hyt was 401
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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The Gods are first, and that
advantage
use
On our belief, that all from them proceeds,
I question it, for this fair Earth I see, 720
Warm'd by the Sun, producing every kind,
Them nothing: If they all things, who enclos'd
Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree,
That whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains
Wisdom without their leave?
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Milton |
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
As the word was so puzzling to spell;
But they
ventured
to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
Undertaking that duty as well.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Constable
& Co.
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Imagists |
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Their pride of precedence, let it be
wounded!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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--he read, and read, and read,
'Till his brain turned--and ere his
twentieth
year,
He had unlawful thoughts of many things:
And though he prayed, he never loved to pray
With holy men, nor in a holy place--
But yet his speech, it was so soft and sweet,
The late Lord Velez ne'er was wearied with him.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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It is called "an Homeric echo," but the diction
bears a much closer
resemblance
to that of Virgil than to that of Homer,
though the rhythm is perhaps more Homeric than Virgilian.
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Tennyson |
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Thee of thy faith who hath bereft,
And torn the ensigns from thy brow,
And sunk the
immortal
eye so low?
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Emerson - Poems |
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287
THE
ACCOUNTE
OF W.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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These spheres behold;[627] the first in wide embrace
Surrounds the lesser orbs of various face;
The Empyrean this, the holiest heav'n
To the pure spirits of the bless'd is giv'n:
No mortal eye its
splendid
rays may bear,
No mortal bosom feel the raptures there.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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The Gods are first, and that
advantage
use
On our belief, that all from them proceeds,
I question it, for this fair Earth I see, 720
Warm'd by the Sun, producing every kind,
Them nothing: If they all things, who enclos'd
Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree,
That whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains
Wisdom without their leave?
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Milton |
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Hope,
precious
Truth in garb of white,
Attend thee still, nor quit thy side
When with changed robes thou tak'st thy flight
In anger from the homes of pride.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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(_588 See the description of the beautiful colours produced during the
agonizing death of a number of trout, in the fourth part of a long
poem in blank verse,
published
within a few years.
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Shelley |
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